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#33 Ferry Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan,
April 29th, 1904.

Dear Mr. Bing:--

I am pleased to receive your kind letter of April 19th, and am happy to say that I shall sail from New York on Wednesday, May 4th, on the S. S. "Oceanic", going direct to England, and, after a short stay in London and Glasgow, I shall visit Paris.

I hope that my stay in your city may be at the time of the public sale of the Japanese paintings named in your good letter. When the date of the sale is actually determined, I hope you will send me word to London in care of my bankers there, Messrs. Brown, Shipley & Company, #123 Pall Mall, S. W. After hearing from you, I will try to arrange my plans to accord with the date of the sale. You are kind to suggest the possibility of sending me some reproductions of the paintings to be sold. Should they arrive in Detroit after my departure, they will be forwarded to me at London, or, if they are sent from Paris after the receipt of this letter, addressed to me in care of my London bankers, as above mentioned, they will then reach me in good time.

Looking forward with much pleasure to seeing you in Paris,
I remain, with kind regards,

Yours very faithfully,
Charles L Freer

S. Bing, Esq.,
#19 Rue Chauchat, PARIS.