Identity area
Reference code
JCPP/Brittain/1/1929
Title
Frederick Brittain's Diary, 1929
Date(s)
- 1929 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
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
On the first page is a list of book read during the year.
On the last pages are details of his income listing amount earned from lectures and supervision including a list of pupils.
14 February - Ice on the river. When walking with the Dean of King's College on Clare Bridge he saw about 20 men skating at King's and Trinity. The first time there had been skating on the Cam since 1895.
8 May - 'Slowly Forward. 366 Points for Oarsmen' published.
5 November - Went as a guest to a meeting of the Natives and ate 12 oysters. [The Natives Club was founded in 1877 by an undergraduate whose mother had sent him a barrel of oysters which he decided to share with 11 friends].