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433 412 #33 Ferry Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, August 26th, 1904. My dear Mr. Morse:-- The balance of Kobayashi's shipments has been unpacked, and, as promised in my letter to you of the 19th instant, I am pleased to give you a word or two concerning them. The bulk of the two shipments consists of examples of Hokusai's painting. There are screens, kakemono and panels; and the majority of them are extremely interesting. I am inclined to think that the lot as a whole ranks fully equal to those in the Boston Museum or the group in my own collection. The pair of six-fold screens called "The Six Tamagawas" are really wonderful. Another pair of four-fold large-sized screens -, a landscape subject, seem to me to be even more wonderful in a certain way, but not as fine technically. Another pair of six-fold screens represent the twelve months of the year, and are veritable masterpieces. Neither this pair of screens, nor the pair of four-fold landscape screens figure in the Tokio Exhibition. Among the kakemono, there are a small pair of superb dragons, a very large single dragon, some very beautiful figure