116 A COLLECTING TRIP 
Hotel Bellevue, 
Buitenzorg, January 19, 1907. 
Dear Mother : 
Tom got your letter yesterday and we were glad 
to hear from you and sorry to learn that Fritz had 
hurt his leg. I have never addressed any of my 
letters to you this way before, because I did not know 
whether you wanted me to eall you mother or not. I 
never received your letter telling me to. We are 
having such a splendid trip and Java is so beautiful. 
Dr. and Mrs. Treub have been very kind to us. Last 
night we went there and dined and spent a very pleas- 
ant evening with them. Luckily they speak English. The 
trip from a business point of view for Tom has been 
most excellent and he now has more things from this 
place for the museum than the museum has from all 
Netherlands India. He has secured two good collec- 
tors to go on the New Guinea trip and I do hope he 
will do as well there as he has done here. I wish you 
could see the gardens here; they are so beautiful and 
every day you discover new things in them. Cousins 
Louise and Adelaide would dread the thunderstorms. 
I never knew what a real storm was until this after- 
noon. On Monday we go to Soerabaya and on Thurs- 
day we sail. The total distance from here to Soera- 
baya is six hundred miles and it takes two days and a 
night spent at Maos to get there because the trains 
here run only in the daytime. 
Please give my love to every one and with a great 
deal to yourself believe me 
Your affectionate daughter, 
Rosamond. 
