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On Friday morning, last, four letters were received from you; three postmarked Cairo, and one postmarked Port Said, and I note all you say therein.  I understand the details in connection with the shipment of the cases from Cairo; and you certainly had a hot fight with the authorities, but of course, won out in the end.  No customs papers have yet been received in Detroit, but I presume they will be here soon, and the cases follow shortly thereafter.  I will instruct Stephen as to your wishes respecting the preservation of the manuscripts, etc., after they are received.  I note that you plan remaining in Ceylon two weeks, going thence to Java, arriving there about February 28th to March 5th, and if you carry [[Strike Through]] ing [[/Strike Through]] out your programme of remaining three weeks there, you will be ready to leave there some time between March 20th and April 1st, and, as you wrote Colonel Hecker, I presume you have decided definitely to return via China and Japan.  I have figured that this letter, unless delayed, will reach you before your departure from Batavia, hence I am addressing it there.

Professor Fenollosa came to town on Friday afternoon; delivered his lecture at the Art Museum that evening; went up to your house during the next morning; lunched with Mr. Frank Baldwin, and left on the afternoon train Saturday.  He called at the office to see me after coming from the house.  His lecture was attended by about six hundred people, and I regret that owing to my wife being ill in bed with the "grippe", I was prevented from attending.  Colonel