| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday, 1st January,
Completed my paper on Mazzini.
Read: ?One Act Plays of today? 2nd vol. (Harrap)
... | Gerald Moore | J.W. Marriott | One Act Plays of Today | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday, 2nd January,
Letter from Neill at Grimsby, Ontario: no other address. Nothing for Mother.
Read: ?Plain ... | Gerald Moore | Rudyard Kipling | Plain Tales from the Hills | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday, 7th January,
Offered Pat 19th January or 16th March for his friend?s lecture.
Smith does not expect to le... | Gerald Moore | Niccolo Machiavelli | History of Florence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday, 9th January,
Mother tells me Hanley is to write a thesis on ?An Unemployed Man in January 1926?. Talking ... | Gerald Moore | Belfort Bax | Essays on Socialism | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday, 16th January,
Left letter at Beechcroft for Milligan re continuance of Discussion Group through the summer... | Gerald Moore | J. Ramsay Macdonald | Socialism: Critical and Constructive | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday, 27th January,
Smith spoke of having wished to be a school master. He would like, even now, to get a bur... | Gerald Moore | Henrik Ibsen | Peer Gynt | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday,28th January,
?Peer Gynt? is good stuff. I hope the Beechcroft Players tackle it some time. Though I supp... | Gerald Moore | Leonard Merrick | A Chair on the Boulevard | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday, 29th January,
I do not like ?Brand?. A religion that takes no account of actuality is no use to humanity. A... | Gerald Moore | Henrik Ibsen | Brand | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 31st January,
Discussion group ? Readings from Humorous Poetry.
A rubber of whist.'
| Gerald Moore | unknown | [humorous poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday, 3rd February,
Reading ?The Compleat Angler? (I. Walton). This your real ?open air? book. It is so quaint ... | Gerald Moore | Isaac Walton | The Compleat Angler | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 8th February,
Gave the Anno Domini a miss. Tired. Reading Herrick.
Also Oppenheim ?The Great Impersonati... | Gerald Moore | Robert Herrick | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 8th February,
Gave the Anno Domini a miss. Tired. Reading Herrick.
Also Oppenheim ?The Great Impersonati... | Gerald Moore | E. Phillips Oppenheim | The Great Impersonation | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday, 10th February,
Wrote to Mr Robinson and to Mr. D. Paterson re lecture dates.
Read ?Omoo? (Melville)'
| Gerald Moore | Herman Melville | Omoo | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday, 11th February,
Spent evening at home . Edie painting poppy heads for someone. This modern idea may sound... | Gerald Moore | Matthew Prior | Shorter Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday,13th February,
Read ?Notre Coeur? (Guy de Maupassant)' | Gerald Moore | Guy de Maupassant | Notre Coeur | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 15th February,
Thackeray?s descriptions of high life, and, more especially of army conditions, are magnifice... | Gerald Moore | William Makepeace Thackeray | Barry Lindon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday, 19th February,
Last night?s meeting was a drawn battle. The ?wants? and the ?don?t wants? did an immen... | Gerald Moore | Hilaire Belloc | Path to Rome | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 21st February,
Discussion group ? nothing doing ? arrived late. Members busy with a game in which, with th... | Gerald Moore | Henry James | The American | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 28th February,
Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the su... | Gerald Moore | J.J. Bell | Thread o' Scarlet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 28th February,
Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the su... | Gerald Moore | Dunsany | A Night in the Sun | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 28th February,
Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the su... | Gerald Moore | W.W. Jacobs | The Monkey's Paw | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 28th February,
Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the su... | Gerald Moore | Lady Gregory | The Rising of the Moon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 28th February,
Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the su... | Gerald Moore | William Makepeace Thackeray | The Four Georges | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday, 2nd March,
Club ? Mr Graham White?s lecture postponed. Members went into the Local History Society?s meeti... | Gerald Moore | Villehardouin | Memoirs of the Crusades | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday, 5th March,
I worked late tonight which allowed me to get in a nice little talk with Pat on the value of the ... | Gerald Moore | Oliver Wendell Holmes | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 8th March,
Heavy day. Discussed the famous Parkin speech on Welsh sportsmanship, and the Glamorgan presiden... | Gerald Moore | Rupert Brooke | Poems | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday, 9th March,
Club ? ?Currency and Unemployment? - Arthur Robinson.
The finest lecture of the year. Mr. Ro... | Gerald Moore | Jonathan Swift | Journal to Stella | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 14th March,
Discussion Group ? ?Stunt? rehearsal. Also 1st rehearsal of ?Good Friday? which will draw half... | Gerald Moore | William Shakespeare | Hamlet | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday, 17th March,
Last rehearsal. Things are in trim now I think. I prepared the programme. I think it O.... | Gerald Moore | Jonathan Swift | Journal to Stella | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 22nd March,
Read ? ?The eye ? witness? (H. Belloc).'
| Gerald Moore | Hilaire Belloc | The Eye-Witness | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday, 24th March,
Today would have been deadly dull but for the Lincoln. Queer how so many of us get caught up... | Gerald Moore | Joseph Conrad | Almayer's Folly | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday, 28th March,
Discussion Group ? annual meeting.
Read ? ?Tartarin sur les Alpes? (Daudet).' | Gerald Moore | Alphonse Daudet | Tartarin sur les Alpes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 29th March,
A 21st birthday party at the Roberts?. Pleaded illness and got off. My clothes will hardly do... | Gerald Moore | Edmond Holmes | The Tragedy of Education | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday, 30th March,
Club ? Annual meeting. All officers re-elected except Will Evans who stood down. The Players ... | Gerald Moore | Honore de Balzac | La Peau de Chagrin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday, 2nd April,
Walking over the Walton Hall Housing Estate. The spread of the city goes on apace. I find mys... | Gerald Moore | Robert Southey | Life of Nelson | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 5th April,
I am cast for Amieus in ?As you like it?. I was looking over my script today. Not very much but... | Gerald Moore | William Shakespeare | As you Like it | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday, 7th April,
Spent the evening writing. Cutting my cigarettes to one if it has any bearing on my ill-healt... | Gerald Moore | Daniel Defoe | Journal of the Plague Year | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday, 11th April,
Mother is still rather poorly. Dad has been before the beaks ! Short weight. The unchanging... | Gerald Moore | J.B. Priestley | Figures in Modern Literature | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday, 13th April,
Madge intending to call, decided to go to the Settlement to see Algy and his players. The rehe... | Gerald Moore | William Makepeace Thackeray | English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday, 21st April,
Re my songs - I might do worse than listen in to the Shakespeare celebrations broadcast on ... | Gerald Moore | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday, 20th May
The office has returned, for its diversion, to County Cricket and the Tests. Pat is an inexhaust... | Gerald Moore | | Manchester Guardian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 28th May
The Lloyd George ? Asquith split is a few days old now and it is easy to see that Lloyd George has c... | Gerald Moore | | Manchester Guardian | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 28th May
The Lloyd George ? Asquith split is a few days old now and it is easy to see that Lloyd George has c... | Gerald Moore | | New Statesman | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 3rd June
?Our Mr Wrenn? (Sinclair Lewis)
I feel crushed with the amount of spare time work I have on han... | Gerald Moore | Sinclair Lewis | Our Mr Wrenn | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 4th June
?Martin Arrowsmith? (Sinclair Lewis).
How many of my own questionings, disillusionments and hunger... | Gerald Moore | Sinclair Lewis | Martin Arrowsmith | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday 20th June
? Short History of the World? - (H.G. Wells)'. | Gerald Moore | H.G. Wells | Short History of the World | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 22nd June
?Jack Hamlin?s Mediation?etc.. (Bret Harte)
Wednesday 23rd June
A quiet day today and then last ... | Gerald Moore | Bret Harte | Jack Hamlin's Mediation | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 24th June.
?The Spanish Farm? ? (R.H. Mottram).
Our ?Robin Hood? Pageant tonight (250 present). I see th... | Gerald Moore | R.H. Mottram | The Spanish Farm | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 24th June
?The Spanish Farm? ? (R.H. Mottram)
Our ?Robin Hood? Pageant tonight (250 present). I see the ... | Gerald Moore | | Daily Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 26th June
?At the Sign of the Black Moon? ? (Wyndham-Lewis)'. | Gerald Moore | Percy Wyndham Lewis | At the Sign of the Black Moon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday 30th June.
?Orphan Island? ? (Rose Macaulay).
Looked after the infants today while Teddie went to work. ... | Gerald Moore | Rose Macaulay | Orphan Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 1st July
This has been one of those demoralising days when a late rising leaves one unable to make any use ... | Gerald Moore | Rose Macaulay | Orphan Island | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 2nd July
Teddie and I have managed to get up this morning. Here it is 10.30 and we have tidied up washed t... | Gerald Moore | Arnold Bennett | Mr Prohack | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 5th July
I finished ?Mr Prohack? last night. A fine book but I did not take to Mrs P. nor even to Mr Bennett... | Gerald Moore | Arnold Bennett | Mr Prohack | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 6th July.
?Mr Waddington of Wyck? ? (May Sinclair).
Back to the office today and find that young Reid has ... | Gerald Moore | May Sinclair | Mr Waddington of Wyck | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday 7th July.
?The English Comic Character? - (J.B.Priestley)'. | Gerald Moore | J.B. Priestley | The English Comic Character | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 8th July
I am enjoying ? between books - the ?Everyman? ?Little Flowers of St. Francis?, and find it very ... | Gerald Moore | St Francis of Assissi | Little Flowers of St Francis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 10th July
?Henry IV? ? (Shakespeare ? bought it yesterday, Temple 2 vols)'.
| Gerald Moore | William Shakespeare | Henry IV | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 12th July.
I do not like ?Lolly Willowes?. [...] I do not like these fantastic things which suggest that ... | Gerald Moore | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Lolly Willowes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 19th July
?Story teller in London? ? (Pett Ridge)
This book is of the type that I enjoy when easy reading ... | Gerald Moore | William Pett Ridge | Story Teller in London | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 22nd July.
?Unparliamentary Papers? (Reg Berkeley).
I am on my own in the luncheon hours now and find it d... | Gerald Moore | Reg Berkeley | Unparliamentary papers | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday 25th July.
?Return of the Soldier? - (Rebecca West).
A very sad book. The hero is rather imbecile as inte... | Gerald Moore | Rebecca West | Return of the Soldier | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 29th July
?Sybil? ? (Disraeli)
[...]
I went to see Mother tonight and completed the preliminary draft f... | Gerald Moore | Benjamin Disraeli | Sybil | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 30th July.
Had luncheon in the office today and stayed in reading my Economics. I am doing it more systemat... | Gerald Moore | unknown | [Economics textbook] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 31st July.
?Nicholas Nickleby? - (Charles Dickens)'.
| Gerald Moore | Charles Dickens | Nicholas Nickleby | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday 1 August.
?A Book of Famous Wits? ? (Walter Jerrold).
To see Smith with Monica. He comes home this weekend... | Gerald Moore | Walter Jerrold | A Book of Famous Wits | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 2nd August.
We did not go out today, it being Bank Holiday. We stayed in, had a nice quiet day with some mu... | Gerald Moore | unknown | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 3rd August.
?Pongo and the Bull? ? ( Belloc)'. | Gerald Moore | Hilaire Belloc | Pongo and the Bull | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 7th August
?The Untilled Field? ? (George Moore)'. | Gerald Moore | George Moore | The Untilled Field | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 9th August.
?Between the Acts? ? (H.W. Nevinson).
Pat is away now and we are feeling the pinch already. I... | Gerald Moore | H.W. Nevinson | Between the Acts | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 16th August
?John Inglesant? ? (J.H. Shorthouse).
I finished Sybil and think it certainly is a fine book f... | Gerald Moore | J.H. Shorthouse | John Inglesant | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 16th August
?John Inglesant? ? (J.H. Shorthouse).
I finished Sybil and think it certainly is a fine book f... | Gerald Moore | Benjamin Disraeli | Sybil | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 19th August
?For faith and Freedom? ? (Walter Besant)'. | Gerald Moore | Walter Besant | For Faith and Freedom | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 23rd August
I was more than usually disgusted with the ?Mail? for blatantly howling of our ?recovery of the... | Gerald Moore | Edna Lyall | To Right the Wrong | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 23rd August
I was more than usually disgusted with the ?Mail? for blatantly howling of our ?recovery of the... | Gerald Moore | | Daily Mail | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 24 August
The ?Courier? poster today says ?World mourns Rudolph Valentino? ! It makes me glad he is dead, ... | Gerald Moore | | Courier | Print: Poster |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 26th August
Pope?s ?Dunciad?
This is a week of work. Real graft. Diaries, even of small sketchy nat... | Gerald Moore | Alexander Pope | The Dunciad | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 27th August
I bought ?Esmond? and ?Westward Ho!? today and started to read the former.
Why is Thackeray su... | Gerald Moore | William Makepeace Thackeray | Esmond | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 2nd September
?Fortunes of Nigel? (Walter Scott)' | Gerald Moore | Walter Scott | The Fortunes of Nigel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 7th September
?English Opium Eater? (De Quincey)'
| Gerald Moore | Thomas de Quincey | Confessions of an English Opium Eater | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 10th September
Today my friend Pat bought Kingsley?s ?Heroes? for Monica. I am reading it myself and then... | Gerald Moore | Charles Kingsley | The Heroes | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday 12th September
?Jurgen? (James Branch Cabell)'. | Gerald Moore | James Branch Cabell | Jurgen | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 13th September
?Thrasymachus? (C.E.M. Joad)' | Gerald Moore | C.E.M. Joad | Thrasymachus | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 18th September
?Socratic Discourses? Plato & Xenophon (Everyman)
I have had the companion ?Five Dialogues... | Gerald Moore | Xenophon/Plato | Socratic Discourses | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 20th September
?Minor Elizabethan Drama? (Everyman)'
| Gerald Moore | Ashley Thorndike (ed.) | Minor Elizabethan Drama | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Sunday 26th September
?The Long Trick?, - ?Bartimeus?
A delightfully quiet day at home. Reading and writing. ... | Gerald Moore | "Bartimeus" | The Long Trick | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 30th September
?Ivanhoe? (Walter Scott)
Late work still the order of the ? night. All is still confusi... | Gerald Moore | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 4th October
?The Golden Glory? ( ? ) A great yarn this.'
| Gerald Moore | unknown | The Golden Glory | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 11th October
?Westward Ho!? (Charles Kingsley)'. | Gerald Moore | Charles Kingsley | Westward Ho! | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 14th October
?Roderick Random? (T. Smolett)'. | Gerald Moore | Tobias Smollett | Roderick Random | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 15th October.
Bought ?The Picture of Dorian Grey? in the Paris edition and the ?New Machiavelli? Benn?s new ... | Gerald Moore | H.G. Wells | The New Machiavelli | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday 20th October.
Rehearsal ? ?Brothers B.?. Did not go to rehearsal but went home to have a quiet evening ... | Gerald Moore | H.G. Wells | The New Machiavelli | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday 3rd November.
?War of Steel and Gold? ? (Henry. N. Brailsford).'
| Gerald Moore | Henry N. Brailsford | War of Steel and Gold | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 6th November.
?The Tree of Heaven? - (May Sinclair).
Bad day on the Round, but Dad has done well. Moth... | Gerald Moore | May Sinclair | The Tree of Heaven | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Monday 6th November.
?The End of Laissez-Faire? - J. M. Keynes. Busy today as usual. My latest book,[Keynes] is ve... | Gerald Moore | J. Maynard Keynes | The End of Laissez Faire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 11th November.
?Opium-eater? again.'
| Gerald Moore | Thomas de Quincey | Confessions of an English Opium Eater | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 20th November.
I do not care much for the new form of the ?New Leader?. It is the useless hopeless prop... | Gerald Moore | | New Leader | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | 'Sunday 28th November
?Decline and fall? (Edward Gibbon).' | Gerald Moore | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 7th December.
"Decline and Fall? ? Vol. 2'.
| Gerald Moore | Edward Gibbon | Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Thursday 9th December.
?The Castaways? ? (W.W. Jacob)'.
| Gerald Moore | W.W. Jacob | The Castaways | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 13th December
?The Boost of the Golden Snail? ? (Macclure)'.
| Gerald Moore | Victor MacClure | The Boost of the Golden Snail: A Fantasy of London | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Tuesday 14th December.
?Cheap Jack Zita? (Baring Gould)'. | Gerald Moore | Sabine Baring-Gould | Cheap Jack Zita | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Friday 17th December.
French Class again tonight. I don?t know whether they liked me last time. Took Mother?s cla... | Gerald Moore | Eugene Labiche | Le Voyage de M. P?rrichon | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 18th December.
?Rev. Captain Kettle? ? (Hyne)'. | Gerald Moore | Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne | The Rev. Captain Kettle | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 20th December
?Au dessus de la m?l?e? ? (Romain Rolland).
This is the first time I have managed to get hold ... | Gerald Moore | Romain Rolland | Au dessus de la m?l | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Wednesday 22 December.
I have just finished ?Au dessus de la M?l?e?. It revives all my anger at the treacherous l... | Gerald Moore | Romain Rolland | Au dessus de la m?l | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 25th December.
?Scrambles among the Alps? (Whymper)
Trying to get the proper atmosphere in a snow-less Ch... | Gerald Moore | Edward Whymper | Scrambles among the Alps | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday 27th December.
?By Order of the Company? (Johnston)'.
| Gerald Moore | Mary Johnston | By Order of the Company | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | [List of books read in 1926]
'"Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" (Holmes),
"Plain Tales from the Hills" (Kipling),
"... | Gerald Moore | Rudyard Kipling | Plain Tales from the Hills | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1st January- Saturday
I have made no New Year resolutions, and so have none to keep.
This might, thus, be an exempl... | Gerald Moore | H.G. Wells | A Modern Utopia | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '4th January ? Tuesday.
?Captain Shapely? Harold Brighouse.
A well- written yarn this. Very, very entertaining, an... | Gerald Moore | Harold Brighouse | Captain Shapely | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '5th January ? Wednesday.
I have taken out a list of the books I read last year; they total 83. Not so bad, consider... | Gerald Moore | Gerald Moore | [list of books read in 1926] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '11th January, Tuesday.
?John Inglesant? ? (J. H. Shorthouse).
I notice a report of a speech by Dr. Norwood in this ... | Gerald Moore | J.H. Shorthouse | John Inglesant | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '11th January, Tuesday.
?John Inglesant? ? (J. H. Shorthouse).
I notice a report of a speech by Dr. Norwood in this ... | Gerald Moore | | Liverpool Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '13th January, Thursday.
?John Inglesant? ( J.H.Shorthouse).
I am re-reading this, not only because it is one of the... | Gerald Moore | J.H. Shorthouse | John Inglesant | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '18th January, Tuesday.
?The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation? (S & B Webb)
I was up till late last night finishing ... | Gerald Moore | Sidney and Beatrice Webb | The Decay of Capitalist Civilisation | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '20th January, Thursday.
Pat has given me a number of his poems for the ?Two Houses?. [a magazine of which Gerald Mo... | Gerald Moore | George Eric Paterson | poems [unspecified] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1900-1945 | '30th January, Sunday.
I had to stay at home today to do my washing for the forthcoming week, and to put the rooms to... | Gerald Moore | H.G. Wells | The Dream | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '2nd February, Wednesday.
I have been reading Zangwills, ?King of the Schnorres? and some other yarns of his. He is... | Gerald Moore | Israel Zangwill | King of the Schnorres | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '6th February, Sunday.
We paid a visit to the church. As usual, it being a familiar object to me, I have taken litt... | Gerald Moore | | Roll of Honour of soldiers killed in the First World War | Print: Book, Plaque |
| 1900-1945 | '18th February, Thursday.
The packet steamed into the harbour backwards. Another rush across the quay and through ... | Gerald Moore | | Advertisements in French | Print: Advertisement |
| 1900-1945 | '19th February, Saturday.
The Governor having gone off at one for a tour round the sights with Mr Leclerege, I had th... | Gerald Moore | | menu in French | Print: menu |
| 1900-1945 | '23rd February, Wednesday.
This evening after dinner, I flitted from the splendour of the ?Grand? to the hospital-col... | Gerald Moore | H.G. Wells | The Invisible Man | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '26th February, Saturday.
Finally, succumbing to a morbid desire to get away from people I went off ?home? and read t... | Gerald Moore | | Le Sourire | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '17th March, Thursday.
The books in my room are an interesting lot, and I will be able to resume reading. I have al... | Gerald Moore | Claude Farr?re | Les Civilis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '19th March, Saturday.
Spent the afternoon reading and lounging. [...] ?Jocaste? and ?Le Chat Maigre? A. France.'
| Gerald Moore | Anatole France | Jocaste et le Chat Maigre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '29th March, Tuesday.
?La Gar?onne? V. Marguerite.
30th March, Wednesday.
These last few days I have been readin... | Gerald Moore | V. Marguerite | La Gar?onne | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '15th September 1928.
Reading Zola today (Une Page D?Amour). A book surprisingly different from, and someho... | Gerald Moore | Emile Zola | Une Page d'Amour | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '16th September 1928
I am now re-reading Chesterton?s ?History of the United States?. I have never been able to ... | Gerald Moore | Cecil Chesterton | History of the United States | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '17th September 1928.
The Geneva conference between the six powers has ended in the happy decision that the Rhinelan... | Gerald Moore | | Le Journal | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '17th September 1928.
[...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to ... | Gerald Moore | W.W. Jacobs | The Castaways | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '17th September 1928.
[...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to ... | Gerald Moore | W.W. Jacobs | Deep Waters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '17th September 1928.
[...] The new piece by Maurice Rostand is getting a very favourable press and I would like to ... | Gerald Moore | Cecil Chesterton | The History of the United States | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '19th September 1928 (Wednesday)
I have got nearly all my books home from the office now. It is a lengthy job, bri... | Gerald Moore | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '20th September 1928 (Thursday).
I note that one of the Swiss Cantons has passed a law enforcing the sterilisation of... | Gerald Moore | | Le Journal | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '22nd September 1928 (Saturday).
I have started to read Kipling?s ?Letters of travel? again. I am very fond of this... | Gerald Moore | Rudyard Kipling | Letters of Travel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '22nd September 1928 (Saturday).
The cat is out of the bag over the Anglo-French naval pact. One of the Hearst pape... | Gerald Moore | | The New York American | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '28th September 1928 (Friday).
I have been reading an article on Ibsen by Thomas Vladesco in the ?Mercure de France... | Gerald Moore | Thomas Vladesco | [article on Henrik Ibsen] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '30th September 1928 (Sunday)
We saw the Clichy party to their tram, then [illegible] Henry and I had a coffee at ... | Gerald Moore | Romain Rolland | Jean Christophe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '1st October 1928 (Monday).
Dug further into ?Jean Christophe? in the Luncheon hour. Am thoroughly enjoying this gr... | Gerald Moore | Romain Rolland | Jean Christophe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '2nd September 1928 (Tuesday)
Sunday?s ?Observer? suggests a clean break with the line of diplomatic action brought... | Gerald Moore | Romain Rolland | Jean Christophe | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '2nd September 1928 (Tuesday)
Sunday?s ?Observer? suggests a clean break with the line of diplomatic action brought... | Gerald Moore | | The Observer | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '3rd October 1928 (Wednesday).
Late to work, naturally. Although tired, put in a good day?s work and returned hom... | Gerald Moore | Rudyard Kipling | Letters of Travel | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '6th October 1928 (Saturday).
So I finish my day, after an abundant dinner reading
?Taras Boulba? (Gogol) - tr... | Gerald Moore | Nikolay Vasilevich Gogol | Taras Boulba | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Saturday 13th October 1928.
After dinner went with Mme. and George to Romainville to hear Georges Pioch on Tolsto?. ... | Gerald Moore | Leo Tolstoy | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Monday, 15th October 1928
?Vie de Tolstoy? (Romain Rolland)'.
| Gerald Moore | Romain Rolland | Vie de Tolstoy | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '24th October 1928.
Late to work. Hurried letter from mother asking me to obtain for her 10 copies of ?la Vie Litt... | Gerald Moore | H. Barbusse | La Clart | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '27th October 1928 (Saturday)
?La Rive d?Asie? (Claude Anet)' | Gerald Moore | Claude Anet | La Rive d?Asie | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '30th October 1928.
I received my first parcel of papers from Mother today. The ?Birkenhead Advertiser?, the ?New ... | Gerald Moore | | Birkenhead Advertiser | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '30th October 1928.
I received my first parcel of papers from Mother today. The ?Birkenhead Advertiser?, the ?New ... | Gerald Moore | | New Leader | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '1st January 1929 (Tuesday)
In the eveningthe usual German sing-song. I to bed early. Re-reading ?Back to Meth... | Gerald Moore | George Bernard Shaw | Back to Methuselah | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '4th January 1929.
?Back to Methuselah?. G. B. Shaw'
| Gerald Moore | George Bernard Shaw | Back to Methuselah | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '6th January 1929.
After tea Mrs Webster started knitting a jumper and we ?boys? read. My literature was a book by... | Gerald Moore | W.J. Locke | [?] The Usurper | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '7th January 1929 Monday.
This evening reading a book bought from Raincy, and writing to Teddie.
?Beyond? Galswort... | Gerald Moore | John Galsworthy | Beyond | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '8th January 1929
?Beyond? is a charming book. Sad both in its story and in the writer?s outlook, it is yet most ... | Gerald Moore | John Galsworthy | Beyond | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '12th January 1929.
During the afternoon I read Bordeaux?s ?Robe de laine?, but not with much enjoyment. I do not ... | Gerald Moore | Henry Bordeaux | Robe de Laine | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '13th February 1929
I note from ?Excelsior? that the ?Kings? or their representatives, the princes and princesses ... | Gerald Moore | | Excelsior | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '16th February 1929.
?Appreciation of music? (Pollitt)'
| Gerald Moore | Arthur W. Pollitt | The Enjoyment of Music | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '17th February 1929 (Sunday).
After a long and very cosy dinner I started for home. I missed the train owing to my ... | Gerald Moore | Romain Rolland | Les Amis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '24th February 1929 (Sunday)
Finished reading ?Les Amis? before luncheon. Rolland is the most ?beautiful? wri... | Gerald Moore | Romain Rolland | Les Amis | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '24th February 1929 (Sunday)
Finished reading ?Les Amis? before luncheon. Rolland is the most ?beautiful? wri... | Gerald Moore | Oscar Wilde | The Portrait of Dorian Gray | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '25th February 1929 (Monday).
Still at home, but hope to return to work tomorrow.
A quiet day, reading the papers... | Gerald Moore | | Le Temps | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '26th February 1929.
No paper today owing to state of finances. From Friday?s ?Journal? I note that the historic Ta... | Gerald Moore | | Le Journal | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '27th February 1929.
Paris is having a gay old time following the dispute between the luck of the press and M. Coty.... | Gerald Moore | | Le Matin | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '3rd March 1929.
At Montmartre. I promised to conduct the latest pensionnaires over Montmartre when they first arr... | Gerald Moore | | [Road sign] | Print: Road sign |
| 1900-1945 | '5th March 1929.
Papers from mother, with an account of the opening of the new girls? Secondary school. A very fine... | Gerald Moore | Pierre Benoit | Atlandide | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '7th March 1929.
Reading ?La M?re? (Gorki).'
| Gerald Moore | Maxime | La M?re | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '12th March 1929
Wrote to mother; read my week?s papers and extracted cuttings.'
| Gerald Moore | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '14th March 1929
?They have used God Himself to cheer us! They have clothed him in lies and calumny to kill our so... | Gerald Moore | Maxime Gorki | La M?re | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '14th March 1929.
I had the ?Open Road? in my pocket, and we [G.M. and a friend, Miss Mundel] read bits together, an... | Gerald Moore | Walt Whitman | Song of the Open Road | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '15th March 1929
Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ... | Gerald Moore | Brooks | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '15th March 1929
Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ... | Gerald Moore | Rudyard Kipling | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '15th March 1929
Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ... | Gerald Moore | Oliver Wendell Holmes | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '15th March 1929
Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ... | Gerald Moore | Artemus Ward | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '15th March 1929
Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ... | Gerald Moore | Thomas de Quincey | Confessions of an English Opium Eater | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '15th March 1929
Miss M?ndel and I inspect my little library. We read some Brooks, Kipling, Holmes, Artemus Ward, ... | Gerald Moore | Charles Dickens | Sketches by Boz | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '17th March 1929 (Sunday).
Slept until 12 !
In the afternoon read my papers and ?Punch?. Everyone out, drawn by ... | Gerald Moore | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | '17th March 1929 (Sunday).
Slept until 12 !
In the afternoon read my papers and ?Punch?. Everyone out, drawn by ... | Gerald Moore | | Punch, or the London Charivari | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1900-1945 | '20th March 1929.
Finished ?La M?re? (Gorki)' | Gerald Moore | Maxime Gorki | La M?re | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '21st March 1929.
?Le Petit Pierre? (Anatole France).' | Gerald Moore | Anatole France | Le Petit Pierre | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '23rd March 1929 (Saturday).
Bought a ?Monde?, a ?Canard Enchain??, and Goncourt?s ?La Faustin? then spent the afte... | Gerald Moore | Edmond Goncourt | La Faustin | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '24th March 1929 (Sunday).
Delicious morning. We breakfasted in the garden, and after, while the Th?ologues retire ... | Gerald Moore | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1900-1945 | 'I am well into ?Dodsworth? and am liking it. It is very interesting though I find that Lewis has rather a ?green?, a ... | Gerald Moore | Sinclair Lewis | Dodsworth | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I still like ?Dodsworth?, and now am a little sorry for Mrs.
She certainly does seem to lose herself and he is some... | Gerald Moore | Sinclair Lewis | Dodsworth | Print: Book |