204 A COLLECTING TRIP 
Oriental Palace Hotel. 
Yokohama, 13, 6, ’07. 
Dear Family : 
Well, we were happy when we found your let- 
ters and how we have read them and reread them — 
with more pleasure than you can guess. Warren’s go- 
ing to the office, the trip to Virginia Beach; the Brook- 
side swans, ete., ete., all came in for their share of 
praise and duly became food for thought. I have 
written Willie A. and it will go to him on the same 
steamer which brought us here from China. I think 
except for one fearful blow to us, I can say that the 
photos are largely O. K. A couple of days ago we sat 
down to sorting film negatives and forty-six of the 
extra special prize winners from New Guinea were 
missing. We both nearly cried and then set to work 
and found some prints put away when they were first 
developed for just such an emergency. These I have 
now taken to a very fine Japanese photographer and 
the prints are being photographed again on glass 
plates and dupheate prints made — also enlargements, 
colored. 
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.-© You see I want them, every one possible, ready to 
show*-you. the instant: we-arrive. I do not want to 
waif and get them-done in San Francisco or Tupper 
Lake. I want them to show Willie A. and then we 
will speed to the Yellowstone Park for a few days to 
take some animal photographs and then to Tupper 
Lake for both of us. We should arrive there about 
August 15, perhaps a day or two before. Then for 
two weeks with you and then for Brookline and the 
museum. The stuff I have with me is O. K., but I 
