Diaries

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This collection consists of a diary kept by Annie Carver Vasseur Ivey between April-December 1919. At that time, she lived in Lenoir, North Carolina. The diary chronicles her life experiences, her family, friends, and neighbors.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of a diary and a memorial. The diary contains the personal daily writings of C. M. Campbell for the year 1861. The entries include personal notes about acquaintances and family, daily weather reports, church attendance, health issues, and a short passage on the Civil War. It is believed the writer is female as there is reference to a husband, "Mr. C." The diary has two obituaries pasted inside both the front and back covers. The descedents were from Pennsylvania. The...

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The collection consists of a diary kept by Louise Short in 1933. Most entries relate to her daily activities. She also speaks of friends, traveling to Galax, Wytheville, Independence, and Bristol, Virginia. A person named Kyle is mentioned often. It is likely that Short attended Oak Hill Academy in Southwest Virginia, an assumption based on her description of a co-educational campus with proximity to locations such as Grassy Creek, N.C. and Elk Creek/Independence, Virginia.

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This collection consists of a diary written by an unidentified person living in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, just after the end of the American Civil War. The author details life in the anthracite coalfields of western Pennsylvania from 1866-1867. The author also kept track of accounts in the back of the diary.

Scope and Contents This commercial daily diary for 1904 was kept by a young woman named Lena who lived in New York City from 1904 to 1905. The entries are intermittent from January to May 1904, and there are more detailed entries about falling in love and getting engaged from January to December 1905. Lena's diary documents her courtship by William Packer of Brooklyn, who takes her to the opera and several music concerts. As the relationship becomes more serious, Lena describes the "so strange and new"...