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Diaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 307 Collections and/or Records:

Mary Beard papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2641
Abstract

Papers of Mary Beard, a nurse and writer. Collection consists primarily of diary entries recording job related activities; speeches concern public health and nursing issues.

Dates: 1926-1948.

Mary Bennett papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 121
Scope and content

Diaries, certificates, diploma, notebooks, song books, pamphlets (including one promoting anti-Mormonism), and other items of Mary Bennett of Interlaken, New York.

Dates: 1866-1874.

Mary Elizabeth Bohannon papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2424
Abstract

Notes and transcripts of 17th century English documents, diaries, account books, maps, and correspondence for her doctoral dissertation, "Studies of the Barrington Family in England During the Early Seventeenth Century," and for various later studies. There is also correspondence with Carl Becker and others concerning her research, drafts of her thesis and various articles, and photostats of the proceedings of the House of Lords for 1610 and 1614.

Dates: [ca. 1930-1963]

Mary Ferguson diaries

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065338588]
Identifier: 6405
Scope and content 2 ledger books which serve as Mary Ferguson's diary: 1) November 1855-December 12, 1870; 2) December 15, 1870-February 1881. The second also serves as a songbook and commonplace book. Diary entries begin after her marriage to Alexander Ferguson in 1854 and shortly after the birth of their first child. Although Mary Ferguson does not write daily, her concerns revolve around her family and community. She includes discussion of weddings, anniversaries, births, deaths, and funerals in the...
Dates: 1855-1881.

Mary Merritt Crawford and Family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 41-5-619
Abstract Includes campaign material and reports to the Cornell Alumni Corporation (1932-37) upon completion of each of her terms as alumni trustee; tape recordings and a partial transcript of interviews with Dr. Crawford (1962, 1964) concerning her life as a Cornell co-ed, her career as a doctor, and her service on the Board of Trustees. Also, correspondence, notes, photographs, and printed material concerning alumni affairs, including lists of Cornell women graduates (1873-88) and biographical and...
Dates: 1903-1964.

Mary Wager diary

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065429700]
Identifier: 4836
Scope and content

Diary of a young woman includes entries about her difficulties in teaching, studying Greek history on her own, teaching examinations, church meetings at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Lyndonville, social events, pupils and friends, and the weather. There are also notes, accounts of expenditures, and addresses.

Dates: 1889.

Matthew Griffin diary

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064942653]
Identifier: 3159
Scope and content

Diary of a Nineteenth Century New York State resident.

Dates: 1845-1896.

Matthew T. Scott papers

 Collection — Box 12: [Barcode: 31924064937349]
Identifier: 330
Abstract

A collection of business documents relating to the establishment and development of a 55,000-acre frontier estate in Illinois and a 5,000-acre estate in Iowa, by Matthew T. Scott, Jr., of Lexington, Kentucky, the Scott family and other partners. Notebooks and papers dating from 1852 describe purchases, acquisitions and sales of land and the development costs and crop yields of frontier farms.

Dates: 1831-1930.

Maurice C. Burritt papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2414
Abstract

Correspondence, reports, budgets, and other materials relating to the work and life of Maurice C. Burritt.

Dates: 1832-1959.

McElheny family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064939550]
Identifier: 2589
Scope and content Includes diaries (2 vols., 1853-63) kept jointly by Thomas J. McElheny and his wife Adelaide (Ada) Taber, concerning daily activities in Dryden, news of their cousins, the John McGraws, and other relatives and friends, travel within the state, church attendance, and containing many comments on political and social events. Also, correspondence between Thomas and Ada McElheny, their daughters, relatives, and friends (1851-88), a letter (1878) from Jennie McGraw (Fiske) to her cousin Thomas...
Dates: 1846-1907.