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  desc: 6156 Joseph Plaut Peking 1, Legationstr. House 8. October 25, 1937. Dear Dr. Andersson, thank you very much for your letter from Hong- kong which was received yesterday evening. I immediately tried to find out whether there was a possibility of sending the bronzes to Shanghai but was told that they could be sent only at sender's or receiver's risk as no insurance can be got on filght to Shanghai. In view of the uncertain mail-connection and lettes taking some- times three weeks and more between the two places I sent you a telegram c/o Swedish Legation "insurance impossible would welcome visit", whieh I hope has reached you. I had so far no opportunity to acknowledge receipt of your letter from Chengtu as well as of your very important publication "An Early Chinese Culture" for which I am sincerely grateful. Du- Ping the monthe since you left Peking life here was very often and most of the time not too pleasant, I often thought of you and won- dereå whether you had not done the best possible thing in golng far away from all worldly troubles. I hope you had a fine and suc- cessful Journey and I also hope that you will fina it possible to come to Peking. The trip from Tientsin takes a few hours more than formerly but otherwise there is no change in your sphere of intereg The two bronzes have been kept most carefully, and a few things bav come up which will be of interest to you, a very fine bronze Chia, Shang, with a good inseription, 34 om high, similab to one piece of the famous table-set of the Tuan Fang collection, now in the Metropolitan, No 319 G in the catalogue of the London Exhibition. Furthermore a number of very eerly pottery pieces, a very good collection of pre-Han and early-Han tomb-figures, and several fine decorated tiles, some with high relief. Also a number of good old carpets. I hope this at least will be an inducement to make you come up to Peking. In any case I would be very happy to see you here as life here has become extremely lonely. Meanwhile …
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presentation: 1.3.0 2026-08-26 brev Rådata 512230 arkivdokument Statens museer för världskultur - Östasiatiska museet SMVK-OM Dokument http://kulturarvsdata.se/SMVK-OM/arkivdokument/512230 E1A-16_0256 6156 Joseph Plaut Peking 1, Legationstr. House 8. October 25, 1937. Dear Dr. Andersson, thank you very much for your letter from Hong- kong which was received yesterday evening. I immediately tried to find out whether there was a possibility of sending the bronzes to Shanghai but was told that they could be sent only at sender's or receiver's risk as no insurance can be got on filght to Shanghai. In view of the uncertain mail-connection and lettes taking some- times three weeks and more between the two places I sent you a telegram c/o Swedish Legation "insurance impossible would welcome visit", whieh I hope has reached you. I had so far no opportunity to acknowledge receipt of your letter from Chengtu as well as of your very important publication "An Early Chinese Culture" for which I am sincerely grateful. Du- Ping the monthe since you left Peking life here was very often and most of the time not too pleasant, I often thought of you and won- dereå whether you had not done the best possible thing in golng far away from all worldly troubles. I hope you had a fine and suc- cessful Journey and I also hope that you will fina it possible to come to Peking. The trip from Tientsin takes a few hours more than formerly but otherwise there is no change in your sphere of intereg The two bronzes have been kept most carefully, and a few things bav come up which will be of interest to you, a very fine bronze Chia, Shang, with a good inseription, 34 om high, similab to one piece of the famous table-set of the Tuan Fang collection, now in the Metropolitan, No 319 G in the catalogue of the London Exhibition. Furthermore a number of very eerly pottery pieces, a very good collection of pre-Han and early-Han tomb-figures, and several fine decorated tiles, some with high relief. Also a number of good ol…