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HARVARD UNIVERSITY
FOGG ART MUSEUM
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., U. S. A.

May 22, 1913.

Dear Sir:

The Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, which started on a small scale as a place where a few casts and photographs could be studied, is now growing in usefulness and importance. It contains a number of beautiful and rare original works of art, the valuable Gray and Randall collections of engravings, and also a large and growing collection of photographs and slides. The funds of the museum are so small that we can seldom afford works of art which reach our already high standard, and we have to lose many tempting opportunities because of lack of means. As the regular University funds cannot be spent for works of art, we must depend on the enthusiasm of Harvard graduates and friends of the museum to keep it a live and growing institution. Important original works are most valuable to us, for students and the public find in them an inspiration which they never can find in casts and photographs. it happens not infrequently that a really beautiful work of art appears, which can be bought for comparatively little. 

It has occurred to some of those interested in the growth of the Fogg Museum and the Divison of the Fine Arts that it might be possible to form some sort of organization resembling "Les Amis du Louvre" in Paris, and we write to ask whether this idea is attractive to you, and whether you would like to join a somewhat loosely constituted organization of this sort, and also whether you can suggest any one who you think would be a valuable member. 

"Les Amis Du Louvre" is a society of people who are interested in the welfare of the Louvre. When word is received of 

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