28 A COLLECTING TRIP 
come in my big trunk. I will send the keys to Pa’s 
office by registered mail. We are off very soon for 
Brindisi. 
Affectionately, 
___._ Rosamond. 
0 Oi Sitcom ats 
Po GOs. S., October 21, 1906. 
Dear Mother: ae ants Oy 
I reeeivéd your letters just a second ago and was 
delighted ‘to ear from you. Thank ‘Sal and, Cousin 
Lizzie for theirs. We have had a most beautiful trip 
so far. London is, well, there is no word for it; you 
would go wild about it. There are shops at every 
turn and:palaces, parks, museums and cathedrals. The 
train from Walais here was dirty, but the trip was glo- 
rious.’ We hdd ‘wonderful wedtHer | to start with ; so 
I saw ‘all of the sduthern’ part ‘of France fo "the heat 
advantage. It is” very “hibhly cultivated, flat and 
very neat. The Alps are magnificent, all snow ecap- 
ped and trees below. We passed a lake surrounded 
by these mountains and it was a fine sight. We got 
through the custom house on the border line of Italy 
and France without any difficulty. Italy is so dif- 
ferent from France, dreadfully slack and untidy. The 
people here are dirty but all live in miniature Mrs. 
Jack Gardner palaces. 
The train stopped about every fifteen minutes and 
before it started up a very grandly dressed official 
with a horn tied about his neck would step up and 
blow his horn; then the engine would toot and off 
we would go in the slowest possible way. But I en- 
_ joyed every second of the trip. We took a good many 
photographs and I do hope that they will come out 
