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Sept. 17, 1894.

Dear Mr. Kingsley:

For a long time I have been owing you a letter, but various things including absence from home have delayed it. Earlier in the summer I had also hoped to have seen you at Hadley ere this, but you know how disappointments will come.

During a recent trip east I found it possible to spend a day with Tryon, and together he and I examined many of the proofs of “Springtime”, but in the rush of numerous things, strange to say, we forgot to discuss the matter of distribution. A day or two later Tryon sent all the proofs to me except twenty, which he kept to be sent to friends by himself. Tomorrow I shall send 50 proofs to you by express. The remaining prints will be kept here until such time as yourself or Tryon desires more. I say “kept here” because day after to-morrow I leave Detroit for a year’s absence, and of course during that time whatever distribution is made will have to be done by yourself and Tryon.

My plans are to sail on the “Kaiser Wilhelm” Saturday next, the 22nd, going direct to Genoa. After a month with Italian Gardens, I shall make a hasty trip to Paris and London, and some time during early December I expect to sail for India, where I intend to spend the entire winter. Next spring, if the war does not prevent, I shall go to Japan and return home via San Francisco. I hope that all will go well with you and your family, and that your art work will continue to give you great happiness.

Faithfully yours,
Charles L. Freer

Mr. Elbridge Kingsley,
Hadley, Mass.

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