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130. CIE INTLE DES WAGONS-LITS ET DES GRANDS EXPRESS EUROPÉENS DIRECTION GÉNÉRALE 40, Rue de l'Arcade PARIS LES PALACES RIVIERA PALACE-NICE CIMIEZ HOTEL STÉPHANIE } ABBAZIA (HONGRIE) HOTEL QUARNERO SUMMER PALACE THERAPIA BOSPHORE) AVENIDA PALACE-LISBONNE HOTEL LOVRANA, LOVRANA (ISTRIE) RIVIERA PALACE-MONTE-CARLO PAVILLON DE BELLEVUE PRÈS PARIS PERA PALACE-CONSTANTINOPLE HOTEL TERMINUS-BORDEAUX CHATEAU ROYAL D'ARDENNE (BELGIQUE) HOTEL TERMINUS-MARSEILLE HOTEL TERMINUS-LYON-PERRACHE HOTELS CORRESPONDANTS: HOTELS A TATRA-LOMNICZ ET A CZORBA (HONGRIE) GRAND-HOTEL DES WAGON-LITS, PÉKIN ÉLYSÉE PALACE-PARIS. P.S. I must add that Mr. Leishman arranged some very delightful social affairs for me including the "Salamlik" at the Sultans Palace. Péra-Palace Constantinople, le 16th July 1908 Dear Colonel Hecker, you will see by the above date, that my visit here did not end at the time named in my cablegram of last week. A number of things prevented, especially interviews with Hamdy Beys Director of the Imperial Museum and Chief of Antiquities and Archeology for the Turkish Empire. A powerful official, in fact, all powerful in his department and a most charming gentleman! My interviews with him have, I now think, put me in line for carrying on some dreams which have recently beset me. Our Ambassador, Mr. 163
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Hamdi Beys- Ottoman art administrator