Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1923 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
1 volume, paper
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Diary entries are written in German script. There is a transcript of the diary entries in another hand [Muriel Brittain's] up until 4 August.
On the first two pages is a list of books read during the year.
Pages covering 21 - 26 March and 16 - 17 April have been torn out of the diary.
Covers his time living in Cambridge tutoring pupils, undertaking translation work and taking classes. Also details of Rooster Club meetings.
8 January - His translation of 'The Decadence of Europe' by Francesco Nitti was published.
7 March - The Roosters Club celebrated it's Bicentenary 184 years in advance (to save posterity the trouble).
11 August - Father Wynn introduced him to Mr Comber, Director of Studies in Modern Languages and a Fellow of Pembroke College. [FB counted Henry Gordon Comber as one of his chief benefactors. As a result of this meeting, from 23 August until Comber's death 12 years later FB was his assistant, taking classes several times a week].
24 August - 22 September - In Hove tutoring Joe Harmsworth and his brother Anthony.