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J.L.M. Gorrie's Diary 1941 and Letters 1945 - 1955

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Contains handwritten personal weekly diary entries and letters from 1941 to 1955 of J.L.M Gorrie, to his family

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John Leslie Michael Gorrie (J.L.M. Gorrie or Mike Gorrie) was the Private Secretary to H.E. Governor Sir Franklin Gimson, Singapore from 1949 – 1951. This collection was donated by his wife, Joan Gorrie and his diary gives us a glimpse of the life of a government official that was involved in the day to day administration of Singapore, and also his first hand accounts of significant political transitions and events that took place in Singapore during the British administration period

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01/01/1941

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31/12/1955

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08/09/2023

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6 MONDAY
We caught the 9.54 from Lostwithiel and reached Plymouth by 11.5. ?Ben, Aunt ?Dot and Pamela arrived by car at the Clock Tower at 12.15, they had come from ?Hitherhigh. We lunched at Goodbody's and then spent the afternoon shopping. Richard exchanged a book token and I bought this diary. 
We had tea at Dingle's and parted at 4.30. Aunt ?Dot gave us 5/- each, ?Ben 2/6. It was awfully nice seeing them and exchanging news and talking over old times.
We caught the 5 o' çlock train from North Road Station, arrived about 6.15 & walked to St Winnow. Plymouth shows signs of bombing near the station but not in the centre of the town.

7 TUESDAY
Richard & I went down to the river. Nigel Chamberlain came to lunch. After lunch ?R & I went to Lostwithiel to the dentist, Mr Tindall, fortunately neither of us have anything to be done this time. Richard went back but I had an appointment with Dr Kellock at 3.30, about my eyes. he put some drops in my eyes and sent me for an hour's walk. At 5 he examined them again and wrote out a prescription for some reading glasses, which I am to have. More drops were put in my eyes to counteract the Belladonna. I walked home but of course was unable to read anything all evening.

8 WEDNESDAY
Ian & I cycled into Lostwithiel to shop and had some coffee and cakes in Brewers' Cafe. Then we went into every single sweet shop in the town in a vain search for chocolates or sweets.
Lunch was early as Mr Gendall went to Tywardreath to play bridge. We cleared the church of decorations and burnt them on the beach.

Before tea I played tow games of chess with Ian and won one and drew the other as we didn't bother to finish.

I took Richard, Ian, Leo to the Hicks, where we saw "The Jones Family in Hollywood", a funny short film, and "Frontier Marshall" starring Randolph Scott & Nancy Kelly. A very stirring drama of the Wild West in the last century!

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