Hello Barb, This sounds like a fascinating read and a real gem of a find. In the future if you ever manage to transcribe it to the computer would you consider posting it in instalments to the list, I for one (and I'm sure many others) would love to read it. Best Wishes Jeremy Crawshaw (Temp. List Admin) Crookes SHEFFIELD ---------------------------------------------------- Outgoing Mail protected by: NORTON Internet Security 2004 Updated: 21st May 2005 ---------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barb Stevens" <genealogybarb@snet.net> To: <ENG-SHEFFIELD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 12:10 PM Subject: [SHEFF] my PHOENIX story One day, she handed me a little notebook, like a daily dairy that would fit in a man's shirt pocket, with the comment "This probably is just junk but I thought you should take a look at it since you get mad if I throw out anything without checking with you!" I almost fell off the chair when I looked at it because it was a diary of Walter's 6 month trip to Sheffield in, I believe, 1921. I couldn't figure out why he would leave his family for so long and then realized his wife had died in 1917 so he apparently took his youngest son and went "home" for awhile. > > This is an incredible account of who he saw, where he went, what he bought > and even how much he paid for things. The daily weather is even recorded, > including that of the trip over and back on the ship. It gave us a > wonderful picture of both the ship life and relatives in Sheffield at that > time. > > Barb Stevens