Diaries, Journals, & Ships' Logs

Diaries, Journals, & Ships' Logs

The diaries, journals, and ships' logs housed in this Collection Category are personal narratives and records acquired singly by Special Collections. A number of recipe books, travel narratives, memoirs, and other individually composed accounts can be found in this collection.

 

Material of this type may also appear in MSS 0100 collections, such as diaries that are part of a larger personal or family papers collections. The call number for sources in this category include an item number: MSS 0097, Item ####.

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Charles Herbert Revolutionary War Diary

MSS 0097-0037

Charles Herbert’s journal chronicles his time as a prisoner of the English during the Revolutionary War. It describes his daily activities and the hardships of prison. Many sections of the diary have been written in code. A cipher is provided.

Snyder Americanization

MSS 0097-0149

The Henry M. Snyder notes on Americanization consists of two bound volumes of lecture notes taken from a six-week course at the Americanization Institute. The lecture course spanned the dates November 12 - December 21, 1918. These notes are handwritten by Snyder, a teacher from Wilmington, Delaware, from lectures delivered by fourteen guest speakers.