Personal diaries: Volume 5, 1900-05-24 - 1900-09-02
Scope and Contents
Fordfield. Visitors and those visited include Lilian Peskett; Dorothea Conybeare; Annie MacAlister; Silvia Myers; Lucy Longstaffe; Victor Heal; the Fordhams. Male companions include Archie Stent; Roy Page; cousin Percy; Leo Myers, Alfred Ewing. Activities include charity events, visiting the elderly, tennis parties, lunches, garden parties, concerts, Cambridge May Week activities, cycle rides to various Cambridgeshire villages, a Sunday School outing to Histon, mothers from Cambridge Place to tea in the garden, prize-giving at Police Athletic Festival, a visit to Queens' College Library, a visit to Lucy Longstaffe in Hampshire. Political and current affairs comment - Boer War and Lord Kitchener; de-Westernisation of China. Writing appears to be taking place on a regular basis. Further reference to matters spiritual, including a dream or vision. 4 June 1900 - lessons with Ernest Harrison of Trinity College come to an end. Pasted in at back: photograph of "The Old Kitchen. Weston Corbett" (the Longstaffes' home); also pencil drawing of "Dick, after James Stark - not a very good likeness". Inverted at end: ms pencil draft of a poem.
Dates
- Creation: 1900-05-24 - 1900-09-02
Creator
- From the Fonds: Graham, Aelfrida Catherine Wetenhall, 1883 - 1959 (nee Tillyard, writer) (Person)
Extent
1 volume(s) : Paper
Language of Materials
English
Former / Other Reference
2
Originator(s)
Tillyard, Aelfrida
Finding aid date
2004-03-29 11:01:24+00:00
Repository Details
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