{"id":38770,"date":"2024-02-15T12:26:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T12:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wcia.org.uk\/?p=38770"},"modified":"2024-02-15T12:26:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T12:26:07","slug":"week-1-of-anniesdiary100-2-11-february-1924-london-liverpool-the-transatlantic-voyage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cymru.global\/cy\/rhyfel-a-gwrthdaro-cy\/week-1-of-anniesdiary100-2-11-february-1924-london-liverpool-the-transatlantic-voyage\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1 of #AnniesDiary100, 2-11 February 1924: London, Liverpool &#038; the Transatlantic Voyage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"tb-button\" data-toolset-blocks-button=\"2a0c028ae8a279804910ae9510d2e2bb\"><a class=\"tb-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/cymru.global\/cy\/anniesdiary100\/\"><i class=\"tb-button__icon\"><\/i><span class=\"tb-button__content\">AnniesDiary100 Home<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cymru.global\/academiheddwch\/womens-centenary-timeline\/\">Link here to view Timeline<\/a> of key dates from the American Peace Tour as recorded through <a href=\"https:\/\/cymru.global\/peacepetition-annies-diary\/\">&#8216;Annie&#8217;s Diary&#8217;<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<p>Let&#8217;s start retracing the steps of Wales&#8217; #WomensPeacePetition America Tour of 1924, looking baxk &#8216;#OTD&#8217; from 2024! <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AnniesDiary100?f=live\">On Twitter<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/anniesdiary100\">On Facebook<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/cymru.global\/peacepetition-annies-diary\/\">About &#8216;Annie&#8217;s Diary&#8217;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/cymru.global\/academiheddwch\/peacepetition\/\">Centenary Homepage<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OTD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OTD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OnThisDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OnThisDay<\/a> 2 Feb 1924 a \u2018great Welsh sendoff\u2019 gathered @ London <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Euston?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Euston<\/a> as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WomensPeacePetition?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WomensPeacePetition<\/a> steamed off 4 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/America?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#America<\/a>, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/peacemaker?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#peacemaker<\/a> Annie Hughes Griffiths: conveying hopes &amp; dreams of 390,296 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Welsh?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Welsh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/women?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#women<\/a> for \u2018the proud <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/heritage?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#heritage<\/a> of a warless world\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AnniesDiary100?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AnniesDiary100<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TheW3ujLcP\">pic.twitter.com\/TheW3ujLcP<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Cymru Global (@WCIA_Wales) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCIA_Wales\/status\/1753120861492580397?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><div class=\"container\">\n<li>1 &amp; 4 &#8211; WLNU Press Clippings scrapbook in Welsh League of Nations Union (WLNU) Archives, National Library of Wales<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<li>2 &#8211; Annies Diary, pages 4-7, National Library of Wales &#8211; from TI Ellis Papers (digitised on PCW)<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<li>3 &#8211; Contemporary postcard of London Euston station, labelled LNWR, which in the 1923 &#8216;Railways Grouping&#8217; transferred from to LMS operation. The <em>London &amp; North Western Railway<\/em> and smaller companies were absorbed into the much bigger <em>London &amp; Midland &amp; Scottish Railways<\/em>, as post-WW1 government consolidated hundreds of local companies to create &#8216;The Big 4&#8217; (LMS, LNER, GWR and Southern Railway). <\/li>\n<\/div><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cReporters were taking notes\u2026 &amp; photos. Mr. Goronwy Owen (MP) spoke on the \u2018Gesture\u2019 between <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wales?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Wales<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/America?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#America<\/a>, wishing us Godspeed. We got aboard the train, said good-bye to all\u2026 &amp; steamed out of the station, loaded with good wishes.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AnniesDiary100?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AnniesDiary100<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qg5Pr6dYMA\">https:\/\/t.co\/qg5Pr6dYMA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P3HwJFwWtC\">pic.twitter.com\/P3HwJFwWtC<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Cymru Global (@WCIA_Wales) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCIA_Wales\/status\/1753125793545195678?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><div class=\"container\">\n<li>1 &#8211; Annies Diary, pages 4-7 (digitised on PCW), National Library of Wales &#8211; TI Ellis Papers (digitised on PCW)<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<li>2 &#8211; Annie Hughes Griffiths with friends at Aberystwyth railway station, 1911-12 &#8211; TI Ellis Papers (digitised on PCW)<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<li>3 &#8211; Euston station, 1920s Aerial view <\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<li>4 &#8211; WLNU Press Clippings scrapbook in Welsh League of Nations Union (WLNU) Archives, National Library of Wales.<\/li>\n<\/div><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Correction &#8211; 2 Feb *1924* &#8211; 100 years ago this afternoon.<\/p>&mdash; Cymru Global (@WCIA_Wales) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCIA_Wales\/status\/1753428544795889734?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><div class=\"container\">\n<li>1 &#8211; White Star Line 1920s postcard, Temple of Peace Archives (digitised on PCW here); <\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<li>2 &#8211; &#8216;Great Oak Chest&#8217; designed by JA Hallam to hold the 1923 Welsh Women&#8217;s Peace Petition &#8211; wood cut from 1924-5 Annual Report of the Welsh League of Nations Union &#8211; WLNU Archives, National Library of Wales (digitised on PCW).  <\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<li>3 &#8211; Annies Diary, pages 4-7 (digitised on PCW), National Library of Wales &#8211; TI Ellis Papers (digitised on PCW)<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<li>4 &#8211; from WLNU Press Clippings scrapbook in Welsh League of Nations Union (WLNU) Archives, National Library of Wales.<\/li>\n<\/div><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Press?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Press<\/a> coverage of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WomensPeacePetition?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WomensPeacePetition<\/a> sendoff reveals a remarkable moment as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Welsh?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Welsh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/singing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#singing<\/a> brought <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Liverpool?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Liverpool<\/a> to a stand: &quot;Everybody on the boat and quays stood still, thrilled with such singing as can be seldom, if ever, have been heard from the deck of an Atlantic liner.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ax9bW8Eync\">pic.twitter.com\/ax9bW8Eync<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Cymru Global (@WCIA_Wales) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCIA_Wales\/status\/1753425097086415288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<p>Images &#8211; from WLNU Press Clippings scrapbook in Welsh League of Nations Union (WLNU) Archives, National Library of Wales.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Transatlantic Voyage<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AnniesDiary100?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AnniesDiary100<\/a> 3rd Feb their steamer called at Queenstown &#8211; now <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cobh?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cobh<\/a> &#8211; then \u201cthe coast of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ireland?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ireland<\/a> disappears from sight as I write&#8230;\u201d Their <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/transatlantic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#transatlantic<\/a> voyage on RMS Cedric, 1 of the \u2018Big 4\u2019 White Star Liners (cousin to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Titanic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Titanic<\/a>), will take 8 days. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E2zUu5C0gU\">https:\/\/t.co\/E2zUu5C0gU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Cymru Global (@WCIA_Wales) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCIA_Wales\/status\/1753734413555261467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<p>Images: <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><div class=\"container\">\n<li>1 &#8211; White Star Line 1920s postcard, Temple of Peace Archives (digitised on PCW here); <\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<li>2-3 &#8211; Annies Diary, pages 4-7 (digitised on PCW here), National Library of Wales &#8211; TI Ellis Papers<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<li>4 &#8211; Cover of book by Mark Chirnside &#8220;The Big Four of the White Star Fleet&#8221; (2016, The History Press) &#8211; available from online retailers and <a href=\"https:\/\/markchirnside.co.uk\/the-big-four\/\">authors website<\/a>. Contains fascinating images and comprehensive history of &#8216;RMS Cedric&#8217;, the ship on which Annie and the women&#8217;s peace delegation travelled.  <\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<li><\/li>\n<\/div><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Transatlantic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Transatlantic<\/a> voyage from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/twenties?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#twenties<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AnniesDiary100?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AnniesDiary100<\/a> (pp6-8) records lows &amp; highs of \u2018life on ship\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OTD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OTD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OnThisDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OnThisDay<\/a> Feb 1924. For whole week, 2-11 Feb, Wales\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WomensPeacePetition?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WomensPeacePetition<\/a> leaders slowly steamed across an icy Atlantic towards New York, on White Star Line\u2019s RMS <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cedric?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cedric<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ROeKrCfFOy\">pic.twitter.com\/ROeKrCfFOy<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Cymru Global (@WCIA_Wales) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCIA_Wales\/status\/1755566886794719414?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><div class=\"container\">\n<li>1 &#8211; 1920s Cigarette card of the RMS Cedric at sea crossing the Atlantic. Wikimedia Commons <\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<li>2-3 &#8211; Annies Diary, pages 4-7 (digitised on PCW here), National Library of Wales &#8211; TI Ellis Papers<\/li>\n<\/div><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Eluned to Mam <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OTD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OTD<\/a> Feb 1924: &quot;I have whole of cabin 3, Mrs G &amp; Mrs Thomas have no. 4 &amp; Miss Carver, a nurse (from Llandudno) no. 5, so we are quite a party on that little corridor. We have a small table in the dining-room too; it\u2019s quite jolly.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WomensPeacePetition?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WomensPeacePetition<\/a> 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/America?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#America<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eB15SAbCPE\">pic.twitter.com\/eB15SAbCPE<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Cymru Global (@WCIA_Wales) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCIA_Wales\/status\/1755654000752328749?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<p><strong>Images<\/strong> &#8211; with deepest thanks to family of Elined Prys Kotschnig, who have given permission to Heddwch Nain helpers in America to transcribe and share her letters from the Womens Peace Petition Tour of America in 1924. Thanks also to Eirlys Barker and colleagues who have been transcribing Elined&#8217;s letters to bring her story to a wider audience in the US and Wales (upcoming articles will be published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ninnau.com\/index.html\">&#8216;Ninnau&#8217;<\/a>, the North American Welsh newspaper &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ninnau.com\/\">subscribe here<\/a>)   <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">By 10th Feb tho: &quot;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sunday?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Sunday<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/service?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#service<\/a> in 1st class saloon. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LeilaMegane?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LeilaMegane<\/a> sang &quot;O Fryniau Caersalem&quot; solo, &amp; a few of us sang over again as a chorus. A gentleman asked us if we were a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Welsh?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Welsh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/choir?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#choir<\/a> on tour in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/States?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#States<\/a>\u2026 v tickled as our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/singing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#singing<\/a> was truly atrocious!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AnniesDiary100?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AnniesDiary100<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6yShg8dlWr\">pic.twitter.com\/6yShg8dlWr<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Cymru Global (@WCIA_Wales) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCIA_Wales\/status\/1755573523366416892?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><div class=\"container\">\n<li>1 &#8211; Annies Diary, pages 4-7 (digitised on PCW here), National Library of Wales &#8211; TI Ellis Papers<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<li>2 &#8211; Lyrics to &#8216;Y Fryniau Caersalem&#8217; &#8211; visit<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<li>3 &#8211; Sample of music to &#8216;Y Fryniau Caersalem&#8217; &#8211; visit<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<li>4 &#8211; 1920s Cigarette card of the RMS Cedric at sea crossing the Atlantic. Wikimedia Commons<\/li>\n<\/div><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Little did Annie know at time of writing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AnniesDiary?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AnniesDiary<\/a> aboard boat 2 US (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OTD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OTD<\/a> 100 yrs ago), that in 2 months she would be walking <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Opera?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Opera<\/a> star <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LeilaMegane?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LeilaMegane<\/a> down the aisle 4 her <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/wedding?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#wedding<\/a> to Osborne Roberts, in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NewYork?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NewYork<\/a>. Here&#39;s a sneak preview of March 1924&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Women?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Women<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Peace?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Peace<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/History?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#History<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y0LmhCRa3s\">pic.twitter.com\/Y0LmhCRa3s<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Cymru Global (@WCIA_Wales) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCIA_Wales\/status\/1755638710094196972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><div class=\"container\">\n<li>1 &#8211; Portrait of Leila Megane &#8211; Wikimedia Commons<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<li>2 &#8211; Lyrics to &#8216;Y Fryniau Caersalem&#8217; &#8211; visit<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<li>3 &#8211; Archive image of RMS Cedric at sea in 1920s<\/li>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<li>4 &#8211; Archive photo from wedding of Leila Megane and Osborne Roberts in New York, March 1924 &#8211; National Library of Wales, TI Ellis Papers<\/li>\n<\/div><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"cy\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DyddiadurAnnie100?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DyddiadurAnnie100<\/a>: Ychydig a wyddai Annie ar y pryd y byddai, ymhen deufis, yn hebrwng <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LeilaMegane?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LeilaMegane<\/a> yn ei phriodas ei hun ag Osborne Roberts &#8211; Yn Efrog Newydd, Mawrth 1924 (llun <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LLGCymru?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LLGCymru<\/a>, Papurau TI Ellis). O <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bywgraffiadur?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Bywgraffiadur<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I6DWi5rdTT\">https:\/\/t.co\/I6DWi5rdTT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Um32cWVMq2\">https:\/\/t.co\/Um32cWVMq2<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Cymru Global (@WCIA_Wales) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCIA_Wales\/status\/1755676581526175757?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image credits as above. Tweet links to <a href=\"https:\/\/biography.wales\/article\/s2-HUGH-MAR-1891\">Leila Megane&#8217;s Welsh Biography<\/a>; there is also an interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/historypoints.org\/index.php?page=former-home-of-singer-leila-megane-caernarfon\">History Points feature on Leila Megane and Osborne Roberts<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Eluned&#8217;s Letters aboard the RMS Cedric<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<p>Academi Heddwch and WCIA are grateful to Dr Eirlys Barker and colleagues through Heddwch Nain\/ Mam-gu UD (USA), who have been graciously given access to Elined Prys\u2019 letters by her family and are currently transcribing them. Eluned wrote to her mother from the Cedric and these letters add to what we know from Annie Hughes Griffiths\u2019 diary. She started to write home to Aberystwyth on February 2, 1924, and this first letter is an account of getting on board and settling down in their cabins.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<p><em>\u201cI have a four-berth cabin to myself! It\u2019s one that\u2019s used for 1<sup>st<\/sup> class passengers when the boat is full too, but it\u2019s pretty empty at this time of year. There\u2019s a long corridor like this,<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"603\" height=\"155\" src=\"https:\/\/cymru.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/EP-sketch.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cymru.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/EP-sketch.png 603w, https:\/\/cymru.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/EP-sketch-600x155.png 600w, https:\/\/cymru.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/EP-sketch-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/cymru.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/EP-sketch-4x1.png 4w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<p><em>&amp; little corridors running out, each with 3 cabins on either side. In the above I have the whole of no 3, Mrs. G. &amp; Mrs. Melhuish Thomas have no. 4 &amp; a Miss Carver, a trained nurse, who is a friend of Mrs. G.\u2019s has no. 5, so we are quite a family party on that little corridor. We have a small table in the dining-room for the four of us, too; it\u2019s quite jolly. The boat is very steady, &amp; we all feel all right &amp; have eaten a good dinner, so I hope it will continue this way<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<p>A fascinating detail from one of Eluned&#8217;s letters to Mam:<em>&#8220;We are five hours behind you now, remember.&nbsp; It\u2019s been most confusing to lose 28 or 38 or 40 minutes every night &amp; never know just how much your watch is fast in the morning.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<p><em>\u201cMrs. Griffiths is terribly impressed with our responsibility, &amp; I read a good bit of the Life of Henry Richard, which I got from the library there, while at Bala, &amp; I was very thrilled with it, &amp; began to feel \u201cin the succession\u201d a little bit \u2013 and a great succession it is too. . .. I understand the mission &amp; \u201cwe\u201d are to be prayed for in the churches on Sunday. I\u2019m so glad, because people have spoken so much of the \u201cnice trip\u201d, as though that were all we were going for.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Leila Megane is on this boat (1<sup>st<\/sup> class though) as this morning at the service she sang \u201cO Fryniau Caersalem\u201d, &amp; we and two or three other Welsh people on board formed a sort of choir &amp; sang the last verse with her. She is a member at Charing Cross it seems, so Mrs. Griffiths knows her very well. Last night she sang, (for the benefit of the 1<sup>st<\/sup> class only of course!) but we could hear from our cabins &amp; it did so remind me of our gramophone records at one point!<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<p>As the voyage neared the American seaboard, Eluned <em>\u201cThank goodness we\u2019re nearly there! I\u2019ve been in bed nearly the whole time, I am about tired of it.&nbsp; All was well as far as Queenstown, but when we got into the Atlantic \u2013 oh dear me!\u201d <\/em>Both Elined and Annie were very sick, but luckily, the nurse, Beatrice Alice Carver, from Llandudno and Gladys Thomas were able to take care of them. Gladys came from a Liverpool Welsh family and married a London-Welsh cousin who was a ship builder &#8211; so perhaps she inherited sea legs from her family. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<p>Letters courtesy of the <strong>Kotschnig family<\/strong>, many of whose previous papers are held at <a href=\"https:\/\/archives.albany.edu\/description\/catalog\/ger053\">Walter Kotschnig&#8217;s Archives, University of Albany<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Next Postings: Arrival in New York Harbour, 11 Feb 1924 <\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"tb-button\" data-toolset-blocks-button=\"2a0c028ae8a279804910ae9510d2e2bb\"><a class=\"tb-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/cymru.global\/cy\/anniesdiary100\/\"><i class=\"tb-button__icon\"><\/i><span class=\"tb-button__content\">AnniesDiary100 Home<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link here to view Timeline of key dates from the American Peace Tour as recorded through &#8216;Annie&#8217;s Diary&#8217;. Let&#8217;s start retracing the steps of Wales&#8217; #WomensPeacePetition America Tour of 1924, looking baxk &#8216;#OTD&#8217; from 2024! Images &#8211; from WLNU Press Clippings scrapbook in Welsh League of Nations Union (WLNU) Archives, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"iawp_total_views":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123,1252,616,1241],"tags":[1125,1251,1161],"class_list":["post-38770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academi-heddwch-cymru-cy","category-international-exchange-cy","category-rhyfel-a-gwrthdaro-cy","category-wcia-history-cy","tag-peace-cy","tag-wales-cy-2","tag-women-cy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Week 1 of #AnniesDiary100, 2-11 February 1924: London, Liverpool &amp; the Transatlantic Voyage - Cymru Global<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"cy_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Week 1 of #AnniesDiary100, 2-11 February 1924: London, Liverpool &amp; the Transatlantic Voyage - Cymru Global\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Link here to view Timeline of key dates from the American Peace Tour as recorded through &#8216;Annie&#8217;s Diary&#8217;. 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