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[[stamp: Charles L. Freer]]

Hecker Cottage.
Mackinac Island, Michigan.
September 1st, 1911.

Mr. Stephen J. Warring.
#33, Ferry Avenue, East,
Detroit, Michigan.

Dear Stephen:

Your letter of August 26th was duly received. I fully approve of your plans for securing young Norway Spruce Trees for planting the hedge. This can have your attention at your early convenience.

The two large books by Arthur Morrison on "Japanese Painters" you may take care of until I return.

I have received word from Minnie that she will arrive in Detroit on the 7th instant and begin housecleaning. I have written her, giving instructions as to the use to which the new rooms recently built are to be put and I think that she will understand it fully. You, of course, know that the two rooms over the new kitchen are for the chef and butler, and that the kitchen-maid is to go on the third floor along with the housekeeper - Minnie to have her choice of the rooms and the Kitchen-maid to take second choice. I wish that, in addition to having Mrs. Bensett, if you or Minnie deem it necessary you would hire another woman or two if necessary a man to help in the cleaning. I have told Minnie that she had better begin on the third floor; and should she find it impossible to clean the laundry and cellar to let it go until after my return as that cleaning can in no way interfere with me.

It is my intention to have the cement floor in the new kitchen covered with linoleum. When you get time you might go to Mr. Abbott, head of the carpet department of Newcomb-Endicott & Company, and tell him that I would like him to take the measurements of the kitchen and have linoleum of the plain, dark brown pattern taken and gotten ready to lay on the kitchen floor about the 14th of 15th instant, about which time the chef will have returned. I want the linoleum of the same quality as that used on the old kitchen floor and which Mr. Abbott furnished some years ago. If he cannot duplicate that exact kind, he can, doubtless, furnish something of similar quality.

To-day's mail brings me a letter from Doctor William Cohn who I spoke to you about some time ago. He is a young German Doctor and Art Professor. He occupies a very important position in German Art circles and has come with his wife, who is also a very intelligent art critic, for the purpose of studying the