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THE EGYPTIAN HOTELS LTD. 

Shepheard's Hotel
Cario, Aug. 3rd, 1909.

Dear Colonel Hecker, 

My stay in Cairo ends tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock when I take train to Port Said to connect with the S.S. Derfflinger - of N.G.L. - for Shanghai. This getting away from Cairo several days earlier than the previous reports made to me by the North German local Agents hurries me a little in some business matters here with the Arab Antiquarians. But I have secured enough for this trip by buying eight objects in stone, bronze and wood and pottery of Maurice Nahman, Cashier of the Credit Foncier Egyptien for the sum of eight hundred and ninety five pounds sterling -= 895 and from G. Datteri of Garden City, Kasr El Donbarah Cairo, a very well known and wealthy resident of this city, for the sum of twenty five hundred pounds sterling - £2,500, a collection of ancient Egyptian glass.

I have agreed with Messrs. Nahman and Dattari that they shall be paid during the first week of September the amounts mentioned. Will you kindly borrow from Peoples State Bank on my promissory demand note with P.D. and Co. stock as collateral say #20,000 and out of the proceeds request the State bank to telegraph the sums mentioned separately to Mr. Dattari and Mr. Nahman. I fixed the time for payment as of the first week of September so as to make the transaction effective after you should have returned from Mackinaw. A few days one way or the other in settlement with these two gentlemen will make no difference to them --- kindly let it be done at your convenience between Sept. 1st and 7th. 

I have sent details to Mr. Kennedy and in the course of time invoices will be made out by the sellers and sent directly to K. The invoice for glass will take time.

Mr. Nahman will attend to shipping both lots and will consign them to the Smithsonian Institution.

The heat is intense but seems to do me good and I have really enjoyed every hour of my stay here. I am sorry to leave as the better I know Cairo the more I find here to see and study. The Arab museumis most attractive and this year especially the director and his force have shown me [[note]] [unusual] ? [[/note]] usual courtesy.

Mr. K. has a list of stopping places and dates enroute