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#33 Ferry Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan,
November 18th, 1901.

Dear Mr. Moore:--

I have your very amusing letter of the 15th instant, and have read the same with much pleasure.

To err is human, and if I fell down in the identification of the Kenzan Waggamann box, I think I guessed right on the other specimen of his work, which you had recently sold him, so I think you and I are now "horse and horse". However, I still hold to my original conviction concerning the box. What you say concerning signatures is altogether right from a scientific point of view, but I find greater personal satisfaction in depending upon the art feeling expressed. It was exactly such qualities that instantly led me to buy that beautiful Takatori jar. The man who made it was certainly a very great artist. It belongs with the Koyetsu tea ceremony water-jar, which, when you see it, you will not consider as condescension on the part of the great Koyetsu. When you have time, come out and lengthen your life by gazing upon it. But put an iron band around yourself before you leave New York.

Yours very sincerely, 
Charles L Freer

Rufus E. Moore, Esq.,
#33 Union Square, 
New York City. 

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