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Leishman and his principal Sec'y are hand in glove with Hamby Bey and they have worked splendidly for me. The story is too long for any letter and the plans too far in the future for this letter, as I will save the details for a talk with you after I get home. The sculptures I wrote you of as things of importance, I hoped to get, did not pan out as well as they at first promised. Bad luck! One lot, the best of all, after really becoming pledged to me slid out of my hands. Another proved too large for shipment, but may be moved outside of the mails later, if I can get Hamdy Beys consent. A third lot ^[[some good, many bad]] were seized by the Government while in possession of their owner, at Haifa, where they were being shipped to England