The usual form is letters, although diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents are sometimes used.

*" Dear Esther " is a 2012 video game by thechineseroom that allows the player to traverse an uninhabitated Hebridean island ; as the player does so letters and diary excerpts are recalled audibly by the narrator to reveal the story and encourage progression towards certain areas.

So long as Ambrose continued at Preston he was favoured with the warm friendship of the Hoghton family, their ancestral woods and the tower near Blackburn affording him sequestered places for those devout meditations and " experiences " that give such a charm to his diary, portions of which are quoted in his Prima Media and Ultima ( 1650, 1659 ).

By 3 May, he was able to boast in his diary: " We are the masters of Germany.

Hay's diary and writings during the Civil War are basic historical sources.

In her diary she wrote, " Our happiest and serenest times are now over.

" In her diary she comforted herself: " I am sure they all got out of Russia and now the Bolsheviks are trying to hide the truth.

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.

' 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.

One of the Persian envoys, Ghiyasu'd-Din Naqqah, keeps a diary of his travels throughout China, some of the contents of which are preserved in court documents thanks to the court historian Hafiz Abru.

The Joneses are able to escape and recover the diary from Elsa at a Nazi rally in Berlin, eventually barely escaping possible arrest by having the diary signed by Adolf Hitler.

After the four are discovered, Donovan shoots Henry, mortally wounding him, and thus forces Indiana to circumvent the traps by using the information in his father's diary in order to use the healing power of the Grail to save his father, with Donovan and Elsa following.

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.

Most additional features are exclusive to the two-DVD set: the director's commentary assisted by Kevin Smith, excerpts from the storyboard, a 52-minute production diary, "# 1 fan video ", a " cult following " video interviewing English fans, and the new director's cut trailer.

However, he was in a seriously weakened condition ; Wilson's diary entry for 14 January reads: " Shackleton has been anything but up to the mark, and today he is decidedly worse, very short winded and coughing constantly, with more serious symptoms that need not be detailed here but which are of no small consequence one hundred and sixty miles from the ship ".

In fact, Haig, in his diary the next day, wrote that "... the total casualties are estimated at over 40, 000 to date.

One of the essential sources Philostratus claimed to know are the “ memoirs ” ( or “ diary ”) of Damis, an acolyte and companion of Apollonius.

Parts are written as if drawn from the diary of his wife Elspeth, and edited by her slightly puritanical and much offended sister, Grizel Morrison de Rothschild.

Bridget's friends and family are the supporting characters in her diary.

The Enochian letters in this chart are read from right to left, as written in John Dee's diary.

" One example brought was his diary entry for 17 September 1994, in which Irving wrote about a ditty he composed for his young daughter " when halfbreed children are wheeled past ":

( Portions of a diary written by Henry McLafferty Jr ( 1819 – 1859 ) are available online from the Rochester Public Library: Romulus Revisited: Extracts from the Diary of Henry McLafferty, Jr. 1856 – 1857 ).

In April 1786 John Adams ( the future second President of the United States on tour with Thomas Jefferson — who would serve as his vice president before becoming President himself ) visited Woburn Abbey and other notable house in the area, after visiting them he wrote in his diary " Stowe, Hagley, and Blenheim, are superb ; Woburn, Caversham, and the Leasowes are beautiful.

In the diary she kept briefly early in 1929, she wrote of her loneliness, her impatience with life in provincial Dallas, and her love of talking pictures.

Peter van Pels, love interest of famous diarist Anne Frank, and his parents Auguste van Pels and Hermann van Pels, who would later gain fame from their roles in Anne's diary, all hailed from Osnabrück.

Through the testimony of her friends, and the reading of her letters and diary, McPherson comes to know Laura and slowly becomes obsessed with her, so much so Lydecker accuses him of falling in love with the dead woman.

He wrote poems to her and reflected on the relationship in " A Midsummer Diary for M ." Merton struggled to maintain his vows while being deeply in love with the woman he referred to in his personal diary as " M ".

The future prime minister Neville Chamberlain wrote in his diary that she was " an entirely unscrupulous woman who is not in love with the King but is exploiting him for her own purposes.

He kept in his diary every detail of Kumaya, how he moved and talked, which shows his deep love and expectations for his son.

In the diary we learn of observations he does not include in his columns, including his personally transformative love affair with an Ecotopian woman.

Adrian tends to devote a lot of his diary space to her, describing her current paramour and his flaws, and pining for their lost love.

Bremer had written in his diary that " No English or history test was ever as hard, no math final exam ever as difficult as waiting in a school lunch line alone, waiting to eat alone ... while hundreds huddled & gossiped and roared, & laughed and stared at me ..." and " No one ever noticed me nor took interest in me as an individual with the need to receive or give love.

The piano cycle served as a diary of sorts of his love for a piano pupil.

His daughter Kitty caused a sensation, and the novelist Leo Tolstoy wooed her, " almost prepared to marry her impassively, without love, but she received me with studied coldness ", as he remarked in a diary.

Lucien is always faithful to Alice, and pursues her, but both Alice and Lisa ( who, as their names imply, are reflections of each other ) initially both love Max, and Max, although madly in love with Lisa, turns to Alice after reading her diary, just before reality dawns and he accepts his fate with Muriel.

Denys's love of swords was inspired by his father and in a diary entitled " Childhood Collecting Preferences "; Denys quoted his grandfather speaking to his father in about 1895 as saying: " There must be no more of this silly sword business ".

The Saeki family lived happily in suburban Tokyo, but housewife Kayako Saeki fell in love with her son's teacher Peter Kirk, obsessively writing about him in a diary.

When he is invited to Shagun's home, he reads her computer diary and learns that she is actually in love with him.

", focused on Mácha and his Máj, in which he " calls attention to the stark contrast between the devotional reverence of Macha's love poem and the cynically coarse references to its heroine in the poet's diary.

When Jessica Miriam Reeves, at the time an investigator of paranormal activities for the Talamasca, received the assignment to purchase and uncover the townhouse of Lestat's coven in New Orleans, she finds Claudia's room as well as a diary kept in secret by Claudia, revealing more of her inner thoughts about her love / hate relationship with Lestat in particular, as well as hints of her growing rage and confusion at being an adult woman trapped forever within a child's body.

He was 16, and adored Anne, but she wrote in her diary that she was " not in love with Hello, he is just a friend, or as mummy would say, one of my ' beaux '", though Anne also remarked in her diary about how much she enjoyed Hello's company.

In an early diary passage, she remarks that she is not in love with Helmut " Hello " Silberberg, her suitor at that time, but considered that he might become a true friend.

Lelyveld quotes correspondence between Gandhi and Kallenbach, including excerpts from the latter's diary, with language that seems suggestive of a homosexual relationship, with Gandhi speaking of his disciple Kallenbach as " Lower House ," and of himself as " Upper House ," and saying that cotton-wool and Vaseline were a constant reminder of their " mutual love ," Lelyveld says this relates to the cotton wool and Vaseline that Gandhi and Kallenbach used in giving themselves enemas, one of Gandhi's fads.

It features actor Gary Dourdan as Jackson's lost love, with Jackson writing in her diary as she reminisces about her love through flashbacks.