Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare Scan: 090 Volume 4: September 1915 (Kent) - January 1916 (Westminster Hospital)
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1916 January 4
Page has hand sketch, perhaps with charcoal, shaded, unlike her other
sketches. Sketch shows the skyline of London: Big Ben, Abbey, Parliament Tower
and all their billowing smokestacks. The page also has deliberate ink-blots
to illustrate the text, about the size of the ash landing in her room.
"The above is a faithful and true representation of the view from my window
at 27 Queen's Gate." Mostly chimneys pouring soot in her window.
Can't keep anything on dresser, soot like regular snowfall.
"Bits this size" (6mm inkblot) "and this size" (4x6mm inkblot) "are quite
common while bits like this" (4mm blot) "may be seen anywhere, and ones like
this" (scattering of many 2mm and 3mm blots, dozens of 1mm in a splatter) "are omnipresent and all-pervading".
Still, almost fond, will miss.
Diaries of Ethel Eva Brander, nee Conybeare Scan: 090 Volume 4: September 1915 (Kent) - January 1916 (Westminster Hospital)