in time couperus-baud made numerous translations; she translated french, german, english, spanish and italian manuscripts. to her publisher, l.j. veen, she wrote: everything you want ("comme vous voulez"). in 1899 she wrote the first of what had to become a series of travel letters in the dutch magazine "hollandia", however only one letter was published. from 1915 onwards, when she and her husband had returned from their stay abroad, couperus-baud edited manuscripts and changed them into plays that could be performed on stage.