| Description | Cecil Harmsworth's 'Collins' Royal Diary' for 1947.
Includes entries relating to time spent with family and friends, including his children and grandchildren; the weather, including long spells of frost and snow at the beginning of the year; food parcels; social engagements; proceedings in the House of Commons; the Ideal Home Exhibition; meetings of the Commons and Footpaths Society Committee; meetings of the Town and Country Planning Association, of which Harmsworth was chairman; meetings of the Empire Press Union; meetings at the Reform Club; Dr Johnson's House; gardening; fishing; Harmsworth's response to a history of 'The Times' newspaper by Stanley Morrison, which featured a chapter on Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe; the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten; reflections on his diary for 1945 and the aftermath of the Second World War; the death of Stanley Baldwin and Harmsworth's memories of him (15 Dec); birthdays, weddings and funerals; and Christmas.
Contains several pasted-in items, including newspaper clippings and stamps.
Also contains several inserted items, including correspondence, drawings by children, a photograph of his granddaughter Madeleine, and a pocket at the back of the diary containing newspaper clippings, correspondence, drawings by children [presumably his grandchildren], and a photograph. |