Up at 7¹⁵ & worked around office –Took a walk up to the Post Office & to the Mindanao Hotel with the General after he had [illegible] at office to see Mr Easley & wife, the Goodyear Rubber people & Dr Ford & son the Princeton Professor & Mrs Wood from [illegible] to ask them to dinner at the Pershings. After lunch took a short nap & played polo in afternoon. I had to wait for Bowditch & the General because the meeting of the District Governors was on. Rode home in carriage after polo with the Pershings –The Bowditches called at night & I read afterwards –To bed 10³º
James Lawton Collins
(December 10, 1882 – June 30, 1963) Aide-de-camp of Gen. John J. Pershing in the Philippines the time the diary was written in 1913. Subsequently attained rank of Major General.
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