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[[Letterhead]] Imperial Hotels, Ltd. Tokio.
(Imperial Hotel & Villa, and Metropole Hotel.)
[[hotel insignia]] CARL FLAIG, Gen. Manager.
Imperial Hotel & Villa [[/letterhead]]


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May 17th 1907

Dear Colonel Hecker,

I am working to get hold of some expensive things but, as yet, am uncertain of success. Should I get them I shall need between five and ten thousand dollars. Not wanting to exhaust my letter of credit and thinking that the ready money might help I cabled you this evening as follows,

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Send me by mail $10.000   Enjoying myself. Well.

I think the Peoples State Bank can give their own draft or that of Brown Bros & Co payable in Yokohama.  I may not secure the things I am negotiating for and in this event I can take back the drafts to America.  This has been another active day spent with the Director General at the Imperial Museum.  Tomorrow I visit Count Date's collection and the day following I am to see Mr. Gejō's private collection.  There is lots of hard work along with unlimited pleasure in what I am doing but I am standing the racket all right.

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[[marginalia]]  With all good wishes
Very sincerely yours,
Charles L. Freer  [[/marginalia]]

Transcription Notes:
I changed "Enjoying myself, still." to "Enjoying myself. Well." near the middle of the page.--thomasc