Today we’re reading about Decembers past in Diaries of Note:
‘RAIN. GUNFIRE. BOREDOM, HOMESICK, LOVESICK.’ Spike Milligan (5 December, 1942)
‘Bed is the most auspicious place — the only place to get your bearings.’ Elizabeth Smart (10 December, 1933)
‘The prospect of Christmas appalls me and I look forward to the operating theatre as a happy release.’ Evelyn Waugh (23 December 1946)
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On this day in 1935, Edna St. Vincent Millay was struggling to correspond.
(From the highly recommended, 'Into the World’s Great Heart: Selected Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay')
On this day in 1977, Cary Grant wrote to his daughter as she turned eleven.
(From 'Evenings With Cary Grant: Recollections in His Own Words and by Those Who Knew Him Best', by Nancy Nelson. With a foreword by Barbara and Jennifer Grant.)
