To reply to your favor of the 13th, I wish to answer your questions in the following order, and apologize for the delay in this letter which was due to my absence from the office.

In reply to your question #3, I will say that I have never been on Mt. Mitchell, but am very familiar in a general way with the mountains of North Carolina, and have made it my business to learn in detail of the improved travelling facilities to the summit of Mt. Mitchell.

As to cost, it is rather hard to state a definite figure without making plans, but the basis of my following description is upon an approximate cost of five or six thousand dollars.

I wish to emphasize our desire and intention of co-operating with the Mitchell Memorial Committee in the satisfying of their needs and desires, the cost of their work being among their most important requirements.

Now as to the general expression of my idea for the memorial based upon a thorough knowledge of the life, character and works of Dr. Mitchell, and the conditions under which the work must be done, I feel Dr. Winston, that I can better express myself by asking you to journey to the summit of the mountain with me in this letter.

After a strenuous and tiresome trip, during which one has ample opportunity of realizing the grandeur and splendor of the mountains, and also the characteristics and details of the life of Dr. Mitchell, we approach the summit, and here, as a crowning feature of the mountain, are lead through an attractive approach wrought from the natural materials to a rude rock enclosure offering to us the comfortable rest and shelter, the absence of which was the cause of Dr. Mitchell's death. In front of this enclosure we stand gazing upon a mammoth sun-dial that marked the progress of years, and in the divisions of this dial we find lettered in epitaphs and statements, a portrayal in brief, of the history of the mountain and the life of Dr. Mitchell. On entering the enclosure, entirely built of stone, in which there shall be no perishable materials used, we are attracted by a bronze tablet in bas-relief portraying the features, and in lettering, the facts concerning his life.

The design of such a memorial is primarily the illustration of one's life, and there is in this memorial an opportunity for a wonderfully appropriate design. I, as a North Carolinian, and as a son of the University, do with the keenest interest direct my thought to the study of this design.

It has been our good fortune to have found success in the field of appropriate memorials that have been successful by virtue of co-operation, and it is with a great desire that we wish to co-operate with your committee.

From a business point of view, we, of course, must get business, but realizing the indefiniteness of this work, we can only offer you our time, energies and talents, in the hope that our designs will be selected, and our efforts of value to you.

I am taking the liberty of enclosing a newspaper clipping describing one of our recent works, and wish also to say, in that both Mr. Deacy and myself are graduates of the Columbia University of Architecture, and have an entree to one of the world's finest architectural libraries, it would be a pleasure to look up any information on any memorials concerning which you might desire information.

Let me again emphasize the supreme importance of an appropriate design, and after this has been accomplished, it will then be time to go into the details of construction and business.

Thanking you for the opportunity you have given me to express my thoughts regarding this work, and promising you our personal and diligent attention to all matters you may see fit to entrust to us, believe me,