“I read a good deal of the Valley of the Moon by Jack London. The American language is awful, & makes a book very difficult to read and gets tired of the pursuit of bodily experience too, and I never liked Saxon particularly, but Billy is sometimes nice, & one is allowed to hear more of his physical charms than usual with a man. “
WEEK 43: (23rd – 28th July 1918)
“I went to the club committee, & Charles Kenny’s affidavit about the treatment of the prisoners in Belfast jail was read aloud – an appalling document.”