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heat of the lower town. Mrs Voritzscher is away north and the Dr is keeping bachelors hall. He is a most charming host, a scholarly gentleman and enthusiastic collector of Chinese art of the right kind. He arranged for my coming, of which he learned through the newspaper, by having mender from Canton and Hong Kong to meet me - men worth knowing - native experts and collectors as well as responsible dealers form whom I am already learning some of the facts which for so long I have wished. One of the number, Mr. Chun Chief is the most thoroughly efficient master of Sung potter I have ever met and he has shown me his superb private collection and explained the best native tests for genuineness and age. I already feel repaid for the roasting received in the Red Sea - the monsoon met in the Indian Ocean and the trifling inconveniences of this route at this season of the year - let me add just here that instead of the ugly seas expected between Singapore and Hong Kong we ran through the most changing weather and delightful seas imaginable. If we avoid typhoon conditions between here and Shanghai the journey that far will stand in my memory as one of great interest. I expect to remain in Shanghai only long enough to get a comfortable steamer to Tien Tsin where i take train to Peking. I want to see Peking during the good weather of Sept. and Oct. and shall let Shanghai wait for the latter part of my stay in China. One needs a whole year to see the most interesting feature of this great country, but my present visit will, I feel, enable me to get the information I seek.