| Description | Cecil Harmsworth's 'Letts's Quikref Office Diary' for 1925. Includes note at the front of the diary: '2 ii 1934 & finally July 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; his health; the weather; nature observations; birthdays, weddings and deaths; visits to the theatre; the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition; Ebenezer Howard and the Garden City Movement (09 Mar); meetings of the Garden Cities Association; memorial service of Lord Curzon and Cecil Harmsworth's memories of him (25 Mar); the Grand National horse races; days out and trips around England; the Royal Academy; moving from 28 Monatgu Square to 13 Hyde Park Gardens in London; the reopening of Wembley (09 May); joining Houghton Fishing Club; fishing; Henley Regatta; cricket; the future of the exhibition grounds at Wembley (16 Jul); the royal garden party at Buckingham Palace (24 Jul); his mother's illness and death (29 Aug); a trip to Italy (10 Sep-05 Oct); meetings with the fishermen's cooperatives in Hastings, Deal, Folketone, Whitstable, Maldon, and Walton-on-the-Nase (Oct); the death of Lord Bibblesdale and Cecil Harmsworth's memories of him (22 Oct); the Foundling Hospital, including a newspaper article written by Cecil Harmsworth about saving the hospital; a trip to Scotland (Nov-Dec); Lord Rothermere [Harold Harmsworth] deciding to buy the Bethlehem Hospital (15 Dec); and Christmas.
Contains several pasted-in items, including stamps and newspaper clippings.
Contains an envelope at the back of the diary containing newspaper clippings, an order of service, several postcards, and several photograph postcards, including two photographs of four men (one may be Desmond?) with camels in Egypt. |