| Description | Cecil Harmsworth's 'Walker's No. 23 Diary' for 1907. Includes note at the front of the diary: 'Finally reviewed August 1936 Typed by Miss Nicolson Sept. 1936 CH' and explanatory pencil notes throughout the diary, presumably added by Cecil Harmsworth before the diary was copied by Isobel Nicholson.
Entries begin on 27 March. Includes entries relating to time spent with friends and family, fishing, the weather, Henley Regatta, his garden in Henley, birthdays, a House of Commons dinner party (26 Aug), late night sittings in the House of Commons and the 'Deceased Wife's Sister['s Marriage] Bill' (26-28 Aug), travel to Madeira and South Africa, as well as present-day Zanzibar, Tanzania and Kenya (detailed entries from 14 Sep-31 Dec). |