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#33 Ferry Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan,
November 13th, 1905.

Messrs. Kalebdjian Freres,
#32 Rue Le Peletier,
P a r i s.

Gentlemen:-

Your letters of October 12th advising me of the shipment of a fayance jar [[strikethrough]]of fayence[[/strikethrough]], as per sketch enclosed, was duly received. But as yet the fayence has not reached me.

Your letter failed to tell me how it was shipped and how directed. Did you turn it over to the American Express Company, or was it consigned to me in bond to Detroit? If it was so shipped the piece should have been here some days ago. But if you failed to consign it in Bond to Detroit the piece has doubtless been delayed in the New York Custom House. And if so, it is likely to be detained there perhaps a month or six weeks.

You see, the amount of packages passing through New York is so large, particularly before the Holiday season, that great delays follow. Whereas, if shipments are sent in Bond to Detroit they are not delayed in New York, but come directly through the Detroit Custom House, which is never crowded to the extent the New York Custom House is.

Very truly yours,
Charles L. Freer.

P.S
Please ask the transportation Company to follow the ship north with a tracer
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