Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

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1900-1945'Thanks very much for the book and the "Spectator" page.[...] These are all delightful pieces. You must autograph the ...Joseph Conrad unknown unknown Fragments from an Officer's Diary in Southern PolandPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 28 February 1848:

'From the papers of...
Charlotte Brontë unknown unknown[news of abdication of French king Louis Philippe]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'Thanks very much for your sympathetic book. It is vividly interesting (I am on p.70) and am flattered to think that i...Joseph Conrad unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 17 August 1848:

'I will not return Charles Lamb [i.e. a book], for in t...
Charlotte Brontë unknown unknown[review of work by/relating to Charles Lamb]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 25 June 1849:

'I have always forgotten to acknowledge ...
Emily Brontë unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr [James Chesterton] Bradley always found great pleasure in recalling the fact that he was the prototype of Mr Sweet...James Chesterton Bradley and fellow curatesunknown unknown[Patristic writings]Print: Book
1800-1849James Chesterton Bradley to Robert Keating Smith, 3 May 1902:

'A short paper of yours in "The Tatler" of ...
James Chesterton Bradley and James William Smithunknown unknownunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 16 August 1849:

'The "North British Review" duly reach...
Charlotte Brontë unknown unknown[article on Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, and works by others]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 16 August 1849:

'The "North British Review" duly reach...
Charlotte Brontë unknown unknown[Review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 19 March 1850:

'I enclose for your perusal a scrap of ...
Charlotte Brontë unknown unknown[Haworth working man's written response to reading Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre]Manuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'... we have seen review in St James's Gazette, March 17 and Pall Mall March 18 — both good.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[Reviews in Pall Mall Gazette and St James's Gazette]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I enclose another review. Fancy Eton masters setting my book as a classic to turn into Latin verse.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[Book review]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I am reading up the Camisards and shall go a walk in the scene of their wars, the Hautes Cévennes.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[Books on Camisards]Unknown
1900-1945'The single bed proved very unsuitable for Joseph Conrad, because apart from its legitimate purpose as a resting place...Joseph Conrad unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have only seen Athenaeum ...'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[review of Arabian Nights]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have only seen Athenaeum, PMG ...'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[review of Arabian Nights in Pall Mall Gazette]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have only seen Athenaeum, P.M.G. and the Scotsman.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[review of Arabian Nights in The Scotsman]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I find upon looking up that Louis is in tears over Back from the Dead.'Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknownBack from the DeadPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'If you chance to see a paragraph in the papers describing my illness, and the "delicacies suitable to my invalid cond...Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown[article in Edinburgh Courant]Print: Newspaper
1700-1799'I could read well when very young (as is before hinted) spending much time with my afflicted father, I read much to h...Henry Payton unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1700-1799'My natural disposition was very volatile, and my apprehension very quick; and as my faculties opened, I delighted muc...Catherine Payton unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1700-1799'And here I may add, that from the time I came from school, I read little, save religious books; and after I appeared ...Catherine Payton Phillips unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'There is what I consider a pretty good 5 Towns story [‘From One Generation to Another’] in the October London Magazin...Arnold Bennett unknown unknown[article in London Magazine]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House
3/12/29
T. C. Elliott in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read an...
E. Dorothy Brain unknown unknownThe Ghost of Southcote ManorUnknown
1900-1945'Meeting held at School House
3/12/29
T. C. Elliott in the chair
1. Minutes of last Meeting read an...
Mrs C. Elliott unknown unknownMrs S, the Morton GhostUnknown
1900-1945'The old reason [for not replying to letters] remains, also the old remedy. A good shillingsworth of fine fiction now....Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Still, in daytime, we sometimes got out of the trench into the tall sorrelled grass behind, which the sun had dried, ...Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945‘Englebelmer, indeed, was now entering upon a dark period.[...]. Still we explored the church into which opened a mys...Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownPrint: parish magazine
1900-1945'The house in which some of us were lodged was the quietest conceivable [...]; our beds were in the attics, and durin...Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945‘At Watten station [...] I sauntered by the canal then settled myself with my book in an empty cattle truck.' Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I was reading in the headquarters shelter when the great man [the Brigadier-General] suddenly drew aside the sacking ...Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I will stay in this farmhouse while the gas course lasts [...] and get the old peasant in the evenings to recite more...Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Our billet was a chemist's house, well furnished with ledgers and letters strewn about from bureaux, chiefly the scra...Edmund Blunden unknown unknownunknownManuscript: Letter
1900-1945'On the way back [from the Bombay Secretariat] bought a few clothes and some books from Thacker, a better *libraire* t...Ronald Storrs unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'The Irish part of ''Forster's Life'' is very painful and interesting. [...] It is very good anti-Home Rule reading an...Emma Darwin unknown unknownForster's LifePrint: Book
1850-1899'We are not delighted with ''Sir H. Taylor's Letters''. They are not a bit fresh or spontaneous'.Emma Darwin unknown unknownSir H. Taylor's LettersPrint: Book
1850-1899'I seem to have been reading nothing but about young girls lately — Miss Bronte, Miss Edgeworth, the Burneys, th...Emma Darwin unknown unknown[Biography of Catherine and Susannah Winkworth]Print: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 7, Marlborough Avenue. 15th Jan, 1944     A. G. Joselin in the chair.
Howard Smith unknown unknown[unknown texts on the life of Shelley]Print: Unknown
1900-1945'We entrained about 3 pm in cattle trucks. The Belgians had straw in theirs, and 20 men to a truck. We had 40 men, and...James Clifford Farrant unknown unknownunknownManuscript: Graffito, Chalk-written sign.
1900-1945'In the German barracks "Gott strafe England" was chalked up in many conspicuous places. It was also the headli...James Clifford Farrant unknown unknownunknownManuscript: Graffito, Chalk-written sign.
1900-1945'Each day there is a "Budget" published, the work of the more literary and energetic of our members, chiefly consistin...Douglas Lyall Grant unknown unknown[POW camp publication]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'This morning I stayed in and read some most illuminating articles on Sufyism. There's a lot to know, but I guess I'll...Gertrude Bell unknown unknownunknownPrint: Serial / periodical, probably a periodical
1850-1899'Last night a year ago I was reading Mother the "Shadow of Death" at Kirby Thore and today a year ago the shadow fell ...Gertrude Bell unknown unknown[?The] Shadow of Death Print: Book
1850-1899'Left at 10.40 Frontier 12.15, lunch Belfort 12.40 where I got "Lourdes" and read it with wild interest all the rest o...Gertrude Bell unknown unknownLourdes [...]Print: Book
1850-1899'I went up to the Musee this morning and read a Persian life of Hafez with a Latin crib. I think I got at the meaning ...Gertrude Bell unknown unknown[Biography of Hafiz]Print: Book
1850-1899'Florence [Lascelles] the Marshalls and I went to the [Berlin] National Gallery to see the modern pictures. It was mos...Gertrude Bell unknown unknownunknownPrint: Unknown, presumably book, exhibition catalogue or periodical
1850-1899'Fog in the early morning, sun came out after lunch. Quite chilly. Read Arabic and "Les Misérables".' Gertrude Bell unknown unknown[Arabic texts]Print: Book
1850-1899'All day we sailed along an absolutely barren coast. A tiny fringe of green along the sand and then great mts with not...Gertrude Bell unknown unknown[novel in Spanish]Print: Book
1850-1899'Very foggy; raw and cold all morning; the sun came out a little after lunch, but it was still cold. Wrapped myself in...Gertrude Bell unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'After lunch, finished a book on Hawaii Mr W[alford] lent me.' Gertrude Bell unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'A motor bicycle drew up at our door and a haggard dispatch rider stumbled in to put a scrap of paper into my hand. It...Barclay Josiah Baron unknown unknownunknownManuscript: Letter, Pencilled note on a page torn out of an army notebook.
1900-1945'You need have no fear about my looking after myself and behaving myself May, because I only go out about 3 nights a w...Albert Edward Mortlock French unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book, Newspaper
1900-1945'Well I am getting on topping: today we have been on a brigade field day round a place called "The Devils Punch bowl" ...Albert Edward Mortlock French unknown unknownunknownManuscript: Engraved stone.
1900-1945'Well I am getting on topping: today we have been on a brigade field day round a place called "The Devils Punch bowl" ...Albert Edward Mortlock French unknown unknownunknownManuscript: Milestone.
1900-1945'Our Adjutant told us the history of the 1st K.R.R [King's Royal Rifles] in this war, by a diary from one of their off...Albert Edward Mortlock French unknown unknown[officer's diary]Manuscript: Codex
1900-1945'Soldiers who have been out here 6 months can speak French, and some of the French can speak English perfectly. I can ...Albert Edward Mortlock French unknown unknownunknownPrint: NewspaperManuscript: Codex
1900-1945'Gradually, very gradually, Australians will realize what they owe to England. How all my English blood courses throug...Kenneth Julian Faithfull Bickersteth unknown unknownunknownPrint: NewspaperUnknown
1900-1945'The papers are eagerly read, of course, and small groups constantly gather outside the newspaper offices to read the ...unknown unknownunknownPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'We missed news more than anything else, there was a notice board in the court yard and we got the German version on t...J. P. Lynch unknown unknownunknownPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'When we were allowed to write post cards home on the 6th Oct 1914 (first time) Frau Braun [wife of the German camp co...unknown unknown[Post cards written by officer POWs]Manuscript: Letter, Postcards
1900-1945'... we got no news at Göttingen except from scraps of English papers which came in parcels, the Göttingen paper was ...J. P. Lynch unknown unknown[scraps of English newspapers]Print: NewspaperManuscript: Letter, Postcards
1900-1945'We are getting together a good library of 1 franc English books.'Harold Upcott unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Yesterday afternoon as I was lying reading in my hut the C.O. came in and told me I had to go to Warloy (behind Alber...Harold Upcott unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Made my head ache reading + went to bed early.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook unknown unknownunknownPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Paid Laundress and Daily Mail ... Elsie at Ľ to six. Supper at 7.15. Read + worked. Bed 9.10.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'An officer [of the Serbian army, Captain S. Chatni] who spoke English well put his head out, and called to us to know...Dorothy Minnie Newhall unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'... we went into the Reading Rooms, and the "Daily Telegraph" Correspondent read us the article he had written on our...Dorothy Minnie Newhall unknown unknown[article in the "Daily Telegraph" on Serbian mission]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] still has a high temp. — 104.1 in aft. Began to give Citrated milk. She enj...Albert Ruskin Cook unknown unknown'The Man at the Gate'Print: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'M. [Marjorie Cook, A. R. Cook's daughter] still has a high temp. — 104.1 in aft. Began to give Citrated milk. She enj...Margaret Ellen Cook unknown unknownThe Man at the GatePrint: BookManuscript: Telegraph cable
1900-1945'Read story to May while she worked — afterwards verified cheque book and pass book.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook unknown unknownunknownPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Read aloud to May.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook unknown unknownunknownPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Read to May.'Harriet Bickersteth Cook unknown unknownunknownPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Read "The Mother".'Harriet Bickersteth Cook unknown unknownThe MotherPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'The suppression of all newspapers left the universal craving for news unsatisfied, and the daily paper was replaced b...Ian Vivian Hay unknown unknown[type-written note]Manuscript: Type-written notes.
1900-1945'Snow was falling ... and there was no chance of getting out to the terrace, so that the rest of the day had to be dev...Ian Vivian Hay unknown unknownunknownManuscript: SheetUnknown
1900-1945'Zeppelin. A great rush for the windows ... This evening was marked by the arrival of a parcel of books, Tauchnitz edi...Ian Vivian Hay unknown unknownunknownPrint: BookManuscript: SheetUnknown
1900-1945'During the period of our captivity at Munden the time passed more heavily, I think, than at any later period, owing t...Horace Gray Gilliland unknown unknown[English novels]Print: Book
1900-1945'Cards, roulette, ping-pong and chess greatly assisted in passing the time. We also had quite a good camp library, the...British officers waiting for hot water in the afternoonsunknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I found a letter-box and feverishly endeavoured to decipher, in the semi-darkness, a long word printed in black lette...Gerald Featherstone Knight unknown unknown[sign]Print: BookManuscript: Painted sign.
1900-1945' ... as I had started adolescence in a blaze of idealism, the conflicting ugliness of factory life often drove my spi...Vero Walter Garratt unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sometimes it was more convenient to take a book into the lavatory and to sit there an inordinate length of time. On o...Vero Walter Garratt unknown unknown[Books from the 'Everyman's Library' series]Print: Book
1900-1945'Sometimes it was more convenient to take a book into the lavatory and to sit there an inordinate length of time. On o...Vero Walter Garratt unknown unknown[Books from the 'Everyman's Library' series]Print: Book
1900-1945'... the Alliance of Honour existed to support my trend of thought and from my early teens to claim me as an ardent wo...Vero Walter Garratt unknown unknown[publications of the Alliance of Honour]Print: Book
1900-1945'Erich had a little book which he greatly valued. In order to cheer my captivity he showed this book to me. When I saw...Desmond Malone unknown unknown[German pornography]Print: Book
1900-1945'During the whole of my stay I continually asked to be allowed to have English books, but apart from one small, rather...Lorimer John Austin unknown unknown["small, rather sloppy novel"]Print: Book
1900-1945'During the whole of my stay I continually asked to be allowed to have English books, but apart from one small, rather...Lorimer John Austin unknown unknown[German-English Grammar]Print: Book
1900-1945'The routine of every day was precisely the same. We were wakened at five, and the coffee for breakfast was provided a...Lorimer John Austin unknown unknown[German-English Grammar]Print: Book
1900-1945'The British officers formed a circulating library, and it was always possible to get any number of the Tauchnitz book...Lorimer John Austin unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Albert Ruskin Cook unknown unknownLost Tribes, ThePrint: Unknown
1850-1899
1900-1945
'"An Ex Mill Girl," [Ethel Carnie] who wrote the novel, "Helen of Four Gates," telling an English interviewer of the t...Ethel Carnie Holdsworth unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'The French postcards and magazines are very rude!!! Streets are cobbled only. I have some photographs and postcards o...Leslie Semple unknown unknown[French pornography]Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'The last few days have been all the same, Nothing to do but sit around reading and chatting. The weather has changed....Leslie Semple unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Very nice weather. Very hot indeed. Reading on the sands. Also took a shot of some fisher girls in their picturesque ...Leslie Semple unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Raid on Valenciennes. Very little to do each day but reading. Have given my name in for a correspondence course.'Leslie Semple unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Read the new Army of Occupation Orders. We are to get 28/- per week bonus for staying on. Rather good work.'Leslie Semple unknown unknownArmy of Occupation OrdersPrint: Unknown
1900-1945'Thanks most awfully for your letters & parcels, the gloves were "topping" also the books — I have read most of them b...Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tea at the Y.M.C.A. Club. Read after tea. Rain off. Bought socks. Supper in town — bed.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lovely day ... Read in afternoon and played bridge — lost 4f 25 c! Bed — v cold!'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'To tea at No 1 [squadron's mess] with Moore, v.good tea. Not to church all day — must go next week. Read in the eveni...Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Cummings in for dinner and another from No 1 [squadron]. Read and talked ... after dinner. Bed at 11 — slept excellen...Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Brekker in bed: Up on patrol at 10 am v.thick, line patrol. Got lost ... Back after lunch. Thick as pea soup! Nearly ...Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Strong [westerly] wind ... in morning. 3 E.A. [enemy aircraft] seen which hove off at once — both my guns froze up ha...Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks most awfully for the topping parcel of Xmas things. The pipe's ripping & so are the cigarettes & I am sure the...Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Bed at 12. Read and smoked till then. Very cold — frozen in bed. "B" Flt came back from break.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Up for early show ... Started to snow and carried on nearly all day! No patrols; did nothing except read and smoke.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Thanks so much for your two letters & the copies of "Flying" books — very good. I am afraid I didn't think much of Bo...Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknown'Impressions of Leave'Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Read and wrote letters in the afternoon. Got 3 parcels for Xmas. To Church in evening and stayed to H.C. very nice se...Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'To tea with No 1 [squadron]. The Hun [i.e., the aircraft shot down by the squadron in the morning's engagement] fough...Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Brekker in bed! Bon! Up at 11.30 — down town and bought some things. Read and drew in the afternoon. To dance at Dr L...Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'To see "Ching Lee Soo" with whole family at 6 p.m. Very bon show. Read and wrote letters after dinner. Gally in to di...Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Tea with the Wilkinsons ... pretty appalling! Not to Church in evening. Read and had prayers.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Got C.O.'s car at Omer at 10.30. Arrived 65 at 12.30, foggy. Patrol out but got lost. Shanks & Kennedy crashed. OK.Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Foggy all day. Down for patrol but no bon. Read in Mess all day. Wrote letters. Beastly cold.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Dud all day. No flying ... Did nothing, but read and smoke. Bed early.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Dud for patrols all day. Wind and low clouds. Read and smoked. 15 guests for dinner! Cinema after. I read and stayed ...Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'High wind and low clouds. No patrols at all. Rugger v Australian team in afternoon. Won 7–6. Ripping game. Read and w...Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Read and played bridge in evening. Lost 18 fr. Beastly cold, no patrol.' Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Read and smoked (beaucoup) in evening. Bed at 11.00.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Dud and no patrols all day. Read and smoked. Dinner in Pop. [Poperinge] with Jack.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Too dud for O.P.'s. Did reserve patrol in afternoon. Went up to Belgian aerodrome to see the [captured German] Gotha ...Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'9 Albs. [German Albatros scouts] came and sat above us but did not attack me. Attacked Symons.
Walked down town...
Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Pretty dud. No patrols ... Read in evening. Belgian Hanriot over.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Strong East wind and no flying.
Read and smoked all day.'
Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'In bed all day. Read and smoked. Talked rot to the T.wire most of the time. About time I went home, the Day sister ha...Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'In bed all day. Dad and Mum came in the afternoon, Great. Nickie and Northwood called after. Read and smoked all day....Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'In bed all day. Elsie in afternoon. Read and smoked all day.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Fall of Wythschaete and Meteren. Back to our old line on the ridge. In bed all day. Gin and Kathleen and Cousin Aggie...Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'To Cinema with girl in afternoon, quite good fun. Back at 6.15. Read and smoked and talked in evening.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Down town with Dad. Mess about on bike all day and read and smoked in garden. Leg rather sore.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Brian flew over. Kirk in p.m. I did not go as leg pretty sore. Read poems in afternoon, felt rotten at night.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'V quiet all day, rested leg. Read and sketched most of the time.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Sketched and read all day. Leg rather sore — did not dash about much.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownUnknown
1900-1945'Uncle Jack came down for lunch. To dentist in afternoon. Read and smoked all day. Saw Uncle J. off. Read in evening.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Better. Read a bit and smoked a bit. Head still bad. Bed all day.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Better. Read and wrote and smoked all day.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Discharged from Hospital. No word from the Air Board ... Swept paths etc and read and smoked. Chilly day rather. Mum ...Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: BookUnknown
1900-1945'Read and played croquet in evening.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Raining hard nearly all day. Down town with Mum in morning and then sat and read and smoked in front of fire.'Guy Mainwaring Knocker unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Went for a long run this afternoon; tonight I am "lazing" in front of a fire with a pipe, a book, and two or three fr...Douglas Herbert Bell unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have been happier lately. [The other soldiers] have not called me "College" for a long time, and they do not interf...Reginald Hugh Kiernan unknown unknownunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Sun. Reading cursed strike in Wales.'William Thomas unknown unknown[Item on Welsh strikes]Unknown
1900-1945'I had very little leisure time to lie with mother but read in the evening.'Anne Jenkins unknown unknownunknownUnknown

 

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