Williams insisted that he was celibate, and his diaries substantiate his claims – at least from his early 40s onwards.

Williams wrote his diaries from the age of 14 in 1940 until his death 48 years later, although the earliest to survive to publication was for 1942 when he reached 16.

Williams kept pocket-sized diaries for 1942 and 1947 ( he kept no diaries for 1943 to 1946 as he was touring the Far East in the army ); a desk diary for 1948 ; pocket-sized diaries for 1949 and 1950 ; desk diaries for 1951 to 1965 ; standard edition desk diaries for 1966 to 1971, and finally A4-sized executive desk diaries for 1972 to 1988.

This drew for the first time on the full Williams archive of diaries and letters, which had been stored in a London bank for 15 years following publication of edited extracts.

In his diaries, Kenneth Williams lamented this and criticised several of the movies despite his declared fondness for the series as a whole.

In preparation for the role, he lost two and a half stone, studied archival footage and read Williams ' published diaries.

Allegations that the diaries of Sir John Williams, on which Tony Williams based his research, were altered in any case cast doubt on the whole of this theory.

The building houses Williams ' easel, brushes, the leather-bound diaries he kept from 1963 until his death, clipping books, a range of works and includes a gallery for hanging and photographing the artist's works.

Wells also wrote the preface for the first edition of W. N. P. Barbellion's diaries, The Journal of a Disappointed Man, published in 1919.

Additionally, Charlie Higson wrote a series on a young James Bond and Kate Westbrook wrote three novels based on the diaries of a recurring series character, Moneypenny.

In his The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, Keene claims Murasaki wrote the " supreme work of Japanese fiction " by drawing on traditions of court diaries, and earlier monogatari — written in a mixture of Chinese script and Japanese script — such as The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter or The Tales of Ise.

Forster regularly published essays on the scientific and discovery expeditions of his times and continued to be a very prolific translator ; for instance, he wrote about Cook's third journey to the South Pacific, and about the Bounty expedition, as well as translating Cook's and Bligh's diaries from these journeys into German.

During his Greedy Bastard Tour of 2003, he wrote the diaries that would be made into The Greedy Bastard Diary: A Comic Tour of America, published in February 2005.

Boasting of his role in criticising the Hitler diaries as a forgery in 1983, Irving wrote " now he is saying the same thing about the infamous ' gas chambers ' of Auschwitz, Treblinka and Majdanek.

Before his death, Franz Kafka wrote to his friend and literary executor Max Brod: " Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters ( my own and others '), sketches, and so on, to be burned unread.

He wrote two books from his diaries of those times, The Battle for Kohima, and Forward From Kohima.

Goddard later wrote in his diaries that he believed his paper was the first proposal of a way to automatically stabilize aircraft in flight.

Sharett wrote personal diaries, which were published posthumously.

Bonneville visited the lava fields and other places in the West in the 19th century and wrote about his experiences in his diaries.

Women wrote about how the experience made them feel in letters, diaries, speeches and suffrage publications, including Votes for Women and The Suffragette.

The factory of Stjärnsund was visited by one of his contemporaries, Carolus Linnaeus, who wrote about the factory in his diaries as Nothing is more optimistic than Stjärnsund (" Intet är spekulativare än Stjärnsund ").

Ishikawa wrote some his diaries in the Latin script transliteration of Japanese so that his wife could not read them.

The Greek, Herodotus, 484-425 BC, wrote in his travel diaries about boats with which merchandise was brought from Armenia to Babylon.

Ali Sami Yen, the main founder of Galatasaray wrote the following in his diaries:

In his acclaimed diaries, Chris Mullin, then Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the DETR, wrote with shock of " the awful Shaun Woodward " defecting to his own side, calling " the New Labour elite parachuting into a safe seat ... one of New Labour's vilest stitch-ups ... made my flesh creep ".

Rommel collaborated with Basil Liddell-Hart in the publication of The Rommel Papers, a collection of diaries, letters and notes that his father wrote during and after his military campaigns.

Lord Moran, Winston Churchill's personal physician, wrote in his diaries that " seemed to me hardly sane — in medical jargon a borderline case.

She wrote of this issue in her diaries: during a dinner, General Georg Adlersparre told her that Jean Baptiste Bernadotte had asked whether she had any issue, and was interested when he found she had not.

These events have been documented since the Gold Rush period, when pioneers wrote about the " Inland Sea " upon the wet pages of their personal diaries.

Dharmapala's voluminous diaries have been published, and he also wrote some memoirs.

Traditionally these have been interpreted as examples of government hostility toward commerce, but more recent studies, which use source material such as magistrate diaries and genealogical records, suggest that merchants in fact had a powerful impact on government policies and that the division between the world of the merchant and the world of the official was far more porous than traditionally believed.

Portions of Hay's diaries and letters from 1861 – 1870, published in the book Lincoln and the Civil War, show Lincoln in a far more intimate light.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject ; others function as more personal online diaries.

Many blogs provide commentary on a particular subject ; others function as more personal online diaries ; others function more as online brand advertising of a particular individual or company.

As more material became available to scholars, including the diaries of contemporaries and hundreds of affectionate and sometimes erotic letters written by James to younger men, the picture of neurotic celibacy gave way to a portrait of a closeted homosexual, although as author Terry Eagleton has stated, "... gay critics debate exactly how repressed his ( probable ) homosexuality was ..."

William Bell, who arrived in June 1817, noted in his diaries that the settlement was more European than the Scottish settlement described to him.

Proponents of time use diaries believe that this method " generate more detailed information and tend to capture greater variation than predetermined questions.

Clutterbuck left three volumes of diaries, which are actually more similar to commonplace books, filled with daily poems and illustrations and intended to be read by visitors to her home.

After his death, Arishima became known for his detailed diaries, covering more than twenty volumes, with an intimate record of his life, fears and hopes.

The full force of this industry has taken time to get up steam: extracts chosen from his diaries for posthumous publication in 2003 proved disappointing, as it appeared that most of the more interesting material had already been quarried by Rowse himself for publication in his lifetime and the remainder seemed somewhat banal.

The existing written evidence ( including ongoing correspondence between the women concerning the development of the multi-volume series, Lane's extensive personal diaries detailing the time she spent working on the manuscripts, and Wilder's own initial draft manuscripts ) tends to reveal an ongoing mutual collaboration that involved Lane more extensively in the earlier books, and to a much lesser extent by the time the series ended, as Wilder's confidence in her own writing ability increased, and Lane was no longer living at Rocky Ridge Farm.

Freud is said to refer to her in his diaries more than others in the family.

* A more skilled executive assistant ( Grade / Band 4 to 6 ) may be required to type at high speeds using technical or foreign languages, organize diaries, itineraries and meetings and carry out administrative duties which may include accountancy.

Unfortunately, she died in February 1996 before she could do so ; fortunately, Hitoshi came across it one month later while looking for more explicit online diaries.

Those books were much more open than the typical G-rated and ghost-written athletes ' " diaries ", a literary technique dating at least as far back as Christy Mathewson.

And, bedsore and morphine-addled, little more than a year before his death Shiki began writing sickbed diaries.

Some critics believe this is expressed in her published poetry in a subtle way, but it was revealed after her death by scholars ' study of her diaries and more explicit unpublished works.

Account of Buddhism sent from the South Seas and Buddhist Monk's Pilgrimage of the Tang Dynasty are two of Yijing's best travel diaries, describing his adventurous journey to Srivijaya and India, reporting on the society of India, the lifestyles of various local peoples, and more.

The current Lonely Planet range also includes hardback photography books, food guides, city guides, travelogues, diaries and calendars, language guides, walking guides and guides covering an area of interest in more detail, for example a Volunteer Travel guide or a National Park guide.

Many letters and diaries recount that these birds, native to the Great Salt Lake, ate mass quantities of crickets, drank some water, regurgitated, and continued eating more crickets.

Iris has also argued that her adventures are more " true " than the Doctor's recollections because she writes them in her diaries while the Doctor does not, and there are hints that Iris is aware of her status as a fictional character.