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Detroit, Michigan,
January 11th,1900.

Mr. Alfred H. Granger,
Chairman, Exhibition Committee, Caxton Club,
Care Frost and Granger,
Chicago, Ills.

My dear Sir:- 

Your letter of 9th instant is received and fully noted. As my lithographs are in better condition for shipping than the prints, I shall send the former to you first. The etchings and dry points will follow later. Am I correct in understanding that you desire all of the prints named in the two lists sent you? I had supposed that you would make a selection of such as you would want to put with those borrowed from other parties. I name this, not because I have any objection to letting you have my entire collection of Whistler's things , outside of the Haden collection, but because I had understood from your correspondence that you expect to draw from various collections, and that in fact one gentlemen residing in Chicago had put his entire collection at your disposal. Again, knowing that you desire to exhibit only fine impressions, I am confident that if you attempted to exhibit all of mine, you will find a number of them disappointing. Pardon me for again suggesting that in order to have a thoroughly successful exhibition and a satisfactory catalogue, you should examine the prints in the various American collections, so as to know what each collection contains as to states, etc., choosing for exhibition those of the finest quality only.
You will remember that in my first letter to you I said I