Codman and I are expecting to go to New York (on some other business that we have with Hunt) and to leave there with the New York architects, Thursday evening (4.50 train). At Albany Peabody has agreed to join us. We are not sure whether it is understood that we are all going in Chicago to the Wellington or the Auditorium. Probably best arranged in New York and you will know.

We suggest that as soon as practicable after our arrival the party should all go by train to Jackson Park; then make a tour of the site in carriages. This, if possible, before explanation or discussion of the plan is attempted; so that all may be on a common footing of understanding as to the main data. I say this because it was evident to me that after considerable verbal explanation Peabody had not obtained at all a good understanding of the topog. conditions and was ready to go off upon theories that a glance at the ground would nullify.

We have a general plan well-advanced embodying our present ideas to be submitted to you. A note from Root to Peabody indicates that you have been making modifications on quite a different tack. We wrote to New York asking Root if practicable to come here but receive no reply. Sorry, as we might have come nearer together before the meeting with the Architects, and I feel that our general theory is now pretty well matured. But sticking to the general principles heretofore fixed, it is evident that a good deal of discussion is yet necessary before even the main structures can be finally placed and the architects get their barking orders.

Yours Truly