Diary, 1920-1923, 10/15/1920-02/11/1923

File — Box: 1, Folder: 6

Identifier: 94009

Scope and Contents

1 Autograph Manuscript Signed notebook dated 10/15/1920 to 02/11/1923 pages, titled inside the front cover "Dream Diary of Wilfred Hugh Chesson", containing Chesson's dated observations of his domestic and professional affairs, as well as his interior life and dreams. He continues to record dreams of his wife Nora Hopper Chesson, or which involve prominent authors or figures from the publishing world, including A. C. Swinburne, G. B. Shaw, M. P. Shiel, Joseph Conrad, James Milne, Thomas Werner Laurie, and several about G. K. Chesterton. Most of the first half of the diary (pp. [12-51]) is taken up by Chesson's record of a dream experiment undertaken at the advice of the journalist and astrologer, Meredith Starr; also of interest are entries describing his visits to a Spiritualist Church (pp. [81, 82]), an Autograph Manuscript entry by Chesson's daughter Dagmar in which she describes a dream about the death of her sister Ann Caroline Spry Chesson, and a sequence of entries regarding the rejection of Chesson's introduction to a new edition of Joseph Conrad's "Almayer's Folly" by T. Fisher Unwin (pp. [116-117]). References to Clara Jane Watts-Dunton and Dermot Chesson Spence.

Dates

10/15/1920-02/11/1923

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