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Feb. 3, 1907
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DAMPFER "PRINZESS ALICE"
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD
BREMEN. 

make, seems to me in certain suggestions, finer in spirit and older. It seemed to me that the question was too important [[strikethrough]] to me [[/strikethrough]], to depend altogether upon the scanty ideas of others, for it was certain that a collection such as mine would lose much of its interest to further scholars unless it was properly and as accurately as possible, clarified. I fear also the absolute necessity of having in my collections some specimens, at least, of the Egyptian wares, if after seeing the very best of them in their original home, they impressed me deeply in all

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