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to me by mail c/o Brown, Shipley & Co. a fresh letter of credit for one thousand pounds.  I shall use the draft for £2.000 and practically absorb all of the letter of credit for £5.000 by July 1st.

The new letter of credit for £1.000 I do not expect to use very much of but there is no telling what I may find in Spain.

To provide funds, I wish you would at your discretion sell my [[strikethrough]] 
 Fo[[/strikethrough]] Pressed Steel stock. That was a fine header it took on removed consolidation with A.C.&F Co. but of course you are not going to strike anything like 89 for it.  At whatever figure you sell I will of course, be satisified [[satisfied]].  What I am picking up here is worth much more to me than Pressed Steel - a good name for my new findings would be Pressed or compressed joy.  Before leaving London, I hope to forward the whole lot of Whistlers (the new ones) about thirty five paintings and sketches to you also some of the old ones which I loaned Mr Whistler.

I had very much rather that no one but yourself and family, office force, and customs broker and officers should know of all these treasures having fallen into my hands.  If it becomes generally known too many embarrassing questions might be asked - and then too, the assessors must be remembered.  Of course with