Identity area
Reference code
JCPP/Brittain/1/1959
Title
Frederick Brittain's Diary, 1959
Date(s)
- 1959 (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 books read during the year.
Entries cover the weather, his health, his social life, Rooster meetings, church services attended and what he was working on.
January - First entries referring to Muriel Cunnington appear.
January - February - He was ill with accute bronchitis.
25 July - Marriage of Freddie Brittain and Muriel Cunnington.
Spent much of the year working on the 'Penguin Book of Latin Verse'.
11 October - His father died.
14 December - 2 January 1960 - Admitted to the Evelyn Hospital with bronchitis, asthma and pneumonia.