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158 Kyoto Nov 10th 1909 YAAMI HOTEL MARUYAMA PARK, KYOTO, JAPAN. TELEPHONE No. 115 Dear Colonel Hecker - Your good letter of Oct. 15th is received and read with much interest. It is good to know of the activity in business at home and I am especially glad, for many reasons, that Great Lakes affairs are looking so well - the Ashtabula yard should, I think, prove eventually better than the one at Detroit. Thank you for answering both Richmond of New York and Obach of London exactly as you did - I have during past years had several opportunities to buy both pictures- The "Irving" could have been had for £400 but Whistler objected to my buying 192