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Imperial Hotels, Ltd. Tokio.
(Imperial Hotel & Villa, and Metropole Hotel.)
CARL FLAIG, Gen. Manager.

May 6, 1907
Imperial Hotel & Villa.

within twelve months. Everything else of thoroughly fine quality in the Fine Arts soars accordingly. I hope my cablegram will reach you in time to secure the collection.

I spent this afternoon with Mr. Masuda the richest collector of Japan and he invited a few other Japanese collectors to meet me. It was an extraordinary little event. You should have heard their congratulatory remarks concerning the manner in which I bought the Riviomin Rakans from under [[strikethrough]] "their feet" [[/strikethrough]] "our feet" as they put it. The loss of these famous sixteen paintings to Japan created great excitement and now they stand ready to make great sacrifice to get them back again. Fortunately for America, I could not return them even if I wanted - they are in the Smithsonian lot. On Thursday next, I am to be entertained again by Mr. Masuda in meeting more of his Japanese friends and seeing deeper into his great "godown". Marquis Hachisuka entertained me 

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