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more exquisite - of its kind - I wish I could have seen those things with you present - to enjoy these with you - one of the things you have already seen in Shanghai - it is that ancient harp - as a bronze, I think it is by far superior to any I ever saw. Mr Huang said to me that he showing that to you he said: This is the star of my collection - and that you said = "it is the sun" = "the sun of the world"

And there a piece of ancient jade of which I enclose a photo. but the photo says but little - it seems made by an immortal and not by a mortal hand.

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