THE WELCH COMPANY
440 Davis Court #1602
San Francisco, CA 94111-2496
415 781 5700
rodwelch@pacbell.net
S U M M A R Y
DIARY: March 16, 2004 11:50 AM Tuesday;
Rod Welch
Research found academic perspective on diary and journal.
1...Summary/Objective
2...Famous diarists....
..............
Click here to comment!
CONTACTS
SUBJECTS
Diarists Famous for Keeping Journal of Daily Events Analysing Activi
Diary Improves Mental Acuity Memory Reasoning Creativity Innovation
Metrics Writing Analysis Linking Alignment Analysis Summary Undrstan
Case Studies Traceability Continual Learning Record History Experien
Scalable Knowledge Repository Leverages One Person's Work to Help Ma
KM Needed to Empower People to be Productive in New Realities of Inf
Command Control Determines Meaning and Impact of Events, SDS Meeting
Diarists Famous for Keeping Journal of Daily Events Analysing Activi
1510 -
1510 - ..
1511 - Summary/Objective
1512 -
151201 - Follow up
151202 -
151203 - The role of a diary and journal is reviewed on 921205 where Covey
151204 - describes keeping a journal to "sharpen the saw," ref SDS 1 1121,
151205 - that increases understanding of events.
151207 - ..
151208 - Research today on the Internet....
151209 -
151210 - http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Diarists
151211 -
151212 - [On 040323 Gary submitted research on sources for practices
151213 - to capture the record, commonly called notes. ref SDS 2
151214 - 0001
151216 - ..
151217 - A diary is a book for fragmentary writings arranged by date. It can
151218 - be used for recording in advance appointments and other planned
151219 - activities, and/or for reporting about what has happened. Diaries
151220 - have evolved from business notations, to listings of weather and
151221 - daily personal events, through to inner exploration of the psyche,
151222 - or a place to express one's deepest self. Some people use the words
151223 - diary and journal interchangeably, others apply strict differences
151224 - to journals, diaries and journaling - dated, undated, inner
151225 - focused, outer focused, forced etc. Some diarists think of their
151226 - diaries as a special friend, even going so far as to name it. For
151227 - example, Anne Frank called her diary "Kitty".
151228 -
151229 - (Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (June 12, 1929 - March 1945) was a
151230 - Jewish girl who wrote a diary while hiding with her family from
151231 - the Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II. Her family was
151232 - betrayed and they were transported to a German concentration
151233 - camp, where she died. After the war, her diary was published,
151234 - making her world-famous.
151236 - ..
151237 - The word diary comes from the Latin word diarium ("daily
151238 - allowance", from dies, "day" - more often in the plural form
151239 - diaria). The word "journal" comes from the same root (diurnus = of
151240 - the day) through "journey".
151242 - ..
151243 - Sales of "page a day" diaries go back hundreds of years (Letts, for
151244 - example, is over 200 years old). At first, most of these books
151245 - were used as ledgers, or business books. Samuel Pepys
151246 -
151247 - Samuel Pepys (February 23, 1633 - May 26, 1703) (pronounced
151248 - "peeps", as his lineal descendants still do, although other
151249 - modern relatives pronounce their name "pep-iss") was a 17th
151250 - century English civil servant, famous for his diary. The diary
151251 - is a fascinating combination of personal revelation and
151252 - eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague
151253 - and the Great Fire of London.
151255 - ..
151256 - ...diarist that is well known today, although he had contemporaries
151257 - who were also keeping diaries. (John Evelyn for one.---
151258 -
151259 - (31 October1620 - 27 February 1706) was an English writer,
151260 - gardener and diarist. Evelyn's diaries are largely
151261 - contemporaneous with those of the other noted diarist of the
151262 - time, Samuel Pepys, and cast considerable light on the art,
151263 - culture and politics of the time (he witnessed the deaths of
151264 - Charles I and Oliver Cromwell, the last Great Plague in London,
151265 - and the Great Fire of London in 1666.). Evelyn and Pepys
151266 - corresponded frequently and much of this correspondence has
151267 - been preserved.
151269 - ..
151270 - Pepys also was apparently at a turning point in diary history, for
151271 - he took it beyond mere business transaction notation, into the
151272 - realm of the personal.
151274 - ..
151275 - The oldest diaries we have come from Oriental cultures.
151277 - ..
151278 - Pillowbooks of Japanese Court Ladies and Asian travel journals,
151279 - being some of the oldest surviving specimens of this genre of
151280 - writing. It does seem that around the turn of the last century,
151281 - diary writing was for the rich or well off. Most literary figures
151282 - from that time seem to have kept a diary. (see list below)
151284 - ..
151285 - In the 1960s Tristine Rainer wrote a book called The New Diary. It
151286 - was revolutionary in expanding our awareness of diary keeping as a
151287 - literary genre. In it she identified techniques that people either
151288 - use spontaneously or have employed in their daily writing to
151289 - explore themselves and their experience of the world in which they
151290 - live. The idea, as expressed with the title, being that a diary
151291 - doesn't have to be a dry recording of weather or daily events
151293 - ..
151294 - In the 1980s and 1990s diaries, or journals, have become fertile
151295 - ground for therapy. Many books have been published about how to
151296 - write a diary (for self awareness, for finding your true self, for
151297 - healing from any number of personal troubles). An entire culture
151298 - has evolved around the practice of journaling. There are many
151299 - techniques to be attempted. (Many of these techniques enjoyed
151300 - their first mention in Tristine Rainer's book.)
151302 - ..
151303 - One of the most tempting things about diaries is that writing one
151304 - is accessible to anyone with a pen and paper. No education is
151305 - needed. One doesn't need to know how to spell or use grammar.
151306 - Writing a diary is something some people are driven to do, often
151307 - as a way to put their existence into perspective. Too often
151308 - diaries are perceived to be written only by teenage girls. The
151309 - onslaught of diaries sold in "cute" colors with locks and keys
151310 - helped this illusion. (Not sure when those became popular - 1940s
151311 - or 1950s.) Nowadays, many people prefer the word "journal" so as
151312 - to avoid this common misconception.
151314 - ..
151315 - In the years since access to the internet became commonly
151316 - available, many online diary communities have appeared. Some are
151317 - personal weblogs, also known as blogs. Some communities are small
151318 - and merely offer a place to store your diary online in a private
151319 - space, while others have become true communities offering
151320 - opportunity for feedback and communication with your fellow
151321 - diarists. Many of the people using these online communities are
151322 - teenage girls and young people, who perhaps see them as a way to
151323 - keep their inner thoughts secret from their families, while
151324 - expressing and exploring their feelings and the experience of
151325 - growing up. Other people choose to start up a diary in their own
151326 - private webspace, and to maintain either a public or private record
151327 - of their lives.
151329 - ..
151330 - Famous diarists....
151332 - ..
151333 - [On 040404 Gary's letter to Morris anticipates he will
151334 - become famous from the diary explaining work
151335 - developing SDS and Com Metrics. ref SDS 3 LS9P
151337 - ..
151338 - Da Vinci (engineering design plans and implementation)
151339 - Pepys (life in London in 1660s)
151340 - Boswell
151341 - Washington
151342 - Adams
151343 - Jefferson
151344 - Lewis and Clarke expedition (survey expedition)
151345 -
151346 - http://artsci.wustl.edu/~landc/html/clarke.html
151348 - ..
151349 - Charles G. Clarke
151350 - The Men of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: A Biographical
151351 - Roster of the Fifty-One Members and a Composite Diary of
151352 - their Activities from all Known Sources (Glendale: Arthur
151353 - H. Clark, 1970), 37-61.
151355 - ..
151356 - Madison
151357 - Monroe
151358 - Franklin.....
151359 -
151360 - Journal of Occurences in My Voyage to Philadelphia on board the
151361 - Berkshire, Henry Clark, Master. From London
151363 - ..
151364 - http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1726-1750/franklin/voy.htm
151366 - ..
151367 - Grant
151368 - Darwin
151369 - Edison
151370 - ..
151371 - Anne Frank
151372 - Wallace (FDR confidant diary of WWII FDR and Chruchill)
151373 - Getty
151374 - Truman
151375 - Eisenhower
151376 -
151377 - http://www.eisenhower.utexas.edu/listofholdingshtml/listofholdingsE/EISENHOWERDWIGHTDDiaries3538424853666869.pdf
151379 - ..
151380 - DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER LIBRARY
151381 - ABILENE, KANSAS
151382 - EISNEHOWER, DWIGHT D.: DIARIES
151383 - 1935-38, 1942, 1948-53, 1966, 1968, 1969
151385 - ..
151386 - Buckminster Fuller
151387 - Tony Benn (British member parliment and cabinet in 60s 70s)
151388 -
151389 - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1647_282/ai_100605233
151391 - ..
151392 - Tony Benn - the diarist of the left
151394 - ..
151395 - Reagan
151396 -
151397 -
151398 -
151399 -
151400 -
151401 -
151403 - ..
1515 -
1516 -
1517 - 1408
1518 -
151801 - Gary submitted further resources to get background on diaries and
151802 - journals...
151803 -
151804 - 1. Subject: Diaries
151805 - Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:29:43 -0800
151806 - From: "EXT-Johnson, Garold L"
151807 - To: "Rod Welch (E-mail)"
151809 - ..
151810 - 2. Rod,
151812 - ..
151813 - 3. I think I am into diminishing returns at this point, but some
151814 - of these pages should be interesting.
151815 -
151816 - [On 040323 Gary submitted research on sources for practices
151817 - to capture the record, commonly called notes. ref SDS 2
151818 - 0001
151820 - ..
151821 - 4. Thanks,
151823 - ..
151824 - 5. Gary
151825 - 714-896-2106
151826 -
151828 - ..
151829 - Famous Letters and Diaries -- follow the links; the search on
151830 - this page may turn up more things
151832 - ..
151833 - http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp?CRID=famous_letters_and_diaries <
151835 - ..
151836 - http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp?CRID=famous_letters_and_diaries&OFFID=se1>
151837 -
151838 - &OFFID=se1
151840 - ..
151841 - 6. Writing The JourneyTM -- Journal History
151842 -
151843 - http://www.writingthejourney.com/features/history.htm
151845 - ..
151846 - 7. The Journals of Captain Cook (Penguin Classics)
151847 -
151848 - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140436472/002-7408065-5984011?v=glance
151850 - ..
151851 - 8. The Journals of Lewis & Clark -- National Geographic Adventure Classics
151852 -
151853 - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/books/adventure_press/0792269217.html
151855 - ..
151856 - 9. List of diarists
151857 -
151858 - http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/List%20of%20diarists
151860 - ..
151861 - 10. Diaries, Journals and Memoirs Online
151862 -
151863 - http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/letters/djm/#Diaries
151865 - ..
151866 - 11. Seventeenth century diary writing
151867 -
151868 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/society_culture/society/diaries_01.shtml
151869 -
151871 - ..
151872 - 12. Thanks,
151874 - ..
151875 - Gary
151876 -
151877 -
151878 -
151879 -
151880 -
151881 -
151882 -
151883 -
151884 -
151885 -
151886 -
151887 -
151888 -
151889 -
151890 -
151891 -
151892 -
151893 -
151894 -
151895 -
151896 -
151897 -
151898 -
151899 -
151900 -
151901 -
151902 -
151903 -
151904 -
151905 -
151906 -
151907 -
151908 -
151909 -
151910 -
151911 -
151912 -
151913 -
151914 -
151915 -
151916 -
151917 -
151918 -
151919 -
151920 -
151921 -
151922 -
151923 -
151924 -
151925 -
151926 -
151927 -
151928 -
151929 -
151930 -
151931 -
151932 -
151933 -
151934 -
151935 -
151936 -
151937 -
151938 -
151939 -
151940 -
151941 -
151942 -
151943 -
151944 -
151945 -
151946 -
151947 -
151948 -
151949 -
151950 -
151951 -
151952 -
151953 -
151954 -
151955 -
151956 -
151957 -
151958 -
151959 -
151960 -
151961 -
151962 -
151963 -
151964 -
151965 -
151966 -
151967 -
151968 -
151969 -
151970 -
151971 -
151972 -
151973 -
151974 -
151975 -
151976 -
151977 -
151978 -
151979 -
151980 -
151981 -
151982 -
151983 -
151984 -
151985 -
151986 -
151987 -
151988 -
151989 -
151990 -
151991 -
151992 -
151993 -
151994 -
151995 -
151996 -
151997 -
151998 -
151999 -
152000 -
152001 -
152002 -
152003 -
152004 -
152005 -
152006 -
152007 -
152008 -
152009 -
152010 -
152011 -
152012 -
152013 -
152014 -
152015 -
152016 -
152017 -
152018 -
152019 -
152020 -
152021 -
152022 -
152023 -
152024 -
152025 -
152026 -
152027 -
152028 -
152029 -
152030 -
152031 -
152032 -
152033 -
152034 -
152035 -
152036 -
152037 -
152038 -
152039 -
152040 -
152041 -
152042 -
152043 -
152044 -
152045 -
152046 -
152047 -
152048 -
152049 -
152050 -
152051 -
152052 -
152053 -
152054 -
152055 -
152056 -
152057 -
152058 -
152059 -
152060 -
152061 -
152062 -
152063 -
152064 -
152065 -
152066 -
152067 -
152068 -
152069 -
152070 -
152071 -
152072 -
152073 -
152074 -
152075 -
152076 -
152077 -
152078 -
152079 -
152080 -
152081 -
152082 -
152083 -
152084 -
152085 -
152086 -
152087 -
152088 -
152089 -
152090 -
152091 -
152092 -
152093 -
152094 -
152095 -
152096 -
152097 -
152098 -
152099 -
152100 -
152101 -
152102 -
152103 -
152104 -
152105 -
152106 -
152107 -
152108 -
152109 -
152110 -
152111 -
152112 -
152113 -
152114 -
152115 -
152116 -
152117 -
152118 -
152119 -
152120 -
152121 -
152122 -
152123 -
152124 -
152125 -
152126 -
152127 -
152128 -
152129 -
152130 -
152131 -
152132 -
152133 -
152134 -
152135 -
152136 -
152137 -
152138 -
152139 -
152140 -
152141 -
152142 -
152143 -
152144 -
152145 -
152146 -
152147 -
152148 -
152149 -
152150 -
152151 -
152152 -
152153 -
152154 -
152155 -
152156 -
152157 -
152158 -
152159 -
152160 -
152161 -
152162 -
152163 -
152164 -
152165 -
152166 -
152167 -
152168 -
152169 -
152170 -
152171 -
152172 -
152173 -
152174 -
152175 -
152176 -
152177 -
152178 -
152179 -
152180 -
152181 -
152182 -
152183 -
152184 -
152185 -
152186 -
152187 -
152188 -
152189 -
152190 -
152191 -
152192 -
152193 -
152194 -
152195 -
152196 -
152197 -
152198 -
152199 -
152200 -
152201 -
152202 -
152203 -
152204 -
152205 -
152206 -
152207 -
152208 -
152209 -
152210 -
152211 -
152212 -
152213 -
152214 -
152215 -
152216 -
152217 -
152218 -
152219 -
152220 -
152221 -
152222 -
152223 -
152224 -
152225 -
152226 -
152227 -
152228 -
152229 -
152230 -
152231 -
152232 -
152233 -
152234 -
152235 -
152236 -
152237 -
152238 -
152239 -
152240 -
152241 -
152242 -
152243 -
152244 -
152245 -
152246 -
152247 -
152248 -
152249 -
152250 -
152251 -
152252 -
152253 -
152254 -
152255 -
152256 -
152257 -
152258 -
152259 -
152260 -
152261 -
152262 -
152263 -
152264 -
152265 -
152266 -
152267 -
152268 -
152269 -
152270 -
152271 -
152272 -
152273 -
152274 -
152275 -
152276 -
152277 -
152278 -
152279 -
152280 -
152281 -
152282 -
152283 -
152284 -
152285 -
152286 -
152287 -
152288 -
152289 -
152290 -
152291 -
152292 -
152293 -
152294 -
152295 -
152296 -
152297 -
152298 -
152299 -
152300 -
152301 -
152302 -
152303 -
152304 -
152305 -
152306 -
152307 -
152308 -
152309 -
152310 -
152311 -
152312 -
152313 -
152314 -
152315 -
152316 -
152317 -
152318 -
152319 -
152320 -
152321 -
152322 -
152323 -
152324 -
152325 -
152326 -
152327 -
152328 -
152329 -
152330 -
152331 -
152332 -
152333 -
152334 -
152335 -
152336 -
152337 -
152338 -
152339 -
152340 -
152341 -
152342 -
152343 -
152344 -
152345 -
152346 -
152347 -
152348 -
152349 -
152350 -
152351 -
152352 -
152353 -
152354 -
1524 -