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Strother of Hull. 1912. Strother’s Journal. Ed. Caesar Caine. London: A. Brown and Sons. Local History, Leeds. Get it:
.And now I have filled this book but perhaps shall not fill another. I have learnt by keeping this journal that I have been discontent more than was profitable and that it is not proper for a tradesman to keep a journal without he has enough of time and plentiful fortune. I began Sunday 8 of August 1784 and now conclude Sunday 17 July 1785 at seven o’clock in the evening.
Via Arthur Ponsonby (Ponsonby 1923), who has more excerpts.
Dickens also abandoned a diary (Dickens 1882).
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And now I have filled this book but perhaps shall not fill another. I have learnt by keeping this journal that I have been discontent more than was profitable and that it is not proper for a tradesman to keep a journal without he has enough of time and plentiful fortune.
I began Sunday 8 of August 1784 and now conclude Sunday 17 July 1785 at 7 o’clock in the evening.
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