A Brief Note from Douglas Clegg

The early tales of Harrow are drawn from diaries and fragments of diaries, for the most part. This diary of Justin Gravesend’s early life is one of several he kept during his lifetime. Additionally, he encouraged the keeping of diaries by his wife and mistresses when he was an older man, no doubt to enhance whatever fame or delusions of grandeur he had.

What is perhaps most remarkable, to me, was the discovery of poem fragments in this diary. I include with this document an introduction by an esteemed academician whose primary studies have been in the history of the occult and classical mythology. Additionally, I have placed Gravesend’s so-called “Visionaries” in the order in which he had set them, on separate sheets of parchment, within the diary itself, as if place markers of some sort.