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Photocopy of diary. Summer 1914. Toured with a delegation of 7 Young Friends to visit all sections of the American Society of Friends. Known as 'Babe' because she was the youngest of the team. War was declared in Europe while she was in Pennsylvania. Came home to pack her things for the return trip to Australia. [Left Liverpool on 18th June and returned to England in September 1914]

1 photocopy of diary, plus 1 hand-illustrated quarter-bound leather album of black and white photographs and colour postcards

1 typescript document of 2 MST diaries (A1 and A2). Transcribed c1989 by Belinda Marsden-Smedley, who also added some dates and notes (as Margaret didn't include many dates) to enable correlation with events reported elsewhere.
Includes regret at not being able to join in the dancing (pages 3 and 5) on the voyage; her plan to to work with women in India in 5 or 6 years 'to try to show them the meaning of love' (p7); letter from Francis Mather & Mr Gower asking Mr Thorp to substitute at the Friends School for 7 months (p9); brief preliminary visit to Hobart (p14); arrival in Hobart (p27) and concern at boys attending military drill; met Captain Amundsen who signed her autograph book (p30.