| Description | Cecil Harmsworth's 'Letts' Quikref Diary' for 1938.
Including entries relating to time spent with friends and family, including his children and grandchild; social engagements; birthdays, weddings and deaths; day trips and travel arond England; the weather; fishing; his health; books and reading; cricket; the awarding of an honorary degree of Doctor in Laws to Cecil Harmsworth by Trinity College Dublin; social engagements; meetings of the Garden Cities Association committee; meetings of the Commons and Footpaths Society; meetings of the Empire Press Union; meetings and demonstrations about air raid precautions; meetings of the Lord Northcliffe Lectureship Committee at University College London; the Houghton Club; the Sylvan Debating Club; lunches and meetings at the Reform Club; the Ideal Home Exhibition; theatrical and musical perfomances; Dr Johnson's House; Desmond Harmsworth's art; the marriage of his daughter Daphne Harmsworth to Harold Dixon; Chelsea Flower Show; views on fascism in Germany and Italy (11 Jun); a trip to Dublin (Jun); trips to Scotland; his response to the international sitation and the Munich Agreement; a note sent by Lord Rothermere [Harold Harmsworth] to Adolf Hitler; Cecil Harmsworth's published newspaper articles on British foreign policy and Britain's involvement in international relations, especially in regards to Germany and Czechoslovakia; the persecution of Jewish people in Germany; the opening of Leicester Harmsworth House in Plymouth; and Christmas.
Contains several pasted-in items, including newspaper clippings and stamps.
Contains inserted items, including two lists of 'special entries' in the diary, a committee meeting agenda, correspondence, and a pocket at the back of the diary containing newspaper clippings, correspondence, photograph postcards, and an invitation to an exhibition of paintings by Desmond Harmsworth. |