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[[printed letterhead]]
Hotel der Nederlanden
Weltevreden R ij s w ij k.
Eigenaar
A. F. Merten
Telegram Adres :
Nederlande Weltevreden.

Balavia, der
[[/letterhead]]
21st March 1907

[[note in pencil]] For Miss Rhoades' consideration [[/note in pencil]]

Dear Colonel Hecker,
     Nature having done so much for Java it is, perhaps, to be expected that man should do little.  He could not have done much worse in transporting men and mail between Batavia and Singapore.

Your good letters of February 1st and February 8th, reached me here together, this morning.  A part of Mr. Kennedy's mail (one letter with contents) of February 11th came at the same time.  Another envelope with clippings &c. mentioned by Mr. K as having been mailed at the same hour is not yet received.  And what is true concerning the handling of mail is worse in the handling of 

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