210 A COLLECTING TRIP 
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Batavia (the same time I sent mother) at least two 
dozen photographs of India and Burma and it seems 
to me very queer that those intended for you never 
arrived. The two packages of photographs were 
mailed together and those I sent you were different 
from those I sent to mother in Brookline. However, 
before long we shall be showing you all of them and 
explaining in full detail what each picture represents. 
We are very much disappointed not to be able to be 
with you on July 5th and we hope Robert’s twenty- 
first birthday will be as happy as Tom’s was. 
With a great deal of love to every one, beheve tie 
Your affectionate daughter, 
Rosamond. 
The Miyako Hotel, Kyoto. 
Kyoto, June 27, 1907. 
Dear Mother and Father : 
We arrived here yesterday morning after a ten 
hour’s ride from Yokohama. We decided that the 
night train would be far the easiest and best way to 
come, and accordingly we left at seven in the evening 
and got here the next morning. Such a train! It 
was crowded with Japanese and a smattering of 
Chinese all smoking and no ventilation whatever. The 
air was ill-smelling and so thick that you could cut 
it with a knife. Tom and I, however, after a good 
deal of haranguing, managed to get two of the win- 
dows opened. Then we went in to dinner. There was 
not a speck of air in the dining ear either; so we 
hurried down a little food and went back to the other 
car to find everything tightly closed again. So in 
despair we had the berths made up and turned in, and 
