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

Kyoto Nov 4th 1909

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action in the matter calls forth my warmest praise for more reasons than one. Firstly, because I wish you always to feel at perfect liberty to do with exhibiting the things in my care exactly as I would do with yours in your absence --- i.e. use your own good judgement-

Secondly, because of the special privileges given to me two years ago to see private Japanese collections, about which Baron Shibusawa knows considerable, I want him to understand that American owners of pictures are fully as obliging as his own countrymen.

I am sorry that our friend Charlie Swift has lost his wife- He will, poor fellow, miss her dreadfully. A man of his love of company and so used 


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