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my letter of credit for £1.600 to pay T.J. Larkin for potteries.

Perhaps drafts for a couple of hundred pounds for small articles and expenses will also be drawn this week.

Miss Birnie-Philip has sold me a superb head [[strikethrough]] of an [[/strikethrough]] and bust of a 5 year old girl, done by Whistler in his later years and one which I have long desired. 
 
For certain special reasons she now lets me buy it. The price is £ 1.250 (twelve hundred and fifty pounds) and I will be greatly obliged if you will kindly issue a draft for that amount having Kennedy send it to Miss Birnie-Philips London address.
The potteries I have found in the Paris and London markets are extraordinary and are here on sale largely by reason of unrest in Persia and the Turkish Empire. I have never before seen such magnificent specimens on sale.

Yesterday I had a remarkable visit with George Salting the Pierpont Morgan of England. He showed me a small painting by Vermeer of Delft for which he paid
£ 3.000 about 25 yrs ago, now he is offered £ 50.000!