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33 Ferry Ave., East,
Detroit, Michigan,
June 2, 1917.


Mr. Melville W. Truesdale,
470 Park Ave.,
New York, N. Y.

My dear Mr. Truesdale:

I am delighted to have your recent letter and to receive from you such pleasant tidings. You must know how disappointed I am to have been compelled to leave New York without the pleasure of making Mrs. Truesdale's acquaintance, but this pleasure will happen ore long, I hope.

The little Chinese painting sent as a wedding gift is one originally contained in an album found by me in Pekin. The artist is unknown and the dynasty too is in doubt. Some native experts declared it to have been painted during the Sung Dynasty -960-1280 A.D. - and others felt equally confident that it was done during the Yuan Dynasty - 1230-1368 A.D. - one or two others differed and claim that it was done by an early Ming painter - 1368-1644 A.D. - after a Tang design 610-906 A.D. - when
Doctors differ who is to decide?

Unfortunately, as yet none of our American students can intelligently untangle these knotty problems. My own opinion