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Inclosures

Smithsonian Institution
United States National Museum
Washington, D. C.

Office of
Assistant Secretary 
Smithsonian Institution
In charge U.S. National Museum 

February 18, 1911

George W. Alger, Esquire, 
915 Union Trust Building
Detroit, Michigan 

Dear Sir: 

Referring to your letter of the 7th instant, I beg to say that the makimono cases began to arrive on January 31, and the last one was received on February 16. I have given the results of the inspection of these 11 cases by the Superintendent in a memorandum which is enclosed. 

An examination of one of the drawings you sent would seem to indicate that the cases measuring 16" wide were intended to stand a little lower at the back than the 18" wide cases. No other differences were found in the measurements except that the largest case is 2 1/4" longer than the length given in your letter. It is, of course, impossible to say where the responsibility should be placed for the breaking of the glass in one of the sections of this case. The section was

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