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#33 Ferry Avenue, East, 
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A., 
August 24, 1914.

Mr. T. Hara, 
San-no Tasi, 
Yokohama, 
Japan.

My dear Mr. Hara: 

Your long and interesting letter of July 25th reached me a few days ago, and I was delighted to have such interesting news from you.

I derived real pleasure from your appreciation of the photographs of Japanese, Chinese and Corean Potteries sent to you last spring. The exhibition was a very fine one, and much desire has been expressed by many people in America and Europe to know more accurately concerning the ancient potteries of the Far East, and the catalogue and photographs issued have been of real assistance to students everywhere. 

I am glad that you approved of the visits Zenichiro and I had together - both at my home in Detroit and in the Berkshire Hills, of Massachusetts. Zenichiro is a very intelligent and delightful student and companion, and I hope that the future will give ample opportunity for him and me to meet and visit together. He will, I am sure, profit greatly during his future years of study in America. Of course in this tremendously busy part of the World, he will meet with many things of an unpleasant nature but, on the other hand, he will have opportunities for study in this