Diaries & Planners

Journal des Goncourt (Deuxième volume) - Mémoires de la vie littéraireNous grimpons chez notre vieille cousine Cornlie, en sa pauvre petite chambre du cinquime. Elle est oblige de nous renvoyer, tant il vient la voir de dames, de collgiens, de gens, jeunes ou vieux,...

Journal des Goncourt (Premier Volume) - Mémoires de la vie littéraireCe journal est notre confession de chaque soir: la confession de deux vies inspares dans le plaisir, le labeur, la peine, de deux penses jumelles, de deux esprits recevant du contact des hommes et...

From John O'Groats to Land's End - Or, 1372 miles on foot; A book of days and chronicle of adventures by two pedestrians on tourAs I grow older my thoughts often revert to the past, and like the old Persian poet, Khosros, when he...

White Shadows in the South SeasThere is in the nature of every man, I firmly believe, a longing to see and know the strange places of the world. Life imprisons us all in its coil of circumstance, and the dreams of romance that color...

Three Months of My LifeIn the early morning of Midsummer's-day, 1868, I might have been seen slowly wending my way towards the office of the Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals, at Peshawurfor the purpose of appearing before the standing Medical Committee of the station,...

Amerikan löytöretken päiväkirja Tm kohta on melkein sanasta sanaan samanlainen kuin muuan kohta siin kirjeess, jonka Toscanella kirjoitti kaniikki Martinezille. Toscanella kirjoitti: Niit Intian osia, joihin voidaan matkustaa, hallitsee valtias, jota sanotaan suurkaaniksi, joka on samaa kuin kuninkaiden kuningas. Hnen edeltjns lhettivt paaville lhettilit...

Journaux intimesLamour peut driver dun sentiment gnreux: le got de la prostitution; mais il est bientt corrompu par le got de la proprit. Lamour veut sortir de soi, se confondre avec sa victime, comme le vainqueur avec le vaincu, et cependant conserver des privilges...

In the Ranks of the C.I.V. With some who left for the War it was "roses, roses, all the way." For us, the scene was the square of St. John's Wood Barracks at 2 A.M. on the 3rd of February, a stormy winter's morning,...

The Forgotten Threshold: A Journal of Arthur MiddletonBefore Arthur Middleton died he gave me this record among others in the belief that it would help to tell me what he had always known in the silences, yet could never in life transmute into the...

Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 - Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676There are here printed two manuscripts by Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, and portions of another. The first[1] is...

Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839The following diary was kept in the winter and spring of 1838-9, on an estate consisting of rice and cotton plantations, in the islands at the entrance of the Altamaha, on the coast of Georgia. The...

The Discovery of Yellowstone Park - Journal of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the Year 1870 When the rumored discovery in the year 1861 of extensive gold placers on Salmon river was confirmed, the intelligence spread through the states...

The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2Contents Contents Contents List of Letters Contents 170to James Wedderburn Webster1 Newstead Abbey, August 24th, 1811. My Dear W.,Conceiving your wrath to be somewhat evaporated, and your Dignity recovered from the Hysterics into which my...

The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1Contents Contents cross-reference: return to Footnote 1 of Letter 72 List of Letters List of Letters List of Letters List of Letters List of Letters List of Letters List of Letters List of Letters List...

Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel It was in the last days of December, 1882, that the first volume of Henri Frdric Amiels Journal Intime was published at Geneva. The book, of which the general literary world knew nothing prior to its...

Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. Brook Farm, Oak Hill, April 13th, 1841.. . . . Here I am in a polar Paradise! I know not how to interpret this aspect of nature,whether it be of good or evil omen to our enterprise....

Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 Salem, June 15, 1835.A walk down to the Juniper. The shore of the coves strewn with bunches of sea-weed, driven in by recent winds. Eel-grass, rolled and bundled up, and entangled with it,large marine vegetables, of an...

Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, CompleteHotel de Louvre, January 6th, 1858.On Tuesday morning, our dozen trunks and half-dozen carpet-bags being already packed and labelled, we began to prepare for our journey two or three hours before light. Two cabs were at the...

Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2. June 8th.I went this morning to the Uffizi gallery. The entrance is from the great court of the palace, which communicates with Lung' Arno at one end, and with the Grand Ducal Piazza at the...

Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1. Hotel de Louvre, January 6th, 1858.On Tuesday morning, our dozen trunks and half-dozen carpet-bags being already packed and labelled, we began to prepare for our journey two or three hours before light. Two cabs were...