| Description | Cecil Harmsworth's 'Letts's Quikref Office Diary' for 1926. Includes note at the front of the diary: 'Reviewed CH 29 i 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; the Royal Academy; David Lloyd George's Land Reform Meeting in the Town Hall in Oxford (06 Feb); travel to and around Egypt, Palestine and Israel with his wife Emilie and daughter Daphne [includes some anti-Semitic remarks] (19 Feb-20 April); the General Strike (May); a trip to Scotland (May); fishing; sitting for a portrait by the painter Sir WIlliam Orpen; a trip to Totland Bay on the Isle of WIght; the death of J.G. Swift MacNeill (25 Aug); committee meetings of the Commons and Footpaths Society; lunch with Lord [Henry Duke] Merrivale (11 Oct); Dr Johnson's House; a trip to Paris (Oct); a trip to Dublin, including engagements at Trinity College Dublin and dinner with W.B. Yeats (Nov); dinner with Sir Thomas Lipton (26 Nov); meeting the Candian Prime Minsiter W.L. Mackenzie King aboard the S.S. Majestic (03 Dec); the wedding of Desmond Harmsworth and Dorothy Heinlein in New York (10 Dec); sightseeing in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Mount Vernon, Cleveland, Buffalo and Toronto; and Christmas.
Contains several pasted-in items, including stamps and newspaper clippings.
Contains several inserted items, including a list entitled 'Diary for 1926 Matters of special interest', and an envelope at the back of the diary containing Christmas cards, several postcards from around the world, newspaper clippings, information leaflets, and pages from Cecil Harmsworth's pocket diary for 1906 (16 Sep-27 Sep). |