January 24
Laura M., age 15, North Carolina
January 24, 1998
Worked from 9-close. (Anne & Andrew.) LONG. Came home. Showered. Ate. Watched “Head Above Water.” STUPID. Practiced guitar. Chris is on my mind.
Laura M., age 14, North Carolina
January 24, 1997
Holy shnikees. Sean wasn’t THAT great at school ’cause he said he wasn’t going to come see me at Ashley’s. But he DID! I was so bummed till I looked out the the window. :) We did more than kiss this time. Yeah, Sean! Went to see “One Fine Day” with Courtney. Came to Dad’s. Talked to Karen. Talked to Sean. He was being really serious and sweet. Went to bed and slept good.
Anna L., age 75, Illinois
January 24, 1960
Didn’t want to send K.J. home on train as it would be late so Harry and I went along when Lo took her home. Carrie was here to eat with us but didn’t want to go. Stayed in Beloit long enough to have coffee.
Marcy S., age 19, Missouri
January 24, 1944
Cloudy in morn and cool. Milder in afternoon and lovely. Up for breakfast. Dreadful lost, hopeless feeling again. Piano lesson at 8:15. Good. Felt better unaccountedly. Shorthand at 9. Dancing at 10 - Mary has the curse. Betty cut all morning classes. Got letter from Mum, Record and first issue of Life. Practiced at 11. Lunch with Betty and Mary. Good. Doris is so icky - don’t see how Joan stands her! Wrote Mary and Earl during siesta. Eng. Lit. at 2 - nearly went to sleep. Got book of Barrie’s plays. Back to hall and studied shorthand til 4. Slept til 5. Betty back. Then read “Dear Brutus.” Mary came down and we went to dinner. Only 5 at table - really feasted and Betty and I cut up something awful. I signed my dinner slip “John Doe”!! Made Mary drop cookie on way out and then skidded! Nearly died. About 7:30 Betty and I went over to auditorium and got good seat. Read til concert started at 8:15. Dr. Gauntlett’s piano playing inspired me to do great things. Over about 10.
Marcy S., age 16, Tennessee
January 24, 1941
Windy, cool, cloudy. I was in a wonderful mood first thing but two hours of practicing sorta calmed me down. I wrote a letter I didn’t feel like writing and then the same old empty, useless feeling once again. Dad in bed with a cold. Mom went to Kiwanis. I read a magazine story at night. Colder. No school. Seemed like Saturday.
Henry S., age 26, Michigan
January 24, 1888
Kate did her washing this forenoon and I stayed in the house and wrote and cared for Una. I have got such a fearful toothache tonight that I can’t write much. Una seems a little better today.
Henry S., age 25, Michigan
January 24, 1887
It has been a pleasant day and the sun has shone. I wrote and worked at Bookkeeping all the forenoon. Made out a specimen of the Work for exhibition. I am afraid I will never be able to do such writing as I would like to, as my arm seems to get nervous and I am at times afraid I will have the Writers Cramp. I called at Mr. Morrow’s this afternoon, and then went in to my house and got some things. I went up town tonight and got the mail, I received the Leader, which had some news in it. I mailed a letter to Kate. I send her one every mail. I hope I will hear from home Wednesday. I get pretty anxious sometimes.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Cornelia H., age 26, North Carolina
January 24, 1863
I fixed some more yarn for Mr. Henry’s comfort. I have knit 1 1/2 cuts & it is not more than half long enough. Jinnie twisted it, also some sewing thread. She finished the lard today. I put bands to my flannels & bodies to the children’s skirts. Atheline helped some. Betsey went home this evening. Till stopped here a few minutes this evening. I tried to persuade her to stay all night but she expected company & had to go home. She went to Asheville today.
*(Fear in North Carolina: The Civil War Journals and Letters of the Henry Family, Eds. Karen L. Clinard and Richard Russell, used with permission.)
Cornelia H., age 25, North Carolina
January 24, 1862
House full of people come to hear the news. The mail brought nothing of importance, no letters for us. I doubled some sewing thread & Jinnie knit on her stocking. Willie no better yet, the others all well. A cold, drisly, damp day.
*(Fear in North Carolina: The Civil War Journals and Letters of the Henry Family, Eds. Karen L. Clinard and Richard Russell, used with permission.)
Samuel P., age 35, London
January 24, 1668
Up before day to my Tangier accounts, and then out and to a Committee of Tangier, where little done but discourse about reduction of the charge of the garrison, and thence to Westminster about orders at the Exchequer, and at the Swan I drank, and there met with a pretty ingenious young Doctor of physic, by chance, and talked with him, and so home to dinner, and after dinner carried my wife to the Temple, and thence she to a play, and I to St. Andrew’s church, in Holburne, at the Quest House, where the company meets to the burial of my cozen Joyce; and here I staid with a very great rabble of four or five hundred people of mean condition, and I staid in the room with the kindred till ready to go to church, where there is to be a sermon of Dr. Stillingfleete, and thence they carried him to St. Sepulchre’s. But it being late, and, indeed, not having a black cloak to lead her [Kate Joyce] with, or follow the corps, I away, and saw, indeed, a very great press of people follow the corps. I to the King’s playhouse, to fetch my wife, and there saw the best part of “The Mayden Queene,”which, the more I see, the more I love, and think one of the best plays I ever saw, and is certainly the best acted of any thing ever the House did, and particularly Becke Marshall, to admiration. Found my wife and Deb., and saw many fine ladies, and sat by Colonell Reames, who understands and loves a play as well as I, and I love him for it. And so thence home; and, after being at the Office, I home to supper, and to bed, my eyes being very bad again with overworking with them.
*(The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S., edited by Henry B. Wheatley F.S.A., London, George Bell & Sons York St. Covent Garden, Cambridge Deighton Bell & Co., 1893.)