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The early diaries were found in Himmler's villa at Gmünd by a GI who sold them to an American intelligence official in Bavaria.According to Himmler's housekeeper, these six diaries were reported to be the only surviving volumes of Himmler's diaries, but this proved to be incorrect, as another diary of Himmler's vacations (1910-1913) was found, and official journals of the 1930s and 1940s.
Many diaries of notable figures have been published and form an important element of autobiographical literature. Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) is the earliest diarist who is well known today; his diaries, preserved in Magdalene College, Cambridge, were first transcribed and published in 1825. Pepys was amongst the first who took the diary beyond ...
The Jerilderie Letter is a handwritten document that was dictated by Australian bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly to fellow gang member Joe Byrne in 1879. It is named after the town of Jerilderie , New South Wales , where the Kelly gang carried out an armed robbery in February 1879, during which Kelly tried to have his document published as a ...
Ronald Reagan, Hur noted in his report, left the White House in 1989 with eight years of handwritten diaries, “which he appears to have kept at his California home even though they contained Top ...
The diaries paint a deep portrait of a renowned actor, a political activist, an avid traveler and a devoted friend. Starting in the early ’90s and ‘Madly Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman ...
It comprises ten notebooks totaling 861 pages. Because of the many notebooks, the diary is sometimes referred to in the plural, as "diaries", but it is a single work. Altogether there are 676 dated entries. The handwriting is in the Sütterlin script, a style of German lettering no longer in use. Included among the pages of the diary are more ...
Ronald Reagan, Hur noted in his report, left the White House in 1989 with eight years of handwritten diaries, “which he appears to have kept at his California home even though they contained Top Secret information.” The Justice Department took no known steps to retrieve or secure the diaries.
Private or government documents remained hand-written until the invention of the typewriter in the late 19th century. Because of the likelihood of errors being introduced each time a manuscript was copied, the filiation of different versions of the same text is a fundamental part of the study and criticism of all texts that have been ...