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and he might arrange for an exhibition of your prints in his galleries. Please read what I say on this subject in my letter of introduction to him. This fancy of mine may be ephemeral, but I feel it would be an interesting event to show in London a thoroughly fine but small group of first-class Japanese prints.

Captain Sparks, of Duke Street, to whom I am also giving you a letter of introduction, is after the style of Yamanaka, the largest dealer in oriental art in London, and it will be doubtless to your advantage to meet him. 

I am also sending you a letter of introduction to Mr. Marcel Bing, of Paris. By reading the same you will see that I have requested Mr. Bing to arrange matters so that you can meet the leading print collectors of Paris. I do not know any of the collectors in Berlin, but before you leave New York you will receive from me a letter of introduction to Mr. Brinckmann of the Hamburg Museum, who, of course, will call upon you while in his city.