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THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART NEW YORK

PRESIDENT, ROBERT W. DE FOREST DIRECTOR, EDWARD ROBINSON SECRETARY, HENRY W. KENT

October 2, 1917

My dear Miss Williams: The next meeting of the College Art Association is to be held at the Metropolitan Museum early in April, 1918. I have been appointed chairman of the local committee and am making tentative plans for the entertainment of the guests. One of the important features of the previous meetings has been the opportunity to visit rare private collections ordinarily inaccessible to the public. At the meeting in Philadelphia invitations to visit Mr. Johnson's collections were received and the Association was entertained by Mr. Widener. Similar courtesies were extended by Mr. and Mrs. Taft and by Mrs. Emery in Cincinnati last year. I am anxious to offer a program of equal interest here and I am writing at this early date to ask for your good offices in arranging for a visit to Mr. Frick's collection. If the usual schedule is followed this year, the meeting will occur on Thursday, Friday and Saturday preceding Easter. If Mr. Frick