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a big one and worth the risk of $10,000 --- Canfield's games of old days were a hundred times safer --- so I went at it as strongly as I could. I found ten thousand dollars would not satisfy my desire so I wired you for five thousand more and received it promptly --- by the way the International people were most kind and thoroughly business-like on both occasions. They have a fine lot of bright young men and splendid offices under a capable Manager named Green, formerly of the Hongkong, Shangai Bank. Mightly little of the fifteen thousand is left and the "spoils" are mine. Some I shall always take aesthetic joy with, some will cater to a mean spirit within me, others will show the world some day the power of the Japanese as copyists today and during the last three centuries.
The story is an amazing one particularly the part played by dealers, long enough for a sensational novel, unholy enough to satisfy a missionarie's dream and beset with the greatest aesthetic pitfalls I have thus far met. The closing act, I dare not put on paper. I will tell it to you later. 
I feel that I have seen the sights of Tokio and that I must go elsewhere, so day after tomorrow, I shall revisit Kioto armed with heaps of Governmental letters directing all temples and museums there located, in fact, everywhere in Japan, to admit me and to exhibit to my satisfaction their art treasures. 
This game too, is now won, but to be perfectly honest, I care little about going back to dear old Kioto --- the place is spoilt and its wonderful screens, kakemono, sculptures, bronzes and architecture can never again give me the inspiration of thirteen years ago. From Kioto, I shall go to Nara, for similar purposes, where I hope to find less of the new Japan and more of the old. Afterward Yokohama for three days and then homeward on the "Siberia", from Yokohama, June 29th.
Alas Japan's cities are ruined! Its people too are changing faster than rippling water. Perhaps it's all for the best, and this I hope, but at times it seems death to all those ancient traditions and arts for which this beautiful land has been famous. 
Your letter of April 29th has come since I began this long epistle. I am so glad to know your own conclusions concerning Anna's health --- a letter from her from Kingston is also here this morning --- and that you feel she will, by degrees, during the coming summer, regain her health --- I trust so too --- she writes me rather hopefully and seems happy to be at home again with her little girl.