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Papers of Canon Cecil Thomas Wood
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Cuddesdon, self-examination, Oxford, S. London curate - Kennington, holiday journal, preached at High Mass for first time, the Mont-Dores, collapse and discovery of Paratyphoid, tooth out, 71/2 weeks in nursing home, book-collecting - Joseph Conrad, decision to go to South Africa, made acquaintance of Solly Joel on board H.M.S. Armadale Castle, arrival at Cape Town, Rhodes Memorial, Bishopscourt, trips into Eastern Province.

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Hogs Back hydro and Amatola mountains, East London, Durban, aboard the Karapara, Lourenco Marques, Dar-es-Salaam, Zanzibar, Mombasa, Nairobi, on board Usuramo to Aden, Suez, Genoa, then to Milan, Paris, London, Canterbury - called at Bishopsbourne to see Conrad Memorial.

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Reflections on 1968, diary lapsed in late 1920s. Highlight of C.T.W.'s life was 1960. 1967 - consecration in Lisbon & visit to Madrid. 1968 Vicar-General for 5 months, Provincial Synod, in retreat, London, Oxford, quotations, Henley regatta, Isle of Wight, Ireland and impressions of Irish tour, back to South Africa.

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Notes on books, quotations, Africa in eclipse, his retirement, Port Elizabeth, and of residence at Bishopscourt, voyage to England, cricket at Lords, Cuddesdon Festival, Neville Ward - England today, conversation with Adam Fox, the South African way of life, trip to France and Britain, preached at St. Paul's, Oxford, back to South Africa on S.A. Vaal, to Jo'burg on new Blue Train, the opening of the C.P.S.A. room at Wits Library.

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