| Description | Cecil Harmsworth's 'Letts' Quikref Diary' for 1936.
Includes entries relating to time spent with friends and family, including his children; social engagements; the weather; nature observations; birthdays, weddings and deaths; commentary on the Abyssinan War, foreign affairs, and the British government (01 Jan); books and reading; the Reform Club; meetings of the Empire Press Union; meetings of the Commons and Footpaths Society; the death of Rudyard Kipling (18 Jan); the death of King George V (20 Jan); travel to North America, including Pitch Lake, Trinidad, Williamstad, Panama, Jamaica, Cuba, Florida, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Martinique, Barbados, Madeira, (Jan-Mar) [these entries contain racist and offensive terminology and descriptions]; the Ideal Home Exhibition; fishing; a visit to Dublin; reflection on his studies of Divinity at Trinity College Dublin and his decision not to take Holy Orders (28 Jun); his father's diaries (15 Jul); a visit to Paris; day trips and travel around Englnad; a trip to Scotland; his opinion of Winston Churchill (26 Oct); Dr Johnson's House; Wallis SImpson and the abdication of King Edward VIII (Nov-Dec); and Christmas.
Contains several pasted-in items, including newspaper clippings and stamps.
Contains inserted items, including a list of 'special entries' in the diary and a pocket at the back of the diary containing newspaper clippings, a Christmas carol sheet from St Paul's Cathedral, correspondence, postcards, dinner menus, a Canadian Pacific horse race card, |