Only silver linings…………
Every cloud has a silver lining...even December's damp clouds mean we have an excuse to get SUPER cosy. This is a wonderful example of paratexts in a sailing diary from the 1950s.
Remarkable
This wonderful collection of diaries is quite remarkable - a real gift! Diaries of Meg Hendry The diaries date from 1903-1917. They are three thick notebooks, in which the diarist has embroidered sayings, photographs, and dates. The diaries are made up of irregular entries in a number of formats, ranging from the diarist's poetry, the poetry of others, newspaper clippings, observations, and lists of books read. At the beginning of the volume for 1908-1917 the diarist lists each New Year's Day's weather each year from 1908-1917. The diarist notes the location for each poem and in each reflects on a [...]
British Library Event 2019 Spring
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Indeed, who doesn’t?
June21st 'What young lady, travelling for the first time on the continent, does not write a 'Diary'? …Forth steps from its case the morocco-bound diary, regularly ruled and paged, with its patent Bramah lock and key' Anna Brownell Jameson, Diary of an Ennuyée, 21 June 1836
An entry a day keeps the doctor away
June 22nd 'I did evydently receive the ague, and layd down.’ John Dee, The Private Diary of Dr, Dee, 22 June 1588
Nautical Themes
This month will be devoted to all things shipboard. First up is Alfred Foster Statham's late 1800s account of his apprenticeship on board the ship Eulomene on trade voyages including Liverpool to Calcutta, he was 15 at the time. His diaries are GDP 116 and are available to read at the archive.