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Competition

For their eyes only

3 March 2016

3:00 PM

3 March 2016

3:00 PM

In Competition No. 2937 you were invited to submit extracts from the diaries of the famous that their writers did not wish the world to see.

Josh Ekroy impressed, lifting the lid on F.R. Leavis’s and C.P. Snow’s chummy trysts; Alan Millard wasn’t alone in outing God-botherer Richard Dawkins; and here’s a snippet from Sylvia Fairley’s Wordsworth:

Walked around Ullswater in pensive mood, unable to find a suitable rhyme for ‘hills’.

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