Found matches for diary OR diaries in 293 collections.

Sally Squire was married to Alvin Squire and kept this diary between July 8, 1815 and July 9, 1816. She began the diary following the death of her son, Alvin A. Squire, on July 8, 1815 and kept it as a record of her religious life for a year. The diary is written in a book given to Squire by her "dearest earthly friend" and was intended for his eyes only. It reveals personal standards of conduct, mentions her joining the Presbyterian Church, and gives her views on Christian unity. Appended are the sermon delivered by Reverend E. Mason at Squire's son's funeral on July 9, 1815 and "Sunday School Accounts" from 1819 and 1820 less

Notes on Paris: living conditions, expenses, food, churches, libraries, schools, museums, theatres, bridges, manufactures, etc. Also diary of a trip from Paris to Bordeaux via Orleans, Blois, Tour, Poitiers, and Ruffec. Detailed description of towns, countryside, and mode of travel less

Robert Taylor kept these diaries (3 vols.) from December 11, 1824-July 1, 1825; September 24-28, 1844; and February 5, 1846-August 1, 1847 Taylor kept the 1824-1825 diary during a voyage on board the "Gypsy," owned by Josiah Williams & Co., from Saybrook, Connecticut to Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe and back, taking out livestock and vegetables and returning with molasses. Entries describe incidents on board and ashore, a storm at sea, hay and steers cast overboard, customs of natives they encountered, holiday ceremonies, coopering hogsheads, loading molasses, and other matters Taylor kept the 1844 diary during a trip from New York City to Montreal, traveling by steamboat to Albany, canal boat to Whitehall, steamboat to St. Johns, and rail to Montreal. Entries describe sleeping accomodations on the boats, public buildings (prison, etc.) at Albany, meeting with Governor William C. Bouck and A.C. Flagg en route to Plattsburg, recollections of Commodore MacDonough, scenery, and other matters The 1846-1847 diary is also partially an autobiography. This volume related to Taylor's trade as a cooper; holding political offices in New York city, including Captain of the Watch, Mayor's Clerk, Judge of the Court of Sessions, candidate for Mayor and State Senator and Constitutional Convention; owner of a type foundry; and Secretary to the Commissioners of Emigration less

John Menzies of Philadelphia created this volume. The first section contains an account of his adventures (using the alias John Little) beginning in the years 1793-1794, including those on a slave-trading ship from Liverpool to the Congo, thence to Barbados; impressment into the British Navy; a battle with the French and his subsequent escape and journey overland from Gravesend, England to his home in Langholm, Scotland. This portion concludes in Philadelphia in 1835 The second section served as Menzies' diary from June 19-September 20, 1839 and contains an account of a journey from Philadelphia through Scotland, Ireland, England, France, and return via New York The third section, "Jock's Notions," contains poems and other entries, primarily in Scotch dialect, relating to local happenings and people in Pennsylvania. Entries were made between 1832 and 1839 less

These diaries (5 vols.) were kept by Bernard Bachman, a merchant in Augsburg, Germany, in 1845 and from 1848-1859. Entries describe Bachman's life as a young merchant, his family and social affairs, readings and reflections, travels, fortunes of the family business, and an account of his visit to the United States and Canada in 1854, especially the social life and conditions in New York City and his visit to Niagara Falls. The diaries are written in German, with many portions in English and French less

Diary belonging to Isaiah Townsend of Albany, NY., Nov. 26 1840-Feb. 18, 1841. Describes a voyage on board the sailing ship Roscius from New York to Liverpool, thence through England, France, and Italy, with descriptions of his fellow voyagers, places visited, etc. Mr. and Mrs. Erastus Corning, Mr. and Mrs. Ives, and Rev. and Mrs. Paige were passengers on the ship. Transcript less

Maria Bayard was the daughter of William Bayard of New York City and later the wife of Duncan P. Campbell. She kept this diary while on a tour of England, Scotland, and France with her brother, Robert Bayard, and brother-in-law, Benjamin Woolsey Rogers. Entries date from the time of their landing at Southampton, England on October 13, 1814 until May 23, 1815. The diary for England and Scotland contains a descriptive narrative of the tour of cathedral towns, Roman ruins, castles, palaces, art galleries, factories, salt mines, iron furnaces, canals, and places of natural beauty, with comments on the social and economic condition of the population. The group's itinerary included Bath, Nailsworth, Bristol, Gloucester, Worcester, Birmingham, Warwick Castle, Kennilworth, Litchfield, Liverpool, Chester, Norwich, Manchester, Lancaster, the English Lakes, Carlisle, Gretna Green, Edinburgh (where they arrived in January), Glasgow, Paisley, Linlithcoe, Northumberland Castle, Durham, York, and Oxford In the reverse of the same volume, Bayard kept a diary of her tour of France from the date of her embarkation for le Havre, March 2(?), 1815 until May 23, 1815, covering almost the entire period of Napoleon's Hundred Days. The diary contains a descriptive narrative of the party's stay at Paris, visits to the opera, theaters, cathedral towns, chateaux, factories, canals, Roman ruins, and their view of Napoleon and his brothers. Their itinerary included Rouen, Paris, Orleans, Tours, Poitiers, Angouleme, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Carcassonne, Beziers, Montpellier, Nimes, Valence, Lyon, Autun, Auxerre, Villeneuve, Fontainebleau, Chantilly, Amiens, Calais, Dover, and Canterbury. The diary includes entries comparing French and English travel less

These diaries (2 vols.) were kept by a man of the surname Walker (given name unknown), a farm laborer. The first diary contains entries from April 5-October 25, 1822, including a record of Walker's journey from Genesee, New York through Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to Wellington, Massachusetts, where he arrived on October 25, date of the volume's last entry. Walker gives the names of taverns and residences where he stopped and distances traveled. Volume is prefaced by tombstone inscriptions of the Walker and Burt families and concluded by accounts of the sale of charcoal from 1823-1827 The second volume contains entries made between December 17, 1827 and February 1, 1828 which Walker made during a journey from Dighton, Massachusetts to Bristol, Ontario County, New York, and during the return trip. His route took him through Providence, Rhode Island; Hartford, Connecticut; Egremont, Massachusetts; and Albany, Cherry Valley, Cooperstown, Auburn, Geneva, and Canandaigua, New York. Entries include weather observations and descriptive notes. In the reverse of this volume is a diary, also in Walker's hand, of a journey from a place near Pawtucket, Rhode Island to Bristol, New York, by the same route as the previous journey. He undertook this journey between September 13 and 28 in an unspecified year. Appended to this volume are notes on the Burt family less

This diary was kept by a person with the surname Dubois (given name is not known) between October 6, 1840 and June 24, 1843. Entries describe Dubois' journey from Catskill, New York to New York City, thence by water to Mobile and Portland, Alabama; Tallapoosa, Georgia; New Orleans, Louisiana; Wheeling, West Virginia; Ashtabula, Ohio; Buffalo, Niagara, Rochester, Schenectady, and Troy, New York; and back to Catskill. Diary includes expense account and miscellaneous prose and poetry A pencil diary is inserted, as well as a receipt for passage fare on the Mississippi River less

Journal kept at Mill River, Fairfield Township, Connecticut, recording ships arrivals, departures, etc.; current events, social affairs, births; births, marriages, and deaths, etc. Some entries in the hand of his wife, Miranda, and also her sister, Mary W. Thorp, May-June 1818 less

Hiram Miller made entries in this diary between August and September 1833, during a trip to Schenectady via Albany and the Hudson River, from Schenectady to Skaneateles and Auburn on a canal boat, and on his return home. Miller commented on towns he passed, expenses, and other matters. The volume also includes his own personal notes and accounts less

Samuel Locke, a "forty-niner" (early settler in the California gold rush), kept this diary and memorandum book in 1850. The volume contains a "sick list" for June 27-July 2, 1850; accounts against persons for medicine and attendance; personal addresses; accounts of provisions purchased from July 2-15, 1850; a diary kept onboard the "California Packet" from San Francisco en route home via Panama from November 9-December 1, 1850, in which Locke mentions the loss of his possessions by fire before he sailed, his illness, and that of many passengers (some of whom had been ill for six and nine months), grumbling about food, drunken officers of the ship, and other matters. The volume was endorsed by J. L. Locke in Belfast on May 10, 1860: "Memorandum kept by Sam'l Locke on his passage home from California. Nov. 1850 - to 1851." less

Edith Brevoort (1832-1891) was the youngest of the eight children of Henry Brevoort Jr. (1782-1848), a wealthy New York City landowner and friend of Washington Irving, and Laura Carson of South Carolina (died 1845). In 1853 she married Pierre Corné Kane (1828-1870). The Edith Brevoort diary, 1848 May 8-1849 May 20 (1 volume in slipcase) recounts the daily activities, thoughts and feelings of an intelligent young New Yorker from a prominent family. Diary entries, dated 1848 May 8-1849 January 31, start from the reverse end of the volume, the volume beginning with a text on The Object of Life, and her record of sermons given at Grace Church, 1848 July 16-1849 May 20, interspersed with quoted poetry and text. The collection includes a typescript commentary on the diary (11 p.) by George S. Hellman, and manuscript diary excerpts (34 p.) by Rose Kane Greer, with notes. less

John Q. Roods of Newark, Ohio kept this diary and notebook from September 28-November 10, 1847, recording details of his trip from Newark to Cleveland, Ohio, thence to Wisconsin Territory, where he visited Sheboygan, Milwaukee, East Troy, Janesville, Geneva, Madison, Waterford, and Racine. He then traveled to Chicago and returned home via St. Joseph, Kalamazoo, Detroit, Sandusky, and Mansfield, Ohio. His final observation was that the land in Wisconsin was very poor less

George Henry Loskiel was presiding bishop of the northern district of the American province of the Moravian Church in the early nineteenth century. He kept this diary, titled "Extempore on a Wagon" in 1803; it was later published. The diary is a metrical narrative of a journey from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to the Indian town of Goshen, Ohio in the autumn of 1803. It was written in German by Sister Anna Rosa Kliest and is dated September 1803 less

Thomas Chamberlain (1814-1891) was an immigrant from England who worked as a printer in the United States. He married Deborah Ann Bugbee in 1845 and became a U.S. citizen in 1859. Chamberlain's diary describes his departure from Portsmouth, England to New York, Franklin (Delaware County), Utica, Niagara, Montreal, Quebec, New York, Philadelphia, London and return to New York. He discusses the food and comforts of second class passengers on shipboard, localities, waterfalls, plays and actors in New York and London, current events, rural life at Franklin, spelling school, apple bees, employment as a journeyman printer at Oxford, Unadilla, Saratoga, and New York, costs of travel, courtship, marriage and family life in New York City. less

Diary of a party of men from Arkansas to California. This volume begins near Scorro, New Mexico, thence along Rio Grande; through towns now known as Tuscon and Phoenix, Arizona; along Gila River; through Los Angeles to Santa Cruz, California. Distances, road conditions, murder trial and execution en route; names of members of the party, etc., with map of route inserted. Last two pages written by J[ohn?] May less

Possibly the same John Madox whose Excursions in the Holy Land, Egypt, Nubia, Syria was published by Richard Bentley in 1834. Chronicling the author's travels from Venice to Padua, Siena, Forence, the Isle of Elba (visiting Napoleon's house), Pisa, Spezia, and Bagni di Lucca. less

Mary Lorillard Ronalds kept this diary from November 21, 1836 through February 18, 1837. She was the daughter of Thomas A. Ronalds of New York City and the cousin of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, and she kept this diary while traveling with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. John David Wolfe. She began making entries while the party was in Marseille, France, whence they sailed for Leghorn and toured Italy. The diary contains a descriptive narrative of the journey with notes on the art and archaeology of the places along their itinerary, including: Pisa, Florence, Siena, Rome, Tivoli, Terni, Spoleto, Foligno, Perugia, Arezzo, Bologna, Padua, Venice, Verona, Milan, Turin, and "St. Michel on the Arc, France" (Mont St. Michel?). The diary also mentions attendance at the theater and opera, visits to artists' studios, the execution of busts of Ronalds' aunt and uncle by the artist Thomas Crawford, and seeing the Brinckerhoffs, Morgans, and others in Rome less