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247 [[checkmark]] 915 Union Trust Building, Detroit, Michigan, January 21st, 1909. Downing's Foreign Express, 120 Broad Street, New York City, N.Y. Gentlemen:- Your letter of the 9th of this month, enclosing invoice for freight charges and Custom House fees, amounting to $13.80, is received, and I have pleasure in enclosing check for that amount herewith. Please receipt and return the enclosed voucher. I wish that the freight from New York to Washington, had been paid on the case of pottery sent to the Smithsonian Institution. It is quite likely, that future shipments of a similar nature will arrive from time to time, and as Messrs. Geo. W. Wheatley & Company are my London shippers, the goods will doubtless come through your office, and I would in future thank you, to prepay the charges from New York to Washington, as I dislike to burden the Smithsonian Institution with such trifling items of expense. Believe me, Yours very truly, Charles L Freer