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- 1942 (Creation)
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1 volume, paper
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There are a number of loose pieces of paper with notes on throughout the diary. These appear to be marking pages used by Muriel Brittain in 'Fifty Years at Jesus'.
17 January - Memorial Service for Bernard Manning.
15 February - News arrived of the fall of Singapore. The Dean said "Can't say I think much of Churchill as a strategist".
27 February - Lunch was restarted in Hall as the Pitt Club was taken for a British Restaurant.
4 April - Clocks on another hour tonight [double summer time was used during the war].
19 May - First meeting of the John Mason Neale Society. Elected Treasurer.
17 July - Attended a meeting at Heffers about taking over editorship of the Cambridge Review [a post FB held for 6 years].
20 July - The Dean, Alan Percival and FB were appointed Assistant Tutors.
27 July - Air Raid at about 2am which caused a fire in the Union.
10 November - Memorial of Bernard Manning was published.
21 November - Q's 79th birthday. He called himself "a period piece, but not yet a museum piece".