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Sign of the Golden Vase
The 
Court
Inn
Camden, S.C.

The Berkshire Inn
Sign of the Golden Lion
C. TICKNOR & SON
Great Barrington, Mass.

September 15th, 1916
Mr. Edward Hamilton Bell,
Care, Harvard Club,
Boston, Mass.

My dear Mr. Bell:

Your valued letter of the 14th instant, sent from Boston, is just received and I regret to say that I cannot grant you permission to have the Detroit Publishing Co. furnish you with a complete set of the photographs of the Ma Yan scroll, and I fear even if I deemed it wise to permit private individuals to possess copies, the expense would surprise those who might wish to possess the same.
The production of the one dozen copies of the photograph required the attention of the two leading experts of the Detroit firm much of their personal time during a