| Description | Cecil Harmsworth's 'T.J. & J. Smith's One Day Octavo Scribbling Diary' for 1915. Includes note at the front of the diary: 'Supervisual 6 CH ii 1934 & finally June 1936' and explanatory pencil notes throughout the diary, presumably added by Cecil Harmsworth before the diary was copied by Isobel Nicholson.
Includes entries relating to time spent with friends and family; social engagements; squad drills for the Old Boys Corps; the First World War; the House of Commons reassembling (02 Feb); Harmsworth's appointment as Under-Secretary in the Home Office (13 Jan-04 Feb); work in the Home Office, including considering applications for naturalisation; the Shops Committee, established to stimulate recruitment in shops; proceedings in the House of Commons, including debating and voting on the Mental Treatment Bill; the sinking of the Lusitania ship (08 May); meetings with parliamentary colleagues; the resignation of Cecil Harmsworth from his position in the Home Office, following the publication of his brother Alfred's [Viscount Northcliffe] article on Lord Kitchener in the 'Daily Mail' (22 May); a visit to Dr Samuel Johnson's house (26 May); fishing; a Zeppelin attack on London (31 May-01 June); the forming of a coalition government; Harmsworth's appointment as Private Secretary to Reginald McKenna MP (08 Jun); Harmsworth's work in the Treasury; a trip to Manchester to attend a conference of the cotton industry (08-09 July); Emilie Harmsworth begins work as a nurse at Lady Mountgarret's private military hospital (16 Jul); political duties in his constituency of Luton; supper of the Johnson Club at Dr. Johnson's House, during which a Zeppelin flies overhead (13 October); committee meetings, including the War Loans Committee and the Women's Occupations Committtee; the unveiling of a statue of Captain Scott in Waterloo Place (05 Nov); and Christmas.
Contains several pasted-in items, including newspaper clippings, correspondence, and a photograph of a man who died at war.
Contains several inserted items, including pages from Cecil Harmsworth's pocket diary for 1906 (29 Aug-20 Dec); newspaper clippings; postcards; telegramms; and photographs of a house and deer. |