[Personal_archives] FW: Great stories this month at The Diary Junction Blog

[Hobbs, Catherine]

Hello Everyone.  An interesting blog to do with personal diaries which
may be of interest to some.
 
Catherine

________________________________

From: Paul Lyons [mailto:paul at pikle.co.uk] 
Sent: March 25, 2009 6:33 AM
Subject: Great stories this month at The Diary Junction Blog


Hi


Great stories this month at The Diary Junction Blog


I hope you find them well-written, original, and interesting, and that,
therefore, you'll want to advise your own readers/website visitors about
the The Diary Junction Blog <http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/>
and/or The Diary Junction <http://www.pikle.co.uk/diaryjunction.html> .
(These are non-commercial websites, entirely free of advertising.)


Lennon and Linda McCartney
<http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2009/03/lennon-and-linda-mccartney
.html>  - did they have a one-night stand?

*	An owl in the desert
<http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2009/03/owl-in-desert.html>  -
Anne Clifford, a lady of court in the 17th century, battled for years
against her father's decision to leave the family estate to his brother
rather than to her 
*	Of war and of sowing
<http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2009/03/of-war-and-of-sowing.html>
- on the reissuing of the original three volumes of Harold Nicolson's
diaries   
*	Chamberlain's diary letters
<http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2009/03/chamberlains-diary-letters
.html>  - on whether Neville Chamberlain's letters to his sisters can be
considered as a diary 
*	As big as the West
<http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2009/03/as-big-as-west.html>  - on
Edward Abbey, the controversial American writer who married five times 
*	Steller on Bering Island
<http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2009/03/steller-on-bering-island.h
tml>  - the discovery of Alaska and plenty of fauna 
*	Rotten eggs in Peking
<http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2009/03/rotten-eggs-in-peking.html
>  - about Derk Bodde, an eminent sinologist, and the communist
revolution 
*	DiMaggio's diary - $33 a word
<http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2009/03/dimaggios-diary-33-word.ht
ml>  - about how a famous baseball player's diaries are being sold page
by page 
*	The Wallenberg curse
<http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2009/03/wallenberg-curse.html>  -
on the Swedish diplomat that disappeared in Hungary in 1945, and his
father's diary 
*	Woolf on rinderpest and salt
<http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2009/03/woolf-on-rinderpest-and-sa
lt.html>  - about Leonard Woolf's years in Sri Lanka 
*	The finding of Tutankhamun
<http://thediaryjunction.blogspot.com/2009/03/finding-of-tutankhamun.htm
l>  - on Howard Carter's famous discovery 



Diarists and diaries are the main focus of every story. I always refer
to original sources, provide links, and try to quote actual diary texts.


Kind regards


Paul


PS: apologies if you find this unsolicited email annoying, or spam, if
so do reply with 'remove' and the email address you want deleted.



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/personal_archives/attachments/20090325/815621fd/attachment.html