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This notebook was started in April 1944 and the last dated entry is June 1944.

Entires are dated between August and September 1944.

There are 3 separate text, 2 typescript and 1 typescript and continued in hand by Marion Milner. At least one of the typescripts appears to have been prepared by Dennis Milner. One document is headed ‘MINNEAPOLIS 28-ix-28’, another ‘NEW YORK CITY 28-xi-28’’

Marion Milner records a study timetable; lists of books; personal notes and observations of the World.

Loosely inserted are 3 photographs. The first is probably of Milner as a child; the second probably of her brother Patrick Blackett; the third is of 2 girls in costume [very faded].

The documents diary written retrospectively in 1886 to cover 1881 to 1893 (at the end is a list of wedding presents and a more detailed account of the first few months of her daughter Joan's life) (loose inserts include an accounts of the decline in health and of death of Hugh Verrall in 1909, and other diary pages); diary, 1894-1909; diary, 1909-1917 (loose inserts include later diary notes, 1920, 1931; travel diary, 1903-1908 (loose inserts include a list of art viewed in Florence, photograph of Nannie [?] in St Moritz, 1890, diary notes for 1917, 1919, 1922); pocket diary with brief entries, 1939.

Theses documents provide a real insight into the life of a Victorian/Edwardian lady, as well as providing information on society in Hove and Brighton during that time. Specific matters covered include the marriage of Hugh John Verrall and Anna Hodgson in 1881; balls and 'At Homes'; visitors; births of children; illnesses; holidays; pastimes.

Paper published in 'Leaves for the Students' Note Books' (The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, 1947). The paper was also submitted as an entry in the 'Chambers's Encyclopaedia' but susbequently withdrawn (see related papers in P03-A-F-02).

Desy Safan-Gerard is an artist and psychoanalyst. The documents comprise correspondence, notes and papers relating to the interests she shares with Marion Milner.

In 2010, Desy Safan-Gerard kindly sent the Institute of Psycholanalysis a print of a collage painting that she made with a photograph of Marion Milner at its centre. This was intended to be used in the celebration of Marion Milner's birthday. The print can be viewed along with these materials.