Max Beerbohm wrote to Siegfried Sassoon that Haydon's was the best diary he had ever read. Harold Acton declared him ' a more exciting figure than Ruskin' and Aldous Huxley sang his praises. Haydon's portraits hang in almost all Britain's major collections but it is here that he reveals himself the witty, brilliant diarist with passionate unforgettable opinions about everything from Napoleon's digestion to Queen Victoria's complexion.
- ISBN10 1842121987
- ISBN13 9781842121986
- Publish Date 1 January 2010 (first published 19 July 1990)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 7 July 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson History
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English