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33 Ferry Avenue, East
Detroit, Michigan.
January 30th,1909.

Dear Ali Arabi--

I have been a long time getting ready the gold watch which I promised to send you during my visit to Cairo in May 1908, but at last the watch is ready for you and I am sending the same by American Express, charges prepaid, addressed to you care of the Credit Lyonnaise, Cairo. If you will call upon Mr. Rhoden, who has charge of the foreign department of the Credit Lyonnaise, and make yourself known to him, he will deliver the watch to you. I hope the watch will give you much pleasure and remind you of the interesting visits you and I have had together. I trust, also, that you will consider it as a special souvenir of your sale to me of the Biblical manuscripts, which are proving to be of much interest to Biblical scholars. Have you secured any additional Biblical manuscripts from the same place where the first lot came from? If so, I should like to hear fully from you concerning them.

Trusting you are enjoying good health, I remain, with kind regards,

Yours very truly,
Charles L. Freer

Abd-Cl-Haye El-Arabi,
Dealer in Antiquities,
Guizeh Post Office,
Cairo, Egypt.

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