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Date(s)
- 1 January 1938 - 31 December 1939 (Creation)
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1 item, paper
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Entries have been made in a plain notebook rather than a re printed diary.
At the end of December there is a summary of the year.
Pasted in:
Postcards
(i) Taormina, Sicily
(ii) Cairo, Egypt
(iii) Huis Doorn, the final home and exile residence of Kaiser Wilhelm II
(iv) marked ‘From the Scottish Exhibition’ – The Macdonald Children and Lord Newton both by Sir Henry Raeburn [colour]
Photographs from newspapers and publications
(i) Sir Henry John Newbolt (1862-1938) [poet, novelist and historian]
(ii) King George VI and Queen Elizabeth with President Albert Lebrun and his wife Marguerite
(iii) King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, and the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret
(iv) Canon Harold Athelstane Parry Sawyer (1865-1939) [Headmaster of Shrewsbury School]
(v) service in front of the War Memorial in Wallingford
Photographs
(i) uncaptioned photograph of a woman and two men sitting outside a bungalow with a veranda
Press cuttings
(i) list of attendees at the memorial service of Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane (1862-1937) [Scottish author, biographer, philosopher, suffragist, and social welfare and nursing administrator]
(ii) ‘The Future of the Church. Interview with Dean Inge’
(iii) obituary of Sir Stanley Leathes (1861-1938) [poet, economist, historian and senior Civil Service administrator, being the First Civil Service Commissioner from 1910 to 1927]
(iv) small extract about Mrs Inge from ‘Great Thoughts’ by Cecil Hunt
(v) announcement of the appointment of Richard Inge [son of W.R. Inge] to a curacy in Horsforth, Yorkshire
(vi) obituary of Canon Alan England Brooke (1863-1939) [Provost of King’s College Cambridge]
(vii) ‘Peace Aims. Commandments for the Post-War World’
(viii) notice that William Skinner, Dean’s Verger at St Paul’s Cathedral, had just celebrated his 88th birthday
(ix) from the Evening Standard ‘Dear Dr Inge Your Pacifist Arguments are all Wrong’ says Field-Marshall Lord Milne