Jan 6 Friday

Reading The War the Infantry Knew2
Second draft of a poem about love and Africa3.
To Montauban on bike: first time for several weeks: Russian billiards
Laura going on with Herods4.
She wrote a letter to Chamberlain.
A crop of jokes about Massa Montague & his negroes. It started some months ago when he was here: he heard some singing at night & the Commis5 at the farm – & said it sounded like negroes.
Stripped Xmas [Christmas] tree: made a club out of mistletoe bough.

Editorial Notes

1i.e. the letter 'F' eds.
2 The War the Infantry Knew, 1914-1919 by J.C. Dunn. London: P.S. King & Son Ltd., 1938, 1987. eds.
3 "The Love Beast" RPG 295-6
5clerks eds.