Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute Office of the Secretary, 1003 Penn Avenue.

Pittsburgh, Pa. October 21, 1898.

Mr. Henry C.. Frick, Pittsburgh, Pa.

My Dear Mr. Frick;

    On behalf of the Board of Trustess of the Carnegie Institute, it is my pleasant duty to acknowledg with sincere gratitude your gift of the magnificent painting "The Disciples at Emmaus," by P. J. Dagnan-Bouveret, and to thank you for it.
    The picture is a splendid work of art, full of fine feeling and tender religious emotion. The artist with bold genius, has developed the subect in an original and fascinating composition. He has created a work which brings into visual apotheosis the Saviour himself. To see it is to be startled by its beauty; to study it is to feel the spiritual elevation that follows the gentle but overpowering expression of a great fact.
    You, in so generously presenting this painting to the Carnegie Art Galleries, where it will be seen every day by a thousand people, have done more than any other agency could do to lift public attention perpetually to the eternal entity in Art that beongs to all humanity. 

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