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33 Ferry Avenue, East,
Detroit, Michigan,
January 12th,1909.

My dear friend Migeon:-
I enjoyed, greatly, your card bearing its good wishes for the new year and other interesting information.

I hope the Eitoku and Matahei treasures, mentioned in your card, did not disappear from Paris. Truly fine Japanese things are becoming very scarce,and one should not miss an opportunity to secure thoroughly fine specimens whenever they appear. I have found only one specimen of good Japanese art for-sale since seeing you last, that is, a small two-fold screen of the Tosa style, very rich and beautiful in color, of course, it is late Tosa, but I consider it an important item. I have, however, secured two very splendid Sung paintings, one a kakemono by Mei Fei, the other a makimono, about 20 feet long by Fang Chun Nien. The makimono is one of the most perfect specimens of painting I have ever seen any where, and I am sure, that when you are next in America and see it, you will be completely charmed. 

I see by the New York Herald that M. Kelekian has just paid something over thirty thousand francs for a single

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