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'Sir F[rank Swettenham] lent me two of his books to read: "Unaddressed Letters" and "Malay Sketches".[...] Excellent dinner [on board Dutch ship] with funny Dutch peas and pears with our turkey. Very early to bed and read some of "On the Face of the Waters" — it is clever though I hate it. '
'March 11 [1914] Joined Hampstead Library £1..5. Books read March [1914:] Mrs Sewell His Grace of Osmond Helen Keller Out of the Dark A Lady of Quality. The 3 Bronte's The broken [sic] Halo. Bridges Poems. Life of Octavia Hill. Life of Florence Nightingale Vol. 1 In the Guardianship of God Rose o' the River. Wiggin'