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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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Kioto, I shall go to Nara, for similar purposes, where I hope to find less of the new Japan and more of the old.  Afterward Yokohama for three days and then homeward on the "Sibera" from Yokohama, June 29th.  Alas Japan's cities are ruined!  Its people too are changing faster than rippling water.  Perhaps it's all for the best, and this I hope, but at times it seems death to all those ancient traditions and arts for which this beautiful land has been famous.

Your letter of April 29th has come since I began this long epistle.  I am so glad to know your own conclusions concerning Anna's health - a letter from her from Kingston is also here this morning -  and that you feel she will, by degrees, during the coming summer, regain her health - I trust so too -  She writes me rather hopefully and seems happy to be at home again with her little girl.

Thanks for particulars of the Yaeger mine,  and for the step you took in my behalf.  I am entirely satisfied with what you did. 

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