Item 12: Miles Franklin pocket diary, 1919

printed page

HEADQUARTERS EQUIPMENT DEPARTMENT, 25 BUCKINGHAM PALACE ROAD, LONDON S.W.1.

All Scoutmasters and Scouts should order their equipment from Headquarters.

This Department was started mainly to enable Scouts to obtain their equipment of the best quality and at the cheapest possible prices.

All goods Scouts can possibly require are stocked.

Special attention is called to beautifully illuminated Troop Charters and Certificates of Membership.

A catalogue will be sent post free on demand.

way home, and was buried in Sydney.

Australian writer Stella Miles Franklin drops a line from London, where she is now with the National Housing Council. "Housing work is a thing," she says, "anyone can believe in without controversy, for the English houses are incredible: comfort, privacy, cleanliness - nothing is possible in them. The horror of it has to be endured right into the marrow of the bones to be thoroughly understood."

[the above text is a printed newscutting pasted onto a blank page of the diary]

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[above text written on a white label stuck on part of a map of The Great War Western Front, on the rear flyleaf of diary]

part of map of The Great War Western Front, on rear flyleaf of diary.

back cover of diary