Mary Quayle Innis Diary 1964-1968

December 30

1964. Wed. Mild & wet. Sharon took Bay out. Read to Hugh. Reading "Road to Confederation"

1965. Thu. Talked & played games. Hugh, Lorraine, Joan & Paul came - [unclear] for lunch. D. etc. left for home. Talked & worked on puzzle. [Unclear] for dinner. Children very good

1966. Fri. Children walked dog. Played Guggenheim. They to Scarborough. I read & knitted.

1967. Sat. Cold. Children sliding, Donald marking papers. D. took children to Birchcliffe. we talked.

1968. Mon. shopped. Cold & bright. Wendy, Mary, Jenny & John came for lunch - talked, sorted stamps. very good time.

December 31

1964. Thurs. Colder. Hugh better, Bay has cold. Anne & Ian came back, Donald came. Ian & I shopped. Talked & talked.

1965. Fri. Took Bay to school & called for him. Took Hugh to shop. Mild & windy. A. & I. to Scottish dancing party.

1966. Sat. Donald & I to shop. Talked & read - quiet day - listened to New Year's on radio at St. John & Charlottetown.

1967. Sun. I to Deer Park church to hear Dr. Griffith. Irene Spry came to see us. Donald & I went to Hugh's. Very cold. A lovely day.

1968. Mon. Milder. Had my hair done. To bank. Wrote letters. began to pack. radio.

C.D. Bowen - Adventures in Biography Tillotson - Shakespeare's History Plays Chetwode - Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalusia Smollett - Humphrey Clinker Thomas - Abraham Lincoln Wodeham Smith - The Great Hunger Herold - Napoleon in Egypt Zola - Germinal Herold - Age of Napoleon Bryant - Makers of the Realm " - Age of Chivalry Hofstadter - Anti-Intellectualism in American Life C.B. Sissons - Nil Alienum " - My Dearest Sophie Fielding, Jonathan Wild Duggan, Count Bohemond Longford, Queen Victoria Vining, Take Heed of Loving Me Plato - Republic Ruskin, Praeterita Kazantzakis - St Francis, Greek Passion Zorba the Greek, Report to Greco Gandhi - Autobiography [unclear] - For Pity's Sake [unclear] - Laurier

Simenon - The Little Saint Clark - Short History of the Church Patrick White - Voss " " Riders in the Chariot Q. Leavis Fiction & Reading Public C. Stead, The Man Who Loved Children Tuchman - The Proud Tower Pushkin B. Russell - Western Philosophy Byron - Don Juan James Bryce - Holy Roman Empire B. Russell - Autobiography Jaeger - Paedeia I H. Nicolson - Age of Reason R. West, The Birds Fall Down Troyat, Tolstoy H. Nicolson, Diaries & Letters B. Russell, Autobiography Trevor-Roper, Last Days of Hitler

Gounod - Sanctus