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33 Ferry Avenue, East, 
Detroit, Michigan, 
March 10, 1909. 

Mr. D. J. R. Ushikubo,
c/o Yamanaka & Company, 
254 Fifth Avenue, 
New York City, N.Y. 

Dear Mr. Ushikubo,

I have pleasure in enclosing herewith, check to your order, for $2,215.00 in settlement of your invoice of February 8th. 

it has taken me some time to make careful examination of the articles covered by this invoice, but I have finally determined to keep the entire lot. 

It will interest you, I am sure, to know my final judgement of the two pieces which I discussed with yourself and Mr. Yamanaka in New York, namely:  Your NL.244 - the Water Bottle, with short curved spout. This piece Mr. Yamanka felt was Corean; I am now quite well satisfied that is is not Corean, but that it was made at Hagi in the Province of Nagato by Corean potters. I also believe the same is true of your NL.115 the large white jar, with beautiful glaze. I have compared this piece with over twenty important specimens of Nagato pottery in my collection; I have also examined it with nearly one hundred and fifty specimens of Corean  pottery in my collection, and I am thoroughly satisfied that the jar was made in Nagato. I arrive at this conclusion, because of the peculiar mixture 

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418 with a line underneath. I do not know how to transcribe this. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-03-30 10:27:04 You just simply type out the numbers, no need to mark up any words/numbers that are underlined