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THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT ALSO TO LOOK AT KIP FENN, A MAJOR NOVEL ABOUT THE 21st CENTURY - freely available on this site Collis, Maurice ___ 1889-1973 ___ Irish ___ civilservant, writer BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY Born and brought up in Ireland, but educated at Oxford, Collis joined the Indian Civil Service, and was sent to Burma in 1912. In 1917, the British army raised a Burmese brigade with which Collis went to Palestine, but he saw no action. In 1919, he went on leave and travelled in Europe. Thereafter, he became very involved with Burma and Burmese life, and only won promotion slowly. On returning to England in 1934, he wrote many books, including 'Siamese White' and 'Foreign Mud', as well as art and literary criticism. As an old man he turned his hand to painting. One biography link DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS 1949-1969 ___ literary culture people art society WEB TEXT LINKS ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS Trinity College Dublin ___ probably SOME PUBLISHED TITLES Maurice Collis Diaries 1949-1969 December 2005 THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS Please email if you have any corrections, additions or comments.

IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.

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