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Dont let Tinning forget the renewal of the Williams Note Hong Kong S.S. Bayern, N. German Lloyd September 16th 1903.
Dear Wife Darlings, I wish you could be with me this morning on this fine steamship in this most wonderfully beautiful mountain
gist harbor. Left Russia at Vladivostok Sep 3. worn out starved out poisoned out with 2 mos of R.R. travel Russian food -
Now I'm all right getting fat - am on my way to India to see the Himmalaya. I am alone independent having parted from the
Sargents a week ago at Shangahi (Their aims interests were so different from mine I should never have joined them.) We sail
for Singapore in an hour or two, wh we will reach in about 4 days. At Singapore I will take a steamer for Calcutta. Thence
in a few days I'll be far up the mountains near Darjeling. Leaving India 03296