“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 78: (5th – 11th May 1919)
“This was the day the military motor lorry broke down on the road & was left in the avenue with no leave asked, and when they wanted men to help push it they could get none because all the men in the neighbourhood are Sinn Féiners. I don’t believe Waterford people even if they thought themselves Sinn Féiners would have strength of mind for that. “