Identity area
Reference code
Harman/I/31
Unique identifier
GB 275 Harman/I/31
Title
To his father
Date(s)
- 28 Jan. 1901 (Creation)
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Context area
Name of creator
(1869-1945)
Repository
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
SS Catalonia, Colombo. They expect to sail tomorrow. Visits to the Simpsons. A visit from the Governor of Ceylon, Sir Joseph West Ridgeway, who promised him an introduction to Lord Kitchener's ADC. A trip to Colombo's crowded native quarter, the market, and to the Atlantian, 'a monster transport retained here as a Boer prisoner hospital ship'. Drinking the health of the new king: 'I had a bad headache that afternoon.' A trip to Ragama where the foreigners taken prisoner fighting for the Boers were held: 'I don't think that ever before Prisoners of War have been so well and generously catered for.'