Transcribed by Jessica White.
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Fine Monday 7-1-30
Bakers Arms Letonstone [Leystonstone]
Stall Market. Popolare St [Poplars Rd, between Walthamstow Central and Leytonestone]
I was much hustled by the
P.C. & Jews dun me out of
a stand I have been for
most part of the day &
the[y] also set 3 English
young men against me
who called me Black Bastard
& many other & also an
Indian, go to you own
country. Crowed much
amused. I did not answer
sevear boycott did not
earn expences.
Blacks (Asiatics) canot
retaliate
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8-1-30 Tuesday. Fine
Tower Bridge Rd Stall market [near Tower of London]
Alway’s a very White market
Police hunted me and
followed me about after
P.C. Sergent 34.M. Spoke
to P.C. M. 162 & 301 P.C.M.
I stood opposite an empty
Stall. After P.C.162M Pass me
and old woman told me I
was to move from there.
then I stood opposite a
Grocery Store ([Wyoung?]) Near
Green walk Rd the P.C. 162M
pass. The frindley nature
of the People Turned
Sergent 34M Hunted an Indian
& also a negro. But not white.
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9-1-30 Wednesday
moist
Burdet Rd Stall market
No Sale, much humbug
by, Hostel nature half
Breed Jews.
P.C. Wer amused and kept
a sharp look out & moved
me. Walked about Mile End
in Wentworth St I was
taken for an Arab & called
the Grand mufta, that
I should be killed. by a Jew
who has been at me ever
since the Palastine
Troubel Satrted.
THE P.C. 363. H. is
Speaking of me to the Jews
about me [to?] the Old Baily
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10-1-30 Thursday Fine
Dull & But Rain Threatning
Watney St Stall Market littel
Trading. The usual jelousey by
the Tray Trader’s.
Limping cockney Picture Book
selling. Stood opos by the
front of me. & did all he could
to agrevate me, & would hush
any one likley to buy of me.
He was dowing like wise in
Wentworth St. Two make belive
drunk, London Raggad’s hooked on
to me, & Spoke in Indian Language
as I was unabel to answer them
they abused me. And the Limping
Cockney took up & called me a Black
Bastard. The Jew & Jew Barrow
boy’s supported him. A Jew called
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Rat. (a seller of Bannana
from a Barrow) thretened
me, & called me a C---.
They are allways Hostiel to
me. The same Rat has
many times openly
insulted me. Besides passing
insulent Remarks where
ever he see me.
I believe he is put up by
usual Jew’s way of dowing
things. & he is suposed a
Boxer. (Better than the Rest).
Limping Cockney repoted me
to P.C. & I also stated my
Versen. PC. replied you
all will be cleared from
here. After a Barrow Jew
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a Barrow pushing Jew
Paulterer [poultry seller] called me
a buggar, & threatningly
said & that’s English.
P.C 363 Heard & saw of
course, he walked away
As I was passing High
St Aldgate. the Limping
Cockney saw me & he
abused me, with his like
three.
England is a very dangeres
place, (Especily the Half-
Breed’s of Jews) to Black
peopul.
The[y] must not defend themsevles,
as they have no national
Suport. (Retaliate)
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11-1-30 Friday Fine
Rathbon St Stall Market
Caning [Canning] Town
Very slow trading not
many Jew’s or gentiles
Hustelling me.
Children stol things off
my Tray & Ran away
the Crowed Very amused
Indian scarf Seller’s
wer Subjected much of the
White Venum. I din’t
see him sell any. These
Indian’s do not understand the
English or their habits.
At a Pub I was as usual
Subjected As Britis Boast
over the Blackman.
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12-1-30 Well’s St Stall Market
Fine morning. 3 P.M. Rain.
Sevear boycott. Much remark
about my being allien.
I did not take expences
P.C. Watched me from a
hiden, When I saw him
he would move else where
If the P.C. would do this
As the Alliens (Europ) the
would retaliate.
I took shelter after I came out
of the Tram in Aldgate
where a crowd of men &
women wer, I was spoken
to by Irish who been to India
as Soldjer’s, I had to leave & [unclear]
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13-1-30 Stall Market
Edgeware Rd Church St [Edgware Rd Station]
Fine 1PM Rain Very Keen
competetion against me
the Allien. P.C. Hustel me
not even Buss fare
taken.
Salvation Army Loddgers jelous
& much Insolence & from
the one eyed member
of its staff. The young
man has repetedly
mark me out to Swank
his [unclear] [unclear-ing]
my Cough is Troubelsum
Feverish The whole of my
Body trimbeling. Yet I
must go out. As there no place to rest.
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14-1-30 Roman Ford –
Gun St Wentworth St & about
EC Whitechapel. Nothin Good
Fine day. 4PM Rain.
I was pelted with foul
Guts & Paper wads &
rotten fruit missels
they came from the [unclear] &
Frankel the Butcher Shop
by a Russian Salesman
& the manager has many
Times insulted, & also
rufuse to sell me meat.
& also the Cheese Stall
Keeper Maxwell often
times very actively
boycotted me to the would be
Custemer’s & Pelted me with
tomato, & other missels.
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Since the British scheem
of active Slaughter in
Palastine, these Jews have
been very dangeres to me &
often times said they would kill me
for the Arab’s wer Killing the Jews
Since the English [planned?] Indian
mutney. England has prepared
to Slaughter of the Indians &
to further her Sheem of Slaughter
it was found that Europe
must be Broken up & Bended to
her will, so England planed &
succeeded the War of 1914.
(for Germany was in her way)
& with the completion of [unclear]
Goverment House her pland
was ready & The Proclamation
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By Lord Irvin the
British Vice Roy in India
was the understood
plan of attack (Insiting [inciting])
& Waylaing the allready
[unclear] armed Europe.
& the so called Bomb
out Rage of British Vice
Roy in India was
only a British plan
as Similiar as the that
of the for[e] Runners
preaveas [previous] to the whole
sale Slaughter of the
un armed God woshiping
Indian’s in 1860
(Indian mutney)
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Taking all in all the
People wer never so
Niggardly in thought
or habits as the English
those of England. Most
vulger & ignorent & dirty.
Travel through the
country’s of Great
Britain & [Iarland?], then
through Asia, you
will never find Susch [such]
Filt & Ignerent &
Barbarick Savages
in India or Asia
Generalley speaking.
Nun Like F.M. CrawShaw
& his Wife to be found
among Asiatics.
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16-1-30 Tuesday
Stratford Stall market.
No competition Dull
trading. Much Insolence
from working men & women
going & coming at dinner
hour I was ordered &
pushed out of a Restarant
& also from a publick
House. So I had to do
without dinner or
a drink. I was again
insulted by a Paultrey
Barrow pushing young
man & he attempted to
push the barrow over me
in corner of Goulsten &
Wentworth St
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Wednesday 17-1-30
Littel [Carl?] St Seven Dials
Forigne’s Generaly on Sunday V.V.G
But today No peopel & Poor
Trade. I was again for the
third time called a Black Bastard
& threatened with being thrown
out of the Windo. He is a very big
[btd?] & Powerfully Built man
he almost every day Piss the
Bed. & the mattress has been
changed on my Bed. it is that
way I got this cold. A Black
man is not safe even in bed
from the White Schum. I said [unclear]
I was again abused by a young
man in the Wash House for the
2nd time. Once in Bed (one of the
Staff
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I was subjected to assult
& Robbery of my Good’s
opposite the London Hospital [Whitechapel Road]
by Jew’s & Gentiel young
men, they Generally be
about the coffee Stall.
The Jew young man
known by name as
Rat. Abused me (Black C---)
in Wenworth St & Goulsten
corner, as I was going
Home to my Loddgin
in Middelsex St Army.
Many Buss conducters
would not Stop & abused
me you want Ride in my
Buss. Go Back to your country
& Etc & the Passer’s wer highly
amused.
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Thursday 18-1-30
Stall Market at Brixton
Verry sevear Boycott by Stall
Holders & P.C.199W who
told me if he saw me away
from where he bid me he
would Put me in. & he in
hiding watched me, & he
Saw 2 young men
passing me (fish stall) Blagarded
me & threatned me with
a very large Knife (he
was carring a few) saying
& drawing the knife
accros his on throat
you Black Bastard that’s
I will do to you all
Becaus I was Trading &
I was the only Black man.
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Before the P.C. 199W
Threatned me, a Tray
Trader of the Mootcher
Type was talking to the
P.C. 199W & women &
Stall Holder’s. Market
Super wiser & many
P.C. Sergent’s saw me
& they said nothing. &
I have been refused
A Stand even on payment
& others of the white wer
allowed free.
I saw & Spoke to a Malay
Anglo Indian who wer sent
here to School. (a Boy 12)
he said gleefully they are
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going to make currey
we in Malay have all
Sort’s of nice things to eat
I wish I was back in
(Kollanpotz?). This a
very misarebal & Bad
dirty peopel, and nothing
nice to eat. My father
is a lawer. Then a
Vixen looking old & much
age hag took him away
So I had no time to
Explain the England’s
Schum of murder &
Plunder & Slaughter of
women & children.
The boy said the English in
Malay live well. look at them
here.
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Friday 17-1-30
Bright & Warm day
Burdett Rd Stall Market.
The White Hostiel Nature
very much to the Front.
Few Jeweses Baught.
Dinner in a restaurant
Subjected to much remarks
about Indian’s mode of life
& what they did to Indians
& how they treat Indians
by ex soldger’s.
2 P.C. Very conversational
(Pumping) & very Boastfull
about England & What India
would be, if it wer not
for England & about the
War.
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Saturday 18-1-30
North End Rd Stall
Market Yallen Green [poss Walham Green near Fulham Broadway]
No opposition Very Dull
Fair day.
half Breed Jew’s Selling
Vegetabel off Barrow’s
Very Hostiel attempted
asult all becaus I
sold some Toy’s. I
Greened [grinned] & Bore all. The
Peopel very amused.
The P.C. all of them wer
keeping a Sharp eye on
me but did not object
to my Trading.
Coming & Going. Conducter’s &
Passenger’s. Insolent becaus I
am a Black.
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The Irish element at
the Salvation army
mainly ex Indian (or Some
of Aseas countrys) Very
Hostiel abusing Sayings
Not only where the[y] see
me, but in bed as well
No 274 Bed which is
at the foot of my Bed
piss his bed almost
every night especilly
on Friday & Saturday
night. he has been
changing the mattres of my
Bed And then he take a
delight in abusing me
I have Spoken to the office
of the S. Army but the[y] only Laugh.
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19-1-30 Stall Marke[t]
Nile St Hoxton.
Very Bright all day
No Opposition Fair
Trading. East End half a
day. I turned out of
a Publick hous in
Green St [(Melouse)?]
Italian refused to
serve me Refreshment
Because I am a Black
Jew’s not speaking good
English, Roused on me
saying I was taking their
living away from them &
that I should be sent Back
to my country. Conducter
& the Rest of the Tram [unclear]
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Monday 20-1-30
Stall Market at
Barker’s Arms in
Popolare St corner
Very much opposition
& selleing things under
cost price, yousing me
as a Forigner to the
country & appealing to
Support the Empire
They wer Forigner Jews
who could not speak
plain English.
The Jew Trade Spys
wer all ways about
watching & such actions
are taken against all
But Jew’s.
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I allways picked up
for use empty
card Board Box
which all thrown
away & some Jews
asked me & I told them
I use them to carry
my trading goods as
I have no place to
leave them. since then
card Bord Boxes has been
Broken up. So I asked
a Jews Shop Keepers
to save me one, & I woul[d]
paye for the same.
They spoke to me as I was
a Mange dog & Refused.
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Tuesday 21-1-30
Very Fogey day.
Watney St & Wentworth St
& about. But no Trade.
In wentworth St the
Jews are banded more
than ever, the Fruit
Stall opposite Frankel?
& Levern takel (me about
my trading & living in this
country, takel me
Frankel & Leaven Butcher
Takel [tackle] me, my trading in
this country (you shouldn’t
Be allowed amongs white & Etc
An old women pointing to
me Spoke in Jewish. Hostiel.
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22-1-30 [unclear]
Stall Market
Wilcox St [near Vauxhall]
Dull day Ragged
Trade, Better E.C.
Mile End.
In the Tube Very niggardly
made about the Indians
Chinese & other Asiatics
by those Work
in offices in Mincing
Lane [nr Fenchurch st] & very marked
insolent by Women &
men. There Versen [version] is that
England suporting
the asiatics is the
great caus[e] of England’s
Poverty. and I am Well off Etc.
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Thursday 23-1-30
Seaton St Stall Market
Tottenham Court Rd
I was Bard by a
young Scotch P.C. from
Trading & Very Threatning.
Seaton St Market there
are forigner’s so I do
better amongst these
market’s which are
forigner’s. The P.C. moved
me but not others.
Comming & going By the
Tram I was takin for an
Indian by the conducter
& Ticket Inspecter, & Some
Jews passengers. The
Indians must be [unclear] than
Slaves to Stand the White.
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24-1-30 Friday
Wells St Stall Market
& About E.C. Mile End.
Jew’s wer as usual
Selling things Very cheap
they are Shop Keepers
who come out to market’s
as tray men (as I) or
sell off some other
Stall Holder Stall
& the Jew’s (Forigner) all
way’s make trade by
making fun of Some one
and attrack a crowed &
I am a [unclear] thing for
their use. All most allway
Why dont you go back to India
& Etc.
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you are dowing a
White man out of his
living you aught to
your country & sell
them not here, We got
to keep you in your
Country, & you come
here & live with
white peopel In your
country you wouldnt
be allowed to walk
on the foot path
See what we got to
put up with in
England. this is the
usual & allways backed
by ex soldier’s & the
crowd is much pleased
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25-1-30 Friday
S. Army. Middelsex st.
To D.D. Jones Esq
most Honerd Sir
yours of the 19-1-30
was recieved by me
at 7.P.M. on 24-1-30
which was laing in
the office over 2 days
my name was not
shown on the List
posted outside nor
was I told of it, by
Chance I met a
member of the staff
going up the Stairs
& he told me of it
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When I claimed it
& was much surpri[sed]
& pleased when
I saw your hand
writing.
& Reading of it gave
me the only pleasure
I have ever known
in this land of Enemy
of Black men &
Slaughter of women
& Children, & Blood
succers of Trusting
humanity.
But when I came
across 16/9 it made my
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Tears wild in my
Eys.
Your persistent &
Endles goodly thaughts
& deeds are more like
a Black, than a
White man.
I am enclosing the 18/9
same back to you
& retaining you ever
over glowing goodness
as that of THE
Prince Sidtathara
of Kapalawusthova
(Budda).
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My Caugh is littel
Better. But Bad
when weather is bad.
If I had a littel place
as that of Warner St [Clerkenwell]
I could I could live
better & also save.
as it is what I spent
for a dinner would
keep me in Better
clean & healthiar
food 2 days.
I eat very littel
food of this Place (S. Army)
for they are not
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norishing. But dirty
& what is more, at
the serving Bar a
White man first &
any thing will do the
Black, I have often
payed for food & left
untuched, such as
Eggs. Bacon. Potato
Those who serve
here are choosen from
realesed convicts.
Or on probation
no other Kind employed
the class that stay
here, as in all other
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common loodging
are recivers of
the doll. old age
pension, & such
who are a walking
mass of filth, &
the room’s or places
they congregate are
like exhumed grave yard’s.
If every thing care
fully cared for if
not they would
Vanish before your
very nose, for the
whole crowed [unclear]
in such & think
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such actions as
very smart.
Friday. Saturday &
Sundays are great
days of Drunken ness
& broil?, & this are
much to the front
by the Banded
Irish element.
If I was not on
probation, & under
the Salvation army
Branch, they would
not allow a Black
man, I have
often been refuced
by this place &
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& other Salvation
Army Loddgings
I am staying here
since I left
Epsom, except
for a week when
I went to Bristol
with the hope getting [unclear]
of this Blackmans
Butcher land England
but I could not
live there becaus
of the Police
Percequition [persecution?] even
thoug I had a
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street Trading
licence. then
so I came back.
Through Mr F.M. Crawshaw Esp
I had to apear
before Sir E. Wild
at Old Baily when
where I heard
[2 lines crossed out – unclear]
much untruthful
carracter written
by F.M. Crawshaw Esq.
there by he did not
only place chains
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about me
Through my
stupidity I gave
him not only
a chance to
chain my limbs
But a halter
round my
inocent neck.
I should have
continued my
life work by
deffending my
self as a Black
man. What is done
is done.
Every moment I
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Spend in thinking &
Serching some one who
would take up the casu
of Natives of Australia
But I am generally
made a Laughing
Stock of.
Before you recieve
this by Post. The British
manovered Slaughter of
the unarmed, &
Pleading Indians be in
as that is in Palastine.
England is Suing armed
Power’s to protect her from
armed asult (War)
Page 42
all the
White she impudently
Slaughter & Plunder
in armed civalized
Nations of Aisa
who’s Benevolance made
England & keep England
Saved “Drake” from
Spaniards & Portugeese & [French?]
& from the 1914 War
And England Broke every
Promis she made to Indians
& Other’s of Asia, & Attempt to
do like wise to Italy, But
England found, althoug Italy
was a traiter in the war
yet Italy would be
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supported, & England’s
move in Europe would
be exposed. So she gave
a way to Italy, By giving
to Italy the land’s of Black
men who Saved England
& aleaniated Italy poverty
to Land, in the British
Scheem of murder & Plunder
which Italy is most ably
following up to the full
Satisfaction of Her Alley [ally]
England. By Murdering
men at Prayer & Slaughtering
women & children & Blaggarding
the Good name of the help
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help less unarmed
Natives of Sudan &
Tripola. Look up
See How Loyd George
manage to make a
Traitor of Italy
& the Promiss made to
Italy, for Betraying
Her Honorabel allies
Austria, Germany
Secret Agreement.
and Also Look up the
Promises made to India
Egyet. By Loyd George
in 1914 Slaughter of
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Honerabel Germans
And How England [kept?]
those promises in
Egept India Samoa
New Guine & others.
Britan & Her convict
Lay Ruiled
For German countrys
in Australasia
England’s moves in
Europe for stalled my
pleading, Since the War,
And the Same is managed
for Asia in Generaley
& England sheems & plunder
the help less unhinderd
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If I do get away
from England
what would over take
me would be as
did in Greece, or in
Poland. For I am
made a British to
further Englands
scheems other wise
I am Bared from (Black)
Earning a lively hood
on Land or Sea under
The English, & England
user her international
alliance (Legue of
Nation) & [unclear]
Page 47
to further her Scheem
againts Asia & the
Asiatic’s.
an armed [Evangelize?]
Nation throug whose
Generosity England
came to belong & hold
to gather.
So the winter is a
planting time
I thought Snow & Frost
would not be a [unclear]
for planting trees or
any thing growing in
the open
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Beliving my returning
the 10/-s will be looked
up on in your usual
full hearted way. Sir
you know it is to you I
have all ways appeald
for everything & you
have most ungrudingly
spent your money &
Time for me from the
very first day.
Mr Monk at the Forigen
Office reffered me to
you & if it was
not for you.
The Rector of St Dunne’s [St Clement Danes Church]
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Recter Pannington Baninglo J.P [Pennington-Bickford?]
church, Strand would
have sent me to a
Lunatic Asylum &
what is more in my
last misfortune if
it was not for you
I would have been
both a convict & Lunic [lunatic],
bying that you will
look over my short comings
(if any which are unknown to me)
I close this long rambl-
ing letter & Hoping it
will find your Self &
Mrs D.D. Jones in the
very Best of health
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& Prosperity
wishing you both
Propures Happy &
a long life I beg
to remain
your Humbel &
loyal Servent
A.M. Fernando
Sunday 26-1-30
P.S. I wrote this holding in
my hand against
noise & other winter
inconveneance about
me. (Lodgers).
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Saturday 26-1-26
Morning damp & dull
but Turned out to be
a fine & warm day.
Roman Rd Stall market
done fair Trade
No opposition the
Jew & Gentiels the
usual shiriking
the Black.
On the Buss conducter
reffered to me coolies
are permited to mix
with white women
& men & that the
coolies of India earn
2 annas a day
& they come here &
do whites out of a living
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Sunday 26-1-30
Broadway St
Hacnkey Marsh
St all market.
much humbug by
lookers on so did
not do much.
morning began good
but Rain at 1.P.M
came to Wentworth St
Jew market where
I was subjected to
a young Jew stall
holder’s boycott
suported by the Jew
Barrow traders
& much [jeered?] by the
crowed.
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I suppose my daily
noats of sum of my
momentry experience
in London is worth
repeating (reading)
For you know much
better for what
major [uncear-asian] & you
Experienced, when
trying to employment
find work for me in
1919 (The Red Cross.)
& then favoured me by
helping me across to Italy.
Postcard
6-1-30 England
Dear & Honored Sir
Beliving this will find you & Mrs in the best of health & thoroughly enjoyed the merry season
I wish you all a happy & a Prossperes New year
I am O.K. the Enclosed will be of some thing to pass your long hour's of in indoor enforcment.
Again wishing you of the Very Best
I beg to remain Sir your faithfull & Loyal Servent
A.M. Fernando