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Illustrated Newspapers - 346 Strand - W.C.2. London
Wrote one letter - to the family.
Still battling a sore throat along with the cough. I can't seem to get straightened out. Dick must get pretty tired of hearing me groan around. Spent the afternoon reading the short stories in "Liberty".
As this is 1/2 day holiday there were a lot of bums on the street this afternoon. Many of them were doing a lot of loud talking. None of them seemed specially happy.
While reading "Anthony Adverse" the idea struck me that much the same sort of thing - along biographical lines - could be done with current history & happenings. The factualities of a thing like "Personal History" together with the sensual, moral, artistic, religious touches of "Anthony Adverse". If done along the lines I think of, it could run serially and lose nothing thereby.
After supper Dick finished his letter to his family and we then went over to the Post Office to mail it. He is talking of going up Soufrière to morrow.

[[underlined]] Thursday February 20, 1936 [[/underlined]]
Dick & I had breakfast at 7 and he began his trip to go up Soufrière.
About 10:30 I decided to got to the Rectory

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to pay Mrs Hatch a visit. Just as I was [[strikethrough]] leaving [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] arriving [[/insertion]] Mrs Arthur Grimble - wife of the administrator - (now being transferred to the Seychelles) was leaving. I didn't get much of an opportunity to look her over.
Mrs Hatch and I had a nice visit and I left about 11:45 - got home in time for lunch.
The conversation at lunch gave me a great desire to collect data detrimental to English police systems, law courts, or other judicial & legislative functions. Certain people have been reading about U.S. 3rd Degree and so think they know it all.
Dick got back about 2:30 - much earlier than I expected him. He had an interesting trip. We went to bed fairly early as he was tired

[[underlined]] Friday February 21, 1936 [[/underlined]]  
As Dick was tired he was home most of the day. We expected the "Ingrid" or "Lady Hawkins" to bring us some mail, but no soap.
I finished reading "Anthony Adverse" as well as the serial "Smoke in her Eyes" by Allene Corliss. The heroine of the latter reminds me of Arline, but Paul certainly isnt the hero. In the course of my reading to day I came across the following which I should like to keep "I want to keep all that

Transcription Notes:
The same Arthur Grimble of "A Pattern of Islands"? (memoir of life in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands)