Eber L. Taylor of Manchester Depot recorded the setting of phone poles in East Dorset and Barnumville in his diary for 1906.

At the age of 17 he began to keep a copious diary in which he recorded his thoughts and dreams.

Victoria found the house " small but pretty ", and recorded in her diary that: " All seemed to breathe freedom and peace, and to make one forget the world and its sad turmoils ".

In August 1970, Gödel told Oskar Morgenstern that he was " satisfied " with the proof, but Morgenstern recorded in his diary entry for 29 August 1970, that Gödel would not publish because he was afraid that others might think " that he actually believes in God, whereas he is only engaged in a logical investigation ( that is, in showing that such a proof with classical assumptions ( completeness, etc.

His reading lists, as recorded in his diary, were dominated by antisemitic pamphlets, German myths, and occult tracts.

Never quite losing his Devonshire accent, he was not only an amiable and original conversationalist but a friendly and generous host, so that Fanny Burney recorded in her diary that he had " a suavity of disposition that set everybody at their ease in his society ", and William Makepeace Thackeray believed " of all the polite men of that age, Joshua Reynolds was the finest gentleman.

Weizsäcker recorded in his diary throughout the spring and summer of 1939 repeated statements from Hitler that any German-Polish war would be only a localized conflict and provided that the Soviet Union could be persuaded to stay neutral, there was no danger of a general war.

On the same night, Sherman recorded in his diary " You in company with men in military attire-some women-evening dress-important people present-much conversation-you appear to be in evening dress yourself.

* September 25 – Samuel Pepys has his first cup of tea ( an event recorded in his diary ).

At the least, Michinaga pursued her and pressured her strongly, and her flirtation with him is recorded in her diary as late as 1010.

Her nickname, Murasaki, was most probably given at a court dinner in an incident she recorded in her diary: in c. 1008 the well-known court poet Fujiwara no Kintō inquired after the " Young Murasaki "— an allusion to the character named Murasaki in Genji — which would have been considered a compliment from a male court poet to a female author.

After the unfavourable reception that the opera received on opening night, Gilbert and Sullivan made numerous significant cuts and alterations :< ref > A copy of the libretto, including material cut before the first night and during the initial run, is at at The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive .</ ref > Sullivan recorded in his diary:

The first recorded colored cloud was seen by Nathan Ingleton in 1651, he wrote the event in his diary but the records were destroyed in 1666, in the Great Fire of London.

The first recorded usage of embarrass in English was in 1664 by Samuel Pepys in his diary.

Literary non-fiction works include Samuel Pepys ' diary, in which he recorded many events relating to the Thames including the Fire of London.

But service under Warwick ( by now the Duke of Northumberland ) carried some risk, and decades later in his diary, Cecil recorded his release in the phrase " ex misero aulico factus liber et mei juris " (" I was freed from this miserable court ").

Robert Hooke, who often saw Wren two or three times every week, had, as he recorded in his diary, never even heard of her, and was not to meet her till six weeks after the marriage.

His services to the king in this matter were duly recorded in the king's royal diary.

The last recorded diary entry was made in 2001

Samuel Pepys visited " Jamaica House " at Cherry Gardens in 1664 and recorded in his diary that he had left it " singing finely ".

Prince Don Agostino Chigi, a contemporary of the Pope's and one of the papal nobility associated with the papal court, recorded in his diary ( 2 December 1830 ):

The Maggid Meisharim ( 1646 ; “ Preacher of Righteousness ”), another major work, a strange and mystical diary, is a kind of diary in which Karo during a period of fifty years recorded the nocturnal visits of an angelic being, his heavenly mentor, the personified Mishna ( the authoritative collection of Jewish Oral Law ).

On 7 February 1954 Lord Moran, doctor to the Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, recorded in his diary: " Randolph, who is writing a life of the late Lord Derby for Longman's, brought to luncheon a young man of that name.

The novel thus appears to be told by an unnamed narrator who gathers information from what he has personally seen and heard regarding the epidemic, as well as from the diary of another character, Tarrou, who makes observations about the events he witnesses.

The earliest known written evidence of the title is from the November 3, 1863, diary entry of William Howard Russell, in which he referred to gossip about " the First Lady in the Land ," referring to Mary Todd Lincoln.

He kept a diary about his experiences there.

In 1922, Himmler became more interested in the ' Jewish question ', with his diary entries containing an increasing number of antisemitic remarks and recording a number of discussions about Jews with his classmates.

Goebbels expressed annoyance in his diary about what he called Terboven's " bullying tactics " against the Norwegians, as they alienated the population against the Germans.

Michinaga left a diary, Mido Kanpakuki ( 御堂関白記 ), that is one of our prime sources of information about Heian-era court life at its height.

According to Juliet Thompson's diary, ` Abdu ' l-Bahá suggested that she marry Remey, and in 1909 asked her how she felt about it, reportedly requesting of her: “ Give my greatest love to Mr. Remey and say: You are very dear to me.

This is perhaps the basis for Internet reports in the late 1990s about the supposed discovery of Pope John's diary in which he allegedly wrote about receiving prophetic insight into the future, including the return of Jesus in New York in 2000.

' Again writing about these events, Robert Latham – the editor of the definitive edition of the diary – has remarked: ' His descriptions of both – agonisingly vivid – achieve their effect by being something more than superlative reporting ; they are written with compassion.

This wasn't written about Kenneth Williams per se, but, after I'd composed it and was playing it through, I realised the lyric sort of summed Kenneth up − I think I'd recently been reading his published Diaries and I had ended the song with the same words Williams had written in his diary before he died.

Leonard ’ s own volumes of autobiography in the 1960s ( he died in 1969 ) gave the fullest account, but he remained reticent about the sexual lives of the members, as had the excerpts from Virginia ’ s diary.

In her diary, Murasaki wrote about Shōshi's court, " has gathered round her a number of very worthy young ladies ...

Much of what we know about her and her experiences at court comes from the diary, which covers the period from about 1008 to 1010.

In 2005, Deneuve published her diary A l ' ombre de moi-meme (" In My Own Shadow ", published in English as Close Up and Personal: The Private Diaries of Catherine Deneuve ); in it she writes about her experiences shooting the films Indochine and Dancer in the Dark.

Travelers brought books, Bibles, trail guides, and writing quills, ink and paper for letters ( about one in 200 kept a diary ).

Russian casualties totaled 1, 111 killed and 2, 856 wounded, about one third of those engaged ( Lewenhaupt, probably basing himself on the account of a Russian prisoner-of-war, in his diary claimed 16, 000 rather than 12, 000 Russian combatants )

* The Carbon Diaries: 2015, a teenage diary series about climate change is set in this year.

The American historian Charles Thomas wrote that Raeder's remarks about the executions in the Seekriegsleitung war diary seemed to be some sort of ironic comment in protest against the executions, which might have reflected a guilty conscience on the part of Raeder in enforcing a policy that he knew well to be illegal, and one that might lead him to being prosecuted for war crimes if Germany should lose the war.

In his diary kept during the aggression against the city and its occupation by the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Safety Zone, John Rabe, wrote many comments about Japanese atrocities.

When the boy was almost two, his father wrote in his diary that his youngest son became " so sick that we are anxious about him.

Richard Wagner wrote in his diary about Bakunin's visit:

Chiang Kai-shek wrote about the situation in his diary, " It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son.