Journal of Tennent's ocean trip to the west coast during summer of 1932, an itinerary that routed her from New Orleans, Louisiana, to San Francisco, California, by way of the Panama Canal; Tennent comments on her fellow passengers, impressions of the cities and landscapes encountered; entertainments and diversions; and other topics. Notable entries include: 23 July 1932, "The captain looks unbending. We've been introduced to him but I have a sneaking suspicion that nothing will come of it. Not that I care particularly to eat at his table."; 24 July, "I'm gradually getting acquainted with the exteriors of the passengers - and spend much time conjecturing what their previous condition of servitude has been! There are four catholic priests on board, only one of them the least bit human looking."; 25 July 1932, "The ship's director moved us into the lounge there to await the arrival of the quarantine delegation from the shore. The ship runs up the yellow flag which is removed only after the inspection by shore authorities. We are sailing a Cuban flag too out of courtesy." Entry, 26 July 1932, "The water remains that extraordinary blue and I never grow weary of looking at it. There's little else to do, for none of the passengers inspire me to want to talk to them... One of Duke's summer school students is on board and she clings to us with a death like grip. She may interest Duke so I don't turn a cold shoulder, tho I'd often like to. She's an egoist of the deepest dye and ignorant to boot."; 28 July 1932, "Tomorrow... we transfer to the Santa Ara, Grace Fire... I shall welcome the change chiefly because we'll leave Miss T. behind. She's a summer student of Duke's and never gives us a moment's rest. I'd like to wring her egotistical neck!" Entry, 30 July, 1932, "Up early to watch the banana barges, some four or six of them loading bananas into the Cefalu's hold... The men are half naked and expose marvelous bronzed muscles"; 7 Aug. 1932, "Leaving San Jose's on Friday night, we have followed the coast line two days, scarcely ever getting far away from the volcanic range with its lonely symmetrical peaks. Once we saw a halo of light around a volcano at night-some of them are more or less active all the time."; 10 Aug. 1932, "Mexican peddlers loaded with alligator belts, sandals, etc-spent hours on deck vending their wares. Everybody except myself had a pair of sandals when they left!" Travels in California include accounts of Marin County, Standford and Palo Alto, and a theatre in Chinatown in San Francisco, and elsewhere; entry, [26 Aug.], 1932, "My last day in S[an] F[rancisco] was spent in hurried packing, shopping... lunch at one of the big department stores, seeing Will Rogers in "Down to Earth," a hasty dinner and dash to the ferry for the eight o'clock train and so - here I am getting ready for bed and missing Duke like the devil. Not even the feeling that there are still worlds to conquer in Canada consoles me. I feel utterly and terribly alone. My last glimpse of S.F. crossing in the ferry was the one I like best. When shall I see it again!" Final pages consist of notes (typescript and handwritten) re literary of religious works; long passages quoted from published works of fiction and non-fiction, and obiturary of T.E. Lawrence (i.e. "Lawrence of Arabia") published, 22 May 1935, in the Greensboro, N.C., Daily News.
