| Description | Cecil Harmsworth's 'Letts's Quikref Office Diary' for 1930. Includes note at the front of the diary: 'CH 22 i 1934 & finally August-Sept. 1936 & August 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; the weather; nature observations; birthdays, weddings and deaths; Dr Johnson's House, including references to the house next door (No. 1 Gough Square) being demolished; reading and books; listening to the speeches at the opening meeting of the Naval Conference (21 Jan); theatre visits; committee meetings of the Commons and Footpaths Society; committee meetings of the Garden Cities Association; meetings of the Empire Press Union; the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition; travel to and stay in Bad Neuheim in Germany (29 Apr-22 May); fishing, mostly in Stockbridge; the Imperial Press Conference; death of Arthur Conan Doyle (10 Jul); a trip to Totland Bay on the Isle of Wight; a visit to the Foundling Hospital (14 Jul); the unveiling of the memorial to Lord Northcliffe (02 Oct); meeting Henry Ford (14 Oct); dinner with J.M. Barrie, who also signs the trust deed of the Johnson House Trust (16 Oct); unveiling of the memorial to Ebenezer Howard (19 Oct); a holiday in Devon; the annual Trinity College Dublin graduates dinner (06 Nov); Christmas; and the the Chelsea Arts Ball (31 Dec).
Contains several pasted-in items, including newspaper clippings, stamps, a small town crier paper doll, and a fishing fly.
Contains several inserted items, including a list entitled '1930 Diary 'Special Entries', newspaper clippings, and an envelope at the back of the diary containing correspondence and an order of service for the memorial service of Lawrence Weaver. |