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#33 Ferry Avenue,
Detroit, Michigan,
December 9th, 1905.

My dear Mr. Morse:-

On my return from New York the day before yesterday I found your kind letter of the 3rd instant, and am very much interested in all that you mentioned. I was fearful that Mayeda's prints would not reach your high requirements, but inasmuch as he was willing to go to Chicago, I thought it better to send him. I am pleased that his trip was not altogether fruitless, both on your account and his. I have just succeeded in clearing his shipments to me from the Customs House, and tomorrow I hope for time to examine them critically. I doubt, however, if I will find much more worth while.

What an interesting time you are having in getting photographs of the Tibetan paintings! But, as you say, the prices charged by the new photographer are terrific. Should you screw yourself up to meet the expenses incurred, I, of course, have no objection to your intrusting my Tibetan paintings to the photographer, only I should like to have them back in Detroit by the 10th of January as at that time I expect to make a small exhibition in the University Club, and a few of the Tibetan paintings I would be glad to include in the exhibition.

I have been in Detroit very little during the last three weeks, having spent most of my time in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. And you will be glad to know that I have picked up a few very extraordinary things. First and best of all is a marvelous painting of Monju on a green Elephant which is ascribed to Kenaoka, and Fenollosa believes it to be genuine. It was bought by Yamanaka in the Temple of Koyasan last summer and is unquestionably the finest Buddhist painting I have ever seen outside of Japan. Nothing in Boston or Europe touches it.

Yamanaka, also, brought a superb Kakemono, painted in late Sung or early Gen, by an unknown Master. Fenollosa ascribes it to Mongolian influence. It is a "ripper" but I cannot describe it in this horrid letter. When you are next in Detroit I am sure you will enjoy them both.

Some other fine things have, also, come to me including a huge Hokusai which will give you bad dreams when you see it. Yamanaka brought what he terms a Tibetan