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Letter #26
Ansd
Springhill, Mobile County, Ala.
September 28th, 1904.

Dear Mr. Freer;--

I was much pleased to receive your kind letter of the 23rd, and to hear of your recent and prospective experiences.

It was most interesting to hear of the visits of Matsuki and Kobayashi, and of the important additions you are to make to your collection. I shall be ready to inspect Matsuki's for you, and criticize them, as you have arranged.  I understand that, besides being genuine, you want to know whether I think the pieces to be worthy representatives of the masters' better work.  I have not yet fixed my date for going to New York, but it will be in the first half of October.  It will be a pleasure to me to see these things and to take careful interest in their criticism.

It is most kind of you to have taken so much trouble with Mr. Gault about the slides.  I am looking forward with the greatest interest to them, as, doubtless the most beautiful attractions in my future lantern lectures.  I have about decided to make my next stay in new York a short one, and not to accept lengthy lecture engagements for this Autumn, (the Chicago set having apparently failed,) but return here for solid literary work till Christmas.  In that case I shall push all my lecture work forward into next year;  and the slowness of Mr. Gault in his work on the slides will not at all have inconvenienced me.  If my literary work succeeds, it will be far more remunerative, and then I shall be able to limit my lecture work to instruction in really sympathetic places.

Kobayashi has written to me a little vaguely of his plans. I hope to meet him in New York, and have first pick of the Chinese books he has brought.  I trust, too, that he will pay me the royalties on my Ukiyoye book.

If I write to you in October, I shall direct to Detroit, presum presuming that letters will be forwarded.  I hope we may meet in New York.

Mrs. Fenollosa asks me to send you her kindest regards with mine.

Yours most truly,
Ernest F. Fenollosa

To Charles L. Freer,
#33 Ferry Avenue, Detroit.