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love to every one and tell Bub and Dod I shall answer 
their letters some time. 
Most affectionately, 
Rosamond. 
101 Garden Reach. 
Caleutta, November 16, 1906. 
Dear Mrs. Pierce: 
This afternoon we reached here after a very 
hurried trip through upper India. We are both as 
well as we possibly can be. Rosamond’s almost su- 
pernatural capacity to sleep in any position, under 
the most adverse cireumstances, is one which is simp- 
ly the greatest blessing. She retires on trains about 
eight and sleeps through until seven the next morn- 
ing. The trains are mostly on narrow gauge track 
and I wonder how any person ¢an sleep at all. The 
trains shake about most fearfully. She will write 
you, far better than I am able to, about the things 
we have seen and done. I think she is having a time 
she will never forget. I am more than delighted that I 
persisted that this was the only wedding trip for us. 
My only fear is that we shall be blasé when we return. 
Still, we are now almost half the way around the globe 
and we have travelled quite enough to know exactly 
how we like it; it eertainly agrees with us. Every- 
thing is as satisfactory as the most fastidious could 
desire. Nevertheless one has to rough it a bit. The 
hotels are rather poor and such general dirt you 
never saw, but the worst of that is over, for the 
Burman and Javanese hotels are said to be far clean- 
er and more comfortable than those of upper India. 
Our programme is about the same, although we may 
not leave for Burmah until a day or two later than 
