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150.
Grand Hotel des Wagon-Lits,
Limited.
TEL. ADDRESS: WAGONLITS
CODE 5TH EDITION A.B.C.

PEKING, Septem 17th/09

Dear Colonel Hecker.
I am most fortunate in having secured the services of a native export in Chinese ancient art, who, securing the last twenty years has secured many foreign and native collectors and merchants - particularly of recent months; Mr. Woerch of Paris, who was taken ill a few days prior to my arrival and who has been ordered back to France by his physician. His misfortune is my good fortune in that it accidentally made it possible for me to secure the services of his man for two events. His first work end of tomorrow and I have never known his equal in ancient things Chinese - in fact, in Chinese art he is fully Fenollosa's Equal in Japanese art He Lives in Tienstin where I first met

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