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June 4th, 1909.
MEURICE 

HÔTEL MEURICE
Rue de Rivoli
PARIS
ADRESSE TÉLÉGRAPHIQUE
MEURISOTEL PARIS

Dear Colonel Hecker-
My two weeks stay here ends day after tomorrow and then I shall go on to London. The principal object of my present visit in Paris was to see the private collection of M. de Plancy formerly French Minister to Corea and a friend of JT. Allen of Toledo.

The collection is deeply interesting, containing hundreds of specimens of Corean literature and craft but not enough art to make it desireable for my 

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