Identity area
Reference code
JCPP/Brittain/1/1960
Title
Frederick Brittain's Diary, 1960
Date(s)
- 1960 (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.
5 February - 13 March - Due to his ill health with bronchitis, asthma and pneumonia FB was advised by his GP to spend the rest of the winter in a warmer climate. Muriel resigned from her job (as Chief Pharmacist at the Westminster Children's Hospital) and they went on a cruise to Madeira and Tenerife.
During the rest of the year he had further bouts of ill health.
Spent most of the rest of the year working on the 'Penguin Book of Latin Verse'. The manuscript went to the publishers on 29 August.