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YAAMI HOTEL,
MARUYAMA PARK,
KYOTO, JAPAN.    
TELEPHONE No. 115.

Kyoto Nov. 4th 1909.

Dear Colonel Hecker.

Your good letters of Sept. 17th and Oct. 2nd reached me here yesterday and I was glad of news from home. I had not before learned of Mr. Castle's suicide and regret that he should have taken his own life. How many bankers seem impelled to self-destruction!

Yes, I was surprised to receive Baron Shibusawa's cablegram, but quickly after its receipt, realized how quite natural it would be for at least some of the commissioners, to desire to see their native work in foreign surroundings. I am sorry the house looked so forlorn, but Stephen, I know, did the best possible under the circumstances. Your 

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