Fate Of Your Pages

[Tweel]

 

I suspect that book is more likely to be found in a college library. You may be able to get it through interlibrary loan. Check with your library's reference department (and also check worldcat.org which will list the closest available copies).

I don't know if the text for something like that would be available online through Google Books or Project Gutenberg, but that's also a possibility.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

 

 

Open Library.Org have some references to it, you may be able to track it down from there.

 

https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4569217W/Debts_Dowries_Donkeys_The_Diary_Of_Niccolo_Machiavelli's_Father_Messer_Bernardo_In_Quattrocento_Flor

 

Thank you both. I checked the online catalogs of the city, county and university libraries -- no go. No online versions either. Used paperbacks are being sold for $37 to $110 (and up). But, I probably can get a copy through interlibrary loan. Someone has it.

[Tweel]

A flea market find which i could not afford at the time was a WW I pilot's logbook. Darn.

 

We have my wife's father's diary from the beginning of his service in the Navy at the end of WWII. I've read partway into his arrival in Hawaii, but the diary is currently in storage. On-topic, I don't recall his fountain pen ink being faded. Off-topic, we had to offload an immense amount of stuff when we moved last Spring, and we sold his service sextant. That was one item I ensured had a reserve price on it.

Edited February 18, 2018 by Tweel

[max dog]

I've kept all my journals so far. On the occasion I've gone back and read what I wrote, they brought back feelings, memories or thoughts of that moment kind of like a photo album in words. I remember what that trip was like or how I spent a particular summer or Christmas time, and what was going on in my life back then. So there is some value for me to keep my journals. I suppose no one else will really care about them when I am gone, so it would be OK to burn or trash them after I am gone.

[Tweel]

I've kept all my journals so far. On the occasion I've gone back and read what I wrote, they brought back feelings, memories or thoughts of that moment kind of like a photo album in words. I remember what that trip was like or how I spent a particular summer or Christmas time, and what was going on in my life back then. So there is some value for me to keep my journals. I suppose no one else will really care about them when I am gone, so it would be OK to burn or trash them after I am gone.

 

I don't know how it actually goes, but my suspicion is that interest skips a generation or two. I hope the next generation keeps your diaries, and mine, for the next after to find.

[Studio97]

 

I don't know how it actually goes, but my suspicion is that interest skips a generation or two. I hope the next generation keeps your diaries, and mine, for the next after to find.

That's what I am hoping for: the next generation. If they learn even one thing to help them along in life, then all this writing, art and photos in my journals will be worth it.