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• Adams, John, 1735-1826 -- Diaries
• African American sailors -- Diaries
• African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Diaries
• African American women teachers -- Diaries
• Air pilots, Military -- France -- Diaries
• Air pilots, Military -- United States -- Diaries
• Alline, Henry, 1748-1784 -- Diaries
• Ames, Mary, 1831-1903 -- Diaries
• Amiel, Henri Frédéric, 1821-1881 -- Diaries
• Andrews, Eliza Frances, 1840-1931 -- Diaries
• Anthropologists -- United States -- Diaries
• Arnold, Annemarie, 1909-1980 -- Diaries
• Arnold, Henry Harley, 1886-1950 -- Diaries
• Artists -- France -- Diaries
• Artists -- Germany -- Diaries
• Asbury, Francis, 1745-1816 -- Diaries
• Attmore, William, -1800 -- Diaries
• Authors, American -- 19th century -- Diaries
• Authors, American -- 20th century -- Diaries
• Authors, English -- Diaries
• Authors, Irish -- 19th century -- Diaries
• Authors, Scottish -- 18th century -- Diaries
• Authors, Swiss -- 19th century -- Diaries
• Baptists -- Nova Scotia -- Diaries
• Barker, John, 1750-1804 -- Diaries
• Beadle, Erastus Flavel, 1821-1894 -- Diaries
• Belden, George P. -- Diaries
• Betts, A. D. (Alexander Davis), 1832-1918 -- Diaries
• Bevington, Helen, 1906-2001 -- Diaries
• Blackford, John, 1771-1839 -- Diaries
• Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 1840-1922 -- Diaries
• Brewer, William Henry, 1828-1910 -- Diaries
• Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840 -- Diaries
• Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 -- Diaries
• Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 -- Diaries
• Cabinet officers -- Great Britain -- Diaries
• Callcott, Maria, Lady, 1785-1842 -- Diaries
• Chardon, Francis A., -1848 -- Diaries
• Chemistry -- United States -- Diaries
• Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 -- Diaries
• Clawson, Rudger -- Diaries
• Clergy -- England -- Diaries
• Columbus, Christopher -- Diaries
• Confederate States of America. Army -- Chaplains -- Diaries
• Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 -- Diaries
• Cooper, Susan Fenimore, 1813-1894 -- Diaries
• Crosby, Caroline Barnes, 1807-1884 -- Diaries
• Cunningham, Alfred Austell -- Diaries
• Dakota Indians -- Kings and rulers -- Diaries
• Davis, Andrew McFarland, 1833-1920 -- Diaries
• Dawson, Sarah Morgan, 1842-1909 -- Diaries
• Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980 -- Diaries
• Dee, John, 1527-1608 -- Diaries
• Dunn, James A., 1913- -- Diaries
• Eastlake, Elizabeth, 1809-1893 -- Diaries
• Elliott, Grace Dalrymple, -1823 -- Diaries
• Ethnologists -- India -- Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh) -- Diaries
• Evelyn, John, 1620-1706 -- Diaries
• Explorers -- America -- Diaries
• Explorers -- Australia -- Diaries
• Explorers -- Great Britain -- Diaries
• Explorers -- Spain -- Diaries
• Explorers -- United States -- Diaries
• Eyre, Vincent, Sir, 1811-1881 -- Diaries
• Farmers -- England -- Norfolk -- Diaries
• Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923 -- Diaries
• Flinders, Matthew, 1774-1814 -- Diaries
• Franklin, John, 1786-1847 -- Diaries
• Free African Americans -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- Diaries
• Fur traders -- Missouri River Valley -- Diaries
• Gamba, Pietro, conte, 1801-1826 -- Diaries
• Gardeners -- England -- Diaries
• Generals -- United States -- Diaries
• Girls -- Georgia -- Wilkes County -- Diaries
• Girls -- Louisiana -- Diaries
• Girls -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Diaries
• Governors' spouses -- New Zealand -- Diaries
• Governors' spouses -- Ontario -- Diaries
• Gray, William Fairfax, 1787-1841 -- Diaries
• Greenspun, Philip -- Diaries
• Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925 -- Diaries
• Haight, Sarah -- Diaries
• Harvey, Margaret Boyle, 1786-1832 -- Diaries
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 -- Diaries
• Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893 -- Diaries
• Head, George, Sir, 1782-1855 -- Diaries
• Henslowe, Philip, -1616 -- Diaries
• Herskovits, Frances S. (Frances Shapiro), 1897-1972 -- Diaries
• Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963 -- Diaries
• Herzl, Theodor, 1860-1904 -- Diaries
• Hopkins, Owen Johnston, 1844-1902 -- Diaries
• Hudson, John, 1826-1850 -- Diaries
• Jervey, Susan R. (Susan Ravenel), 1840- -- Diaries
• Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 -- Diaries
• Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 -- Diaries
• Kane, Elizabeth Wood, 1836-1909 -- Diaries
• Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893 -- Diaries
• Kimball, Heber C. (Heber Chase), 1801-1868 -- Diaries
• Knightley of Fawsley, Louisa, 1842-1913 -- Diaries
• Kozak, Florence Milnes, 1948- -- Diaries
• Kumar, Nita, 1951- -- Diaries
• Layard, Enid, 1843-1912 -- Diaries
• Legislators -- Great Britain -- Diaries
• Leon, L. (Louis) -- Diaries
• MacLeod, Normand, approximately 1731-1796 -- Diaries
• Magoffin, Susan Shelby, 1827-1855 -- Diaries
• Malone, Bartlett Yancey, 1838- -- Diaries
• Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728 -- Diaries
• Mayer, Frank Blackwell, 1827-1899 -- Diaries
• McKinley, William, 1843-1901 -- Diaries
• Melville, Elizabeth -- Diaries
• Methodist Church -- Clergy -- Diaries
• Methodist Episcopal Church -- Clergy -- Diaries
• Midwives -- West (U.S.) -- Diaries
• Military chaplains -- United States -- Diaries
• Missionaries -- China -- Diaries
• Missionaries -- United States -- Diaries
• Mojapelo, Max -- Diaries
• Moore, John, Sir, 1761-1809 -- Diaries
• Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852 -- Diaries
• Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859 -- Diaries
• Mormon pioneers -- Utah -- Diaries
• Mormon women -- Diaries
• Mormons -- Michigan -- Beaver Island -- Diaries
• Mormons -- United States -- Diaries
• Mormons -- Utah -- Diaries
• Mystics -- Sweden -- Diaries
• Naturalists -- United States -- Diaries
• Nevills, Norman D., 1908-1949 -- Diaries
• Novelists, English -- 18th century -- Diaries
• Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Diaries
• O'Brien, Frederick, 1869-1932 -- Diaries
• Painters -- France -- Diaries
• Peary, Josephine Diebitsch -- Diaries
• Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703 -- Diaries
• Pioneers -- California, Southern -- Diaries
• Pioneers -- Minnesota -- Diaries
• Pioneers -- Nebraska -- Diaries
• Pioneers -- Utah -- Diaries
• Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Diaries
• Plantation owners -- Maryland -- Diaries
• Plantation owners' spouses -- Georgia -- Diaries
• Poets, English -- 19th century -- Diaries
• Poets, Irish -- 19th century -- Diaries
• Polidori, John William, 1795-1821 -- Diaries
• Politicians -- Utah -- Diaries
• Presidents -- United States -- Diaries
• Presley, Elvis, 1935-1977 -- Diaries
• Pringle, Cyrus G. (Cyrus Guernsey), 1838-1911 -- Diaries
• Prisoners -- Ireland -- Diaries
• Prisoners of war -- North Carolina -- Diaries
• Prisoners of war -- United States -- Diaries
• Psychologists -- United States -- Diaries
• Puritans -- England -- Diaries
• Queens -- Great Britain -- Diaries
• Ranous, Dora Knowlton, 1859-1916 -- Diaries
• Ravenel, Charlotte St. J. (Charlotte St. Julien), -1880 -- Diaries
• Richards, Caroline Cowles, 1842-1913 -- Diaries
• Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, 1837-1919 -- Diaries
• Russell, William Howard, Sir, 1820-1907 -- Diaries
• Russians -- France -- Diaries
• Sailors -- United States -- Diaries
• Sale, Florentia Wynch, 1790-1853 -- Diaries
• Sessions, Patty Bartlett, 1795-1892 -- Diaries
• Simcoe, Elizabeth, 1762-1850 -- Diaries
• Smith, John Henry, 1848-1911 -- Diaries
• Soldiers -- Confederate States of America -- Diaries
• Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Diaries
• Soldiers -- North Carolina -- Diaries
• Soldiers -- United States -- Diaries
• Southesk, James Carnegie, Earl of, 1827-1905 -- Diaries
• Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 -- Diaries
• Strang, James Jesse, 1813-1856 -- Diaries
• Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772 -- Diaries
• Teenage girls -- Austria -- Vienna -- Diaries
• Thacher, James, 1754-1844 -- Diaries
• Theatrical managers -- Great Britain -- Diaries
• Travelers -- Brazil -- Diaries
• Travelers -- Chile -- Diaries
• Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940 -- Diaries
• Vautrin, Minnie, 1886-1941 -- Diaries
• Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 -- Diaries
• Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Diaries
• Welsh -- Australia -- Diaries
• Wesley, Charles, 1707-1788 -- Diaries
• Wesley, John, 1703-1791 -- Diaries
• Whitley, Roger, 1617 or 1618-1697 -- Diaries
• Whitney, Helen Mar, 1828-1896 -- Diaries
• Winslow, Anna Green, 1759-1779 -- Diaries
• Women -- Confederate States of America -- Diaries
• Women -- England -- Diaries
• Women -- Louisiana -- Diaries
• Women -- South Carolina -- Diaries
• Women -- Southern States -- Diaries
• Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Diaries
• Women naturalists -- United States -- New York (State) -- Diaries
• Women pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Diaries

• Journals (Diaries)
• Diary

• Passing By (London: M. Secker, 1921), by Maurice Baring (Gutenberg text)
• Lost Diaries (London: Duckworth and Co., 1913), by Maurice Baring (Gutenberg text)

• Diary of a Wimpy Kid (original online serial version; basis for the first three print books), by Jeff Kinney (page images with commentary at funbrain.com)

• A Tumblr Book: Platform and Cultures (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2020), ed. by Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Ellen Stein, and Indira Neill Hoch (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)

• Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive, by John Adams and Abigail Adams (HTML and page images at masshist.org)

• On Board the USS Mason: The World War II Diary of James A. Dunn (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1996), by James A. Dunn, ed. by Mansel G. Blackford, contrib. by John S. Butler (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten (New York: Dryden Press, c1953), by Charlotte L. Forten, ed. by Ray Allen Billington (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten (New York: Dryden Press, c1953), by Charlotte L. Forten, ed. by Ray Allen Billington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Marine Flyer in France: The Diary of Captain Alfred A. Cunningham, November 1917 - January 1918, by Alfred A. Cunningham, ed. by Graham A. Cosmas (illustrated HTML at BYU)

• Marine Flyer in France: The Diary of Captain Alfred A. Cunningham, November 1917 - January 1918, by Alfred A. Cunningham, ed. by Graham A. Cosmas (illustrated HTML at BYU)

• The Life and Journal of the Rev. Mr. Henry Alline (Boston: Gilbert & Dean, 1806), by Henry Alline (multiple formats at archive.org)

• From a New England Woman's Diary in Dixie in 1865, by Mary Ames (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, by Henri Frédéric Amiel, ed. by Mrs. Humphry Ward (Gutenberg text)

• The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865 (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1908), by Eliza Frances Andrews
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Camping with the Sioux: Fieldwork Diary of Alice Cunningham Fletcher, by Alice C. Fletcher (illustrated HTML at Smithsonian)

• Anni: Letters and Writings of Annemarie Wächter (Rifton, NY: Plough Publishing House, c2011), by Annemarie Arnold, ed. by Marianne Wright and Erna Albertz (PDF at plough.com)

• American Airpower Comes of Age: General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold's World War II Diaries (2 volumes; Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2002), by Henry Harley Arnold, ed. by John W. Huston
  • Volume 1: PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • Volume 2: PDF with commentary at Air University Press

• Records of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries, by Albrecht Dürer, trans. by Rudolf Tombo (Gutenberg text)

• An Extract From the Journal of Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Methodist-Episcopal Church in America, from August 7, 1771, to December 29, 1778 (only 1 volume published; Philadelphia: Printed by J. Crukshank for J. Dickins, 1792), by Francis Asbury
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Journal of a Tour to North Carolina (1787 journal published in 1922), by William Attmore, ed. by Lida Tunstall Rodman (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Business of Reflection: Hawthorne in His Notebooks (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Nathaniel Hawthorne, ed. by Robert Milder and Randall Fuller
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files at Project MUSE

• The Journey is Everything: A Journal of the Seventies (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1983), by Helen Bevington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lady Morgan's Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence (2 volumes; London: W. H. Allen and co., 1862), by Lady Morgan, ed. by William Hepworth Dixon
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• An Account of Corsica, The Journal of a Tour to That Island, and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli (second edition; London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly, 1768), by James Boswell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An Account of Corsica, The Journal of a Tour to That Island, and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli (third edition corrected; London: Printed for E. and C. Dilly, 1769), by James Boswell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, by Henri Frédéric Amiel, ed. by Mrs. Humphry Ward (Gutenberg text)

• The Life and Journal of the Rev. Mr. Henry Alline (Boston: Gilbert & Dean, 1806), by Henry Alline (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The British in Boston: Being the Diary of Lieutenant John Barker of the King's Own Regiment from November 15, 1774 to May 31, 1776, With Notes (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1924), by John Barker, ed. by Elizabeth Ellery Dana (page images at HathiTrust)

• To Nebraska in 1857: A Diary of E. F. Beadle, by Erastus Flavel Beadle, contrib. by David L. Bristow (HTML at davidbristow.com)

• Belden, the White Chief: or, Twelve Years Among the Wild Indians of the Plains, by George P. Belden (page images at MOA)

• Experience of a Confederate Chaplain, by A. D. Betts (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Journey is Everything: A Journal of the Seventies (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1983), by Helen Bevington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ferry Hill Plantation Journal, January 4, 1838 - January 15, 1839, by John Blackford, ed. by Fletcher M. Green (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• My Diaries: Being a Personal Narrative of Events, 1888-1914 (2 volumes; New York: A. A. Knopf, 1922), by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, contrib. by Lady Gregory (page images at HathiTrust)

• Up and Down California in 1860-1864, by William Henry Brewer, ed. by Francis P. Farquhar (HTML at LOC)

• The Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay, by Fanny Burney, ed. by W. C. Ward
  • volume I: Gutenberg text
  • volume II: Gutenberg text
  • volume III: Gutenberg text

• To the Pole: The Diary and Notebook of Richard E. Byrd, 1925-1927 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Richard Evelyn Byrd, ed. by Raimund E. Goerler (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Letters and Journals of Lord Byron, With Notices of His Life (based on the 2-volume 1830 J. Murray edition, with annotated names), by George Byron, ed. by Thomas Moore and David Hill Radcliffe (HTML at vt.edu)

• The Concise Pepys (from the 1825 edition), by Samuel Pepys, ed. by Richard Griffin Braybrooke (HTML at Bibliomania)
• The Diary of Samuel Pepys (abridged edition; London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1879), by Samuel Pepys, ed. by Richard Griffin Braybrooke (Gutenberg text)
• The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1890s slightly expurgated edition), by Samuel Pepys, ed. by Henry B. Wheatley, contrib. by Richard Griffin Braybrooke (Gutenberg text)

• Journal of a Residence in Chile, During the Year 1822; and a Voyage From Chile to Brazil in 1823 (1824), by Maria Callcott (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Chardon's Journal at Fort Clark, 1834-1839: Descriptive of Life on the Upper Missouri; of a Fur Trader's Experiences among the Mandans, Gros Ventres and Their Neighbors; of the Ravages of the Small-Pox Epidemic of 1837 (Pierre, SD: Pub. under the auspices of L. K. Fox, Dept. of History, State of South Dakota, 1932), by Francis A. Chardon, ed. by Annie Heloise Abel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Linus Pauling Research Notebooks, by Linus Pauling (page images at Oregon State)

• In the Ranks of the C.I.V.: A Narrative and Diary of Personal Experiences With the C.I.V. Battery (Honourable Artillery Company) in South Africa (1900), by Erskine Childers (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A Ministry of Meetings: The Apostolic Diaries of Rudger Clawson (c1993), by Rudger Clawson, ed. by Stan Larson (HTML at Signature Books)

• The Journal of the Rev. Charles Wesley (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1849), by Charles Wesley (HTML at Vision of Britain)

• The Journal of Christopher Columbus (During His First Voyage, 1492-93), and Documents Relating the Voyages of John Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real (London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1893), by Christopher Columbus, ed. by Clements R. Markham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain (Boston: T. E. Wait and Son, 1827), by Christopher Columbus, ed. by Bartolomé de las Casas, trans. by Samuel Kettell (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Experience of a Confederate Chaplain, by A. D. Betts (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Up-River Book (manuscript diary of Conrad's journey up the Congo River, written 1890), by Joseph Conrad (page images at Harvard)

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