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Joan sitting
in front of 
the Richmond
Hotel, Portland
Sunday morning
Sept[ember] 26th. [1954]

Sept[ember] 26th. We had been, for a short
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time the previous evening at Noel
Learmouth's house, and while there 
had made arrangements to go out
the next day. Consequently the Learmouth's
collected us from the hotel at 10.30 and
we went out the Bridgewater road and
collected Cliff Beauglehole, then turned in
a track on the right, which was in
fact the old road from Portland to
Nelson. We were joined there by 
the Rawlson Thompsons, recently retired to
Portland and out for the day rather