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74 Woodley Rest Camp

Friday, March 15, 1918

Freddie and I and the Major decide to visit London. About 15 of the 27 put in for pass to the big dump. But orders (telephone from London forbid any passes Doubtless we shall be getting transportation for France before Monday.

Freddie and I visit the Abby and study it from a architectural point of view.
It is an extremely interesting edifice as there are embodied in its walls [[strikethrough]] go [[/strikethrough]] samples of Early English, Norman, Perpendicular Saxon, Decorated & Architecture.

We went up to the tower by a winding staircase in its stone walls.
We had a lovely view from there

75 Woodley Rest Camp
                
Saturday, March 16, 1918

In the afternoon Freddie and I walk downtown do some shopping and
then walk down thru the meadows. We visit an old
paste-boad mill and then meet a couple of fair cyclists from Southhampton who amuse us with their Hinglish slang.

Order come for us to move to-morrow.
We are off to France.

Huston begins to believe us a Suicide Club.

Transcription Notes:
corrected the original transcription where readability impaired since line endings corresponded with the notebook's. Put in Miller's punctuation.