Ian and Cecil Jacob's diary

Written by Ian Jacob about his and his wife Cecil Jacob's daily lives, including his work with 12th Field Company of the Royal Engineers, June 1927-; Ian Jacob playing cricket, rugby and hockey and Ian and Cecil Jacob playing tennis and golf, July 1927-; visits to the theatre, cinema and sporting events, July 1927-; domestic life at Woodbridge in Suffolk, July 1927-, and Farnborough in Hampshire, July 1927-June 1928; a military exercise near Didcot in Oxfordshire, August-September 1927; the theft of a suitcase from their car in London, October 1927; Ian Jacob fox cubbing and hunting, September 1927-March 1928, and riding in a point-to-point, April 1928; car maintenance, December 1927 and February 1928; heavy winter snowfall, December 1927; Ian Jacob's grandparents' diamond wedding anniversary in Cambridge, February 1928; a tour of the battlefields of Mons and Le Cateau in Belgium, March 1928;

With theatre and sports programmes, a menu, press cuttings, and other printed ephemera.

Also with press cuttings of stills from the film "Chang: a Drama of the Wilderness", about wildlife in Thailand, January 1928; and a black-and-white photograph of the competitors in the point-to-point, the Royal Engineers' Light-Weight Challenge Cup, April 1928.