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[[pre-printed]] Shepheard's Hotel & Ghezireh Palace Cairo THE EGYPTIAN HOTELS LTd. 
TelegrAddress SHEPHEARDS - CAIRO
LIBBER'S CODE USED
[[insignia]] QUIS AQUAM NILI BIBIT AERUM BIBET
Shepheard's Hotel [[/preprinted]] May 26th [[pre-printed]] 190 [[/pre[pre-printed]] 8
Dear Colonel Hecker. 
Everything hoped for and more has been done here, and tomorrow morning I go by early train to see two private collections at Alexandria [[strikethrough]] there [[/strikethrough]] On Saturday next the 30th inst. I take steamer for Palestine. 
I have just wired you "Scythe for Palestine. Reticule Credit Lyonnais, Constantinople."
From the "Holy Land" I shall go 
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