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LES L. FREER. To Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation Dr. Address 36, Wall Street, New York City Detroit, January 4th 1915 [[5 columned table]] | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | For this amount to pay for the following paintings purchased from Edmund Backhoues, through Mr. Larkin of London, in July, 1914: £ 6216. at $4.85 1/2, - - - | | | 30,178 | 68 | | [[stamp]] Smithsonian. [[/stamp]] 150 (A) Scroll painting entitled "Sacrifice to Ancestors at the Spring Festival, by Chang Tse-tuan, £ 800. = | 2.884 | 00 | | | | [[stamp]] Smithsonian. [[/stamp]] 150 (H) Copy thereof by Ch'iu Ying, £ 376. = | 1.825 | 48 | | | | [[stamp]] Smithsonian. [[/stamp]] 150 (L) "Flitting" by Wu Tao-tzu, £ 5040. = | 24.469.20 | | | Total, £ 6216. = | $30.178 | 68 | | | Settlement sent to Wade Gardner, Agent, Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, 36 Wall St. N.Y. by telegraphic request of E. Backhouse attached hereto - Correct, M R Rodgers Approved, C L Freer RECEIVED OF CHARLES L. FREER, Thirty THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-EIGHT and 68/100 DOLLARS, [[strikethrough]] IN FULL OF ABOVE ACCOUNT [[/strikethrough]] a/c Edmund Backhouse Newyork [[stamp]] JAN 6 - 1915 [[/stamp]] 19 [[stamp]] For the HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION. NEW YORK AGENCY Agent. [[/stamp]] [[?]]
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Author uses L with strikethrough, but clearly means to make his own £ symbol, so I used the £ symbol. Signature at bottom may be illegible.
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