| Description | Cecil Harmsworth's 'T.J. & J. Smith's One Day Octavo Scribbling Diary' for 1913. Includes note at the front of the diary: 'Supervisual CH 18 i 1934 & Finally 20 VI 1936 Typed by Miss Nicolson Dec. 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; travel to Ireland, including political and social engagements; meetings of the Garden Cities Association; meetings with parliamentary colleagues; a silhouette made of him by a lady at the Sale of Work in Luton; opening of Parliament by the King and Queen (14 Feb); suffragettes (04 March); proceedings in the House of Commons, including debating and voting on the Housing of the Working Classes Bill, the Minimum Wage Bill for Coal Miners, the Home Rule Bill, the Welsh Disestablishment Bill, and the Insurance Act; the sinking of the Titanic; a solar eclipse (17 April); the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition; Emilie Harmsworth selling artificial flowers fro Alexandra Day; an interview with suffragists (17 Jul); a royal garden party at Windsor Castle and a State Ball at Buckingham Palace (18-19 Jul); travel to Newfoundland (16 Aug-11 Oct); meeting David Lloyd George at London Zoo (20 Oct); trips to Devon for an enquiry into fisheries, including descriptions of Sidmouth, Budleigh Salterton and Brixham (11-28 November); and Christmas.
Contains several pasted-in items, including newspaper clippings; dinner party menus and invitations; an anti-Suffragette and Women's Suffrage postcard; a dance card;
Contains several inserted items in a pocket at the back of the diary, including newspaper clippings; correspondence, including letters to Father Christmas from his children; a silhouette of Harmsworth; a House of Commons card from Ebenezer Howard requesting a personal interview with Harmsworth; and a dinner menu. |