Transcribed by Jessica White.
Loose Page in Front of Notebook
Thursday 5 Dec 1929
From A. M. Fernando
To D Jones Esq
Most Honered Sir
I am still in the Land of the Living & that's about all.
I am enclosing a daily Diary of my time, Beliving that it will give you a better in sight to the Situation of a blackman in England. I hope you will be abel to understand it. Beliving yourself & Mrs Jones is in the best of health, & had a good harvest. Wishing you & Mrs every thing of the very Best Greatfully thanking you for the many fold unselfish kindnesses I beg to remain your Humbel & Faithfull servent
A.M. Fernando
Page 1
Saturday October 26 1929
Barking Brodway [poss Broadway, in Barking, near East Ham]
Go to your country
Bk Bastard
East Ham
wash your face
Upton Park wash
your face dirty Sod
Laytonstone [Leytonstone]
Don’t buy of him
I will buy of a
whiteman
Stratford. Boycot
Whiteman on [line?]
Whitechapel waist too Late
Page 2
Sunday 27-10-29
Middsex St Jews & P.C. Hosteil
Lambeth Walk [sth of Waterloo] much
Shiriking V. Bad
Mild End Waist mootchers
Women & men Insolent. [Threat]
Go to your country you Bck Bstd
We got to keep you & Such
Salvation Army Pointedley
(many time) not [necasry/necessary?]
to be at the meeting, & also
how benevolent. Th S Army
I spoke to every one of the
officers & men about my
piss soaked bed the[y]
promised but left it
as it was.
I cannot help thinking the[y]
are hunting me [unclear].
Page 3
Monday 28-10-29
Watney Street & Hasel&
Wentworth St. Rain V.V. Bad
High St Whitechapel P.C. Hunted
Samboo Be off. (it was Rain
Salvation Armys –
The Drunked Harbour
Scoundrels Home
Scamps Club
Morality & Justice [Gaolers]
Filth in adoration
Lice in profusion
Huming & Buming
Buming & Huming
Murdering & Plundering
Plundering & Slaughtering
is the s[c]heeming and
Greed of England
Page 4
Tuesday 29-10-29
Hauxton [Hoxton]. Much Boycot
Why don’t you go to India
not come here to do a whiteman
out.
Wentworth St. A Jews
her children wanted the toys
wer [sulking?]. I [?]rew not off the
Black Sod.
Corner of Wentworth & Goulston
street. I was pelted with a
rotten pair [pear]. P.C. Inspector&
a Policeman Saw the pair
laying on the Ground, and
apeard to be amused with
the stall oposite Godine [goading?] I
suspect for they wer selling
that same sort of pears
Once beg[?] a small new
unclear]. Maxwell the Jew
many times & also persistent Boycot
Page 5
Wednesday 30-10-29
Burdet Rd much boycott
Hostiel Shop women & Stall [hold?]
P.C. kept a continual Watch.
Whitechapel Waist Saw JS30
he looked Vishes [vicious?], after he
passed 2 [unclear] P.C.s Looked
Strangely. I kept on walking
up & down.
Wentworth street Jews
Tray Wender [vendor?] told me to go
to my country. not come
to England & take there
Bread away.
& he also spoke like [unclear]
to a white English woman
that work for Jews & sell
toys for herself [throug?] the
Evenings.
Page 6
Thursday 1-10-29
Bridge St Market Battersea
is under repair.
I was subject to much
shiriking & told by women
& men pasing get off
Black thing.
Trams would not stop
went pass Laughing
I was boycotted by the passer’s
by walking along the Road
told a woman & chiled [child?]
who was buying toys off me
& the[y] did not buy.
Southhawk [Southwark] becaus a Woman
with a chiel baught toys
of me. Some men said she
will sleep with him to
night. There was a Toyshop
littel way from me.
Page 7
Friday 2nd 11-29
Roman Rd not off him. Bk Bd
Buss would not Stop.
Go to your country.
Wentworth St & Mile End Waist [West?]
Jews [Bet?] Gentiel’s & the Jews
wer pleasd. they take me for
an Arab. Many said I should be
killed.
The white pincpel [principal?] is to in
conveneance [inconvenience] a black man
at all time & the croweded
will suport & the Law of
England’s Back’s them
Page 8
Saturday 3-11-29
[Wallen?] Green North End Rd [poss North End Rd going into Hampstead Heath?]
Very slow, on the tram
Charley white, goto
your Country, you
would be Killing your
selves, we got to keep
the likes of you
Page 9
Sunday 4-11-29
Watney St Slow a Jew felt my
bum & I tackeld him, But the
Rest of the Jew’s & Whites wer up
against me. & alo Wentworth St
Salvation Army & its [moths?]
Page 10
Monday 5-11-29
Burdet Rd Not 1 Penny.
Wells St Sevear Boycot.
A white man came by me
& Sold things 1/2 dearear. he
did a good Trade.
Wentworth St I was [unclear]
But hardly any Trade.
Filth is adoration
Lice in prostuition
White mans adolation
no matter where you
sit or look lise [lice]
crawlel [crawl] on you&
the smell of flirth
every where.
Page 11
Tuesday 6-11-20
Sexten St Market. Tottenham
Court Rd. Police husteled me
but not others. (White)
High St Camden Town
Police husteled me&
then told me I cannot
stop in that market,&
I am not allowed.
Salvation Lodge
A white man is in
the habit of pissing his
bed I have recquested
to have my bed changed
for it run under my
bed and has soaked my
cloths & my mattress
is exchanged for his
but no heed has been
taken from every
[the rest is unclear]
Page 12
Wednesday 7-11-29
Rain. [unclear] at
Wentworth St usual
boycot.
Salvation army
Specal meeting.
International Collage
cadet. Coon not
singing. I was the only
Black man
& they spoke Blacks wer
as Savages & Inferior things
Filth in adoration
Lice in profueson
White man’s [Grandiosen?]
the Christian adolation
Page 13
Thursday 8-11-29
Burdet Rd a new
police man watchd
me, hiden & came to
me and told me I
was not allowed to
work in the market.
Wentworth St Jew’s
women said [unclear] to go
to his own country
& Baught off another
White man
Page 14
Friday 9-11-29
Caning Town market [Canning Town]
very [Strange?] the P.C
consulted a Serjent
& Left me alone.
as I was buying
my stock. this&
Jews said these
aliens aught to
be deported for
they come here to
do the white man
[unclear] of a living
Page 15
Saturday 10 11-29
[Lucerns?] Cresent, Hampsted.
Very [Dragey?]. Much Insolent
of the usual from half Bread
Jews & Irish. & Set children
for to bully me. 2 Women
offered one penny each at different
time, and I notice that an
P.C. came out of a shop, or from
behind a stall. I have
been wondering. the above
to move refered move.
And Women & men in a pub
where I went to get a drink of Beer
I was told to get to hell out of
England. that England go to
keep us & Civalised (took
me for an Indian and they
wer mostly Indian Soldiers.
& also a Tram conducter of the
No 5 Tram.
Page 16
Sunday 11-11-29
Seven dial Market
Rain. No Stalls of the Jews. No trade.
Mile End Waist.
Italian chesnut seller’s. There he
is the Black Bastard dowing a
white man.
Jews at MiddSex st the dog
aught to be well wased [washed?]. Come
here to do us out of a living.
I spoke to the Bed Booking
Clerk, to change my bed as it
is swamped with [unclear]
sleepers’ piss runing under
my bed, and wetting my bed
clothe’s & my cloths under the
bed. he said he would do
but paid no further notice
for the 5th time since June
he again dun me on the
weekley ticket (5d). Last 8d.
Page 17
Monday 12-11-29
Hasel St. Watney St. Wentworth St.
Mile End Waist. Light Rain
no sale.
Jew’s & Gentil’s united against
me. These arab’s aught
to be killed. I would only
there are so many
Black Bastard aught to
be washed.
274 Bed Piss for the last 3 nights
it run’s under my bed 264. & collects
at the head of the Bed 265. in
a pool, the floor is Soaked,&
Remains, no 251 Bed Piss
collect at the hed of my bed.
The smell of the Room is like
exhumed grave yard with the
addition of a piss [unclear] Pool
no amount of reporting does any
good.
Page 18
Tuesday 13-11-29
Wells market. The fish
stall, here he is. The
Black Bastard, aught to
be sent away to his
country. we got to keep
them. Women to crying
children not off him.
The Jews in petticot [Petticoat] Lane
a shopkeeper (Forigner)
you black Beast. you
are the dirt (pointing
to the ground. Your type
should be killed.
had no sleep. from drunken
noise & the smell of an
exhumed grave yard&
decomposed urinel
smell. As I am a Black
man I could not get
Lodging even in common
Page 19
Wednesday 14-11-29
Stratford Angel lane
& about.
Sevear boycot Black
Beast by women these
forigners come to our
country & rob us of
our bread.
Man go to your Country
you Black Bastard
you Indians should be
extermanated.
& the Jews you [unclear] [unclear]
Arab. I will kill you.
Wound’t serve me in
Fried Fish shop.
Salvation Bed Room
in drunken comotion
smells like exhumed
grave yard & a fermented
piss hole. no rest.
Page 20
Thursday 15-11-29
Chatsworth Rd [prob in Hackney]
Stall Butcher & girl almost
asulted me the [unclear] of
women & men Hostiel but
the boy’s & girl’s against
me they pelted soft [mitels?]
at me. all because I
am a black man.
I stood at the corners of
the street near the
Butcher’s stall.
This was braught about
by a Jew stall Toy
stall on the street
[unclear] of the same [unclear]
a Jews Wentworth st
go to your country Bk B.
Go to India and Coat Rica [Costa Rica]
You come here to do us etc.
Etc.
Page 21
Friday 16-11-29
Plaistoe [Plaistow]
market & Etc. as all over
England, Indians are
much hatted. and are
the only allien
especally by the Jews
The P.Cs Hunt all
Blacks as mad dogs
& twice so the Indians
on sight a black
man is gearead [jeered?]&
a every form of
Niggardly nature
adopted. he must
not realeat [retaliate]. all
most every man
has been Soljering
in India.
Page 22
Saturday 16-11-29
all day Rain. Stood in a
Sheltered way with a view
to Trade. But the moocher’s
arrived in number’s.
I closed up for they wer
making rain a good Ecuse
to beg of the passers, wearing
Servis Badges.
The moocher’s arrived arrived
latter at the Salvation army
Dining hall, drunk & flushed
with money Fighting&
cowerling amongest them
selves. Much the same
in the Large Bed room
No sleep or rest for me.
The Jew’s are good
marked by the moocher’s
of the E.C. & goes well.
Page 23
17-11-1929
Chalton St. St Pancras
much competion all round
me. The sold out early
P.C. keeping a Keen watch
on me. (Very Poor for me)
Wentworth Rd no good
Mile End waist did a littel
but did not take expences.
I was repetedly subjected
to much Insolent & boycot
started as usual by
the Jew’s stall holders.
at the arm
Salvation Army quarters
I was signeld [singeled] out for
by former Soldjes. abused
for being an Indians, or
an africans.
Page 24
Monday 18.11.29
about 5am I awok to find
white man (young) tuging
at my coat which was
over my head. I asked him
what is it. he answered
f--- you Bastard.&
when I jumped out of Bed&
told him he should not
go about calling me such
names. he denied. & another
white man as usual took his
part. (had I not awoke
he would have stolen my
coat. as it was. I found
my hat under my bed, not
between the mattres, where I
placed. & one day I lost my
Belt.
Fog. Wentworth Rd & about E.C. no good.
Page 25
Tuesday 19.11.29
In the Dining Hall while at Breakfast
the Staf & Irish Element roused
on me. I have been in your country
& if we spoke as you do if English
I would be shot. All becaus I
reffered to the Knife & Fork I get dirty
from the office on deposit of 2d
which wer unwased [unwashed].
Green St market. Wet. Stall Holders
Boycoting (would be buyers)
Charley White. Black Bastard, the
Indian whore, Arab should be
killed. Jews by Jew’s & Gentiels,
& Children following me & Booing
& Pelting. every Body amused.
I took a Buss, to escape.
about Mile end Wentworth St a Jew
Refered to me as Grand mufti
& that all Arab’s should be Killed.
Page 26
Wednesday 20.11.29
At Breakfast time I notice that
they wer preparing their [unclear] at up-
[unclear]. Green St Market&
about Mile end. Drisley Rain.
I was hooted out of Sheltering
by Jew’s & kept up by Gentiels
I was refused a drink at a
pub. & hounded out of a coffee
Stall & geared out of a
restaurant by Soldiers that
been in India. Where ever
these has been stationed I
am one of them. I am subject
every conceat of this cowardly
murderer’s who murder there
Benefactors while at prayer
& Slaughter women & Children
as taught by Christian
Church and State.
Page 27
Thursday 21-11-29
Crisp Street market [poss near Hammersmith]
But the Peopel wer not
hostiel But Insolent familarity
by passer’s by. Set moving
by Jew Shop & Stall Keeper’s
poor trade.
I was subjected to much
insolent from the Dinars
in an Italian kept
Restaurant. They wer as
usualy banded against the
Black. As taught by the
Church & State.
274 Bed as usual pissed his
bed & my hat was had fallen
out of my bed&
was Soaked. becaus I [Paid/Baid]
Saw. the Whole of the Room
hounded me.
Page 28
Friday 22.11.29
Green man. market (Barking) [Green Man pub in Leytonstone]
Very very Slow, much
Insolent From stall Holders
Jews. Italian Irish.
Snow Ball. Black Bastard
go to India some Arab
ought to be killed.
restaurant refused me food
referesment [refreshment] kept by an
Italian refused serve me
milk. becaus I was Black.
P.C. on duty kept a sharp
Watch & Hunted me from
place to place.
Coming Back. Irish Navvy
Blagarded me for becaus
I was an Indian. [Suez?]
cooley’s sure ca [Bulga?]
& other indian mode of cursing
of which I did not understand.
Page 29
Saturday 23.1.29
Rain. Drisley.
Watnet St market. much
hosiel jeering, & shiriking
by moocher’s & other
Loiterer’s. Irish
cursing me Becaus I was
selling toys. Becaus I
deffended my self
by word of mout[h].
a Blackman is not a
Sow Succeled [suckled] Bog ridden
[Cur?]. A woman stall
holder, & other women
ratted me, Black Sod,
you aught to be killed
fancy allowing these
Indians to come her[e] an
take our Bread.
Page 30
Sunday 24.11-29
Broadway st market
London Marsh.
Not too wet. Some
Butcher’s obje[c]ted to
my sheltering under
their waning [awning]. & other
warning’s on my arival
some niggardly remark
would be passed&
so I kept moving in the
wet. usual Hostiel
nature as every where
in England.
I called in at a pub
to get a drink of Beer
I was orderd out
at Yanchis chop house
at Aldgate. I was
Hounded by customers.
Page 31
Monday 25.1.29
Rain allmost all day.
Wentworth, Motegue
& about Mile end.
Moocher’s following
about when a purchaser
was about to buy a
Toy an Irish moocher
took his hat off & began
to tell a [tail?] of beg-
ing & the would be
purchaser hastly
went. The moocher
after him.
I lost my spectacal
having to leave the
the room in order for
to prepar the Room
for the Salvation meeting
which is held in the
[dining?] room.
Page 32
Tuesday 26-11-29
Drisley rain all day Got wet
going about Trying to sell Toys
Aldgate, Mile End, Drum Street [near Aldgate East]
The usual hord of Irish insolent
that a working on the Road’s & [unclear]
Railway delivery Van’s on sight of
me they Blagard me & rais their
hand acros there throat, pointing
to me. The passers are very
greatly amused. They are the X
soldjers of India.
Black Bastard is common
call out. In the Salvation Lodging all Becaus I am not white
or keep with their insolen[c]e
Page 33
Wednesday 27-11-29
Walsh st market. Fine day
Bad trad[e] 3 Whites surounding
me (Jews) & the women dare not
buy of a Blackman.
All day walking about Hakney
A Buss conducter refused me
getting in Because I am not White
again the same White cockney
hanger about the Streets called
out Black Bastard, another
white of his kind responded in
the maner as a joke ment to him
I was reading the newspaper to
look round to see who & why. For
I am the only Blackman. but
I said nothing. how long can I
put up with there undeser[ve]d
Insolenc.
Page 34
Thursday 28-11-29
Wet all day no Trade police
hunted me from sheltering
under the Hig[h] St Whitechapel
While Whites trading on the
pavement near by.
Now Nigar you get out or else
I put you where you want.
passers & the Trader’s very
pleased.
I went to Tidal Baisons, [poss Tidal Basins Rd in North Woolwich] where
I was told of a room
to let by a blackman.
I knocked, admited the man
was out (white women) not me.
I am coughing mor than
from contenualy sleeping
on piss soaked mattress
at the Salvation Army Lodging
The Irish & Jew Irish a picking
on me.
Page 35
Friday 29-11-29
Watney St Drisley & Rain
all day, Mile end, oposite
London Hospital. I was pelted
by a crowd of (6) young men
I tackeled one. He ran away
they expected me to follow
him up.
I heard 2 Police men young
say he is a snake, you
should be Killed, Black Bastard
would be 1/4 past 4.P.M.
Much Botheration from
Indian speaking Drunken
mootcher’s of the Irish
& Scotch Breed. at the
Salvation Armdy Lodgin
Page 36
Saturday 30/11/29
Roman Rd Wet between
poor trade no opposition
Jew’s wer given to shirikin
me. For an arab.
The other stall holders
suporting & the passer’s
ready to tare me to pices
P.C. Surleyly following
me up.
At the Salvation army
Lodging. The Irish
element as usual, using
me. for there ends.
From this section onwards, Fernando has started writing from the back of the book.
of Dominian Ruil [rule].
d in Africa, under
the Pretenc[e] of a Black Republic
using Soviet Rusia as a
Choping Block.
Page 37
has been sucesfully
furthered.
The Visit of Ramsy
MacDonald under
pretence peace, was
realey to explain the
British scheem of
Slaughtering Asiatics
& Subduing the Asiatic’s
in Sub Servile Slavery,
The British
Schum, Being recoganised
By the Amerecan’s as
the rest of Europe
England lost no time set
out her Slaughter
scheem. By Lord Irvine’s
Proclamation in India.
Page 38
(as England did & dowing India)
destroyed China for the
Jews Capatalist.
2nd England under the
pretence of Jew’s Home
England is using the
Zionist movement for
to distroy the Native of
Palastine & the Jews that
England Hold Near
Europe, an [Emunation?]
Dump to threaten Europe
& Slaughter Asia.
3rd England’s scheem’s
of “Slaughtering civalised
unarmed nations
Asia, England
through the so called
Legue of Nations.
British Nation’s
Page 39
Humanity England as a proved
jailear from pass experienc[e]
& doubel so now
The British schum in
so called Holy land
Mohmed [Mohamed] cleared Jew’s [unclear]
& all alien’s
Under the war of the Cross
[pretence?] Christian’s & Jews
wer permited to live.
Since the War of the British
incited war. 1914
England Promised their [Empire?]
if the[y] would turn against the
Turks & Save England from
a Concoring [conquering] Germany.
for saving England from
her deserving Fate.
1st England sold arms to
different nationals in China
& set one against the other
Page 40
would keep me in
better & cleaner food
for more than two days
if cooked by me.
The Salvation Army
refused to cook the food
I baught. (on payment)
they even refused to
Heat some milk for me
when I was ill with
a very bad cold.
So I had not the oportunity
to put by something
as in other winters.
So England’s cultivated
Hellish Scheeming will
have me at it desires.
(Blacks to be [run?] prepaired)
Nationaly. Or Indivenduly
for to escape from this
Enemy of Black’s, & Bloodsucer
Page 41
I have serched for a
littel place for my-
self (as in Watney St)
All round London as
far as hammarsmith
& Woolich. But failed
becaus I am Black.
The Door’s Wer Banged
when they saw my face.
So I am oblidged to stay
on at the Salvation Army
Social Hostel (as it is called)
But realy Drunked’s home
Scounderal’s Home&
Scamp’s Club.
The place is filthy&
very expenciv for the
food is cheap but not
nurishing. eating
out is expenciv what
I spent in one meal
Page 42
Motto of the King & Church
train & incite its followers
in cowardly crime & Plunder
the young are encoraged in
crime & collected off the
crimanel dock. For to
swell the army & Navey
& other assocerys of
murder & Plunder the Asia
& hum & beg for me[r]cey&
Protection, from ecqualy
armed nation’s.
And so duped Europe
readly stand’s aside from
Suffering Asiatics
pleading for Justice
And Europe itself readly
stand at the door step
of England. And Shiver
& Starve & Ready Snivel
at England’s bidding.
Page 43
Motto of the Salvation
Filth in adoration
Lice in profuison
Salvation armys adolation
The Salvation army
fleece the Rich in the
name of the poor.
In the name of the rich
Salvation army screw
down the poor&
Blagard the helpless poor.
Salvation army is
an unexhaustabel gold
mine for Generall Higgins
& his Scamps.
And curse to the poor
& the country.
Page 44
Salvation Army Common Lodging
is the drunkeds Harbour
Home of Scoundrels, Scamps Club
I have Serched all over London
for a room, even common
Loddgings refuse, becaus a
Blackman.
My Bed Stink as an unattended
urinel. And I have seen
& been sent on from one
to another. But beyond [promises?]
not even would they change
my bed. I am silly from the smell
I am subjected to British
Gun Boast from every one.
17/6/29 – 26/10/29
The food is not norishing
[unclear] cooked & served at the Bar
Servers pick out whom to
serve & white men 1st even
though I bee front on que.