Letter from author who has just returned from Burma and would like to make a donation and view the collection of the Horniman Museum. The author has two wooden figures of boys which he believes are the only two of forty figures left. In postcript a small sketch of a Chinme pipe with query if pipes have been sent to Museum as he instructed.
Letter regarding two wooden figures of boys.
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