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the Arabian library and museum in the same city, and in meeting intelligent Arabs and Syrians and private Egyptian collectors, I learned enough additional facts to confirm my early impressions that my pieces of Racca are all genuine and fully as rare and beautiful as I had supposed. The one open question in regard to that pottery is whether it influenced the Egyptian or whether it was influences by the Egyptian --- One point is positive, they are the two earliest glazed potteries thus far exhumed in the world. They are also the two most beautiful potteries thus dar known in the world. Which is the earliest can only be definitely determined in the coming years, after the great cities and tombs of the valleys of the Nile, the Tigris and the Euphrates shall have been completely excavated. When that time arrives, I shall have been long forgotten and quite beyond an interest in any question. 
A great question with me now is Egyptian art. Of its pottery of early glazed kind I must, when possible, secure specimens if only of the smallest fragments. This is still fortunately possible but it means having business dealings with the worst gang of high and low scoundrels in the whole universe. Another branch of the question is whether my collection can express the power of line and form to their full value and as I have so long desired, and without including stone and wood sculpture figures, unglazed, of certain Egyptian dynasties. I now feel these things are the greatest art in the world --- greater than Greek, Chinese or Japanese. My mind, so far as the Chinese and Japanese are considered may slightly change and further light concerning these branches is really my great hurry to reach Japan. So far as Greece goes, that blessed land, so famous for its art, owes everything in beauty to Egypt. What Korin owes to Koyetau and more, the Greeks owe to the Egyptians. 
Now, comes the great hurdle and how to get over it. If my head and heart keeps bowing to the line and form of the dynasties 2nd, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, and 25th and if one or more of these periods of Egyptian life produced the best art of the world according to my humble thinking, must I not secure for my collection a few specimens even if by lieing with Egyptian liars, making my hands and soul as dirty as theirs or die in the attempt --- Query?
These are my thoughts and these hurried lines explain why the days fly and on what wings. Don't think me crazy nor full --- I am simply trying to digest the Pyramids, Colossus, and Sphinx. 

Kindest regards to all.
Yours very sincerely,
Charles L. Freer

After Batavia my address will be care of Hong Kong, Shangai Bank, Yokohama. 

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