| Description | Cecil Harmsworth's 'Letts's Quikref Office Diary' for 1927. Includes note at the front of the diary: 'Surveyed CH 30 i 1934 & finaally July 1936 & J? 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; travel around Canada, including visits to the National Archives to see the Leicester Harmsworth Collection and meetings with politicians such as the Prime Minister Mackenzie King (01-11 Jan); visits to Boston and New York, and travel by ship back to England (12 Jan-02 Feb); the death of Sir Ellis Griffith and Cecil Harmsworth's memories of him (03 Feb); committee meetings of the Garden Cities Association; the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition; the appointment of Cecil Harmsworth as chairman of the Associated Newspapers company (07 Mar); sitting for a portrait and conversations with the painter SIr William Orpen; fishing; days out and travel around England; board meetings of the Associated Newspapers; the opening of Northcliffe House by the Prince of Wales (11 Apr); trips to Scotland; meetings of the Fisheries Organization Society; a garden party at Buckingham Palace (22 Jul); the decision to found a professorship at London University [University College London] in memory of his brother Lord Northcliffe (31 Jul) and subsequent meetings with the University; a trip to Totland Bay on the Isle of Wight; trips to Dublin, including dinner with W.B. Yeats (06 Sep); meeting Rudyard Kipling (22 Sep); reading Henry Wilson's 'Life and Letters' and Cecil Harmsworth's memories of him (10 Oct); sitting for a portrait by Ronnie Harmsworth in Glasgow (Oct); conversations with fishermen in the North West of England (Oct-Nov); the 100th Festival Dinner of the Printers' Pension Corporation; meeting King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (19 Nov); and Christmas.
Contains several pasted-in items, including newspaper clippings, stamps, and a dinner menu.
Contains several inserted items, including a list of 'Diary for 1927 Entires of special interest', a card for a carol service at St Paul's Cathedral, and a pocket at the back of the diary containing correspondence, newspaper clippings, postcards, photographs (possibly of Cecil Harmsworth? fishing), an order of service for the funeral of the Provost of Trinity College John Henry Bernard, and a flyer for poetry readings. |