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- 1944 (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'.
At the beginning of the diary is a list of books read or re-read during the year.
On the back pages are details of income arranged by term.
3 May - Meeting of the Cambridge University Church of England Council. Talk on the projected new cathedral in Coventry by the Provost of Coventry.
6 May - General Ironside was dining as the Master's guest and talked about Dunkirk and the events of 1940 when he was Chief of the Imperial General Staff.
12 May - The Master told FB that Q (Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch had died).
11 August - Took Gilbert Coleridge to lunch [he was a descendant of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and executed a bronze memorial to his ancestor which is on the east wall of the south transept in Jesus Chapel].
August - September - Read a number of Q's novels.
2 October - Went to Senate House where he was installed as Proctor.