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Do you desire our Society to effect this insurance and shall 

 I attend to it? 



Very truly yours, 



(Signed) Albert E. Davis 



June 30, 191 5 

 My dear Mr. Davis: 



I have your letter of yesterday, saying that you have re- 

 ceived from Dr. Edward Robinson, Director of the Metro- 

 politan Museum of Art, a list of 21 pictures, of a total value 

 of $8,800, to be loaned to the Bronx Society of Arts and Sci- 

 ences, on which he desires the Bronx Society to take out insur- 

 ance and also to guarantee the pictures full protection in the 

 matter of guardians or night-watchmen. 



I would say that the room in the Lorillard Mansion proposed 

 to be used for these pictures has now been almost completely 

 renovated and painted and that the pictures can be installed 

 in it next week. In order to guard the building and the prop- 

 erty of the New York Botanical Garden contained in it, the 

 New York Botanical Garden will keep a day janitor and a 

 night-watchman in the Mansion, and the night patrol of the 

 Garden visits the building four or five times during each night. 



It will have to be understood, however, that the New York 

 Botanical Garden is in no way responsible for guarding any- 

 thing but its own property. The night-watchman will, how- 

 ever, be instructed to visit all rooms in the basement, on the 

 first floor and on the second floor at intervals during the night, 

 and the day janitor will have similar instructions. Any direct 

 responsibility for the loss of pictures or any other property 

 of the Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences, either owned by 

 the Society or on deposit in its keeping, must be assumed by 

 the Society, as it cannot be assumed by the Garden. 

 Yours very truly, 



(Signed) N. L. Britton, 



Director-in-Chief. 



