Diary, 1909-1920, 02/16/1909-09/13/1920

File — Box: 1, Folder: 5

Identifier: 94008

Scope and Contents

1 Autograph Manuscript notebook dated from 02/06/1909 to 09/13/1920 containing diary entries recording Chesson's publishing associations and work, his domestic life, and progress on his "encyclopaedia". Chesson continues to record his dreams of his wife, Nora Hopper Chesson, and his father, Frederick William Chesson; however, many of the entries describe dreams abounding with prominent literary figures of the time such as Oscar Wilde, G. K. Chesterton, Rudyard Kipling, George Moore, Sir Richard Burton, Lord Dunsany, and M. P. Shiel. Chesson relates in some detail his conversations with the publisher of "The Occult Review", Ralph Shirley, on such subjects as astrology and spirit-photography. References to Ann Caroline Spry Chesson, Dagmar Chesson, Sir Charles Dilke, Lady Emilia Dilke, Graham Spence, Dermot Chesson Spence, Robert Southey, Theodore Watts-Dunton, Clara Jane Watts-Dunton, T. Fisher Unwin, and Florence Farr.

Dates

02/16/1909-09/13/1920

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