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33 Ferry Avenue E.,
Detroit, Michigan,
February 26, 1908.

Samurai Shakai
Yozo Nomura, Esq.,
Yokohama, Japan.

My Dear Sir:

Your good letter of February third came in this morning's mail, and I am very pleased to know that Mrs. Nomura is to sail for America on the eighteenth of March. I trust she will come to Detroit as soon as she can after her arrival in this country as I should like so much to entertain her in my own home and show her my collection. If she comes here about the seventh or eighth of April, it will be very convenient for me. Later in April, I expect to leave Detroit to be absent two or three months so you see her coming at the time she does happens to fit in perfectly with my plans.
Kindly ask her to wire me the day she lands at San Francisco, letting me know on what day whe will reach Detroit, so that I can meet her at the Station, and assist her with her baggage, &c.
The shipment including the Nara bronze and the Hokusai Painting has been delayed by the heavy storms in the Western States, but I am just informed that the goods reached the Customs House this morning. They will probably be cleared to-day, but probably not in time for me to see them before leaving Detroit this evening for Washington. I shall be in Washington only a few days and probably back in Detroit at the end of a week's time, and then I shall have a chance to see the Hokusai and the bronze. 
Believe me, with kind regards to both yourself and Mrs. Nomura, 
Sincerely your friend,
Charles L Freer