Diary extracts for March 1936
5th Mar 1936:
Painting (30x25) . . . of open window with figures, looking across river, barge with sails set [The Balcony]. Finished it on 12th March. (sold in Oct with 2 small pictures ['Lifeboat House, Coverack' and 'Whitby, Low Tide'] for 35 gns)
16th Mar 1936:
Painting of Stonehaven, Sandsend (16x20) Finished on 19th.
20th Mar 1936:
3-master unloading timber, red customs house in centre (16x20) Finished on 23rd. ( sold to Grace Williams [composer and Mavis's college friend] for 14 gns October)
21st Mar 1936:
Digging lawn at back of house all morning. Painted in afternoon.
Crispin 5 months. Took notice of clavichord and Bach for the 1st time. Also smiled at his toy lamb.
25th Mar 1936:
Went to Kit Wood show at Redfern (had long conversation with Mrs. Wood (mother))
27th Mar 1936:
Queen Mary arrives in Southampton for the first time.
Mavis and I went on the Hotspur ferry down to Calshot and had a magnificent view of her coming up the water and later as she went into dry dock.