Diary, 1905, 1905-01-24 - 1905-04-12

1 Autograph Manuscript notebook dated 01/24/1905 to 04/12/1905 comprising diary entries concerning W. H. Chesson's family and acquaintances, records of correspondence sent and received, press cuttings, reading notes and title lists, original and copied poetry, an occasional dream record, and observations of daily life. Entries of note include a brief though interesting description (told by a Miss Macdonnell) of Florence Farr Emery reading poetry with W. B. Yeats in attendance [pp. 15 - 16], an original poem submitted to "Punch" magazine titled "Meditations of G. K. Chesterton on becoming a mackerel" [pp. 38 - 40], accounts of visits by Nora Chesson with the children's author E. Nesbit (Edith Nesbit Bland) and the poet Rosamund Marriott Watson [pp. 61 - 63], Chesson's symbol designs for "a truly pedagogic alphabet" [pp. 74 - 76], the description of a dinner at the Lyceum Club attended by G. K. Chesterton and the poet Thomas Sturge Moore [pp. 79 - 82], an account of a lecture by the Russian emigre and journalist David Vladimirovich Soskice at Thomas Fisher Unwin's home [pp. 106 - 108], a review of Nora Chesson's novel "The Bell and the Arrow" [p. 109], and a record of Chesson's first experiments with automatic writing via planchette [pp. 114, 116 - 118, 120 - 121]. References to Nora Hopper Chesson, James Milne, G. K. Chesterton, Thomas Fisher Unwin, Arthur Garnett, Edward Garnett, Dr. Richard Garnett, Reverend William Tuckwell, Sir Charles Dilke, Chesson's biography "Cruikshank", the Irish Literary Society, and Stephen Lucius Gwynn.