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Given by Mrs S McCallum.

Transcript of diary kept by Katherine Way between 2 October 1887 and 26 February 1889. Katherine Way, daughter of Colonel G.A. Way, was just twelve when she began this diary. The diary contains the following descriptions: her journey to India; the railway journey to Benares; the stay at Clark’s Hotel, Benares in December 1888 and January 1889 and the sightseeing visits her family made; her impressions of the march during January and February 1889 between Benares and Saugor made in the company of her father’s regiment. Xerox of typescript. 12 pp.