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| Description | This diary concentrates mainly on her teaching and the running of the farm. In the early entries she talks a lot about the situation in Russia, and the Bolsheviks. The economy,
The inside of the front cover of the volume has lists of amounts of money spent.
Mayortorne Sep 30 1919 Fry talks of the railway strike, she chronicles this through to it's end on the 6th October. Within these entries she discusses her views on the strike, the handling of it, talks of the volunteer drivers, and mentions hearing about a Citizen's Army
Oct 6th? strike over; Fry's windmill not working
Oct 10 her friend/colleague, Gege, learns news of her mother in Paris, where the 'social condition' is bad, and fears she will not be able to take a farming course she hoped to
Oct 17 discusses the situation of Russia
Oct 19 visit from Tory and the Guy's
Oct 22 Fry worried about her accounts; questions her abilities to run the farm successfully
Oct 24 went to London to the 'dairy-show' felt more knowledegable than previously
Oct 27 visit from the Radfords
Nov 5 news from Turkey, hopeful that Halide has heard from her and that she will receive a letterf rom her at some point
Nov 6 May Pease visited, Fry comments that even to progressive people her way of life seems strange; describes the birth of a calf
Nov 9 spoke to the young children about remembering the dead on Armistice day
Nov 12 describes the minute's silence held the day before
Nov 13 talks about Relativity
Nov 16 Fry is quite unhappy
Nov 19 saw Allenby's Palestine Exhibition at the cinema, she describes some scenes in the film
Nov 24 read articles with older children about Relativity
Nov 29 Miss Vidal visited; visit from Tory who regales how "wrecked" Petrograd is
Dec 2 rode to Aylesbury to find a maid who "do not even exist in registry offices any longer"
Dec 3 talks of rearing piglets whose mother has died. Fry states that pigs are scarce so it would be a good thing if they manage it
Dec 8 mentions India having Home rule; death of Sir Edwin Pears - Fry mentions his involvment in Turkish politics
Jan 4 rode to Hampden to see the Rendal Potters
Jan 6 visit from the uncle of a prospective pupil who seemed to have something "Spanish [or] Hapsburgy about him"
Jan 10 describes a situation possibly regarding a relationship break up, or change in an intimate relationship
Jan 12-13 talks about her friend Tory's anguish at news from Russia; shopped at the Co-Op where a sign ueged people to read teh Labout Herald, Fry found this interesting "i could not help wondering how much a movement like the Co Op does to foster the wild and loose thinking which the Herald seems doing its best to propagate"
Jan 16 describes the day of a carpenter and remarks "I have bin v much impressed by the fact of the grt reduction of output consequent on the reduction of hours of workmen"
Jan 17-20 issue regarding the baby of a servant; visited Reading College to enrol Gege on an agricultural course, Fry disagreed with boarding house warden on whether people should have to go to a place of worship every Sunday; visited the Guys, and the Curtis Browns
Jan 23 photographer visited and Fry let him photograph the children at their work
Jan 24 two calves born, one alive, one dead
Jan 25 Lady Muriel Paget visited with a friend, Alexander. He told Fry how the Belgian government were paying a Belgian company to level and clear the battlefields of Belgium with a huge plow designed by the same man who designed the machinery to build the Panama canal
Jan 27 Mrs Morant
Jan 31 talks about effect of War on the economy, this is mentioned often in the next few entries (up to the 3 Feb)
Feb 5 talks about her ideals regarding what she wants her school to be. She would like children to know what it is like to be a workman
Feb 8 discusses a speech made by Walter Leaf to the London City of Westminster Bank
Feb 11 Miss Albright (who has beeen helping on the farm but doing her jobs badly), left and a new farm man replaced her
Feb 13 hears from Halide and is relieved. Halide provides news on situation in Turkey
Feb 14 visit from Mrs Lockhart; Mr and Mrs Peyton Jones and Mrs Nigel Grosvenor
Feb 19 talks of the son of her friend Mrs Mattheson who escaped from Russia and is a nervous wreck as a consequence; Fry then discusses her friend's view on Russia/Bolsheviks/Lenin/ Trotsky. The friend also told a story about Chesterton visiting the Duchess of Sutherlands and leaving his shoes in a restaurant, which were retrieved the next day but turned out to be a lady's Jaeger boots
Feb 21 news of situation in Russia
Feb 22 foot and mouth hit a farm in Wendover. The anxiety of foot and mouth
Feb 29 Lady Winchester visiting Angela Paget; fear of foot and mouth in one of Fry's cows; discussion regarding one of children in Fry's school with father of child
Mar 1 talks about incubating eggs with oil run incubator; took R Sedwyn to doctor in London; came "clashing against the 'lady-like' ideal in Cicely Leveson Gower, with who Fry had a difference of opinion on life views
Mar 3 letter from Elsie Schulmann, a German woman "full of bitterness for england; letter from "C.M." who talks about Halide, who has "gone against the Armenians"; eggs not hatched, incubator broken down
Mar 4 description of her day including run in with land agent; discusses Germany, J'accuse
Mar 11 talks of a sense of waiting with all countries remaining as they every were; practising a Chinese play with the children which Fry fears will not be very good; Trade Union congress voted against direct action
Mar 13 lady Muriel Paget, Gege, Mr King, Mrs Hubback
Mar 14 Mrs Hubback; two chicks doing well; revolution broken out in Berlin, not supported by non-Prussians
Mar 18 performance of Chinese play
Mar 21 general farm discussion
Mar 25 Fry's 51st birthday; difficulties with a person regarding the school
Mar 28 Tory Orfanov came to see Fry, anxious to return to Russia, her husband "surely dead"; spoke to Mr Macarthy who Fry told his son would "never pass and exam in his life"- Fry goes on to say that she worries about Michael as his parents do not understand him. She comments at the end of the entry "Later. I have reason to think Mac. was drunk"
Mar 30 concern for Michael Macarthy
April 9 Conway[Conwy], Wales, on holiday with her adopted son, Lewis
April 16 Port Arenig, she talks of the "Feng Shui" of the place she is staying; talks about the toy railway from Polaenau Festiniog to the sea at Pt Madoc; Bedd Gelert
Ap 26 talks about her feelings on spirituality and Quakerism; visit of Tory; discussion on "English pacifism" and how it seems "to become an acquiescence in German militarism"
Ap 30 Mrs Lockhart
May 9 heard from Malinowski who has returned to England from Papua [New Guinea] with a wife
May 14 Mrs Hamilton Tollernache |