Nov 23 Tuesday.

Caledonian Market, alone.
Silver & dark mother-of-pearl necklace with brooch & cross 22/61. assorted clasps 4/-. Hester Bateman salt-cellars, pair, & pair of spoons £5.5. Curtains 17/- (chintz & one for use as dress material in mauve blue black) Bristol necklace 2/-, brown lustre beads 6d, Worcester plates for Alan 1/-, box of false guineas 2/6, miniature dominoes 7/6, silver chain 7/6, silver thimble & brooch 2/6, coral-&-pinchbeck necklace & pinchbeck bracelet 12/-. Met Ward there.[RG]
On return fitted clasps to the ivory tusk & amber necklace & bracelets, to the Bristol beads, to a brown & silver lustre necklace I strung.
Alix & Harry to Bow street with Laura & back to tea. David Reeves came: he thinks of getting a job with Kit Nicholson.
Belisarius 7 pp [pages], finishing Ch [Chapter] XX
Alan's letter turned down by Nowell Smith2 in absence of Sir Bruce as too controversial (¿anything to do with Auden getting the King's Medal?)
He said: 'Now if it had been Edith Sitwell3!..'
Maisie to supper & talked till [until] 2.15.

Editorial Notes

122 shillings, sixpence eds.
2Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith (1909-1996), journalist and critic with T.L.S. KG
3Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) British poet, critic and biographer eds.