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Sept. 26/96.

Mr. R.E. Moore,
Decker Building, Union Sq.,
New York.

My dear Mr. Moore:

I have your valued note of 23rd inst. and will be pleased indeed to have you send me the Kenzan pottery on approval.

I am glad to know that business in New York is looking better, the result I presume of the apparent certainty of McKinley’s election. When I am next in town I hope for the pleasure of seeing you.

Li Hung Chang doubtless displayed in his art purchases in London the same sagacity shown by him in meeting officials and others in America. Strange, isn’t it, that the Chinese should to-day be searching Europe and America for treasures which slipped through their hands twenty years ago? I look for similar action on the part of the Japanese are long. How ridiculous that splendid examples of the early Japanese painters should have gone begging here five years ago at prices ranging from ten to fifty dollars each! Keep your Japanese paintings, and if you live long enough, they will pay you a larger interest in return than you can get in any other way.

Yours very truly,
Charles L. Freer 

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