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  • Ed is coming home
  • Marriage; Man-woman relationship
  • Joie keeps her husband fully informed about their neighbour who has a husband in New York and is left in Jamaica to cope with two small children. Joie feels sorry for her, but Sam less so as he notices the regular visits to their neighbour of a man...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Ed is coming home
  • Marriage ; Man-woman relationships
  • Joie keeps her husband fully informed about their neighbour who has a husband in New York and is left in Jamaica to cope with two small children. Joie feels sorry for her, but Sam less so as he notices the regular visits next door of a man in a...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Dudley J. Thompson- Book Launch (Copy 3)
  • Books-Marketing; Authors, Jamaican; Thompson, Dudley J.
  • Another version of the overview of Dudley Thompson's book, which looks at significant contributors to black history. It also gives an insight into what motivated him to write this book. This version also has handwritten annotations.
  • Dudley Thompson Collection
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  • Dudley J. Thompson - Book Launch (Copy 4)
  • Books-Marketing; Authors, Jamaican; Thompson, Dudley J.
  • Another version of the overview of Dudley Thompson's book, which looks at significant contributors to black history. It also gives an insight into what motivated him to write this book. This version has handwritten annotations.
  • Dudley Thompson Collection
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  • Dudley J. Thompson - Book Launch
  • Books-Marketing; Authors, Jamaican; Thompson, Dudley J.
  • A draft overview of Dudley Thompson's book, which looks at significant contributors to black history. It also gives an insight into what motivated him to write this book.
  • Dudley Thompson Collection
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  • Dateline, London..A talk, BBC broadcast
  • Immigrants - Great Britain ; London (England) - Social conditions
  • The author presents his own perception of London, a city of contrasts where he saw so many things he had only read about. Recently arrived from Jamaica, he found the British helpful and courteous, and his encounter with people of so many different...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Dateline London
  • Immigrants - Great Britain ; London (England) - Social conditions
  • The author presents his own perception of London, a city of contrasts where he saw so many things he had only read about. Recently arrived from Jamaica, he found the British helpful and courteous, and his encounter with people of so many different...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Buddies
  • Love stories ; Jealousy ; Violence
  • Aston and Rufus were friends until the day they quarreled over Silvie, Aston’s girl. He felt that Rufus was being too friendly with her and so in a jealous rage Aston attacked his friend. Rufus was prepared to continue the fight until, battered and...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Brother you are sunk
  • Philosophy ; Life
  • “Happiness is action, not thinking”, the man at the bus stop tells him and so the author sets out to prove this. In the end, after several attempts at doing, rather than thinking, he is not sure of the truth of the saying.
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • And one
  • Philosophy ; Love stories
  • 1,461 persons perished aboard the torpedoed vessel, and the odd figure of one makes the protagonist ponder the meaning of life as “…The vastness of the heavens and its stars made him think of infinity and the relative insignificance of a lone...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • An experiment with wallpaper
  • Children ; Honesty
  • The author presents a portrait of himself as a budding writer who loved to eat the plaster in the wall paper. This had unpleasant consequences, especially when his father took him out to the woodshed and applied a not so gentle reminder to the...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Afternoon of the stars
  • City and town life ; Loneliness
  • Euphemia, the nursemaid, decides she has had enough bullying from the old woman and so instead of sitting at home crying, she decides to take the tram car to Papine to enjoy the cool breeze along with the sights and the sounds of the vendors...
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • Adventure
  • Family life ; Imagination
  • The children engage in wildly imaginative play where the boys hunt lions and buffaloes while the girl and her doll travel to the sea where she hears the lap of the waves and watch as the frail boat struggles to stay afloat against the elements....
  • Roger Mais Collection - Short Stories & Articles
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  • A piece of prepared lace bark, Jamaica
  • Tree bark
  • A man standing next to a house and shaking out a piece of lace bark. The Lace bark tree (Lagetta lagetto) is so called as its inner bark can be separated into thin web-like pieces resembling fine lace.
  • Cousin Hereward Postcard Collection

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