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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
WASHINGTON, D. C.

OFFICE OF
ASSISTANT SECRETARY,
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
IN CHARGE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM

December 14, 1910.

Mr. George W. Alger,
915 Union Trust Building,
Detroit, Michigan.

My dear Sir:

Your letter relative to the case of art objects received through the custom-house at Detroit reached me this morning, and I have brought it to the attention of Mr. Walcott, the Secretary, who will immediately address the Secretary of the Treasury on the subject. I have no doubt that the matter will be set right without delay.

Taking up the subject of the cases from the Biele Company referred to in your letter of December 8, I beg to say that the cases all seem to have been made in accordance with Mr. Freer's order, the specific working of which you quote In his order to the Biele Company he gives outside measurements entirely, while in his letter to me of August 4, he gives the inside measurements for the smaller cases and the outside for the larger case.