Diary pages from this date

Death of former school teacher Marion Potter, aged 81, from lymph adenoma and myocardial degeneration.

Before internment she'd been held in room 203 of the New Asia Hotel.

Sources:

Geoffrey Emerson, Hong Kong Internment, HKUP, 2008, Appendix 3

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Death of Miss Marion Potter (82)

"A for apple, B for bed" (Ream)

Bon came up & I took her back 9.45 AM. ((G))

Choir practice 5-6pm.

Steve to rehearsal at St Stephens. Talk with Mary till he returned.

Overcast & cooler.

Full moon.

Note:

P.M. Guests.....Certo. To tea with bowl custard each with cherry, and then tea with pancakes. ((Shorthand reads “Gave them bowl(?) of custard for Joyce who was down again with malaria”.))

((Most likely to be May Peveril Guest (nee Fincher) and her children))

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• List of translations and abbreviations
• List of foods