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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]]

May 30th, 1907.

[[pencil notation]] For Miss Rhoades consideration [[/pencil notation]]

My dear Colonel, 

I have your kind cablegram telling me of having purchased the Corean pottery collection for three thousand dollars, a price far below what I expected to pay, as similar single specimens here fetch hundreds and some over a thousand dollars. I had expected to pay five thousand dollars, the price [[strikethrough]] als [[/strikethrough]] named in one of the letters.  But I am simply again reminded of your old time habit of always getting rock bottom prices.>  How shall I thank you?  I also have the cablegrams telling me of the $10.000 draft in the mail and of ten thousand dollars cabled.  Again, many thanks!

The draft now in transit will reach me amply early as the $15.000. received by wire took care of pressing needs. Since my arrival here, I have kept away from the shops and have avoided association with the dealers to an extent