1853 Diary with Many Years of Varied Entries drawing of woman poet many of these date from

many of these date from the 1940s

to the upper right corner were it meets the bar

as is the box

General wear and aging

it is beautiful

1853 Diary with Many Years of Varied Entries drawing of woman poet many of these date fromIt is impossible for me to walk away from things like this, with so much life, so many stories and so many years! embedded in them. This seems to have begun its life in 1853 as an E. P Chase' s day book, but there is writing in it in a few different hands, and much of it from the 1880s, when E. P. or someone else took to using it to record the deaths of family members and friends and of the "old horse!" most of these having no relationship to the day