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meal. We are all very well. Much love to every one 
from 
Ros. 
How is J. L. H.? We have not had a word from 
you (I mean letters) or any one for three and a half 
months and we ean hardly wait until tomorrow to 
hear about him. 
Hong Kong, April 30, 1907. 
My dear Family : 
We are here settled in a fair hotel. This is a fine 
modern city with magnificent harbor and very busy. 
It has rained and been very blustery but not cold with 
it all. So much for local news. I wrote you a letter 
on the steamer which I suppose she will carry to Yoko- 
hama, as she goes on, and then you will get it soon. 
We landed early in the morning and of course, 
the first thing to do here was to eat breakfast and then 
sit about disconsolately and impatiently gnawing 
our finger nails until the Hong Kong bank opened at 
ten. Then we rushed there and such a fine package 
of mail it was, almost worth the three months or more 
of waiting to have the fun of opening and arranging 
each one in order of date and reading them and then 
— reading them all over again. All were equally wel- 
come and I am sure you would be gratified could you 
know the pleasure they gave. Of course, I shali have 
to answer categorically, for to answer each one separ- 
ately would be to court pen paralysis. 
First, I will tell father that we fully understood 
his letter in regard to finances. 
I do not think we shall go to Manila, although 
we are both anxious to do so; it is the worst month in 
