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| Description | In the first part of this diary Fry has dated each page, and used it to record her activities on the same date over three years. This appeas to count for years 1933-1935. Later in the volume Fry reverts to the diary being written in a more traditional format, or includes additions to earlier entries.
Dec 28
Cherry Tree Cottage, Newtown, Newbury - mentions Miss Dugdale, and a journey made
Dec 29
Newtown - 'V' took Fry to Behrends Spencer Memorial chapel; visited 'V's father
Dec 30
read Kenneth Clarke's Gothic Revival; talked with Mr Roskill who told Fry anecdotes of the London society 1890s
Dec 31
27 Cheyne Walk - went for drive with V and Ashton, went shopping and lunched at the Swedish shop; visited the W.I.L with view to promoting the 'Frnds of P & L'; discussed with Miss Chick peace Ballot, military contingents
Jan 1
mentions Josephine, Helen and Roger, Joan, Pam, B Bracey, Kantorowics; Fry talks about news of concentration camps and mentions Hitler
Jan 2
H Harrisson to lunch whose son is a communist and she fears may lose his Kitchener Scholarship, mentions Invergordon Mutiny, and Tom Mann; mentions Pam and her Annabel being ill; Wright is also ill with pneumonia; went to Ipswitch with Roger, saw Wolsey's house, waited in Woolworths for Helen; dined with Beckendorfs, Fry refers to to woman as 'iritatingly nazi', and her husband as a 'hideous aristocratic democrat, or dem aris'
Jan 3
Mr G Hanks "thinks they push the children too much at sch!"; long visit from Mrs Bibby; mention of the Wrights Fitzroy Street - went to Colchester with Roger, Helen and Mary, saw Pam, Micu, and Annabel - child in hospital due to poisoning
27 Cheyne Walk - saw C Morris; examines school books at LCC [London County Council]; lunched with "CCB" at Chinese restaurant; shopped; had hands x-rayed by Dr Coldwall; listened to gramophone
Jan 4
Fitzroy St 33 travelled with Mrs Dickinson; shopped; hospitality from C Mov[sic]
Fitzroy St 34 insurance policies; G Goods; Annabel operated on
27 Cheyne Walk 35DR Wast and Mrs Rosing; conversation on Shaw; mentioned Thordyke, Piloyevska, "J of Arc"
Jan 5
Fitzroy Street 33 Maria Baird; Miss Gordon; Miss McIntyre; Miss Ibberson (Ministry of London); signs of malnutrition in patients
7 Fitzroy Street 34 Stewart Moore (osteopath); lunch with M turner at Buzzrs; Annabel better
27 Cheyne Walk 35 Dr Plesch; Yassi Kemal; heard of Halide Edib; saw Avice; Sadlers Wells
Jan 6 Stewart Moore; E Bratlett; Risegari; Marie; Dr Noble; |