| Description | Diary at the Chalet, Portwrinkle, Cornwall - Holiday, illness, meditations. Notebook given to Dorothy by Gladys Burr, her secretary, for Christmas 1967. Someone has started an index system and so the index card attached to these notes reads,'1967: Christmas at Sharpham' 1967: doubt at dawn; 1968: New Year's resolution; Kingsley Amis- (from "A Look Around the Estate," Science Fantasy Poems) Love at First Sight; Meditation and concentration on eternity, time; yoga of contemplation and action; meditation on peace; Milt (Milton Rose) and Trust and guidance of outside power; quote on poetry from poet laureate (newspaper cutting re Cecil Day-Lewis). Notebook mentions Leonard and William Elmhirst, Beatrice Straight, Kate Caddy (nee Ash), Gerald Heard, Herbert Croly, a book by Christopher Isherwood, with introduction by Aldous Huxley |