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ful manner, and I feel that the result will be entirely satisfactory to you, notwithstanding the delay in delivery of the slides, which will naturally follow. 

It is a pleasure to know of the success which attended your lectures at the Chicago University, and I do hope that in the future, you will be invited to deliver there your entire course of twenty-four lectures on Asiatic Culture. It would be a real event and one of great importance. 

I feel that your visit at home will be restful and delightful in every way; and I appreciate your kind offer to come to Detroit before or about September 15th, should the necessity arise of my calling you here for critical advice of either Matsuki's or Kobayashi's things. I don't know as yet when either of them will arrive, but advice has come from Kobayashi, telling me that he is sending a large shipment of things, I think, something like thirty specimens of Hokusai's work, including the collection owned by Mr. [[strikethrough]] Homer [[/strikethrough]] Hommes.  He states that Mr.[[strikethrough]] Homer [[/strikethrough]] Hommes is to accompany Kobayashi here, and that after his arrival, he intends to make an exhibition of his collection, and give the proceeds to the war relief fund (! !). I wonder if it is wrong to entertain suspicions concerning the proposed gift?  The shipment includes the very fine Hokusai screens owned by [[strikethrough]] Homer [[/strikethrough]] Hommes. Mention is also made of specimens of the work of Motonobu, Korin and three or four of the leading masters of Ukioye.  A memorandum giving the prices of a few of the [[strikethrough]] Homer [[/strikethrough]] Hommes

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can't make out name that replaced strikethrough Homer, though it looks like Hammer