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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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spot cash only. I looked the collection through hastily and found [[insertion]] besides much rubbish [[/insertion]] enough [[insertion]] good [[/insertion]] to make me risk the ten thousand first wired for, before I actually bought a piece - I realized the hazard to both my purse and reputation as a critic,  which would naturally follow my going into such a game without an adviser like Prof. Fenellosa behind my back. However, I believed the game a big one and worth the risk of $10.000 - Canfield's games of old days were a hundred times safer - so I went at it as strongly as I could. I found ten thousand dollars would not satisfy my desire so I wired you for five thousand more and received it promptly - by the way the International people were most kind and thoroughly businesslike in both occassions - they have a fine lot of bright young men and splendid offices under a capable Manager named Green, formerly of the Hong Kong, Shanghai Bank - Mighty little of the fifteen thousand is left and the "spoils"
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