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| Description | Diary covers May-December. Much of the time covered is at Mayortorne Manor.
May 24 discusses hope for Labour government due to possibilities of cooperation between Labour and Liberal
May 27 visit from Malinowski
May 28 visited dentist who was a spiritualist and his wife a medium. He talks about contacting Raymond Lodge and Cecil Rhodes
May 31 visit from Lilian Barker "the great organiser of welfare work in Woolwich" to see Miss Holdsworth. Fry comments "She is a forcible, loud, right-minded woman without any grace, but neverthelessthe charm of an abundant, loving, corageous nature"; talks about the bees
June 1 some of the children have measles
June 4 visit from a bee expert to look at the problem of the swarming bees
June 6 M Shnitnikoff; talks about discussing Genesis and the creation story with the children and records her thoughts on the inadequacy of it
June 7 talks about Avice Trench, a new member of staff
June 8 Fry talks about being disgusted with the "hypocrisy of fashionable people" and discusses the mother of a child, who herself had no religious beliefs, complaining abuot Fry's attitude and teching of religion
June 12 talks about the school and Schnitnikoff's views of it
June 14 discusses Lenin's appropriation of himself as a religious icon in place of Christ in Russia, and his attempt to place himself as the successor of Mohamed in Muslim households
June 20 talk with Mrs Lockhart re her visit to "Zululand" and photographs of it; visit from Noel Moon
June 23 visited the Verney's; hears that Halide Edib is in Angara with the Chief of the Turkish Nationalists; took Rachel and Gege to an archeological meeting at Claydon House, mentions Lady V [Verney] account of many rooms of the church of Sir H Calvert, describes other things seen on visit
June 24 discussion with Malinowski re whether war was right or wrong; and the "real logical basis of all language forms"
June 25 Mali left; Schnitnikoff visits, talks to Fry about religion, her work on gramamr, planning of school book
June 26 went to Amersham and heard Morse code message on Mrs Oakley's wireless, mentions Chelmsford telephone
June 29 visit from Miss Gilpin, headmistress from Weybridge, her thoughts on Fry's work/school
July 4 worries regarding Eliza, the cow, Fry describes in detail how she helped the cow; Fry mentions the the day before a Swedish Government Commission official visited gathering information due to the Swedish government addressing the issue of secondary girl's education
July 12 Miss Marsden visited, she had been working in Slovakia, mentions hostility between Czechs and Slovaks
July 14 Lilian Trench visited; also Mrs Roland Wilkins; Fry mentions a "doll of a training student"; discusses Gege
July 15 talked to Miss Prescott "the classical teacher"; Shniknikoff stayed the night , visited the Peyton-Jones'
July 16 heard from Aubrey Herbert, his opinion was that "we have been silly and cruel in Turkey". Fry says "He is perhaps a wicked Tory"
July 17 Herman Trench visited to see Avice
July 20 Fry reads that Margery [her sister] has been appointed magistrate for London, Fry is hopeful this will giver her "immensely extended power of carrying out her ideas of penal reform"
July 24 Fry took group of children to the British Museum;
Many of the entries between this and the net date listed talk of activities on the farm, how the school is running, new pupils, and Fry's thoughts on the political situation in Europe.
Sep 19 talk with Mali[nowski] on moral, political, and ethical issues
Sep 22 Fry mentions that the Coal Strike is imminent, and that "the one chance now seems to lie in the mtg of the Triple Alliance"
Sep 23 children return to school; talks to Hepworth re coal strike. Hepworth is on the Wakefield Municipality
Much more on the strike is written in the intervening days
Sep 21 disappearance of Pamela Pollock to London; arrival of Erika Schumann
Oct 1 Molly Benest arrived
Oct 2 talk with Mr King accountant
Oct 4 Gege left, Coppen, 2 Belgians, and Molly Benest remain
Oct 6 Avice Trench went to London to visit her sister
Oct 7 visited Dr Wheeler in London about rheumatism; saw Tory; heard of "young Frey" who helped a diamond merchant by holding his diamonds for him while the merchant was searched on the frontier, Frey was put in prison when is actions were discovered, the story extends from here
Oct 8 Fry having difficulty attaining domestic help
Oct 11 runaway returned
Oct 13 coal strike; news from Germany re the Bolsheviks
Oct 16 coal strike had begun, mentions Sankey Commission
Oct 17 Avice Trench concerned about her sister Maeve
20 Oct Maeve is well; coal strike continues
Oct 21 Fry states that in making her Will she decided that her body should be donated to medical science; talks about her disregard of money
Oct 22 coal strike continues, "Ll Geo [Lloyd George] has lost the wizard touch he once had & he speaks without any balm of healing"
Oct 23 railway strike postponed; Fry discusses her views on whether people want reform or revolution; finds her expenses per person have risen
Oct 25 went to London with Mrs Felce
Oct 26 talks about Terence MacSwiney
Oct 30 discusses funeral procession for Terence MacSwiney and Fry's neighbour making jokes about him
Nov 14 Fry discusses Armistice week and talks about "burying the Unknown Warrior in the Abbey" and how she wishes she could have witnessed it; Fry then describes an "Armistice holiday" involving a performance of Twefth Night, and "much dancing and revelry"
Nov 16 "The league of Nations seems getting to work & tho' voting a wreath for Rousseau's grave doesn't seem of the first importnace it suggests that their thoughts turn in right directions"
Nov 19 Tory Orfanov and sister in very difficult situation re money, Fry helping them out; Fry laments the loss of her friendship with Halide; received a letter from Phillipa Raleigh, ex pupil who would like to return to school
Nov 25 letters from Gerda Guy, and Mrs Dowdall re Philippa
Nov 25 Mab [possibly Mal, or Mag] died
Dec 12 Sir Richard Paget visited, he and Fry disagreed on matters regarding trade with Germany |