Diary Entry: Took Col & Lt Marshall to Curzon Street Diary notes: There were several important cinemas in Curzon Street, Mayfair, which might be why KPD was told to drive her passengers there.
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Diary Date: 1st October [1944]
Diary Entry: Lunch & tea Orchard Cottage Diary notes: Orchard Cottage, Crofton (near Farnborough, Kent) was the home of the Lewis family, former employers of KPD who became good friends.
Diary Date: 30th September [1944]
Diary Entry: Took Col. To London for “shopping”. Home for night. Diary notes: This sounds interesting day – what was KPD hinting at by her use of inverted commas round “shopping”? We’ll never know, of course!
Diary Date: 29th September [1944]
Diary Entry: Took Lt Marshall to Reigate. Back for late lunch. Diary notes: A local trip only taking the morning for KPD today.
Diary Date: 26th September [1944]
Diary Entry: Took Col. To Stanmore. Went to see “The Story of Dr Wassall”. Good. Diary notes: “The Story of Dr Wassall” is a US film of 1944 set in the Dutch East Indies; it was directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starred Gary Cooper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Dr._Wassell By Paramount Pictures – http://www.moviepostershop.com, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42299522
Diary Date: 25th September [1944]
Diary Entry: Took Lt. McGreggar to Salisbury & Bulford. Dinner at Paulites, Bagshot. Diary notes: Wembley to Salisbury and Bulford is a round trip of over 180 miles.
Diary Date: 24th September [1944]
Diary Entry: Staying Dulcie at Linton Cambs Left 5.30. Hitched to Bishop’s Stortford. Train to Wembley Diary notes: Dulcie was a former Nanny, and good friend of KPD, both before and after her marriage. Her son, Paul Rupert Leggett, was KPD’s godson.
Diary Date: 23rd September [1944]
Diary Entry: Went to Linton Cambs. for night Diary notes: Not for the first time KPD went to stay at Linton, near Duxford (south of Cambridge).
Diary Date: 21st September [1944]
Diary Entry: Took Miss Daley Aldershot. Lunch Pmais(?) Kitchen. Went to “Going My Way” Diary notes: ‘Miss Daley’ seems to have been a friend of KPD around this time; unfortunately the name of where they had lunch, although important enough to be mentioned, is not readable. ‘Going my Way’, a 1944 US comedy musical film …
Diary Date: 20th September [1944]
Diary Entry: Took Lt Burgess Aldershot & London Diary notes: A round trip of around 100 miles.
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