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Letter from Samuel Norwood to Cyril Norwood, offering congratulations on his engagement to Catherine Margaret Kilner.

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Diary titled 'Diary of a Trip to Switzerland with Mr. R.A. Ellis of the Warren, Wanstead’.

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Untitled Diary. Entries occur between 26 June 1904 and 31 Dec 1906, and cover Samuel Norwood’s life in London with the Hoborough family, and their and his emigration to Canada with the assistance of the Salvation Army, and his employment by that organisation. The volume is a re-used 1884 Letts’s Diary with some preliminary pages torn out.

Scope and Contents Entries cover Samuel Norwood's life in Canada doing work for the Salvation Army and his persistent but unsuccessful attempts to find employment as a teacher, and continued contacts with the Hoborough family. There is a gap from 13 August to 15 September, during which time he returned to England, and on 16 September took lodgings in Lower Clapton, London, where he continued working for the Salvation Army. There are contacts with Cyril throughout the year (for example, they met on 22...