| Description | Cecil Harmsworth's 'T.J. & J. Smith's One Day Octavo Scribbling Diary' for 1910. Includes note at the front of the diary: CH [1] cc. 1934 & finally 18 vi 1936 Typed by Miss Nicolson 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; meetings; the General Election Campaign; the Old Age Pensions Bill (08 Jan); the loss of his parliamentary seat in Droitwich (29 Jan); a holiday to St. Moritz; his personal health and influenza; the funeral of King Edward VII (20 May); travel to Paris; his last public appearance in Droitwich with his family (27 Aug); travel to Ireland, including a meeting with John Gordon Swift MacNeill and Robert Crawford Hawkin; his personal opinion of David Lloyd George (11 November); a speech by Winston Churchill (05 December); and Christmas.
Includes pasted-in newspaper clippings, theatre ephemera, letters, postcards, and artwork by his children. |