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#39
March 29, 1917.

Mr. S. C. Bosch Reitz,
Curator, Department of Far Eastern Art,
Metropolitan Museum,
New York City. 

My dear Mr. Reitz, 
In accordance with our chatoof last Sunday morning, I have dictated letters to thirteen dealers and collectors in Japan and China, and am forwarding same herewith.

I trust that you will use the letters and that they will result in bringing you into closer touch with some of my friends and acquaintances in the Far East. The dealers, Nomura of Yokohama, Kita and Yamanaka, of Kyoto, will most gladly give you any information that you may need concerning traveling, or seeing private collections in Japan, and you can depend upon information of that nature give by them. 

You will also find Mr. Hayashi, Manager of the Imperial Hotel at Tokyo, a charming person and one of engaging interests and thoroughly reliable in all matters of an ordinary kind on which you may consult him.

The private collections of Messrs. Hara and Masuda will both disclose to you many wonders, and while you are in Kyoto Messrs. Yamanaka and Kita can arrange to open the doors of private departments in the museums and temples, and can also arrange for you to see the collections of Mr. Sumitomo and Mr. Fujita of Osaki, and of Mr. Kawasake of Kobe, all of which will, I am sure, prove extremely interesting to you. 

I hope that your trip to the Far East will be not only heartily enjoyable and restful, but that it will result