— Manchester
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Document date
Thursday 9th of August 1917
Transcription Notes
Directly after breakfast — weather hotter than ever — we decide to go to Manchester by 2 p.m. train. Find we can get rooms — probably pretty bad ones — at Webb’s Hotel. Pack directly after breakfast and finish up generally, wiring to Campbell and getting directions at P[ost] O[ffice]. Just catch train by the skin of our teeth and then for 2_ hours sway from side to side, the timbers of the carriage creaking like a ship’s in a storm, and eventually lurch into Manchester in the middle of a terrific storm of thunder & drenching rain. Wait at station till over, and then walk to Webb’s hotel, get rooms of sorts, settle in and then sally forth to present letter of introduction to Walker the banker. He out, but his wife does the honours, a nice buxom woman with many children. Supper & to bed. Fare just eatable, fairly clean.Location
USA : Kentucky : Barbourville [36.8664765,-83.8888138]
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