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Diaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 307 Collections and/or Records:

Robert Watson Civil War diary

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1873
Scope and content

Diary of a Confederate soldier who fought with the 7th Florida Regiment, Army of the Tennessee, and who was transferred to the Navy in March, 1864, serving on the C.S.S. Savannah.

Dates: 1863-1865.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Robert Watson Civil War diary

Romeyn Berry family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2531
Abstract Correspondence includes personal and business correspondence; Berry's letters from Kenneth Roberts, E.B. White, and Allison Danzig; one letter from Major William B. Miles concerning the activities of the Seventh Regiment, New York National Guard; correspondence of Berry's second wife, Hester Bancroft Berry, her father, Wilder D. Bancroft, and other members of the Bancroft family. Writings include copy and clippings from his "Talk of the Town" columns in The New Yorker; articles from the...
Dates: 1636-1960.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Romeyn Berry family papers

Root family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3894
Abstract

Civil War letters and daily journals of William Harrison Root, a lieutenant in Company B, 75th Regiment, New York Volunteers. Also a notebook of Root's, clippings, and his account book of Company B, 1861. Also, letters and reminiscences, between Helen Isabel Root and her parents. Additional material includes account books, clippings, correspondence and transcripts, pamphlets, genealogical charts, deeds and other legal documents, and photographs of the Shepard and Osborn families.

Dates: 1828-1970.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Root family papers

Roy Ernest Henry diary

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924092814841]
Identifier: 37-5-4225
Scope and content Diary kept by Roy E. Henry from January 3, 1908 through October 11, 1908 with gaps of no entries. The diary first describes his time attending Cornell University for the Winter Short Course in Agriculture and his fellow students. The diary discusses weather, campus life, particularly time spent in dairy and milk studies. It mentions being on Beebe Lake in the winter, the burial of Franklin C. Cornell, and the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house fire. After Cornell it discusses time spent in the...
Dates: 1908.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Roy Ernest Henry diary

Royal Taft papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064944741]
Identifier: 37-5-61
Scope and content

Collection includes diaries kept by Taft for the first three years of Cornell University's existence; also pictures of classmates and professors, and miscellanea pertaining to student life. Letters from family and friends including a letter from Francis Finch from June 1868 discussing plans for class academic standing at Cornell.

Dates: 1869-1871.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Royal Taft papers

S. D. House beekeeping materials

 Collection
Identifier: 6384
Abstract

Collection relating to beekeeping business in Camillus, N.Y. includes: photographs, letters, a typed manuscript, typed letters, diaries, and account books. Also includes tintype of unidentified man and other miscellaneous materials.

Dates: 1891-1947.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / S. D. House beekeeping materials

Samuel Beach Bradley diaries

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6208
Scope and content

Microfilm of 38 diaries authored by Bradley which span the years 1816-1876 (1819, 1823-25, 1831-32, 1842, 1848-49, 1851-52, 1856, and 1874 are not represented). Most cover one year's time in daily entries of about 10 to 20 pages for each diary.

Dates: 1816-1876.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Samuel Beach Bradley diaries

Samuel Beach Bradley papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 733
Scope and content Included among Bradley's papers are materials relating to his student days; notebooks of cures and remedies (1815+); a list of infants delivered (1818-1876); an alphabetically arranged listing of proper names in Dr. Bradley's diaries compiled by Grace Goodell Witty; sermons and religious experiences; fragmentary diaries; an autobiography (44 pp.); genealogical notes; a description of Eaton, New York, with recordings of weather and plant growth (1818); a manuscript speech against abolition...
Dates: 1789-1890.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Samuel Beach Bradley papers

Samuel Hallett papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064926037]
Identifier: 816
Scope and content Diaries describe the attempts of Hallet to secure European and British patents and government orders for the diving bell, "Nautilus," and his interest in the financing of an American transcontinental railroad in London and Paris; and include information relating to George M. Dallas, minister to England, and John Y. Mason, minister to France, and lengthy commentaries on London society and British politics. Also, miscellaneous correspondence, bills, reports, leases, stock lists, clippings,...
Dates: 1857-1858.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Samuel Hallett papers

Samuel S. Mariner diary

 Collection — Microfilm reel 1
Identifier: 6147
Scope and content The diary of Samuel S. Mariner of Penn Yann, N.Y. is divided into two sections, the first section is an index of names, locations and subjects mentioned in the diary and a brief genealogy of the Mariner family. The second section is a record of Samuel's life from ages 23 to 26. Topics covered include work, travel, visitors, property, weather, agriculture, discourses on pastors and sermon topics, political observations, marriages, births, illnesses, deaths, concerts, fairs, and town...
Dates: 1854-1857.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Samuel S. Mariner diary

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