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March 9/97.

Mr. K. Nese,
Tokamachi Takoykushi Sagaru,
Kioto, Japan

My dear Sir:

I have this day given to my friend, Mr. Charles J. Morse of Chicago, a letter of introduction to you. Mr. Morse is a collector of Japanese art and has I suppose the finest collection of Japanese prints in America, to say nothing of many other fine things including paintings and pottery. He intends to spend some months in your country and I have advised him to meet you and have told him that you could probably help him to find some fine objects. He wants only the best, so do not waste his time and yours with inferior things. Treat him as well as you did me and you will find him a man worth knowing.
I have not forgotten about those screens that I wished you to have made for me, but I have not yet decided just what size to have them. This I will determine ere long and send the dimensions to you, after which please have them made and forwarded to me.

Has Zoroku finished the silver head for the walking stick and the silver cover for the koro? If he has and they are ready to come to me, I should like very much to have them.
I hope you are very well and that business prospers with you. When are you coming to America? Ere long I trust.

Yours very truly,
Charles L. Freer

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