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The Queen's Medal for Poetry, cricketing exploits, Dennis Silk in fine form for Somerset, visit of Edmund Blunden, death of Ronald Knox. George Sassoon got a third in his examinations.

Visit to Cambridge for George Sassoon's birthday. faith through prayer. The authority of the Catholic church. Reading the sermons of Ronald Knox. Dennis Silk to tour [East] Africa with the MCC.

Sends wedding gift. Thinks Evelyn Waugh's biography of Ronald Knox very good. Dennis Silk to be Assistant Secretary of the MCC.

Broadcast by 'HMT'. Leavis in good form and working well, Death of Anna Gosse, Ronald Knox recovering from a major operation. Reviews of Sequences are superficial and inadequate.

Saw a Ted Dexter century at Fenners, Thought it pathetic that some varsity cricketers were studying while playing. Had nets with Dennis and was batting well. H M Tomlinson suffered two strokes an recuperating at Abbotsbury. Robert Frost's reading at Cambridge was wonderful.

Arrangement to meet at Salisbury. George and Stephanie visiting - he broadcasts amateur radio, she reads at express speed. Altercation between George and Stephanie and Miss Benn the housekeeper when the latter engaged in an 'overactive offensive against cockroaches in the kitchen' at night. Feelings about his daughter-in-law.

Arranging to visit Cambridge and having a net at Fenners. News of Dennis Silk. BBC to visit to record a programme of Sassoon reading a selection of his poetry and prose.

Arrangements to visit Bristol

Arrangements to meet for lunch

Opinion of the Suez crisis. Visits from Dennis Silk, M. Melhuish, Robin Marlar and S.C. Roberts. Review of Sequences in the Sunday Times. Repairs to fabric of Heytesbury House.