Our great-grandmother was an amazing woman. And here, one hundred years later, we have her diary.
Take a trip to the past through the eyes of a teen-age girl, and marvel at how the world has changed -
and the many ways it has not.

Friday, July 27, 2012

July 27, 1912 - Saturday

27 Well, my starting-off day has at last arriven, so to speak I am bursting with pure joy. Was too late to go to breakfast but at about 10 Muz called up and made me go after all. Later - We had a comfortable ride to N.L. and took a taxi to the house. When we got there we found that Miss Clarke could not give us a room after all and we had to engage one across the road with a Mrs. Corbly. We will take our meals with Miss Clarke, though. New London is a gayer and more cheer-place than we imagined it. Muz and I walked down to the beach tonight after supper and it was a dandy one! I shall enjoy bathing there, I bet! We are going to go in bathing tomorrow at about ten. Chrissy behaved like the angel bird he is, on the way down here, and I certainly was relieved. I shall begin a new page for my stay here so shall write no more here.






The postcard above may be of the area where Marjorie and her mother visited. This postcard was not posted in the diary however I located it online and found that it was post-marked 4 days after this diary entry. So, whoever wrote it, may have run into Marjorie! The postcard is for sale and can be found on the following website:

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