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The weather keeps cool and charming. All hotels and restaurants are crowded with Germans and Americans, and money flows like water. It seems to me that the two great producing countries are trying to spend their wealth in France.

I am, I fear, most extravagant of all considering my resources, for I have been unable to resist the superb specimens of Asian pottery which I found in hunting the several trails in Paris.

I have made one draft of £800 as named in my earlier letter, and tomorrow I must make another of £1760 making in all nearly $13,000.00 invested already. But this ends purchases excepting such Whistlers as I may secure from the Ways in London.

I hate to start in buying so extravagantly but the only thing to do is to buy when the very thing you are looking for turns up.

The recent sales in London and Paris are amazing. Last week a porcelain jar less than 13 inches high fetched 5,900 pounds. Yesterday a mezzotint fetched over 1,200 guineas. At this rate only the multimillionaires will be able to buy things of beauty.

With all kind wishes

Yours very sincerely
Charles L. Freer

Long hand.