Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 195
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[Page 195]
Another – the works of St Augustine dated 1541 - Both well printed, clearly printed, thick large volumes - St. T. Aq had big clasps - Fancy wading thro this old Labrinth especially that of St.Thomas Aq - It was strike>hard easy to read but how boring - Augustine would have a lot of history for he lived when Alaric sacked Rome & talked to fugitive patricians & plebs & has put on record the history of that frightful period -
I saw his garden & promised to send him some terra cotta colored Bougainvilleas - I advised him to mass his Poincettias & get a big color scheme this way - Also Amaranthus - Both must do splendidly in this hot moist clime - I then saw the College the fathers have built & their church – the only freestone building in Suva - They had to import the stone from Sydney - Much of it is still wood but gradually, as funds accumulate stone will replace the wood -