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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: The Will of Admiral Arthur Phillip
« on: Friday 22 February 19 00:51 GMT (UK)  »
I have now created a WebSite for this topic; it is

http://www.spanglefish.com/admiralarthurphillip

Thank you, all, very much indeed, for all your help so freely given.

It's been fun - *I* have enjoyed it - and I hope you have too !

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1934/5 Round the World trip
« on: Saturday 16 February 19 22:24 GMT (UK)  »
Here's the next week:-

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1934/5 Round the World trip
« on: Saturday 16 February 19 21:54 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you for your help.  After a bit more "digging", this is what I now have for that weekL-
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Saturday, 27 October 1934
PACKING
Christian and Lettice to breakfast. Lady read, sister Agnes & Mrs. Whitely to lunch. “Clive of India” with Colin Keith-Johnson. NOT so good. He was nice though.  His wife was a nuisance.  Aunt Agnes to tea!  She is an awful woman!  Home.  Dad 13th Hussar’s dinner, home very late.

Sunday, 28 October 1934
H. [Heather] took G.M. [Gypsy Moth, her pony] over to Odiham where Gee Brown met her & brought her back. Groom took G.M. on, to stay with them while we are away.

Monday, 29 October 1934
Two Ainsworths to tea. Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven  to dinner.  Sewed on name tapes & packed.

Tuesday, 30 October 1934
Secretaral School in morning. Aunt Violet  to lunch.
Found school  shut in afternoon as got a case of scarlet fever. Went & saw George Robey, Anna May Wong in Chu Chin Chow [film] .
Very funny, just Ali Baba & the 40 thieves with variations

Wednesday, 31 October 1934
Sadly said goodbye to Twm [dog], as Dad took him up to London with him & handed him over to Copeland’s for while we are away. H[eather]. To London.
Packed etc. Luggage went

Thursday, 01 November 1934
Mrs Spilling came to say goodbye. 
Final shopping in Farnham.
Eggars to tea.
Nothing to do as luggage all gone.
Pathetic, leaving Shawgm [dog] behind, under Annie’s tender care.

Friday, 02 November 1934
Dad went off on 9.56.
Bear [Chauffeur] to London to interview his new master, Lord Allendale . Heard that he has got the Job! Everyone very pleased.
Left Pax, 5.30. Met Dad at Rubens.
Dinner at Lyons Corner House.
Saw Lilian Braithwaite, Jack Livesey, Giles Isham, in "Family Affairs" . Terribly funny & rather pathetic. L.B. Very like Mona [her grandmother].

Saturday, 03 November 1934
START OF TOUR ROUND THE WORLD
RMS ORAMA

Early breakfast; Huge crowd of press reporters at St Pancras, & Percy , D.Green,
Jack Beet etc. 1 hours run to Tilbury. Scouts for Dad! A few Guides. Got on board & waved from deck.  very much in the way.
Don d’Engel… & Angela arrived on board
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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: The last Journal of Harold Soames, 1855-1918
« on: Thursday 14 February 19 19:39 GMT (UK)  »
Page 002

Here's my attempt
01 S. Reinarch, in "Orpheus" – Sacer interpresque deorum",
02 sums up excellently? (after Tyler, etc.) origins
03 of religions:
I think that perhaps it's not "Tyler", but "Tylor", being this man -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Burnett_Tylor

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: The last Journal of Harold Soames, 1855-1918
« on: Thursday 14 February 19 17:55 GMT (UK)  »
Still need help, please, with Line 13
13 Some are  ?   ?  then the supreme God,

and Line 23

23 disin ? ction – e.g. swan –
on Page 002 of this  document  - see "Page [1]" on this WebPage

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: The last Journal of Harold Soames, 1855-1918
« on: Thursday 14 February 19 17:37 GMT (UK)  »
20 The cock on our steeples survival of day
21 when sacred – (to avert thunderbolts) - like geese.
22 Priests (& profit) ruin of all needs:
23 But when he says "religion" is "a sum of
24 scruples which impede the free  ?  of our
25 faculties", I venture to think that through
26 all the foolish fears, horrible irritations, &
27 cruel persecutions there still shows
28 in man's anxious quest for
29 some hope of a holy spirit beyond!
30 Though quite natural phenomena there was "spirit" also!!


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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Date, anyone for Bode Lady ?
« on: Thursday 14 February 19 17:19 GMT (UK)  »
This was posted in 2017?
Yes.
Alas !  My computer died, and with it my links and passwords.
Quote
Has it been on before
Not as far as I am aware.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: The last Journal of Harold Soames, 1855-1918
« on: Thursday 14 February 19 00:23 GMT (UK)  »
Since you ask - Alas !  Most of them !  I can make out perhaps two words a line...

01  Spoils of war "taboo" ?  they ? the ? ?
02  on enemy: so true  ? of divinities(?) lest enemy ? invite them!
03  ? ? ? a common source
04  of inspiration as one sees ????
05  "magic" concepts(?): (jumping to make corn high,)
06  ? ? ? as assistance(?)
07 - (like pins in ? ? to chase:
08  & all the seasons invariably sacred.
09  Man tries to explain the ? ? of
10  nature by those he sees before him, &
11  gives a physical form to ideas suggested.
12  Fables ??? not to oriental(?) imagination
13  so much as the ignorance of primitive man.
14  As Greeks "assisted" God by liberties of
15  ? so ? helped the sun by
16  lighting brands in spring.
17  His ? of ? ? & idle that
18  Jesus crucified not ??? but in character of
19  Barabbas, - the old sacrifice of some criminal.
...

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Date, anyone for Bode Lady ?
« on: Wednesday 13 February 19 23:34 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you - and thank you, Handypandy, for the Tweak, too !

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