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#21 Agency For Hotta Lacquers Co., Boston. Dock Gas Engine Co., New York. N.Y. Safety Steam Power Co., New York. Leslie Razor Co., Boston. Bunkio Matsuki Main Office: 407, Boylston Street, Boston Mass, U.S.A. No. 2, Kanomachi, Shichome, KOBE No. 3, Sanjukenbori Sanchome Kiobashi, TOKYO Answered Berlin July 11th Copy made for reference JMK May 3rd 1909 Charles L. Freer Esq Detroit Mich My dear Mr Freer I thank you for your kind telegram and ever kind consideration in treating me. I will state various facts & circumstances which put me in hard pacs but not now. First of all I got together every one of those collection and had them all packed carefully and marked on them Smithsonian Institution Washington D.C. Care Collector of Part of New York U.S.A. They are all in four cases. Large figure of Kwan-won occupying one case all alone. All these will start from Yokohama via S.S. "Empress of China" May 11th. I am directly communicating with C.P.R. agent in regard to this shipment but at the moment I can not tell definitely as the C.P.R. does not take but tea & silk at present but I am doing my best to ship those four cases on The Empress.