JOHN QUINN
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
31 NASSAU STREET

NEW YORK February 14,1916.

My dear McBride:

There is in this country now a distinguished
authority upon old Chinese and Japanese art. His name is
Mr. Takuma Kuroda. He is at the head of the Council of
Connoisseurs for old objects of Chinese art. He was in charge
of the excavations in Korea for twenty years and was intimately
associated with Prince Ito. He is here for a very limited
time lecturing at Harvard, Columbia, in Washington, and at
one or two other places. He has done me the honor to agree
to talk upon old Chinese art at my apartment, Georgan Court,
58 Central Park West, Tuesday evening, February 15th, at 8:30.
He has with him a considerable number of rare examples of
early Chinese art that he will talk about.

Mr. Kuroda has a most distinguished position in
Japan and has been associated with some of the most eminent
Japanese connoisseurs, public men and statesmen.

I hope very much that you will be able to come
to my place on Tuesday evening. The lecture will last about an
hour.

Henry McBride, Esq.,
358 West 22nd Street,
New York City.

NEW YORK April 21, 1916.

My dear McBride:

With this I send you "my bit". I am afraid it
is a little too long and you can cut it down if you like.
But you perhaps might not have received things from some of
the others that you counted on, and perhaps mine being a
little longer than the three hundred words that you prescribed,
may not be counted altogether as a demerit.

I hope it will suit your purpose. If you had
had more time I should have suggested your getting a note from
John B. Yeats, the artist, father of W. B. Yeats. His address
is 317 West 29th Street. I should have also suggested your
getting a note from Dr. Ananda Coomeraswamy, the well known
authority on Hindu art and Rajput painting. Dr. Coomeraswamy
stops at the Hotel Seville. Perhaps if the symposium is
not published the coming Sunday, you might be able to get them
next week.

I am sorry I could not arrange about the Colonel.
I hadn't the heart to write to him about it and I was unable to
get in personal touch with him. If you put it off until next
week, let me know the early part of the week and I will make
another effort.

With kind regards, I am

Sincerely yours,