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#33 Ferry Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan,
November 27th, 1905.

Dear Professor Fenollosa:-

I returned home yesterday morning and received an early visit from Mr. Mayeda. He turns out to be a young gentleman with good intentions and heaps of ambition. He was born in Satsumi and his father was a retainer of the Daimyo of Satsumi. The things thus far received and seen by me are of a very mixed character. Many of them are utterly worthless, while a few are very interesting.

None of the screens belonging to him have arrived as yet.

There are, also, three or four additional Kakemono to come.

In looking through the things brought in his trunk we laid out three Kakemono attributed to Okio, the ones described in his letter which I read to yourself and Mrs. Fenollosa. Also, three Kakemono in ink attributed to Soami.

In discussing these Kakemono we both felt it would be wise to send them to you for your criticism. So I am taking the liberty of forwarding them, by American Express, to your New York address, as below. At your leisure will you be good enough to examine them and return the same with your opinion as to their genuiness [[genuineness]], and whether or not you consider them good enough to go into my collection.

I have been called to Dublin, N. H., very unexpectedly and will probably leave here tomorrow afternoon. From Dublin I may have to go to Boston for a day and I may possibly return by the way of New York, but this I cannot at present decide definitely.