January:

Wednesday 1st Glasgow. Messiah. Noon. Turquoise silver. Miscellaneous 7pm. Sleeveless green. How changed, Watts, Hark, New Year carol, Star candles, Piper, P.R.T. Central [Hotel].

Thursday 2nd Central [Hotel].

Friday 3rd Milngavie. Music Club. Recital. 7.30. Ailie Cullen [accompanist]. Emerald green. 10.35 sleeper. Consort, How changed, Verdant, Pack clouds, Willow, Whyte lily, Nightingale, Flocks, May night, Blacksmith, Roses 3, Swallow, Barefoot, Bable, Loughareema, Sigh, Salley, P.R.T.

Sunday 5th Rick's birthday.

Monday 6th Oppy [opera coach Hans Oppenheim]: Fairy Queen. Phew! Facial L1.10. German lesson. L1.10. Bus fare 2s. Seats for opera L1.1. Taxi to and fro L1.15.

Wednesday 8th 5pm Oppy. German lesson L1.10.

Thursday 9th Tosca. Sadlers Wells. Good.

Friday 10th Antony and Cleopatra. Magnificent.

Saturday 11th Oppy 11. Rubbra 2pm.

Monday 13th Oppy 11.

Tuesday 14th Ralph [Hawkes] Boosey 12 noon.

Wednesday 15th Tosca B10 B11 [seat numbers].

Friday 17th Oppy 11am. Roy 4.30.

Saturday 18th Rehearse [Eric] Bimrose morning. Taxi 12.45. Kings X 1.25. Leeds 5.59. Mrs Poulson.

Sunday 19th Castleford. Messiah. Afternoon 2.30. Reh 1pm. Chinese green. New Picture House, Station Road. No food.

Monday 20th Figaro. Mr Rubbra morning rehearsal. Oppy 2.30.

Tuesday 21st Rubbra 11.30. Flora 8.15.

Wednesday 22nd Harpenden. Public Hall. Hertfordshire Music Club. Recital. 745. Roy and Gerald Moore. Chinese green. Purcell, Brahms Four Serious, Silent Noon, Sleep, P.R.T. Five eyes – duet.

Thursday 23rd St Bartholomew’s, Holborn. 6.15. Brahms Four Serious. [Premiere of Three Psalms by] Rubbra [who accompanied her]. [William] Pleeth. Black woolly.

Friday 24th Dinner. Rubbra, Margaret Good, Pleeth.

Saturday 25th Cambridge Technical School. Recital. 4.15. Daphne [Ibbott]. Chinese green. Vision, Dearest consort, Sweet rose, Caro mio ben, Pur dicesti, An die Musik, Gretchen, Röslein, Lough, Bold, Star candles, Piper, Sleep, P.R.T.

Sunday 26th BB C. Concert Hall BH. Schubert. 6.20–7.30. reh 4pm. [Frederick Stone accompanist]. 1. Kennst du das Land?, Heiss mich nicht reden, So lasst mich scheinen, Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt. 2. An den Mond, In Haine, Schlummerlied, Die junge Nonne.

Tuesday 28th Lunch Parry. To Gloucester 6.35 [train].

Wednesday 29th Gloucester. Guildhall. Two recitals. 3 and 7pm. Chinese green. Troubled?, Cradle song, Flocks, Pack clouds, Yowes, Kitty my love, Bonnet, Bobby. Evening like Melksham [30th] except German Schubert.