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                                       Museum of Fine Arts
                                               Boston, Mass.

                                                                          November 18,1910

Dear Mr. Frick:

          The Trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts voted

yesterday to ask if you would consent to exhibit your collection of pictures in the Museum for a fortnight. Such an exhibition would create the greatest interest here. The citizens of Boston, and indeed the inhabitants of Eastern Massachusetts, would, we think, be greatly pleased to have an opportunity to see these pictures, the reputation of which is so great and the quality of which is so remarkably fine.

            We suggest that the pictures be placed in our long picture gallery.  If the wall space here is insufficient, the

adjoining gallery or galleries could also be used.

             If you should consent to this exhibition the Museum would expect to open the galleries containing your pictures, free to the public during the entire exhibition on the first day only to annual subscribers and perhaps other specially invited guests.  It is our custom when we have 

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