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Oct 15 Fry lists paintings and other artworks seen in Paris.
Oct 18 Fry is writing from Metz, in subsequent entries she reports on seeing soldiers exercising, and taking care of a baby.
23 Oct describes elsie's baby, and expresses desire for a child herself.
Oct 24 'Description of a man'.
Oct 28 talks about meeting a Russian girl and their conversation.
Nov 5th 'in train to Bham' discusses her anxieties, talks of how Noel Buxton and Mrs St.Clair Stobart have gone to Belgrade with the Red Cross.
Nov 10 Dublin, talks of having to have 'no further dealings' with a child. It is unclear who this child is, possibly a pupil or staff? And discusses the Hoggs, who are very rich and who were offered by Whistler the picture of his mother for £250.
Nov 13 talks about visiting a night shelter run by Miss Bell for 'the lowest women in Dublin' possibly prostitutes. Fry discusses the changes Miss Bell has made to the shelter to improve it. Fry then discusses paintings she saw in the Municipal Gallery and a talk attended at Plunkett House by 'A.E.'.
Nov 15 Fry talks about a situation that has arisen. She states 'The McNeill's youngest girl is feeble minded [assumed to have learning difficulties] beacause she lacks thyroid glands' then goes on to explain a situation regarding the possibility of operating on a cook named Annie.
Nov 17 Mrs G G Leveson Gower visiting for the weekend. Fry mentions that she sent in her application for the Headship of the Maria Grey Training College.
Nov 21 Fry discusses taking in two half Sicillian girls who are very dirty and have no suitable nightgowns. She mentions how she finds it sad that they are so quiet and obediant.
Nov 22 discussion on dressing the girls and buying/making items of clothing for them. Discouraging response from Maria Grey College.
Nov 25 talks of Sabrina, a Turkish girl come to stay.
Nov 28 visit to London via Missenden. Biked to see two houses in South Hill Park. Saw Mrs Nelson, Sabrina, G Peacock. A lady remarked to Fry how 'plucky' she is for cycling round London.
Dec 8 recounts story of visit from Mrs Levinson Gower, and Mr Lynch who appears to be a political figure in Persia [Iran].
13 Dec mentions Halide Edib, New Turania Movement.
Dec 21 Fry mentions a woman who is 'laying her devotion before me, even using her powers over a man, her lover, but not her husband, to further my wishes, - but her love is hot summer - I should fear a storm'.
Dec 25 Fry has moved to 13 Well Walk. she comments 'Yeats was here' and they discussed an artist they both knew the work of.
Dec 28 mentions Mrs Leveson Gower having a party for "slum children". She then discusses a book she is reading by Carpenter, and love.
Dec 29 describes night market in Canning Town where she was visiting Augusta Sewell.
'Last night I spent with Augusta Sewell in her little workman's house at Canning Town. The region is inexpressively slummy! It seems so foreign & remote from one's ordinary experiences that one wonders if they talk English. At 7.30 we sallied out to see the Sat. night markets. They were not in full swing, but street after street was already alive & men were already bleating out the strange cry (it did not sound like intentional words) of Buybuybuy! Buybuybuy! They seemed to do it as a dog barks - not the least as a man speaks! Nothing was cheap - in fact dear rather than otherwise. There was a flowershop - must be for graves but with anemones 1d each. I asked if they would clean them & they said 'oh yes, sure to'. People would have them for button holes. A negro [Black] quack was selling medicines, his voice dropping to a thrilling whisper as he pretended certain confidences & then burst out 'No I told him I didn't want to sell my medicine's cheap' etc.
Slop shops were full of children's drawers & petticoats - 5 1/2d for drawers - & A.S. tells me no one can sew effectively in Canning Town.
Cinemas there were almost as thick as pubs; fights & temporary entertainments in odd scraps of ground'.
Then discusses her friend's ideas on cheap but good housing.
Dec 30 Fry went to hear Abdul Baha speak.
The writing in this volume focuses very much on Fry's thoughts and feelings, and less on characters encountered than some of the other diaries.There are also a number of sketches in the volume. |