Box 1

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...