{"id":2378,"date":"2015-12-16T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2015-12-16T16:06:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T16:06:01","slug":"christmas-in-uganda-1922-the-carpenter-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/2015\/12\/16\/christmas-in-uganda-1922-the-carpenter-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in Uganda 1922: The Carpenter Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Archives team is looking forward to Christmas and what better way to celebrate than to look at a few of our festive collections. Below are four extracts from the Carpenter travel diary, documenting Geoffrey and Amy Carpenter\u2019s Christmas spent in Uganda in 1922.<\/p>\n<p>But first who were the Carpenter\u2019s? Geoffrey Hale Carpenter was a student at the School in 1910, he became the specialist officer for the control of sleeping sickness in Uganda in 1920. This diary was written jointly by Carpenter and his wife Amy Frances. As well as diary entries documenting their day to day activities, there are photos, pressed flowers, press cuttings, concert programmes and their wedding invitation. The diary gives a good insight into the life of a scientist working in Africa and the experiences he and his wife had while travelling to different regions, attending events such as dances and cricket matches with the colonial community at Entebbe and the various illnesses they contracted while abroad. Their entries for Christmas suggest a relaxing break and provide a little insight into the Carpenter\u2019s relationship.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2380\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2015\/12\/20151214_145552.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2380\" class=\"wp-image-2380 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2015\/12\/20151214_145552-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"20151214_145552\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2015\/12\/20151214_145552-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2015\/12\/20151214_145552-1024x627.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carpenter Diary at Christmas, 1922<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>December 23rd<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Geoffrey<\/em>: Our dance at the club.<\/p>\n<p>We had a busy day preparing \u2013 P (Geoffrey\u2019s name for his wife) with help from Mrs Neill, Mrs Lyall, Mrs Griffin and the hospital cook did the food. Mrs Duke and Miss Richardson (I won\u2019t call her Hope) and Mrs Neill helped decorate and arrange room while I did the greenery and garlands which P got at Kampala. I got lamps from C and made a bandstand on the grass below the balcony for the K.A.R.<\/p>\n<p><em>Amy<\/em>: In the evening, we arranged the supper, dealt out the crackers. Geoff and I had a hurried dinner and went down to the club, I was later than G and only just arrived before the first guests!<\/p>\n<p>We had an extra to start, but no supper extras. We had a definite interval and the band had refreshments too.<\/p>\n<p>We thoroughly enjoyed the evening and everyone else seemed to as well, and they said very nice things about the dance \u2013 we had great difficulty in getting people away at 10 o\u2019clock.<\/p>\n<p><em>Geoffrey<\/em>: My love was not overtired as everything had worked smoothly. She wore her apricot frock, I my black coat with silk revers! (moth eaten!!!!)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>December 24th<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2381\" style=\"width: 242px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2015\/12\/20151214_155704.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2381\" class=\"wp-image-2381 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2015\/12\/20151214_155704-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"20151214_155704\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2015\/12\/20151214_155704-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2015\/12\/20151214_155704-790x1024.jpg 790w, https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/files\/2015\/12\/20151214_155704.jpg 1760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amy and Geoffrey Carpenter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Amy<\/em>: We went down to the club to clear everything up, and found nothing had been broken. Mrs Neil came to help. We returned all the borrowed spoons and forks etc.<\/p>\n<p><em>Geoffrey<\/em> (the point of this remark is that we might not have done this until later! As any ass would know)<\/p>\n<p><em>Amy<\/em>: Yes but there are not any asses here to read this!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christmas Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Geoffrey<\/em>: We went to Church at 8 and 10.30. That evening we dined with the Grays, Whittles, Mr Turton, Mr Hayden and Capt. Walters. I won a box of chocolates.<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon we read our mail, which we had had since the 23rd.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>December 26th<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Amy<\/em>: Dined at the Neill\u2019s, also the C.J\u2019s, Mrs Griffin, Montgomery\u2019s and Dr Aders of Zanzibar who was with the M\u2019s, Braggs. Rather a hot dinner party!\u00a0Turkey from East Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas to all from the Archives Team!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archives team is looking forward to Christmas and what better way to celebrate than&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":480,"featured_media":2381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27649],"tags":[52816,44779,52813,42675,52814,52817,14017,52815],"class_list":["post-2378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","tag-amy-frances-carpenter","tag-archives","tag-carpenter","tag-christmas","tag-diary","tag-geoffrey-hale-carpenter","tag-lshtm","tag-sleeping-sickness","odd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Christmas in Uganda 1922: The Carpenter Diary - Library, Archive &amp; 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