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#33 Ferry Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan,
October 25th 1901.

My dear Coleman:--
I have your note of the 23rd instant, and am delighted to know of your safe arrival. I have been expecting you for some days.

It was very good of you to send me a little old Chinaman, which is not yet received, but I know in advance of it that if you selected it, it must be fine. I shall do as you say--put it in my collection in memory of happy days together on the little island.

Did you come alone or are the Misses Schaefer with you? Then shall I see you in Detroit? Soon, I hope.

I now have with me some Japanese friends, who leave tomorrow, and on Monday of next week, I must go to my farm in the Berkshires, after which I am to visit one day in Washington, a day or two in New York, and a couple of days in Boston. I will get back to Detroit sometime between the 8th and 10th of November. Now, can't you make it a point to make me a visit before you go to Denver? I will look you up in New York when there, and then we can talk the matter over fully. My address up to Thursday of next week will be care of the Postoffice, Sheffield, Massachusetts; the next three or four days, care of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York. Because of present uncertainty of the exact dates I will be