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that you submit the policy to your local lawyer for investigation. The prints must represent in dollars, many thousands, do they not? And is it not absolutely necessary to keep them together as a collection in order to realise what they are actually worth. If his daughter has any legal claim upon them, that is another reason for keeping the collection intact.
When sold, they should go as a lot and the proceeds of the sale divided, if must be, between the rightful heirs.

Your thought about writing Dr. Webster concerning a sale to him of the prints is excellent, as he would always take good care of them. If he should buy them and advance enough to settle Yamanaka's claim that too would be excellent. Furthermore, it would put an end to the risk of carrying the prints yourself and in case of Mrs. Johnson's interference an adjustment of any part of their value, which the courts might possibly allow her, could be more readily settled. What would your lawyer think of the advisability of letting Messrs Yamanaka & Company take a temporary chattel mortgage on the prints as security for their loan, and letting that firm store them in their name, in some fire-proof building in Mobile? This thought may enable your lawyer to put them in safe keeping temporarily, and out of reach of any wrong interference, especially their division, on the part of Mrs. Johnson, or her legal advisers.

May I add, that from time to time when visiting at my home, Professor Fenellosa made notes and photographs of many of my Oriental paintings for early use in his lectures and for later use in the descriptive catalogue of my collections which we so long contemplated doing together. 

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