Diary, 1931-1934, 01/03/1931-07/01/1934

File — Box: 2, Folder: 4

Identifier: 94013

Scope and Contents

1 Autograph Manuscript notebook dated from 01/03/1931 to 07/01/1934 recording Chesson's activities and associations in and around his home called "Childwall" in Richmond, England. Chesson chronicles the death of his youngest sister Julia Eastwood Chesson (on 03/17/1931), who lodged at Childwall, the degenerating conditions of his second marriage to Daisy Green Chesson and the birth of their third child, Douglas, on 04/17/1931, his attendance on a meeting of the John Payne Society, a description of his first close look at traffic lights installed on Oxford Street on 11/26/1932, a letter of 03/09/1934 regarding money owed him by his late daughter Ann's widower, sent to the man's new father-in-law, and the departure of Daisy Green Chesson from Childwall on 06/21/1934. References to Clara Jane Watts-Dunton, Dagmar Chesson, Dermot Chesson Spence, Ann (Chesson) MacCormack, Nora Hopper Chesson, Primrose Chesson, Shirley Chesson, Meredith Starr, and Ralph Shirley.

Dates

01/03/1931-07/01/1934

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