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#915 Union Trust Building, Detroit, Michigan. March 27, 1911. Messrs. Charles F. Biele & Sons Company. #379-381 West 12th Street, New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: Replying to your letter of March 24th: While it would not put us to any inconvenience to have you delay replacing the broken glass in the long makimono case for three or four weeks, I do not know how this arrangement would suit the Smithsonian Institution authorities. These several show cases are, as you know, stored there and of course I believe that they will have to keep the long makimono in a position easy of access in order that you may replace this broken glass and look into the matter of the finish of this case which they say is not right. I suppose that the Smithsonian Institution would like you to take care of this matter at once so that they could store the case permanently until Mr. Freer's exhibition which I believe is postponed until next December. How as to the pottery show cases: I wrote you on January 30th last that I was writing Mr. Freer, placing the ratter of the discrepancies in the measurements of these show cases before him. On that same day I addressed a letter to him at Shanghai, China, but in a letter received from him this morning, from Shanghai, he acknowledges receipt of all of my letters up to and including January 23rd. In this letter of to-day he tells me that he expects to leave Shanghai the next day