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SHEPHEARD'S HOTEL & GHEZIBEH PALACE CAIRO

THE EGYPTIAN HOTELS LTD.
TelegrAddress "SHEPHEARDS-CAIRO"
LIEBERS CODE USED

QUIS AQUAM NILI BIBIT AERUM BIBET 

Shepheard's Hotel
Cairo 190

Mr. Nahman from whom Prof. Dennison bought for my account the Byzantine gold treasure, etc., came to see me last night and offered me £2.000 for the several gold objects alone, thus returning my money and letting me have the other articles for nothing. He was perfectly serious in this as the balance of the "treasure" which I refused to buy has since my departure from Paris recently, gone into the hands of a French dealer who now wishes to secure my pieces and complete

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