TNO TAR SAS es ey 183 
Mrs. Knox are on board and we found many mutual 
friends, so we have grown quite intimate. It is quite 
a queer sensation, feeling cool once more; we have 
roasted and parboiled so long. We both now sit on 
deck with our thickest things on and even then feel 
- chilly. 
May 14. 
I was delayed here. We are now in the Astor 
House in Shanghai, a very comfortable hotel, swarm- 
ing with Americans. Tom has gone out to see about 
the sailings to Tien-sien for Pekin. About every five 
minutes or so comes a knock at my door and in walks 
a Chinaman who displays all his fine silks and suiting 
materials for ‘‘ladies and gents’’ suits, as he says. 
He wants to make a white suit (flannel) for Tom, coat 
and trousers, for $8 (U. S. A.), $2 for heavy white 
duck trousers and he promises to copy any suit I may 
give him exactly but so far we have refrained from 
purchasing. 
With a great deal of love for every one from 
Most affectionately, 
Ros. 
S. S. Coptic, Off Shanghai, May 18, 1907. 
Dear Father : 
I wrote you last from Hong Kong a full letter of 
our doings up to that time. After we got to Hong 
Kong we went up the Si Kiang or West river for five 
days, right into the heart of southern China. It was 
very interesting, made more so by the presence on 
board of a Mr. Russell, of Londonderry, who is a 
