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it for you, even without your instructions. How would you like to have it sent you on approval? I can arrange to have this done, and if you don't like the picture it can be returned. The painting is splendidly done, and although the man is young and unknown, I am told that no less a judge than Mr. Whistler himself has praised his beginning. Let me hear from you at your earliest convenience.

When you come to Detroit, send me word in advance and don't go to a hotel. Come direct to my house, and you can come and go from there with perfect freedom, in fact, can run the house itself if you care to.

Col. Hecker joins me in kind regards, and we are both delighted to know that you are feeling first-rate again.

Yours very sincerely,
Charles L. Freer

Mr. W. K. Bixby,
#13 Portland Place
St Louis, Mo.

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