Please give this a second look, I’m desperate!

Do you have any more bibliographic information? Very interesting that Sunday is noted with a fraktur. That seems historically archaic as if to say Sunday being a holy day is still set apart with a holy typeface.

What sort of “old” are you talking about here? This looks like something from the 1950s/1960s, and that would be sympathetic with the Sunday fractur.

The rest of the letters are vaguely Caslon (Rough is close-ish, except for the r), but the numbers aren’t anywhere near that....

It’s from 1952 and published in the UK. I have one other sample here, but it’s clearly a different face for the display size... does it give any clues?

Diary and 1952 are Goudy Catalogue:

http://www.fontshop.com/fonts/downloads/elsner_flake/goudy_catalogue/