Dorothea

May 24, 2020June 16, 2020

WEEK 132: (24th – 30th May 1920)

“Very fine hot day. We cycled to meeting at Jordons, a pretty old house in a lovely garden, half wild, with a graveyard in front & a dell full of flowers behind, with trees above. Meeting just like any other. In the evening Maya & I cycled to Gerrard’s X to a meeting of Friends to discuss the duty of Quaker employers in the labour question.“

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May 11, 2020March 16, 2020

WEEK 130: (11th – 16th May 1920)

“Miss E. & I used to discuss religion in the evening, á propos of the Protestant prayer book & the Catholic school catechism. She was surprised to incredulity at finding lying described as a sin there, a suggested maybe they got that book out for non-Catholics to see, but really taught them some others.”

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April 26, 2020February 18, 2020

WEEK 128: (26th April – 2nd May)

“After tea I had to go & visit Joe & Doreen over the shop in Prince’s St & they took me to the pictures. There was a good comic film about an elixir of youth that made you old if you took too much, but the girls in it had beastly stage dresses, both ugly & indecent, & there was a war story about a French girl who was captured by a handsome German prince & was his adored mistress for a long time…”

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April 5, 2020February 18, 2020

WEEK 125: (5th – 11th April 1920)

“I went to the S.P.C.A. committee a.d. The new sec. O’Brien, is very plain, but I like him better than Robinson. Mrs Mortimor & Mr Brophy seem to have done a lot of good work between them. I made my suggestion about asking managers of national schools to instill some humanitarianism into the kids, but it was adjourned to next meeting…”

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December 29, 2019August 9, 2019

WEEK 112: (29th Dec – 4th January 1920)

“I went to St Declan’s in the afternoon & D. made various comments on the last bit of Callaghan but one – some helpful & all interesting. She said one remark of his to Dr Morrin just after the trail reminded her when he was about 17. She said there were some likenesses between Tony & him”

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December 22, 2019July 16, 2019

WEEK 111: (22nd – 28th December 1919)

“Fine cold day. Aunt H. gave me a new umbrella & some chocolate. W. Waring sent me a little round photo frame, but the glass arrived cracked, J. Webb sent me a queer little tiny pen in a case, Aunt Maggie some lovely handkerchiefs, Aunt Bessie a handkerchief, Helen a cobwebly little handkerchief case. T. & D. a fine big muffler of the sort that’s going now, & Nancy a very grand Browning calendar. I have Aunt H. The Ship that Sailed too Soon & a photoframe, & Uncle E. green grapes. Ben sent me Darrell Figgis’s Byeways of Study, & I read most of it that morning. The articles on Parnell & H. O’Neill’s terms were very interesting. “

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December 15, 2019July 15, 2019

WEEK 110: (15th – 21st December 1919)

“Tech in the morning, got Miss Whelan’s ring & the brooch pin soldered. I went to tea to St Declan’s & T. and I minded Louis while D. went out to a Mothers’ Pensions’ committee. Tom was writing his election address and D. brought Mrs Hayden back with her to consult him about hers.”

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September 8, 2019November 5, 2019

WEEK 96: (8th – 14th September 1919)

“Miss Bowman’s haunted house was at Braybrooke, near Market Harborough, north heights. It was belonging to the Board School, & every schoolmistress lived in it rent free. The first noises were like slates & books thrown against wall & falling in pieces on table, then people were heard walking about especially in kitchen – in broad daylight, in the room where she sat. Others heard it with her.”

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June 16, 2019December 18, 2018

WEEK 84: (16th – 22th June 1919)

“D. [Dorothea] told me a lot of things about George Goldfoot’s dentistry & the Aunt Lottie’s objection to let her go to a dentist alone. It seems G.G. never gives anyone gas, & when she asked his assistant once when she was getting a tooth out, wasn’t he going to put anything on it, he said with an air of great surprise “Oh, you want a painless extraction?”

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