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Metropolitan Museum of Art, 



Central Park, 



Fifth Avenue and Eighty-second Street, 



Office of the Director, 



New York. 



October 30th, 1906. 

 Mr. Arthur Hollick, 



Chairman, Committee on Arrangements, 



Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences. 

 Dear Sir: — I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your 

 letter of the 2Sth instant inviting me to be one of the guests on the eve- 

 ning of the i2th of November. 



I regret, however, that a previous engagement for that evening will 

 prevent me from accepting your kind invitation, for which I thank your 

 committee. I beg to remain, "" 



Yours very faithfully, 



C. Purdon Clarke. 



American Museum of Natural History, 



New York. 



November i. 1Q06. 

 My Dear Dr. Hollick: — Many thanks for yours of October 25, in 

 which you so courteously invite me to be one of the guests at the din- 

 ner of the Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences, to be held at 

 the Hotel Castleton, St. George, Staten Island, on the evening of No- 

 vember 12, at 7 o'clock. It will give me pleasure to be present and to 

 meet you at that time. 



Very cordially yours, 



H. C. Bumpus. 

 Dr. Arthur Hollick, New Brighton, 

 Boro' of Richmond, New York. 



The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. 



Founded, 1824. Re-Incorporated, 1890. 



Director, Prof. Franklin W. Hooper, M. A. 



Office: 502 Fulton Street, 

 Brooklyn. 



October 29th, 1906. 

 Dr. Arthur Hollick, New Brighton, 



Borough of Richmond, New York City. 

 My Dear Dr. Hollick: — I am in receipt of your letter of October 

 25th containing the invitation of the Staten Island Association of Arts 



