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Olave's Diary for 19192
[ Her 30th birthday was 22 Feb ]
Olave's Diary for 1919
January 1919
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Transcribed by Sue Ardern
Wed 01 Jan 1919 [Needwood]
Robin left Needwood early for London.
Quiet day with Mother and she is wonderfully well in spite of this terrific shock. But wisely
she sees that - for him - it is far better so.
Thu 02 Jan 1919
Mother slept well & is wonderfully happy on the whole.
Shop for her and write letters.
Fri 03 Jan 1919
Leave Needwood and reach London an hour late. Lunch with Mrs Low (head of Girl Scouts
of America)
Rush in to Guide office & find masses of letters to be done.
Home & bike out from Horley station.
Peter & Betty have had high temperatures & are seedy in bed.
Sat 04 Jan 1919
Babies very seedy indeed & nurse very trying & will only look after Betty. Wired for Annie to
come back to help manage the nursery.
Miss Walker down for the day.
Sun 05 Jan 1919
Pack hard and wash car and fuss round the babies.
Mon 06 Jan 1919
Two vans come from Batchelor & pick up things and go off to Pax Hill.
Babies a bit better, but Heather has pretty bad cold too.
Heard from Auriol that Mother goes on as well as can be.
Tue 07 Jan 1919
Rosie Kerr and Mrs Low down for lunch & talk.
Robin & I run over in the big car to see a nice donkey at Holne/Horne which we are buying
from Miss Buidenbach.
Wed 08 Jan 1919
Run over in the big car to Pax Hill.
Lovely expedition & we are more and more delighted with it all.
Go all over it choosing fittings that we shall buy from Mrs Trimmer. Robin saw the builder
too who is going to repair drains & do up the roof etc. Home for tea.
Thu 09 Jan 1919
Loathsome notices have been in the paper babbling vulgarly about Dad being my father.
They pretended to have "interviewed" me & it has made us furious.
Reporters are the limit
Robin to London.
Run him to Redhill in the big car & there exchange into Jimmie. Fetch Marjory from Horley
to stay.
One van comes and picks up furniture
Miss Walker (secretary) down for afternoon & dictate lots of letters.
Fri 10 Jan 1919
Run over early in Jimmie with Marjory to Pax Hill, and find lots of furniture packed in
anyhow.
Arrange everything busily & Mrs Trimmer left altogether at 12.0
Run in to tea in Farnham, see Marjory off to Horley & Robin arrives from London.
Stay at Bush Hotel.
Sat 11 Jan 1919
Visit Pax & then run home to Mynthurst
Sun 12 Jan 1919
Run in Jimmie to Redhill & fetch home the big car.
Wash both cars.
Babies all better, and all three downstairs again.
Mon 13 Jan 1919
Nurse Davis left.
Did letters etc. and then off to Needwood again. Fog in London and all trains very late.
Find Mother wonderfully well & jolly, and sister-in-law Hopie [Olave's brother's wife, Hope
nee Woodbine-Parish] staying too.
Tue 14 Jan 1919
Hopie and I shop.
Arthur and Uncle Murray [Olave's mother's brother, George Murray Hill, 1857-1941] come.
Auriol and Bob [Davidson, her husband] come in to tea too.
Mother splendid and she got up.
Uncle Murray is starting legal matters to prove Dad's death at once.
Wed 15 Jan 1919
Arthur and Hopie leave early with Uncle Murray.
Thu 16 Jan 1919
To London early.
Dictate letters at G.G. office. Attend small Committee of the Commandants of the Training
Schools.
Lunch at Scout Club with the two Alices, Gladys Strode etc.
Find Robin rather seedy having had 2 teeth out yesterday.
G.G. Headquarters Executive at 2.15. Go to see Aunt Ger. Aunt Con [two sisters of Olave's
mother] still in danger.
Stay at Reubens.
Fri 17 Jan 1919
Work at G.G. office. Lunch at Blue Triangle war workers club I have joined. Very nice.
Home with Robin.
Aunt Con Watson died.
Sat 18 Jan 1919
Did letters. Packed and dis-arranged the house!
Sorted out all the babies' clothes.
Annie makes a splendid nurse and they are all three jolly and well and rosy again.
Sun 19 Jan 1919
Robin very seedy with his aching wrist & the place where the teeth were extracted.
Mon 20 Jan 1919
Leave Horley 11.12.
Children to have their hair cut there.
See Mrs Bauchop (re New Zealand G.G.) at G.G. office at 10.30
Lunch at Scout Club with Stella Ashton. To Wimbledon to see Miss Maynard's residential
Guiders' training school.
Alice Behrens, Gladys Strode etc there.
Home in evening.
Tue 21 Jan 1919
Robin & I went off in Jimmie to attend funeral of Aunt Con at Brookwood at 1.0.
Jimmie had first a puncture, then he ran so badly that we got to Guildford at 12.50. Got a
taxi there, but it took us to the Cemetery & dear Aunt Con was to be cremated. So we failed
to get there till too late.
Wed 22 Jan 1919
Miss Walker for the day & did lots of work.
Thu 23 Jan 1919
Hard frost.
Robin & I to London.
See Mrs Fraser Tyttor (new Sussex Comm)
Also Lady Powerscourt who is to be Deputy Chief Commissioner for Ireland. Have a good
talk with Mrs George Swinton at lunch at Scout Club about her scheme of same sort of work
as we do. Home & bring donkey & cart from station.
Fri 24 Jan 1919
Robin stayed in London last night. Returns & Nurse Lilian Hobbs comes to look after babies
temporarily.
Arrives at Horley 4.49.
Sat 25 Jan 1919 = blank page
Sun 26 Jan 1919 = blank page
Mon 27 Jan 1919
(pencil)
Batchelor takes carpets away to be beaten.
Mrs Court?
Tue 28 Jan 1919
Mrs Court came to help move.
Wed 29 Jan 1919 Pax Hill
Van comes to take things to Pax.
We go over in big car - Robin & I & take Mrs Court.
Annie & Molly & Bessie the retriever.
Arrive there about 2.0
Glorious! Van arrived but the snow being so thick it stuck at the bend in the drive & had to
unload there!
Thu 30 Jan 1919
Worked like niggers getting all tidy & Robin went off to London early. Car refused to start
but got garage men from Farnham & drove off back the 35 miles with Annie to Little
Mynthurst. Pretty beastly drive through dark & snow!
Fri 31 Jan 1919
Last night alone in the "(Beaucy?) House".
Move babies to Pax in the big car. Snowing, but got there in 11/2 hours & one van brought all
the furniture for them quickly & got in to the house well.
Robin returned.
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Sat 01 Feb 1919 [Pax Hill - new home]
Robin very seedy & stayed in bed for breakfast.
Ran in to Alton to see the food & coal controller, taking Heather & Peter too.
Sun 02 Feb 1919 = blank page
Mon 03 Feb 1919
Robin quite seedy.
I think it is supressed flu.
Tue 04 Feb 1919 [Pax Hill]
Quite deep snow.
How perfect this home is!!
Glorious fun arranging it, & it is so comfy & warm & light.
Wed 05 Feb 1919
(pencil)
Bentley dep 9.36
Farnham arr 9.44
" dep 9.50
Guildford 10.14
Redhill arr 11.38
Pick up Jimmie at garage & run out to Mynthurst
Snow lying on ground.
Robin very seedy.
Thu 06 Feb 1919
Robin to London
No he didn't go.
Walk to village.
Try the car to fit it in (Crocks?) House garage.
Also run on to Willey Mill to fetch chicken food & hay for dear Caesar!
Fri 07 Feb 1919
Ran in to Farnham on big car to shop.
Met Robin there & Miss Nugent comes for night
Sat 08 Feb 1919
To London early.
See Mrs Barclay about starting guides in Brazil. Also see Lady Maclegan about being
Provincial Patroness for guides in India. Lunch at Scout Club.
Meeting re G.G. at Denison House at 3.0. for recruiting guiders.
Miss Callaway & Mrs Low spoke. I chaired.
(pencil)
Waterloo dep 4.10 or 5.32
Farnham 5.37 7.2.
Sun 09 Feb 1919
Hung pictures, arranged books etc.
Babies lovely.
Mon 10 Feb 1919
To Redhill by train to fetch Jimmie (wee car) but he wasn't mended.
Took taxi out to Little Mynthurst & picked up some of our leavings there, & said good-bye to
it.
Tue 11 Feb 1919
Very busy tidying up garage etc.
Donald to stay
Arr Bentley 3.5.
Man came to advise about the drains.
Wed 12 Feb 1919 = blank page
Thu 13 Feb 1919
St Pauls School Committee 2.15 at Mercers Hall
Fri 14 Feb 1919
Miss Rossi 3.0
Miss Merrill & Mrs Benson at 12.30
Edith (Wites?) at 1.0
Lady Londonderry 2.50
Mrs Cohen at 12.0
Return to Pax.
Sat 15 Feb 1919
Arthur Hopey and Bunty come over for lunch from Aldershot.
Eric Walker, who was my Darling's Secretary before the war, and has been a prisoner in
Germany for years, came to stay.
Sun 16 Feb 1919
To church with Walker. Wet day & all the snow gone at last.
Mon 17 Feb 1919
Bike over to see a children's Dancing class of the Torkingtons at Willey. Peter & Heather will
go to it next week.
Rained hard.
Tue 18 Feb 1919
(odd pencil line diagonally across the ink writing)
Ought to have gone to see Aunt Ger at Winchester but weather too bad.
Walker left.
Snowed almost all day again.
Alice and Olivia to stay at Pax
arr Bentley 5.37
Canon & Mrs Stour called. She is Guide Captain.
Wed 19 Feb 1919
Rainy. Drove down in donkey cart to meet Olivia with babies.
Olivia arr 1.38. instead of 12.1 as arranged.
(Man? Mr) & Mrs Richard Eggar called.
Thu 20 Feb 1919
See Madame Romalo re Roumanian G.G.
Lady Massie Blomfield 12.15
Lunch at Scout Club with Gladys Strode
G.G. Headquarters Executive.
Very small one, Miss Beaumont Nesbitt to do Lone guides.
Mrs Guyrens Vaughan & Miss Nugent to dine. To funny play "The naughty Wife" at...
...The Playhouse Hawtrey etc.
Fri 21 Feb 1919
See Nurse Hilda Austen who may come to us in July.
Mrs Higgins Bernard re Bucks Guides. See old Lady Londonderry about Durham G.G.
Meeting at G.G.H.Q. at 2.0 of proposed possible members of international G.G. Council.
Excellent meeting & appointed people to take active steps for propaganda in Italy Portugal,
Sweden, Roumania, Brazil, Holland, Belgium.
Robin went home to Pax.
I went to Needwood as Mother rather nervy again.
Sat 22 Feb 1919 Bournemouth
Arthur & Hopie come in to see Mother.
Mrs Torkington & daughter & two small grandchildren to lunch.
She slept badly & has neuralgia from crying over nothing poor Darling. Auriol had a cold &
was nervy & that worried her. Dr Barlow came.
Sun 23 Feb 1919
Did lots of letters about International G.G. Council.
Mother a bit better & calmer.
She is up & down like a barometer.
Auriol to tea & then Mother worried because her three children have colds!
(Christian, Clare & Yvonne)
Mon 24 Feb 1919
Arthur & Hopie came in.
Mother went for a drive with Auriol - who is also in a nervy state.
I shopped alone.
Robin took the babies to their 1st dancing class at Willey. They loved it.
Tue 25 Feb 1919
People to see house 12.0.
Took Mother for a drive in the afternoon.
Auriol goes to Scotland
Saw her off.
It is awful for her having such nerves.
Wed 26 Feb 1919
Wet all day.
Mother better.
Dr Barlow came to see her and her heart is much better now.
Thu 27 Feb 1919
Leave Bournemouth 8.7.
Central station.
Change at Redbridge
Arrive Cardiff at 12.0.
Call on Miss Cutter at Club at 10.45.
City Hall meeting at 4.0
See Guides in evening
Paddington dep 11.45
Arr Cardiff 2.57
Stay with Olive Nicholl
Fri 28 Feb 1919
Meetings at Port Talbot
Swansea and Neath
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Sat 01 Mar 1919
Bridgend dep 7.45 / 9.27
Paddington arr 12.10 / 1.10
Sun 02 Mar 1919 = blank page
Mon 03 Mar 1919
Run to Bournemouth
Tue 04 Mar 1919
Mother to Pax, and she is very pleased with our home - as we are!
Auriol is up in Scotland, with Bob - but is still suffering from nervous depression.
Wed 05 Mar 1919 = blank page
Thu 06 Mar 1919 = blank page
Fri 07 Mar 1919
Tinne's to call
Sat 08 Mar 1919
Aunt Ger arr Bentley 12.9
Pretoria Scout to tea
Sun 09 Mar 1919 = blank page
Mon 10 Mar 1919
Dad's dear old spaniel Toby arrives here from Gray Rigg. So glad to have him here. Such a
dear
Babies to the Dancing class. Betty goes too for a treat.
Aunt Ger comes from Winchester for lunch. Thinks Pax is lovely which it is
Tue 11 Mar 1919
Call on Eggar at Cedar Cottage.
Tea with Mrs Joy at Morelands. Linzee's & Torkingtons there.
Wed 12 Mar 1919
Nurse Jones comes for about 10 days to look after babies.
Thu 13 Mar 1919
Go to see the dentist Manton & he does a tooth slightly!
Shop at Woolland
Lunch there
Go to see occulist Clarke who says my eyes are improving.
See Miss Giffard Guide worker from India.
Call on Sir Harry Wilson at Royal Colonial Institute re teaching Imperial history to guides
Dine at Eustace...
...Miles restaurant & go after
Fri 14 Mar 1919
... to good performance at the Colisseum.
Chatham Commissioner Mrs Fairweather to lunch G.G. office at 1.0.
Walker to lunch at Scout Club too. He is off to Fiji.
Interview people at Guide office.
Lady D'Abernon about Surrey
Miss Cowper " Jamaica
Mrs Buckland " India
Mrs Essex Reade about International Council
Home to Pax
Bab MacGregor to stay.
Sat 15 Mar 1919
The Carpenter (Miss Maynard) called with Miss Tinne
Cousin Nancy Torkington & Mannie Maclintoch to tea
Sun 16 Mar 1919
Babe & I to church.
Mother up for lunch & very jolly now, and quite calm, seeing Dad's end as a merciful release
- which it was.
Mon 17 Mar 1919
Mother & babies & Babe & I call for Mrs Stoor & Rachel at 2.15 to take team to the Dancing
Class again.
They love it.
Robin joined us too & walked home.
Tue 18 Mar 1919
Arthur & Hopie to lunch on their way by road to stay with Uncle Arthur.
Robin and I to tea with Linzee's at Highway House. Quite fine when we went & snowing
hard when we returned.
Babe left.
Wed 19 Mar 1919
Snow lying on the ground again
Uncle Murray comes to stay for the night.
Beastly snow & cold again.
Thu 20 Mar 1919
Uncle Murray R. & I to London by early train.
Council meeting of G.G. at H.Q.
Olivia lunches Scout Club 1.0 and all other members of council at Blue Triangle Club with
me.
G.G. Headquarters Executive and Annual Council meeting
Miss Beaumont Nesbitt & Gladys Strode elected onto Executive.
Go off shopping. Dine at Rubens Hotel & these Alice Behrens, Olivia R. & I to Y.W.C.A.
meeting.
Fri 21 Mar 1919
Manton to finish tooth. Swanwick Conference sub-committee meeting.
Alice, Olivia, the Carpenter, Phyllis Methuen, etc.
Lunch with Lady Cave at Wardrobe Court, Richmond
Speak at Westheath School to the guides there.
Get back to London & do work there
Nurse Jones left & Nurse Lancaster comes for three months. Catch 5.32 from Waterloo
to Bentley
Sat 22 Mar 1919
Garden.
Do letters.
Very busy.
Babies splendid.
Rev ? & Mrs Baldwin to call here & have tea.
Sun 23 Mar 1919
Frightfully cold
Mon 24 Mar 1919
Run in Jimmie to
Lunch with Bishop & Mrs Talbot at 1.30. at Farnham Castle.
Wonderful old place.
Meeting about Guides. About 100 people. Good meeting
Carry the Torkingtons home in Jimmie
Tue 25 Mar 1919 = blank page
Wed 26 Mar 1919
Tea with Tinne's at Wrecclesham at 3.30
Thu 27 Mar 1919
Queen of Romania at 6.0
Waterloo dep 6.45 7.55
Bentley 8.13 9.47
Fri 28 Mar 1919
To Gray Rigg
Sat 29 Mar 1919 = blank page
Sun 30 Mar 1919
Return to Pax
Mon 31 Mar 1919
Jimmie (the little car) fails us in Farnham but big one came to rescue!
Lunch with Murray's (Commander in Chief at Aldershot) Curtis's Col St John Gore, etc there
to meet us.
Call on Ronnie Brooke's & Hugo Watsons
Babies to dancing class at Willey.
Pick them up on way home
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Tue 01 Apr 1919
Molly May calls at tea time.
Wed 02 Apr 1919
See Mrs Bradshaw about her joining the Blue Triangle Club.
See John Hargrave about the book by "Minobi" and her too.
Fit dress at Woolland and do shopping.
Catch 4.30 down to Cambridge for our Commisssioners' Conference at Girton.
About 90 Guide Commissioners.
Lovely place for it.
I opened Conference.
Thu 03 Apr 1919
Miss Nina Boyle spoke on (Curies?), Miss Colman on camps, Lady Clinton on the Higher aims
of G.G. etc. All quite good & nice tone & everybody jolly keen.
Went to nice Scout & Wolf Cub Rally at Queens College
Fri 04 Apr 1919
Mrs Low spoke & showed Girl Scout Association film last night.
Good sessions all day. Parade & prayers as usual each morning
Model inspection in the afternoon of two Cambridge Companies.
These are a nice lot of women. They are so in earnest over it all too.
Wind up in the evening.
Sat 05 Apr 1919
Conference ends.
Lunch in Cambridge with Mrs De Beaumont (Cambridge County Comm) Attend excellent
County Rally. Wonderful displays & most original & well done. Quite one of the best shows
on record & very "guidy".
Travel to London with Lady Leicester & Rosie Kerr & stay night with her there.
Sun 06 Apr 1919
Left London 7.30 arr. Bentley 11.0.
Robin met me & told me Auriol was dead.
Great shock & then worse still when he told me how she had died.
Motor over to Basingstoke & catch train down to join Mother at Hale.
Found she had been taken back to Gray Rigg so followed there & stayed night.
Mon 07 Apr 1919 = page torn out
Tue 08 Apr 1919 = page torn out
==========================================
Separate document 1919
Newspaper cutting:-
DAVIDSON - On the 5th April, at Chorley Wood, Herts, suddenly, Auriol Edith, wife of Robert
Davidson, of Colombo, Ceylon, and Hale Park, Salisbury, and elder daughter of the late
Harold Soames and of Mrs Soames, of Gray Rigg, Lilliput, Dorset.
"He giveth His beloved sleep."
[ Handwritten in pencil, copied from the end of Olave's father's last notebook and written
there by Olave's mother :- ]
My Light has gone out -
God give me Courage to live for dear little ones until in Mercy He takes me to her again -
K. S.
[ Pencil - written in recent times:- ]
Katherine Mary Soames
(wife of Harold Soames)
nee Hill
m. 20 Dec 1883
d. 5 Feb 1932
had issue
Auriol (Davidson)
Arthur
Olave
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Wed 09 Apr 1919
Robin & I motor down to the old home again. [Gray Rigg in Lilliput, Poole]
Auriol's funeral service at St Peters, Parkstone.
So sad.
Mother went to it, & she & I went out to Gray Rigg whilst she was laid to rest in the
churchyard at Salterns.
Motored home.
It was dreadful.
Babies went to a fancy dress dance at Willey & loved it.
Robin saw Bentley Scouts
Thu 10 Apr 1919
Haywards Heath meeting at South Road Public hall at 3.0
Miss Walker came down for the night
Stay with Uncle Arthur [ Soames, Olave's father's elder brother ]
to Pax & did letters.
Fri 11 Apr 1919
Up to London Meeting to form an Imperial G.G. Council.
Quite satisfactory
Lunch at Blue Triangle Club with Carpenters, Miss Hotchkis, etc.
G.G. International Council meeting at 4.0
Excellent & everybody had done some work.
Meeting & tea at the nice, Blue Triangle, & guide display after it
Meeting also about girl comrade scheme at Guide Headquarters for extending the work into
"homes" & institutes
Mrs Jenkins & 6 members Amateur Camping Club to dine.
Sat 12 Apr 1919
Stayed at Reubens.
Shopped & did letters.
Home at midday.
Robin stayed up for Scout service at St Pauls in memory of Scouts who had fallen in the war
as well as as a Thanksgiving for Peace.
Sun 13 Apr 1919
Very busy all day packing & putting the house in order.
How we do love it all.
Mon 14 Apr 1919
Alice Behrens to stay
Fetch her from Wrecclesham in car
Mrs Low to tea & her daughter too.
Tue 15 Apr 1919
To London early.
Did letters at the office. Shopped.
Lunch with Mrs Everett at Scout Club.
G.G. Executive
Home for dinner.
Pax is lovelier than ever.
Wed 16 Apr 1919
Mother is hurt & cross about my going to America & I don't know what to do as I can't
throw it all up at the last moment>
Betty's birthday.
She has come on a lot lately and is a jolly mite.
Mrs Hancock & her 2 youngest children to tea & her husband & old Mrs Clegg.
Thu 17 Apr 1919
Miss Nugent to stay.
Rush off in Jimmie to Gray Rigg to see Mother, but found her away at Hale.
Most disappointing
explain to Arthur and Hopie how I have to go & I can't do more.
Jimmie burst a
G.G. Headquarters Executive
Tyre going there & his steering gear came apart in the forest on the way back. Might have
been bad accident but happened in the straight & stopped quickly so no matter & Court
mended it there & then.
Fri 18 Apr 1919
That was a most trying and very disappointing day, going all that way and then not seeing
Mother to explain things to her and bring her round to understand that we have to go on
this trip as already planned.
Sat 19 Apr 1919 = blank page
Sun 20 Apr 1919
Robin Miss Nugent & I to church.
Mon 21 Apr 1919
Bank Holiday.
Do letters & arrange house & garden.
Servants out for half holiday & Court takes Bentley Scouts for a trek.
Mr Hopkins & Hillhouse of the Campers Assoc. to call & see the site for their proposed camp
here in August. Their tyre punctured on the drive.
Col & Mrs Twist & General Marchant to call & have tea. He was Robin's...
Tue 22 Apr 1919
... A. D. C. years ago.
Miss Nugent left early.
Put papers away in safe & generally pack up. It is beastly going away.
Left Pax. Started badly as I looked out the wrong slow train!
Do a few letters with Miss Nugent; shopped, dined at (Orlone's?) & after to Cinema & saw
good film called "Missing".
Wed 23 Apr 1919 Liverpool
Stayed at Reubens Hotel.
Left early to Euston
breakfast at Euston Hotel & train up to Liverpool.
Find that owing to the strike of Dockers our S.S. Baltic won't sail yet. Stay at
Guiders' & Commissioners' Conference at Haywards Heath.
Adelphi Hotel & dine with Nobles. The father & son are Scout Comms.
Thu 24 Apr 1919
Mrs Brancher (Guide Comm.) to see me.
Robin & I run up to Southport & see Alice Behrens having a training week of 30 guiders
there.
She was surprised to see us as she thought we had started.
Back to Liverpool & dine at a café & go to Cinema again.
They do pass the time & are such a restful distraction.
Fri 25 Apr 1919 Bryn Estyn
To stay with Uncle Fred & Aunt Julie Soames at Bryn Estyn.
Edith here with her boy of 10 & wee girl of 2. She seems very happy in her second marriage,
to Lawrence Smith
Sat 26 Apr 1919
We hardly know ourselves having these days idly on our hands and it feels quite queer
having hours to do nothing in. And it is enraging to be thus delayed. We might have had
another whole week at home.
Very cold.
Go in to Wrexham for a small Scout rally.
Sun 27 Apr 1919
Horrible cold blizzardy day. Do letters.
To church in the afternoon for War Memorial unveiling in the wee village of Rhosnessney.
Mon 28 Apr 1919
Back to Liverpool & stay with the kind Nobles.
Shop.
Tue 29 Apr 1919
At last we are off!
Lunch with Lord Mayor & Lady Mayoress (Ritchie) & then go on board S.S. Baltic
Guard of honour of Scouts, & seen off by Nobles, Col Concannon, etc
Jolly comfy ship.
Wed 30 Apr 1919
Cold Steam along South Coast of Ireland all day
May 1919
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Thu 01 May 1919 At Sea
In bed all day for rest and pure comfortableness & very sleepy from slight pitching of the
ship.
Fri 02 May 1919
Up before lunch
Rather rough early but got flatter!
Read on deck all afternoon.
Sat 03 May 1919 At Sea
In bed all day for jolly rest.
Read "Christopher & Columbus"
Sun 04 May 1919
Up for breakfast
Sat on top deck but rain came on & very cold.
Talked with Mrs Low & also with Miss M. (Einent?) on her work of "Rhythmic Interpretation"
Robin inocculated & to bed for dinner
Mon 05 May 1919 = page missing, cut out
Tue 06 May 1919 = page missing, cut out
Wed 07 May 1919
Arrive in Halifax harbour during the night.
Docked about 8.0 & see guard of honour of Scouts. Jolly lot.
Breakfast on board & then land. Drive in Col. Thomas' car all about the town & up Beford
Basin. Lovely. The explosion in Dec. 1917 did ghastly damage.
Luncheon as guests of Overseas Club. We both spoke briefly. No guides here yet.
Drive to Park etc. Then speak to girls at College & nuns at Convent school about Guides.
Small dinner party & stay at Government House with Lt governor Grant & wife.
Thu 08 May 1919
Walk with Governor.
R. lunches & speaks at Commercial Club.
Ladies' lunch party at Government House & I speak on guides to them & hope to start the
work here.
(ink over pencil details of timings - the following sentence.)
Scout rally on the drive, & then reception when stray people came in to call.
Oddly enough people turn up who have known of us & are connected in some way with us
even out here.
Off by train at 8.0 for St John & see Scouts at (Truno?) for half an hour awhile the train stops
on the way.
Slept in train.
Fri 09 May 1919
Very bumpy & noisy
arr. St John 7.30.
Guard of honour of Scouts
Breakfast at hotel with Wilder (American Scouts Eaman (Canadian Scouts Sec & Perrott
(Canadian chief Scout Sec. who is escorting us!
Drive in car to Rothsay see girls school & boys school. Lunch with Womens Canadian Club &
speak afterwards.
Scout Rally in town.
Night train to Boston. Very rattly!
Lost my voice.
Sat 10 May 1919
Arrive 9.15.
Breakfast with Mrs Storrow. Besieged by reporters & photographers
Lunch party given by Mrs Hartt at Chilton Club to about 10.
Parade of 3000 Girl Scouts.
Gathering in Armoury & Robin spoke.
Dinner - cooked served & managed by Girl Scouts for 12 people -
Reception afterwards & Robin & I spoke.
Motor out 17 miles to Lincoln.
Sun 11 May 1919 Mass
Delightful staying quietly with Storrows in their lovely house
Mon 12 May 1919
Left at 9.0. Travel to New York. Jolly seeing all the new country.
Met by Boy Scout & Girl Scout people.
Interview reporters & are photographed! as usual!
Tea with Mrs Choate & a few other people.
Dine with Hammonds.
A big oppulent affair rather like Buckingham Palace! Judge Hughes etc. there
Reception afterwards of about 175 society & scouty people. Robin spoke splendidly.
Tue 13 May 1919 New York
How wonderful New York City is!
Travel down to Washington with Mrs Choate & Miss L. Parsons.
Beastly photographers at station & Scout guard of honour
Tea with Hamlin's with whom we stay
Dine with Dimoche's & large reception after.
Purely society affair though & rather boring though it is interesting to see this side of life
here.
Wed 14 May 1919
Attend meeting of Girl Scout National Council. We both spoke & pow wow-ed long.
Good on the whole.
Lunched with the Glasgows.
Drove about looking at this glorious city.
Girl Scout Rally at open air theatre.
Quite jolly.
R. dined out with Scout people & small dinner at Hamlins for talking "shop". People are so
kind & hospitable here & so well off !!
Thu 15 May 1919 Washington
Drove out round a beautiful park & then on a ship to Mount Vernon.
Glorious trip. Col. Thompson our host & a whole crowd of pleasant people - Dimoche, G.G.
Headquarters Executive Mrs Choate, Mrs Low, Baron & Baroness Bunde Miss Parsons etc.
etc.
Catch 6.0 train to Baltimore. Dine with Miss Carter & speak on Girl Guides to about 100
members of Junior League.
R. stayed on at Hamlins.
Fri 16 May 1919
Stayed at Stafford Hotel. Join Robin on the train to Philadelphia.
Lunch there given by Girl Scout Council.
Big affair. Girl Scout Rally - rather vague but nice people at work here. Mrs Colman is
Director & on the whole this Council seems to be one of the best & most active on Scout
work
Train on to New York after driving round about the town to see it.
Stay with Mrs Choate.
Sat 17 May 1919 Long Island
Go to see Camp Fire
Girls Headquarters & had good talk with the leaders of that movement.
Meeting at Reading
Visit Girl Scout Headquarters.
Lunch at Choates.
Rained badly so the big Boy Scout Rally happened in a building
R. spoke. Grand gathering.
Out to stay with George Pratt's at Glen Cove on Long Island. Dinner party Pierrepont
Morgans etc.
Sun 18 May 1919
Strolled in lovely garden. Mrs Pratt photographed us violently Lunch there & then motored
in to New York for big Girl Scout & other girls' organisations victory rally in the Carnegie Hall.
Fine show. Tea with Mrs Macy at her club, Mrs Low, Miss Parsons, Dean Russell etc.
R. dines with Scout people
I meet & talk with New York Captains.
Mon 19 May 1919
Stay with Mrs Choate
Girl Scout H.Q. Executive meeting.
A misery because of the feeble arguments! They have a lot to learn!
Lunch at Mrs Choate's home with some of the members.
Drive through Central Park etc. Most interesting seeing this vast town.
Dinner party arranged by Boy Scout people at the Commodore hotel. About 1200 people &
speeches after by C. Livingston (head of Scouts) Dan Beard, W. Macadoe Robin etc. & Scout
displays
Tue 20 May 1919
Drive down to the city & see huge busy Stock Exchange, Wall Street, etc. Take trip boat to
the Statue of Liberty.
Glorious views of New York from there & wonderful harbour.
Lunch with Mrs Riker to meet members of the Manhattan Girl Scout Council.
Motor out to see Naval Station at Pelham Bay & visit Bronx Zoo.
Tea at the Choates & then catch night train from New York to Montreal. Arrive there after
rocky bumpy...
Wed 21 May 1919 Ottawa
... night at 8.0. Change & train on to Ottawa, meeting Col Cole & Col. & Mrs Starke & Perrott
on the train. Met by Guides.
Stay at Government House with Duke & Duchess of Devonshire.
Lunch there & Tea party.
Boy Scout Rally in garden.
Dinner party of Bishop & his wife, Col. & Lady Violet Henderson (the Military Secretary)
various A.D.C.s etc.
Thu 22 May 1919
Wet. Write letters all morning whilst R. does Dominion Scout Council meeting.
Lunch with Gen. & Mrs L. Biggar & a party at the Country Club few miles from Ottawa.
Go over Eddy's paper & pulp works. Thrilling & interesting seeing big logs made into paper
bags & matches. Big tea for Girl Guides at St Andrews Church Sunday School at 6.0. 350
there. Jolly lot.
Public meeting after when R. & I both spoke & H. E. ...
Fri 23 May 1919
... Duke of Devonshire.
Left early & trained to Montreal. Nice journey on observation car accompanied by Perrott &
Prof. Stiles.
R. lunched with Rotary Club, & I lunched with Mrs Starke at Mount Royal Club. About 10
nice women who are taking up Guide work.
At home given by Mrs Starke at Ritz Carlton hotel. Quiet dinner.
See guides at Big School & address cold audience there. R. spoke too.
Sat 24 May 1919
Drove up the hill.
Glorious view.
Lunched with Mrs Starke, Mrs Whitehead Mrs Hunt etc. at Hunt Club, while R lunched with
Scoutmasters.
Splendid Boy Scout Rally.
Left by night train for Toronto.
Sun 25 May 1919 Toronto
arr Toronto about 9.0.
Catch S.S. "Cayuga" across Lake & land at (space)
Quite lovely. Train up alongside the rapids to Niagara. Glorious view of it all.
Lunch at Chilton Hotel & then Mr Amber motored us about to get special lovely views of the
Falls.
Took us over the huge Toronto electric power station too. Heavenly day.
Home to Toronto arriving there late &...
Mon 26 May 1919
... met by our host & hostess Sir Henry & Lady Pellatt.
They are - !!
R. went to Hamilton
Visit Girl Guide Dominion office.
Pathetic lack of organisation or good workers. All financed by Lady Pellatt
Lunch at Country Club with Mrs Beattie etc. Charming place.
Speak at Toronto to Ladies' Canadian Club. Fine audience.
Dinner with Guiders & speak to them.
Huge reception at Casa Loma
Tue 27 May 1919
Good conference with a few members of the Dominion G.G. Council.
Lunch with Mrs Warren.
She & Mrs Torrington & Plumtre, Mrs Parker etc were at the meeting.
Fairly big Boy Scout Rally on football ground.
Went to open a Y.W.C.A. girls' Club. Rally of Girl Guides at Casa Loma, after a talk with
about 30 Guiders
Badly run show but jolly guides. Leave late...
Wed 28 May 1919
... and arrive Montreal about 9.0.
Breakfast & shop.
Address the members of the I.O.D.E. Annual Conference.
Splendid audience & just the people we want for guide work!
Lunch at Mount Royal Club with Mrs Walker etc.
Went over a ripping grain elevator.
tea & talk with local G.G. committee & then small business meeting for organising locals.
Leave on the ship...
Thu 29 May 1919
... Saguenay & sail all night down the St Lawrence River arriving Quebec in time for breakfast
at Government House with Fitzpatricks.
Motor about the battlefields with Col. Wood & out to see glorious Montmorency Falls.
Lunch party at Government House.
Small Boy Scout meeting. Tea party & welcome to us by members of the B.P. Chapter of the
I.O.D.E.
Sail for home...
Fri 30 May 1919
... in S.S. Grampian.
Sit on deck & bash all day. Jolly view of wild coast.
What an immense country this is!
Sat 31 May 1919 At Sea
Grey and a wee bit rough.
Stay in bed and sleep most of the day
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Sun 01 Jun 1919
Saw a few jolly icebergs
Stay in bed.
Foggy & have to stop for some hours.
Slept. This is a grand rest.
Mon 02 Jun 1919
Stayed in bed. Grey & cold & horrid outside
Tue 03 Jun 1919
Stayed in bed & wrote letters
Read Kipps, by Wells.
Wed 04 Jun 1919
Up after breakfast.
Tea with Captain Turnbull in his room on top deck, & saw charts & wireless room etc.
(pencil)
A painful concert for which Robin "chaired"
Thu 05 Jun 1919
Up before breakfast.
Sat on deck & read & wrote letters
Doncaster
Went down to see the engines and all over the ship. She isn't like the Baltic!
Fri 06 Jun 1919
oh! such queer fellow passengers!
Misty all day so stewed downstairs doing letters & had
Wakefield long talk with Mrs Burrington Ham Canadian Y.W.C.A. emigration secretary &
quite interesting.
Sat 07 Jun 1919
Off North of Ireland.
Sheffield
Arr in Mersey about 9.0.p.m.
Sun 08 Jun 1919
Land about 11.0.
Special train for passengers to Euston.
Court meets us there with big car & we run home.
Glorious drive.
Country at its best & it is heavenly being back.
Babies splendid & so happy at our return
Mon 09 Jun 1919 [Pax Hill]
Robin goes fishing
Peter & Heather & I take tea down to join him at "Tipperary" field.
Visit Scout cricket match at Bailey's Farm (Bentley & Alton Scouts)
Miss Nugent to stay
Tue 10 Jun 1919
Take babies to the dancing Class at Willey.
It is delicious being back in our comfy lovely home again and Darling Robin has enjoyed this
trip which did go off well!
Wed 11 Jun 1919
Miss Nugent left.
Garden & play with babies.
Lovely and hot.
The garden is looking glorious and this is a perfect home!
Thu 12 Jun 1919
Miss Walker (my secretary) came for a few hours to do letters.
Fri 13 Jun 1919
Nurse away for the day.
Do letters & play with babies.
Spray roses & fruit trees to kill awful plague of caterpillars & green fly.
To London. Dine at Euston. Go to Cinema & catch 11.50
Sat 14 Jun 1919 Liverpool
arr Liverpool early.
Pilkington's car met us & took us out to Wheathill (Huyton.)
Comfy breakfast & loaf all morning in their jolly garden. Scout rally of about 3000 at
Liverpool, & good displays
Sun 15 Jun 1919
(pencil)
To big Boy Scout service of a sort in Sun Hall.
Robin spoke
Lunched with Nobles. They are kind.
By train to stay with dear Alice at Holm Acre.
Tea with Cleggs
Talk!
Mon 16 Jun 1919
Back to Liverpool by 10.30 train.
See guide Cadets of Training College doing dance, drill, etc.
Lunch with Lady Mayoress at Town Hall. (Lord Mayor busy in London over War Loan) R. & I
both gave short speeches.
Visit picture gallery in a hurry & catch 3.45 train to London.
Dine Euston Hotel & stay night at Reubens
Tue 17 Jun 1919
Waterloo dep 8.35
Bentley arr 10.35.
Court went for a holiday
Gladys Strode to stay
She is such a dear.
Wed 18 Jun 1919
Gladys left & Robin returned early.
Drive through Alice Holt wood with R. & babies in Jimmie to arrange with new laundress at
Oak.
Tea with Miss Sewell and all the members of the Bentley Womens Institute. Gave a little
chat on League of Nations!
Thu 19 Jun 1919
Bentley dep. 7.32
Waterloo arr 9.11
Call at office for letters
Kings X. dep 10.10
Doncaster arr 1.47
Lunch at hotel with Mrs Dunlop, Mrs (Gilmoin?) etc
H.Q. Executive Day
Speak for Mrs Pickering at Doncaster
Doncaster Rally
Definitely arranged in April. Quite a good Mansion House meeting 3.0
Tea there, & splendid Guide Rally at 6.0. Dinner with Mrs Pickering & son & daughter in law
& Archdeacon & Mrs Sandford at her house at that Bentley.
Fri 20 Jun 1919
To bed there for 3 hours
Got up at 2.30 & caught 3.15 train to London.
To breakfast at Reubens Hotel where Robin is.
Lady de Bunsen & Mrs Blair re Argentina Guides 3.30 at Girl Guide office.
Imperial International Council meeting at Guide H.Q. at 11.30.
Lunch after at Blue Triangle
Countess Gurowsha to see me re Sweden Guides
Join dear Olivia B. and stay at Blue ? Club
Sat 21 Jun 1919
Do some shopping & see Rev. I. Lewis re Camp Fire Girls here.
He has a conf at Gravesend
Mrs Dobell to lunch at Blue Triangle Club 1.30. I hope she will become Comm. for Quebec.
Join Rosie & take Mrs D. to Guide Display at Northern Polytechnic Institute, Stoke
Newington at 3.30.
Tea with Mrs White (the Comm.) Big show but not v. good as it was too slow and dragged
out. Jolly lot of guides. Home to Pax late after dinner at Waterloo.
Sun 22 Jun 1919
Loaf. Garden and do letters.
Father & Mother & son R. Eggar to tea.
Mon 23 Jun 1919
Take babies to the Dancing Class at Willey. Last one this season. Shop in Farnham.
Call at Spencer for cushions & quilt
Call on Mrs Harrap
Miss Macdonald here for the night.
Tue 24 Jun 1919
Garden. It is glorious here!
Bentley dep 2.9
Waterloo 3.35
Speak at Victoria League meeting (Dorchester House) I hope they will help overseas guides
a lot. Met useful people.
Home in the evening.
Wed 25 Jun 1919
Up to London again.
Lady D'Abernon to see me.
at office, etc.
Lunch with Lady Chelmsford.
(Viceroy's wife in India)
She is just going back & I want her to help G.G.
Hurried lunch though to get to Uncle Arthur's wedding at St Margarets Westminster. A bit
late so sat at back.
(Mrs van de Heynd is the "new aunt in law") Went to reception in Hill Street & then
shopped & tea at Waterloo & home again.
Thu 26 Jun 1919
Miss Eggar comes to advise and tell us how to look after & arrange garden. She lunches
here.
Make hay in the garden.
Mrs Storr & Rachel to tea.
Fri 27 Jun 1919
Robin to London for Mercers and gets home in time for tea.
Garden hard.
Sat 28 Jun 1919
Blue ? Club Committee at 11.0
Fetch the washing back from Oak! in the big car with babies.
Robin went to London for the big Scout Rally in Hyde Park. About 15000 Scouts.
Peace signed at 3 p.m.
Sun 29 Jun 1919
R. & I to church.
Garden.
Showery & colder.
Mon 30 Jun 1919
Garden.
In the car with Peter & Heather to shop at Farnham.
Then call on Mrs Aldyn Soames (Moor Park) & have tea there. The babies did too as she has
grandchildren there.
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Tue 01 Jul 1919
Nurse Winifred Lancaster left. Take babies on car with her to station & up to Poulters
Nurse Hilda Austen comes
arr Bentley 2.52
Rained. Blessed thing & does lots of good.
Wed 02 Jul 1919
Carpenter arr Bentley 11.23
Leaves again at 4.49
Long talk about the camp we shall have here in the garden in August
Mrs White and Mrs Porcher called
Thu 03 Jul 1919
Ran into Alton and left Bessie (the retriever) with vet.
Toby still there having the canker in his ears cured.
Robin to London for opening of Academy etc.
Fri 04 Jul 1919
R. in London & to St Albans for the night.
Wrote letters hard.
Miss Eggar to tea
Mills the builder began to plan the foundations for the new servants wing.
Maud to stay arr Bentley 7.3.
Sat 05 Jul 1919
Maud arrived instead of last night.
Agnes comes in afternoon
R. at Luton (Beds) returning late
Tea with Grahams at Foxhall 4.30.
Sun 06 Jul 1919 = blank page
Mon 07 Jul 1919 = blank page
Tue 08 Jul 1919
See Dymoke Green
Mrs Hegnett at office at 10.30
Mercers to see Prince of Wales
Wed 09 Jul 1919
Mrs Watt?
Mrs Craig at office at 11.0 ?
Mrs Reade " " at 12.30
Miss Clayton at H.Q. at 12.0 Lunch with Lady Drummond (head of all the Canadian Red
Cross during the war)
Speak to members of the "Lend a hand" Club at Lady Baring's
21 Belgrave Square 3.15
International Council meeting at 4.30 at Blue Triangle Club
Mrs Halliday ? 7.30
Stay Blue Triangle.
Thu 10 Jul 1919 Oxford
Miss Castle? Mrs Watney?
Lady Chancellor about 1.30
Lunch at Blue ? with Mrs Safe at 1.0.
R. in London for Committee & Boys Kindred Soc. Dinner
St Pauls School Committee at Mercers Hall at 2.0
Stay with Burrows at 9, Norham Gdns
Go there at 6.0.
Paddington dep 4.45
Oxford arr 6.7
Speak at 6.30
for Committee for Industrial workers. Miss Honor Thomas Mortons Tower, Lambeth Palace
Fri 11 Jul 1919
Oxford dep 9.12
Paddington arr 10.30
See Dame Alice Godman re Sussex Guides.
Lunch at Blue ? at 1.0 with Helen & Miss Tomes.
See Miss Watney at office and Miss Pym. They have raised 27 companies of guides in
Reigate since I spoke there last year to what I thought was was a useless audience!
Home with Robin to our heavenly Pax.
Sat 12 Jul 1919
Garden.
Find the foundations for the new wing
Camp at Pax for friends.
getting on well.
It will not be a very pretty addition to the house, but is for housing the four maids properly.
Sun 13 Jul 1919 = blank page
Mon 14 Jul 1919
Gidneys left.
Alice to stay arr Bentley 5.37
Grahams to tea
She is a wonderful old lady of 87.
Major Wade to stay
Tue 15 Jul 1919
Robin to London.
Molly May over in the morning & we garden on the lawn!
To shop in Farnham & babies tea there in a shop.
Alice and I go to Garden party at Farnham Castle (Bishop & Mrs Talbot) Robin joins us there.
Wed 16 Jul 1919
Garden.
Peter lays the first brick of the new wing of the house.
He & Heather & Betty go to a party at Foxhall.
Mrs Joy to tea & ? cousin
Mrs Linzee & her daughter
Miss Tinne? to tea
Thu 17 Jul 1919
Miss Townsend 11.0.
Lady Hillingdon at office at 11.30
Lunch at 1.0 at Blue ? with Mrs Dalymple.
& Alice & Mrs Blankenberg
Camp at Pax for friends ends & begins for training guiders
& Miss Columbine
H.Q. Executive Day
2.0
Alice leaves
Dame K. Furze dine?
Fri 18 Jul 1919
Lunch at Blue Triangle at 1.0
Mrs Adams comes re Canadian Club
Guiders' camp in progress at Pax
Babe to lunch at Blue ? at 12.30 at office.
St Pauls Governors meeting at 2.30
Miss Chandler re Sunday Circle 10.0 at office
Lady Hillingdon 11.30
Lady Chancellor 11.0
Sat 19 Jul 1919
London Guide Rally
No inspecting officer
Guiders camp at Pax
R. open Gilwell Park
Sun 20 Jul 1919
(single pencilled line ruled through)
(------?) to lunch?
Mon 21 Jul 1919
Clough Williams Ellis to lunch & to see how building is getting on.
To tea with Joys at Marrlands. She is a nice girl & has pleasant cousin living there for a bit.
Photographer came & took pictures in the rain!
Tue 22 Jul 1919
Robin to London just for the day.
The County sec for Surrey Mrs Denny to lunch.
Very wet in morning
Lovely afternoon. To Farnham. Shop.
Fetch 6 hens from Mrs Tuine at Wrecclesham. Call on Brunyates.
Mrs Hancock & her sister in law & baby to tea.
Wed 23 Jul 1919 = blank page
Thu 24 Jul 1919
R. at Dr Wigan
Camp at Pax ends
Mercers Hall at 2.0.
Mrs Harrap to tea and? Michael
Call for chickens at Tuines
Fri 25 Jul 1919
R. to Dr Wigan
Mrs Watt?
Lunch at Blue Triangle with Albert Hall Committee
at 1.0
Garden Party at Buckingham Palace
Imperial Health Club
Meet P.I.s at G.G. H.Q. at 2.15 & get to Buck House Mews at 5 to 3.0
Dame K. Furse to dine at Reubens.
Sat 26 Jul 1919
Gilwell Park
Lady Winchelsea
(Sleaford Lincs)
possible commr?
Sun 27 Jul 1919
Mrs Powell to stay
Came on her motor bike from Billingshurst
Mon 28 Jul 1919
Mrs Powell left
Robin to London
Prince of Wales at Mercers for dinner
Tue 29 Jul 1919
Mrs Ord Marshall & Mrs Adams (Canada) at Blue Triangle at 1.0
Mrs Gorderham ? when
Mrs Drayton at G.G. office at 3.0
St Pauls School
3.0 music
4.0 tea
4.30 Prizes
Flo to stay. Arr Bentley 5.39
Wed 30 Jul 1919
Miss Saunders to stay. Arr. 5.59
She is Y.W.C.A. secretary in Canada & truly Y.W.- ish
Mrs Storr asked us to tea 4.30. Flo(---?) & I went. Robin too busy gardening!
Thu 31 Jul 1919
Miss Saunders left early
Miss Walker to do letters & lunch.
Baden comes for night & Major Wade too.
Fri 01 Aug 1919
Wade left
Campers to Pax.
Flo leaves Bentley 11.32
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Fri 01 Aug 1919
Wade left
Campers to Pax.
Flo leaves Bentley 11.32
Sat 02 Aug 1919 [Pax]
(pencil)
Some members of the Campers Association arrived & pitched tents on the drive & in the
field. Such comic people!
Mr Maddock & his wife, cousin & two boys & Two strong youths came in to tea.
Guillemands from Alton called.
Sun 03 Aug 1919
To church.
Mr Hopkins, Mr & Mrs Phillips to tea
Mon 04 Aug 1919
Garden.
Maddocks to tea & most of the campers left.
Mrs Kearsley & Mrs Harvey ditto called
Tue 05 Aug 1919
Gardened.
Paid calls on Mrs Robertson
" Payne and Miss Machenzie.
Pax Camp ends
Miss Seawell to tea?
Frosts to tea
Wed 06 Aug 1919
Gardened.
Very hot.
Called on Richards to see their fruit farm.
Robin to Alton to have his wrists Xrayed.
Babies rather floppy from the heat.
Thu 07 Aug 1919
Lovely & hot again.
Called on Eggars.
Charles Powell to stay.
Fri 08 Aug 1919
Cousin Charles left.
Colonel and Mrs Gooderham come for lunch from London in car. He does Scouts in Toronto
& she was head of I.O.D.E.
Mrs Low comes to stay. Mrs Sedgwich called for tea. The Misses Ainsworth called too
Sat 09 Aug 1919
R. took Mrs Low to Alton & Froyle.
Garden hard.
Very hot.
Sun 10 Aug 1919
Mrs Low and I to church.
Glorious & hot again. I don't remember such a ripping spell of heat for ten years!
Colonel & Mrs Winwood to lunch & stayed on to tea.
He commanded the 5th D.G.'s all through the war
Mon 11 Aug 1919
Daisy-alias Juliette - (Mrs) Low left.
She tool the idea of the Guides to U.S.A. in 1912 - when we met on the Arcadian - and they
changed the name to Girl Scout, and it is a huge Movement there now.
Tue 12 Aug 1919
Tea with regiment at Rush House, Cedar Rd Edinborough 4.30
Wade arr. 5.0
Bentley
Womens tea party at Pax == > Wednesday party 4.30
Wed 13 Aug 1919
Into Farnham to buy buns
(Wednesday party 4.30)
Great success
Sixty two came & guides most helpful
Thu 14 Aug 1919
To Aldershot Horse show. Lunched (& sat on waggon) with Winwoods.
Boy Scout H.Q. Committee
Mr Everett arr Bentley 5.59
Fri 15 Aug 1919
Mr Everett left.
Mrs Lee & daughter called.
Nurse & all the Babies to tea with Mrs Hancock 4.0
Dine with Summers at 8.0. Nice people
Sat 16 Aug 1919
Lovely boiling day
Mrs Anderson & her daughter young Mrs Joy & her kids & old Mrs Joy to tea. 4.30
They loved playing with our babies.
Miss Nugent came
Sun 17 Aug 1919
Garden.
Glorious & hot
Mon 18 Aug 1919
Miss Nugent left
Lady Forster & her niece V. Willesley called
Also Mrs Gleniston & Miss Mackensie
Tue 19 Aug 1919
Gardened and prepared camp ground in the field for these guides & Guiders to use
Wed 20 Aug 1919
Poured with rain Most disappointing for camp!
Carpenter comes
Mr Lennon came to advise R about fish in River
Cleared in late evening
Thu 21 Aug 1919
Miss Lobb at 10.45
Miss Chapman at 11.30 about Burmah.
Dame Katherine, Mr Everett
Alice (space) to Lunch Gorringes at 1.0
G.G. H.Q. Executive
Miss Moore arr Bentley 2.32
Olivia to Pax Camp.
Fri 22 Aug 1919
Babies to Eggar's tea party at 4.0.
Pax Camp begins definitely
Helen for day.
Alice David to stay.
Sat 23 Aug 1919
Guide work
Miss Nellesley to lunch
Sun 24 Aug 1919
Easy day
Mon 25 Aug 1919
Jonah 9.32
Nancy (Brunyate?) for the day in camp
Miss Walker 12.56
Prepare for party
Miss Nugent to stay arr 7.3
Tue 26 Aug 1919
Nancy (Brunyate?) for the day
Garden party of about 70 people
Mrs R (space = unfinished line)
Wed 27 Aug 1919
1st lot at Camp end. 2nd lot begins
Some come by 3.20.
Babies & nurse to tea with Joys
Thu 28 Aug 1919
Guide work
Poured all morning. Guiders came in for lunch
To High Ashurst
Mrs Cary Moyan arr Bentley 5.54 (India)
Fri 29 Aug 1919
Laura Hawkes etc.
Miss Burley & friend & Miss Vinson (Farnborough Capt) arr Bentley 11.26
Local guiders for day
R. to Lyme Regis
Poured most of the day. Campers in house.
Sat 30 Aug 1919
Miss Rudyard Helpman 11.23
& Miss Macrae arr Bentley 12.26
for the day
Miss Seawell etc comes
To see Miss Fox
guider in camp at High Ashurst at 12.0
(21/2 miles from Box Hill Station)
Miss Geebi, Amateur Campers came late
Miss Pope (G.G. office)
R. at Dorchester
Sun 31 Aug 1919
R. in Cornwall
Mrs Porcher Colman guiders Farnham to lunch
To Fleet to see Mrs Meredith
Sing Song indoors
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Sun 31 Aug 1919
R. in Cornwall
Mrs Porcher Colman guiders Farnham to lunch
To Fleet to see Mrs Meredith
Sing Song indoors
Mon 01 Sep 1919
R. in Cornwall
Camp at Pax ends.
Christian Mathews arr Bentley 8.3.
Tue 02 Sep 1919
R. at Truro
Wed 03 Sep 1919
R returns home
Thu 04 Sep 1919
10.30 Mrs Trisha Row
Imperial meeting (12.0) Dame Florence &
Mrs Dunlop come etc & about 7 to
Lunch at Blue Triangle
Rush to lunch myself at
15 Great (Stamhope/Stanhope?) Street with Dame Katherine
Miss Bathurst at 3.0
Fri 05 Sep 1919 = blank page
Sat 06 Sep 1919 = blank page
Sun 07 Sep 1919
Both to lunch with Stracheys 1.30 at Newlands Corner
Mon 08 Sep 1919
Bessie's pups
Tue 09 Sep 1919 = blank page
Wed 10 Sep 1919
Friede to stay
Arrives Bentley 2.54
Thu 11 Sep 1919
Mrs Strachey & Mr Norris to tea
Maud & Donald leave
R. to Bournemouth
Fri 12 Sep 1919
R. at Bournemouth
R. stays in London
Sat 13 Sep 1919
R. at Gilwell Park
Conference - overwritten Scoutmasters - meeting
& home in afternoon
Friede & I garden.
Big thunderstorm
Sun 14 Sep 1919
Friede and I to church.
Mon 15 Sep 1919 [Pax Hill]
Friede loves being here and she is so jolly and helpful.
Tue 16 Sep 1919
Friede left early
Garden etc
Christie arrives Bentley 2.52
Sort children's clothes
Farnham meeting at Mrs Ealand's
5 Castle street at 5.30
Tea with Mrs White first
Wed 17 Sep 1919
Mother has arranged to go and live with Bob Davidson & manage his house & the three little
girls for him -
partly at his big house (Fermyn Woods) in Northants & partly in a big expensive house 10
Palace Gate, Kensington.
Thu 18 Sep 1919
(Jury?) meeting at H.Q. at 11.30
Miss Satchwell to lunch at Blue Triangle
H.Q. Executive.
Miss Miall 4.15 to tea at G.G. H. Q.
Helen to stay at Pax
Fri 19 Sep 1919
Miss Thornburgh to lunch arr at Bentley at 11.26
Helen left.
Robin returned
Sat 20 Sep 1919 = blank page
Sun 21 Sep 1919 = blank page
Mon 22 Sep 1919
R. shoots with Summers.
Take babies away to rooms at (Chorcliffe?) House at Hindhead for a change whilst the
builders "tack on" the new wing on this dear house.
Tue 23 Sep 1919
Motor over just to see how babies are.
Picnic lunch on Hindhead
Farnham Bentley dep 2.20.
Waterloo 3.35
To office to see secs
R. goes to Leeds late
To De Vere Hotel to join Mother. Dine there
Slept at Blue Triangle Club
(Darly/Danby?) R.H. there too. & we talk Guides hard.
Wed 24 Sep 1919
Nurse Lillian comes to take on babies. Nurse Hilda for a few days holiday
Help arrange the new house.
R. goes to West Riding.
Mother is wonderful
Help plan the move in
Slept alone in blankets at 10 Palace Gate
Thu 25 Sep 1919
Moved Mother in to the house with all her bits and pieces. Then some servants arrived too
and later the three small girls with their retinue! Christian now 7 - Clare now 6 and Yvonne
now still a baby of nearly two.
Fri 26 Sep 1919
See Dolly etc & also Lady Mackensie at G.G. office. She has already started at Cadet Corps
at Rio in Brazil & is keen as can be & excellent.
R. stays with Bells at Rownton (Yorks)
Bad railway strike begins tonight.
Sat 27 Sep 1919
Beryl West Jones at office at 1.0. & lunch at Blue Triangle
R. at North Riding Rally
Sun 28 Sep 1919
Rosie's number at 16 Cumberland Terrace is Mayfair 3948
Bob has appendicitis
Branches called
Rosie & her 2 girls & Daisy Wilson & her girl Hilda to tea
Mon 29 Sep 1919
Swanwick Conference all fell through owing to strike.
Christian (housemaid) is staying at 41 Blackmoors Grove Teddington
Walk to G.G. office as trains all stopped
Too amazing to see everything upset like this, but the food supply is being splendidly
managed.
Tue 30 Sep 1919
Call on Dame Katherine at 11.0 at 7 Thurloe Court
Her number there is Western 6808
Drive with Mother in a stately landau with 2 prancing chestnuts!
So unlike me!
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Wed 01 Oct 1919
Drive with Mother & the two dear wee girls again.
(Pencil line erased)
Went to see nice little Mrs Fisher Rowe - hon. sec. of my Imperial G.G. Council.
Robin came to Palace Gate in evening.
Thu 02 Oct 1919
... having been fetched by Court in our car from Swanwick
R. to office, & we run round in our car & see a lovely motor tractor, & also go all over R.s old
home, 9 Hyde Park Gate.
Drive with Mother again & take little Christian to have a tooth pulled out by Manton.
Fri 03 Oct 1919
Home by road.
Glorious run & heavenly to be back & find it all ship shape.
Car fetches babies back in time for tea. They are better for the change.
Sat 04 Oct 1919
Fuss round, settle ourselves again & garden.
Quite lovely.
Run over in the morning to fetch rest of babies' luggage from Hindhead & visit Shottermill
trout farm. Most interesting
Sun 05 Oct 1919
Garden more or less all day.
oh how happy we are!
Robin is so much fitter now than he was at Little Mynthurst
Mon 06 Oct 1919
Daily/Derby? Dep 8.35 - 9.52
St Pancras 12.27 - 2.5
Garden. Glorious warm day.
Swanwick ends.
See Miss Chadwych Healy at office at 3.30
Babies splendid & all getting so strong. Peter much better than he was.
Tue 07 Oct 1919 = blank page
Wed 08 Oct 1919
Major Wade to stay
Jonah came on her bike from Woking for the day.
Thu 09 Oct 1919
Wade left.
Robin to London.
Turn out things in the cellar! Etc.
Oh how I do love it all.
Fri 10 Oct 1919
A. Classey the Scoutmaster who invented wooden fire making things for Scouts came to call.
Stayed on & on & slept in the summer house.
Most quaint clever man.
Molly May to tea.
Bought my Blue Bird cage! for hanging up here.
Robin returned.
Sat 11 Oct 1919
R. shoots with Col Booker at Chawton.
Miss Nugent comes
She is such a treasure.
Mrs Robertson & her two boys (aged 6 and 2) to tea. Jolly.
Bookers bring R. home & have tea too.
Sun 12 Oct 1919
Miss Nugent & I to church Harvest Thanksgiving. Miss Mackenzie and her brother Dr M &
Miss Guniston to tea.
Garden.
Mon 13 Oct 1919
Babies to dancing Class 3.0
Tue 14 Oct 1919
Rosie at 11.30
Miss Chadyck Healy
(Wyphurst? Cranleigh) at 12 at G.G. office.
Lunch at Club.
Miss Anson at office at 5.0
Phyllis Mithum at Club at 7.0
To Edinburgh 10.30 from (blank space)
Wed 15 Oct 1919
Returned to London by night train
Thu 16 Oct 1919
International Council 11.0.
H.Q. Executive
Stay Rubens
Fri 17 Oct 1919
Mrs Boardman at G.G. office 10.15
Miss Nood re New Zealand
Mrs Townsend & daughter (Hong Kong) to lunch?
& Mrs Fisher Brice? Lady Robertson?
Weybridge meeting at 3.0
Waterloo dep 1.35
Mrs Dawkins & Miss Churchill (G.G. Assoc)
Sat 18 Oct 1919
I to lunch at 1.30 with Baldwins
Tea with Mrs (Manwaring?) Robertson & take the babies.
Sun 19 Oct 1919
Joys to tea.
Mon 20 Oct 1919 (page removed - cut out)
Tue 21 Oct 1919 (page removed - cut out)
Wed 22 Oct 1919
See Lady Bartram at office at 12.0
See Miss Yorke 2.0 at 5 Spanish Place
Telephone Mayfair 4167
To 10 Palace Gate
to be with Mother again. Georgie Sykes staying too.
Thu 23 Oct 1919
Old daguerrotypes of (R.?) taken in Aug. & Sept 1860.
Drive with Mother & shop at Waring etc
Call on Helen in a nursing home, where she is for a few days
See Lady Ampthill at 65 Ennismore Gdns at 5.15 about possible affiliation for G.G. with Red
Cross.
Babe & Sie to tea.
Fri 24 Oct 1919
Shop & play
with Mother.
Dolly Cunningham & her small girl to lunch.
Slept & did work at office & then home with Robin to Pax.
Sat 25 Oct 1919
Robin went up for 13th Hussar O.C. dinner. How they all love him
Sun 26 Oct 1919
R. returned.
The two Miss Ainsworths & Mrs Pilkington their friend to tea.
To (Ilkley?)
Mon 27 Oct 1919
Ilkley Conference
Bentley dep 8.32
Waterloo arr 10.0
St Pancras dep 10.50
Leeds arr 4.3
Leeds (Wellington) dep 4.57
Ben Rhydding arr 5.35
Ilkley 5.40
Missed train at St Pancras & arrived Ben Rhydding late
Jolly gathering of about 40 Comms.
Tue 28 Oct 1919 Ilkley
Sessions all day. Excellent.
Wed 29 Oct 1919
Sessions all day.
Visited glorious G.G. Company at Burley
Perfect show & such ripping guides.
They gave me a lovely roll of blue serge.
Thu 30 Oct 1919
Leave 8.50.
Reach London 2.25.
To office & do work.
Tea for representatives of press at the Savoy.
Call on General & Mrs Edwards who are just off to Rhodesia.
Call on Miss Yorke (Lady in waiting to Princess Mary) to talk over next Tuesday's
arrangements.
To see good film of the war in Palestine.
Stay at Knightsbridge Hotel
Fri 31 Oct 1919
See Miss Yorke 5 office
Do work at the office. What a lot there is to do!!
Home by 4.20
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Sat 01 Nov 1919
Robin shoots with Summers.
Rachel Storr and Mrs Robertson's boys - Struan & David - to lunch to celebrate Peter's 6th
birthday.
Sun 02 Nov 1919
Robin to London to see Belgian Boy Scouts.
How good he is taking so much trouble over everybody and everything and never takes
"time off" or spares himself.
Mon 03 Nov 1919
Bentley dep 12.17
Waterloo arr 2.25
See Scout Club 3.30
Miss Wedgewood (re Foreign work) 4.0
Test revision meeting at 5.0 at H.Q.
Tue 04 Nov 1919
Rehearsal at 11.0
Peace Celebration at Albert Hall at 3.0
Mrs Courtauld's reception
8 Palace Green
Wed 05 Nov 1919
County Sec Conference
Miss Evedale Hawks (going to Spain) calls at Blue Triangle at 1.0
Waterloo dep 5.20
Thu 06 Nov 1919 = blank page
Fri 07 Nov 1919 Minehead
Minehead Conference for Scout Commissioners
Sat 08 Nov 1919
Session in morning.
Peggy Martin & Mrs Liddon & Miss Joyce (County Sec for Somerset) to lunch.
Saw local guides & talked to Guiders
Scout exhibition in the evening.
Scout Rally at Taunton
Sun 09 Nov 1919
To Church with masses of Scouts in attendance!
Motor out to Dunster & Miss Littel took us over the Castle.
Went there last from (Pixton?) in 1898.
Mon 10 Nov 1919 Plymouth
To Plymouth to stay with (Monit Edgecombs?)
Tue 11 Nov 1919
Plymouth Town Hall meeting for grown-ups. I do Guide Inspection in evening & R. to see
Scouts.
Up to London by midnight train
Wed 12 Nov 1919
Breakfast at Rubens & home by 9.20.
Babies splendid
Very chilly with a cold.
Thu 13 Nov 1919
Stayed in bed all day.
Robin to London
St Pauls School Committee at Mercers Hall at 2.15.
Miss Hill (my nice secretary) to stay & did lots of letters.
Fri 14 Nov 1919
Robin returned
R. lectures at Farnham & Dines with Whites (first?)
Sat 15 Nov 1919
Miss Hill left early
To London. Visit Guide office. Miss Macdonald left hurriedly in a huff
Victoria dep 1.30
Chatham 2.37.
Townhall meeting at Chatham 2.30
Chatham (----?) Lady Sturdee in the Chair.
Large tea (fight?).
Performance by guides to crowded hall. Stay with Lady...
Sun 16 Nov 1919
Sturdy at Admiralty House
Left 11. 20.
Join Molly at 1.0 To Ashwell Manor
Leave Chatham 11.20
Arrive Victoria 12.51
Leave Waterloo 2.20
Bentley 4.0
Home for tea in the nursery
Mon 17 Nov 1919
Babies to the dancing class
Spend day at Fermyn Works
Spend morning at work & afternoon garden
Send Mrs Noble photos of us (at Liverpool)
Miss Nugent to stay
Tue 18 Nov 1919
Back to London
Wed 19 Nov 1919 = blank page
Thu 20 Nov 1919
Mrs Duncombe at office re blind at 11.0
Extension Committee at H.Q. at 11.30
Lady (Neaves?) ?
lunch 1.0
G.G. Executive 2.0
Ms Home? Sphere?
Miss Daly 4.30
Mrs Cavendish 5.0
Mrs Duncomber 5.30
Fri 21 Nov 1919
Miss Wedgwood 10.30 G.G. H.Q.
Mrs Boardman11.0
Interviews 11.30
Lady Cody 12.0
Gorrenge 12.15
Mrs Duncombe at (?) at 1.0
St Pauls Governors meeting at Mercers Hall at 2.30
Rotary Club Dinner
Sat 22 Nov 1919
Chatham
Campers Club dinner 6.45 at Shaftesbury Hotel, Great (?), Andrew Street,
Sun 23 Nov 1919 = blank page
Mon 24 Nov 1919
Furniture comes
Tue 25 Nov 1919 = blank page
Wed 26 Nov 1919
4.30 tea at Rubens
Miss A. Grimshaw 6.0
Rotary Club dinner at St Pancras Hotel
Thu 27 Nov 1919
Call on Lady M. Macrae at 10.0
at 22 Mansfield Street
Mrs Blankenberg 10.30
Baker Street dep 12.5
Go to Aylesbury to see (Borstal?) Guides
4.30 tea at Museum at Aylesbury
Fri 28 Nov 1919
Miss Daly 10.30
Miss Walton 11.30
American journalist
County Secretaries Conference in London
Lady Neunes 12.0
Mrs Bailey (East) 12.30
Blue Triangle Committee 2.30
Sat 29 Nov 1919
County Sec's conference
Sun 30 Nov 1919 = blank page
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Mon 01 Dec 1919
Furniture comes
Tue 02 Dec 1919
Babies to tea alone with Fair child (of 6) at Froyle
Wed 03 Dec 1919
Tea with Mrs Joy
Thu 04 Dec 1919
Elives to stay
arr Bentley 4.58
Fri 05 Dec 1919
To tea with Miss Ainsworth
Sat 06 Dec 1919 = blank page
Sun 07 Dec 1919 = blank page
Mon 08 Dec 1919
(Lembeke's?) for lunch
arr Bentley 1.31
Babies to dancing
with Barbara
Mrs Eggar & Grimshaw to tea 4.30
Tue 09 Dec 1919
Bentley dep 8.48
To Guide office
Mrs Reade 10.30
To London School & talk to Guiders
Wed 10 Dec 1919
(Fabies?) to tea
Barbara to tea
(written sideways)
Bell Boy at 99 Cromwell Road
(also) 12th / Tockhampton Manor Mrs Bristol
Thu 11 Dec 1919
Bentley dep 8.48
Waterloo 10.36
(------?) 11/0
Mrs (Knight?) (Bombay) 4.0
Mr (Houne?) at Scout Club with Dolly at 5.0.
See Lady Cave & (M? ----- ----- ?) office (time?)
Mrs Reade 6.0
Dine Mrs Boardman at Euston Hotel 7.0
(take?) Eve Night train to Glasgow 9.25 from Euston
Fri 12 Dec 1919
Robertsons to tea with Babies. Arr. Glasgow 7.15. Breakfast with Aunt Mabel Townsend
Talk & do letters.
Lunch with Lady Sterling Maxwell (jolly Glasgow President) etc.
Speak at meeting in Town Hall. Tea party there
Motor out with Mrs Forsie to dine with Mrs Buchanan (new Comm) & address meeting at
Coatridge near Glasgow
Return to London 10.30 train from there)
Sat 13 Dec 1919
Arrive Euston 8.20
Mrs Goodman at office at 11.0. re Malay States
Mrs Meade Waldo 11.0
Madame Lamerand
about French Guides
Catch 1.20 home from Waterloo
Sun 14 Dec 1919 = blank page
Mon 15 Dec 1919
Nice couple from Froyle
Fairs to lunch
Take babies to dancing class
Mrs Porcher to tea
She is getting guides going at last in Farnham
Tue 16 Dec 1919
To London by 8.32
Mrs Reade at 10.30 re International Guide work. See Mrs Cotton at 11.30 about her Guide
trouble at Bude
Ditto Mrs Meade Waldo re Tunbridge Wells Guides.
Miss Ather Vaughan? 12.30 To see the London School (---?)
Lunch with Miss Anson.
To 10 Palace Gate to be with Mother.
Wed 17 Dec 1919
To Lilliput with Mother
Waterloo dep 9.30
Parkstone 12.16
Mother has awful cough.
To Scout office to see Robin up for the day from home.
Parkstone dep 3.18
Waterloo arr 6.36
Thu 18 Dec 1919
Helen, Rosie, Olivia, Jonah Darby, Muriel Wright Alice & Alice Baird all lunch at Gorrenjes to
meet Dame K. Furse, who I hope will be Guide Chief Commissioner. She backed out at 11th
hour!
H.Q. Executive.
I chaired.
Mrs Kent (Comm from India) to see me.
Stayed with Mother
Mrs Meade (Welage?) 5.0
& went to big circus at Olympia.
Fri 19 Dec 1919
Mother still has a bad cough.
Uncle Herbert Hill staying here too.
Bob came back for one night. from shooting.
Blue Triangle Club Committee meeting 5.0
Sat 20 Dec 1919
Shop & get hair washed at Barkers.
Babe shops with me too.
Catch 1.20 train home with Miss Hill (Sec)
Sun 21 Dec 1919
Miss Hill & Peter & I to church.
Mon 22 Dec 1919
To Farnham to shop. Drive in the lovely new Jimmie.
Gladys Strode comes for lunch.
Robin to London.
Meeting at 4.30 of Bentley Guide Assoc.
Carol singers come & sing!
Tue 23 Dec 1919
Lady Cantelupe & Mrs Howes call when we are busy digging in the plot!
Wed 24 Dec 1919
(Lord & Lady) Selbourne's called.
They are now living in London.
Motor up past Froyle with Peter & Heather & Betty & Nurse in little Jimmy to get holly.
Decorate house & help decorate the church too.
Thu 25 Dec 1919
Xmas Day.
Wet. Robin to church for local Scouts' parade.
Peter not fit, from excitement
Tea in nursery
Garden.
Fri 26 Dec 1919
Mrs Joy's church party
Garden, do letters & babies have the Xmas tree.
Sat 27 Dec 1919
Hampshire Hounds meet at the "Golden Pot" and the 3 babies & we go in Jimmie.
They adored seeing
Fancy Dance for all 3 babies at 3.30 at Fair's (Froyle)
the horses & stroked & played with the hounds. Paid calls in afternoon Alton way.
Sun 28 Dec 1919 = blank page
Mon 29 Dec 1919
Miss Nugent
W. I . meeting
Tue 30 Dec 1919
Wade & Nugent come.
Mrs Joys party 3.30 to 6.0
Babies to --------------
Wed 31 Dec 1919
Mrs E Reade 10 (Willialian?) Place
Lee's party
Jan 31st
Imperial Council
---
Jan 8th to 15th Diploma work at High Ashurst
Memoranda
Mrs Tatton Brown
Brownhill
Nursling, Hants
did Scouts at Kumeda
Met her at Halifax
Eric Walker (wrote from
Poste Ristante
Kingston
Jamaica
May 5th 1919
engaged to Cicely Carter
63 Wellington Road
Edgbaston
---
Miss V. Warrender
23 Great Cumberland Place
Memoranda
Possible travelling Comms in the East.
Miss Mary F. Chapman
49 Highbury Park
London N. 5.
---
Mrs Gwynne Vaughan
93 Bedford Court Mans.
W.C.1.
---
Babe MacGregor
4 Queens Gate Gdns
---
Mrs Essex Reade (July address)
The Grange
Hadley Green, Barnet
Mrs Eustace Burrows
c/o H.B. Platt Esq
535 Park Avenue
New York City
on guide Committee in London.
Memoranda
Miss Margaret Ernest
220 West 98th Street
New York City
Telephone Riverside 6678
Physical T.College, Bedford Str Liverpool
Mrs Dalrymple
(Glinnhier?)
Johannesburg
Mrs Sprigg
Emsworth Rectory
Hants.
---
elderly cousin might start guides with daughter
---
Miss Nugent
1 Belsize Grove Mans.
N.W. 3.
Memoranda
Mrs Essex Reade
27 Eaton Place
S.W.
Mrs George Swinton
22 Bryanston Mans
York Str. W. 1.
---
Miss Walker address
Brunswick House
Clifton Gardens
W. 9.
& her telephone 1871 Paddington
---
Edith Trotter (Q.M.A.A.C.)
49 Grosvenor Street, w. 1
Arthritis Dr
C. Wigan Esq
75 Cadogan Place
Memoranda
Dame Katherine Furse
7 Thurloe Court
Chelsea
---
Mrs Cary Moyan
The Quinton
Shawford, Hants
till Sept 15th
India secretary
---
Mrs Meredith (Music)
Woodside, Fleet.
---
Mrs Fisher Rowe
43 Rutland Gate
---
Miss Barbara Anson
4 Park Village East
Regents Park
She died in Cheshunt, where Auriol's mother's younger brother, Rev. Herbert Whitbread Hill had lived
from birth. Married with two unmarried daughters older that Olave, his younger sister Constance Auriol,
childless and widowed, died in Kensington aged 64 just 12 days after Auriol.3
Two pages also not transcribed - torn out ? - from Olave's husband's diary, but he wrote -
05-Apr-1919 Phone from Eva asking Olave to go to Hale as Auriol was dead.
06-Apr-1919 Phone from Col. W saying Bob Davidson was staying with him, quite broken down, Auriol
having escaped in the night and thrown herself under a train. Olave returned. Found Selwyn Austin trying
to get a taxi, I ran him home. Called on Messenges and Duncans.
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