A loose leaf diary detailing WD Walker's daily life including study, medical duties, travel and personal routine. This item covers locations around London (United Kingdom) and environs.

References to photographs taken include:

• WD Walker and John Flynn at the Abbotsford Hotel and Euston Station, Geo Stephenson's statue, Father Christmas, Jack in the boxes near Selfridge's 20 December 1929
  
  
• photograph of page from Kitty Spur's autograph book 21 December 1929
  
  

Individuals, subject matter and locations noted include:

• Phyllis Wright, Billy Lambert, Betty Lambert, Mr Alexander, Mollie, WD Walker, Dr Preston, Mrs Preston, Mr Lambert, Mrs, Lambert, Christmas dinner, Ramsay McDonald 1 December 1929
  
  
• Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) examinations, Prof. Gladstone, long discussion relating to trade matters and empire marketing 3 December 1929
  
  
• Prof. Samson, RCS examinations, Pelman course 4 December 1929
  
  
• John Flynn, Mollie, Pares Russian history 5 December 1929
  
  
• Pelman Institute letter regarding prospectus 'The Efficient Mind' dated 7 November 1929
  
  
• Pelman Institute letter to follow up prospectus. Annotated "Failed to do so. Received only a very scrappy general and unconvincing reply to a 12 page letter in answer to the aforesaid ques." dated 5 December 1929
  
  
• Pelman Institute 4 page letter regarding careful self examination dated 12 December 1929
  
  
• Pelman Institute letter further copy of prospectus. Annotated "Same old gag" dated 21 January 1931
  
  
• blank Enrolment form for the Pelman Institute mind and memory training dated 23 December 1929
  
  
• blank two page Roneoed sheet of questions relating to the Pelman Institute mind and memory training
  
  
• six pages pencil notes relating to the Pelman course
  
  
• seven page self analysis supplied to the Pelman Institute dated 7 December 1929
  
  
• Prof. Samson, Pelman literature 6 December 1929
  
  
• empire free trade, Pelman 7 December 1929
  
  
• Thames River floods, aeroplanes, SS Homeric, Dr Hackett (AA 122) 9 December 1929
  
  
• Daily Express, Daily Telegraph, empire free trade, letter to the editor, Prof. Samson Wright 10 December 1929
  
  
• Mollie, John Flynn, Kitty Spur, West ukCroydon, Dr Coghill, trapezoid, hamate, illustrated address to girls high school by John Flynn on the 'Australian outback,' Miss Harper, Miss Ransford, soccer 11 December 1929
  
  
• Prof. Wright, Prof. Roaf, failed RCS exams, nswSydney Mail, Sir Josiah Stamp, Rex Hylton, Jenks, John Flynn, Mission to Shearers, Beltana 12 December 1929
  
  
• Shorty Hamilton, D'arcy Marks, Rennie Bouvariwala, Berrill, Gwen Cressey, New Criterion, Tiny Cressey, substantive discussion on the practice of 'tipping,' Jack Hulbert, Mrs Wallace, Skegness 13 December 1929
  
  
• Skinner's Hall, 'Second Mrs Fraser', Miss Dickinson, Selborne Society, Ramblers Section, Mr Jim Alexander, Marie Tempest, Irene van Brug, John Flynn, Elma Gibbs, Angela Budderley 14 December 1929
  
  
• John Flynn's maps from the Inlander 1924, radiography exhibition, xrays, R101 air ship 15 December 1929
  
  
• British Empire Club, John Flynn, Wigmore Hall, Frida Lindrum, Selfridges 16 December 1929
  
  
• Miss Willis 17 December 1929
  
  
• Royal Northern Orthopedic Hospital, Bockley Hill, Rex Hylton, Prof. Frazer, Prof. Stibbe, Prof. Samson Wright, John Flynn 18 December 1929
  
  
• Mollie, Mr Jim Alexander, Prof. Stibbe, Rex Hylton, John Flynn 19 December 1929
  
  
• John Flynn, Arthur hall, 'Medical Trials' by Parry, London Bridge, Linctus Heroin, Mollie, HA Wyllie, Empire Crusade foundation member, Dr Rodman, Xrays, St Clair Thomson, Witherley 20 December 1929
  
  
• John Flynn, Aerial Medical Service, actinometer 21 December 1929
  
  
• British Medical Council registration 22 December 1929
  
  
• Dr Vaughan, Mrs Kirby, Colliseum, Mr Horton, Dr Rodman, Mollie, Miss Willis 24 December 1929
  
  
• Peter Pan, Mrs Kirby, Mr Stoker, Mr Cantrill, Miss Prestwich, Dr Gillespie, Mr Carpenter 25 December 1929
  
  
• 'Roper's Row' Warwick Deeping, Mr Richardson 26 December 1929
  
  
• Charlie Chaplin, 'A Dog's Life,' Thomas Hardie, 'Under the Greenwood Tree,' Olympic Theatre 27 December 1929
  
  
• British Museum of Natural History, Selborne Society, Mr Montagu Phillips (guide and lecturer), Watty, kangaroo, specimens, Abbotsford hotel, Mollie, 'Student Prince,' 28 December 1929
  
  
• breakage of micro-slides 29 December 1929
  
  
• 5000 photographs and negatives in storage, Watty, Fiji, Sim Newland, Geoff Morley, kidney, Mr Montagu Phillips, Mr Leonard, dipretodon, Sir Edgeworth David, dinosaur, Mollie, opal, White Cliffs, Etheridge, Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), Garrick theater, Peggy O'Neill, 'Peg o' my Heart,' Smith Kaye's, 'School for Scandal,' Angela Badderley, 'Admirable Creichton' 30 December 1929
  
  
• dentist 31 December 1929
  
  
• Mollie, 'Roper's Row' 1 January 1930
  
  
• news clipping the Register dated 11 November 1929 headed 'Furtherest outpost, Wonderful Blacks, Wild Aborigines, a Wyndham camel'
  
  
• photograph of sailing ship news clipping Auckland Weekly News 20/10/30. Annotated "Top s'l schooner. Leeward ketch"
  
  
• diary page. Annotated "West of Oodna 21/3/28"
  
  
• A4 sheet folded. Annotated "Maps distances etc, Adel-Alice, saHawker-Durham-syd, Adel-Alice, saHawker-Durham-nswSydney, + photogs=records. To put in diary"
  
  
• diary page obverse list of distance between gates with presumed date of passing; developing and processing notes giving date, location and number of packs or rolls and number of exposures. Reverse headed 'Films sent for D@P during tour 1927-9 mostly addressed to Harrington
  
  
• half A4 sheet list of towns and distance between same
  
  
• diary page headed P@O (petrol and oil) giving date, place, speedo reading, petrol, total left, MPG, oil, MPG dated 28/7/1927-13/3/1929
  
  
• diary page hand drawn map obverse Coober Pedy to Alice Springs, reverse Macumba to Marilyana
  
  
• diary page hand drawn map obverse Peterborough to Birdsville, reverse ntHamilton to Powell Creek
  
  
• A4 sheet hand drawn map obverse Mellon to Innamincka, reverse Pt Augusta to Birdsville
  
  
• news clipping the Register News Pictorial headed 'New silver-lead field arouses great interest, incorporating several photographs and a map of the Barrow Creek area dated 25.9.1929
  
  
• six small sheets with pencil notes of stores taken on car, journey 1927-29
  
  
• three small sheets with pencil notes, one of stores taken on car, journey 1927-29, one of names and addresses of people met on journey, the third names and telephone numbers in Adelaide