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9. Said first party and Iiis executors shall be free from any liability on 

 account of any loss in or damage that may accrue to the whole or any of said 

 objects before the delivery thereof to said second party, notwithstanding the 

 fact that such loss or damage may accrue by reason of his or their negligence 

 or the negligence of his or their servants, agents or employees. 



It is the intention and meaning of the parties hereto that the title to the 

 objects mentioned in the inventory hereto attached passes immediately to said 

 second party, and that the title to all objects which may be added to those in 

 said inventory mentioned, and which may be covered by subsequent transfers 

 to said second party, shall pass immediately to said second party, upon the 

 delivery to it of each instrument of subsequent transfer. 



In witness whereof the said party of the first part has hereunto set his hand 

 and seal, and said party of the second part has caused this instrument to be 

 executed in duplicate by its Acting Secretary and its seal to be hereto affixed, 

 this fifth day of May, 1906. 



(Signed) Chaeles L. Freer, [seal.] 



Smithsonian Institution, 

 (Signed) By Richard Rathbun, 



Acting Secretary. 

 Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of — 



(Signed) Herbert E. Boynton. [seal.] 



(Signed) Frank W. Hackett. [seal.] 



The printed inventory which accompanied and was made a part of 

 the above conveyance enumerates above 2,250 objects, which may be 

 briefly summarized as f oIIoavs : 



By James McNeill T^Hiistler, 119 paintings in oil, water color, and 

 pastel; 100 drawings and sketches, 3 wood engravings, 600 etchings 

 and dry points, 165 lithographs, and all the decorations of the famous 

 Peacock room. By the American artists, Dwight W. Tryon, Thomas 

 W. Dewing, and Abbott H. Thayer, 60 paintings in oil, water color, 

 and pastel. Of oriental paintings, 298 kakemono and makimono, 

 121 screens and 53 panels, by various masters of Japanese and Chinese 

 schools, from the tenth to the nineteenth century, including E-iriomin. 

 Sesshu, Sesson, Motonobu, Tanyu, Koyetsu, Sotatsu, Korin, Kenzan, 

 Hoitsu, Okio, and Hokusai ; besides 4 albums of Japanese art and 13 

 Tibetan paintings. Of oriental pottery, 953 pieces from Japan, 

 China, Korea, Central Asia, Persia, and Arabia. There is also a 

 small collection of ancient Chinese and Japanese bronzes and some 

 lacquer work by Koyetsu, Korin, and Kitsuwo. 



THE ART COLLECTION OF HARRIET LANE JOHNSTON. 



Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston, the niece of James Buchanan, who 

 had accompanied him when minister abroad and who was mistress 

 of the White House during his term as President, had assembled at 

 her home in Washington some important works of art, including a 



