A couple years ago Vanity Fair took a look at Marilyn Monroe’s previously unseen private journals, and even had a handwriting expert analyze a few pages. It’s a fascinating read. But today we wanted to focus on a specific couple...
Tennessee Williams’ journals – which are very succinctly analyzed on The Morgan Library & Museum website – provide great insight into the mind of a talented and successful artist who struggled with crippling self-doubt and depression. However, as the Morgan...
It’s almost 2013 and so we wanted to share this neat look at the past. The following diary entry comes from a member of a household in 1877 Mackay, Queensland in Australia. It’s made up of two sketches that depict...
The very first flight on an airplane occurred on December 17th, 1903; and today we wanted to share two diary entries about that historic event. The diary belongs to Milton Wright, the father of Orville and Wilbur Wright, the two men...
Our friends at the Morgan Library & Museum have made available hi-res images of writer Nathanial Hawthorne and artist Sophia Peabody’s marriage journal. After the two artists got married they kept a journal together that they would trade back and...
For over 23 years explorer Robert Peary was obsessed with becoming the first person to reach the North Pole. On one of his expeditions in 1909 Peary kept a handwritten diary that included the following entry on April 6th: The Pole...
Our friends at The Morgan Library & Museum have a fantastic write-up examining this truly remarkable diary. The entry comes from a day in February 1836 when Charlotte Brontë was only 19 and teaching at a school in England. Writing about...
In time for the release of Steven Spielberg’s movie about Abraham Lincoln, we wanted to share with you this diary entry from Monday, April 24th, 1865. In the entry the writer, a minister who also happened to be famed Civil...
It’s one of the most heart-breaking personal diary entries we’ve ever read – but also, in it’s way, a testament to the immensity of Teddy Roosevelt’s love for his wife Alice. On February 14th, 1884 – not only Valentine’s Day but...