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[[bottom half]] IV I wrote you all about this before but forgot to mention his name. I have not told Mr. Dillaway anything about these offers. Still I thought the best way to recommend De Friese was to tell Dillaway to ask any banker about the city what the mans position [[strikethrough]] I did so in [[/strikethrough]] that I wanted to introduce him if it was worth while— I received the next day a letter and telegram asking me to try and arrange an appointment with De Friese. Dillaway said his friendship was invaluable—— I saw De Friese who has arranged thro me a luncheon for Monday next. Any number of letters of introduction will probably not equal one introduction thro this source— [[/bottom half]] [[top half-flipped]] His friend was a Manchester Cotton man— He speaks of you very kindly and Homer with much appreciation which displays some diplomacy on his part. Mr. De Friese a man of sixty International adviser to the American Embassy head of the firm Steel De Friese and Frothingham Corporation Lawyers, intimate friend of Choate, and a man of reliable position, who is absolutely on the inside of everything - and thro' his knowledge of American securities, and has the confidence of all English Banking firms trading in American securities, as I wrote you before this man has offered me any introduction and his services to place anything of gilt edge securities on the market here [[/top half-flipped]]