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December 29, 1898.

Mr. Bunkio Matsuki,
330 Boylston St.,
Boston, Mass.

My dear Matsuki:-

The Express Company has delivered at last all of the articles covered by your invoice of December 20, and I suppose ere long the screen with the cedar trees will arrive. Today your letter of the 27th came to hand, and I note the same fully. I am glad indeed to know that after January 1 you expect to be the entire master of your own business affairs. The new arrangement, when completed, will, I am sure, encourage you to greater efforts, and will lead to more prosperous times for you.

The reference you make to the financial matters between us is noted, and whatever there may be still due me can be adjusted any time in the future convenient to you. At the time I sent you the last remittance I was confined to my house by illness, and have not yet gotten out, but I think I shall be all right again by the latter part of this week. I want you to feel that in sending the remittance to you as I did, I was governed by a desire to accommodate you and of course hastened it, all I could: but please don't feel it was any particular trouble or inconvenience to me. Whatever little assistance I may have rendered you financially you have much more than offset by the many errands you have attended to for me in Japan and elsewhere. Besides this, you must remember that I am indebted to you for the possession of

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