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I hope you will give them my warm greetings, Mr. Russell of the Bank, and his brother of the Railroad, 
Mr. Plumb, that charming Mr. Currie, keen Dr. Mann, and more than all that strong yet gentle Col. Hecker.

Next to your friends, the joy was in your rare works of art. In your house one takes a perpetual bath in
the true and Beautiful. Koyetsu and Whistler and Mayer and Rosetti are spiritual brothers, singers of supreme utterance. As the old Chinese said of his garden "In this open pavilion I make wise men my friends."

And everybody in your household combined to make me so naturally comfortable -- Wheeler -- ever quietly helpful -- and "Stephen" almost a Japanese. Will Stephen promise to be very careful of all those precious Kakemonos and screens. Only he and the Curator at Boston, in all America, have such responsibility! I am glad we had clear brief words about so many things. I feel open on all sides to you, as perhaps to no one other than the glorious partner of all my loving work. By the way, I am to send you by mail a copy of her published book of verse. She wants you to have it. I presume you are hard at the work my visit must have sadly interrupted. But I warned you not to let me monopolize your time. Perhaps my unfortunate cold kept you more confined than you had planned for us. Is the cold progressing better, not having suffered relapse from the home journey.

In a day or two, as soon as I can get packed here, I should send you the screens, the [[?]], and the boxes

Transcription Notes:
Koyetsu: this page names Fenollosa as a collector of his work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hon%27ami_K%C5%8Detsu