November 14
Laura M., age 15, North Carolina
November 14, 1997
Okay — Chris and Shannon aren’t going out — never were. Went 2 work after school. Ashley came at about 4. (Meri and John.) Mom picked up me and Ashley, then Dad came. Me and Ashley were home alone most of the night. Watched “Liar, Liar” and “In Love and War.”
Anna L., age 75, Illinois
November 14, 1960
Washed not too good a day but they dried pretty well. Lo shopped. I took groceries over to Carrie. Mrs. B. came over we had coffee. Went to cabin, Lo and I filled wood box glad to have that done.
Marcy S., age 14, Tennessee
November 14, 1938
Cold. Practiced. Nice day. Went to chapel. [In left margin: “P.S. Some Hawaiians in chapel. Didn’t see. They took up part of Eng. class.”] Usual classes. Home for dinner. Usual classes. At 2:30 I took my expression. Had good lesson. Back to study-hall till school was out. Mary went home with me and we walked up the hill with Martha Jean and Magurette. Mother cut the paper in half and took her part. She had to leave right away. I walked nearly to Pres. Church with her. Then home. Made beds, got wood, practiced and studied. Mrs. Rodgers came to call about 5:15. Mother talked to her awhile. After supper and dishes I got ready for bed and at 8:00 listened to Lux Radio Theater. Clark Gable in “Buccaneer.” Daddy home.
Henry S., age 26, Michigan
November 14, 1887
Went to work and sodded the cellar over and finished it up in that respect. Put some posts to use in putting up a woodshed and drew them down then I hitched up to go up town toward evening. Went up and got 100# of flour and a lot of groceries for our use during the coming winter. It is a very dark night and threatens to storm. Have been writing the copies for my class tomorrow.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Cornelia H., age 26, North Carolina
November 14, 1862
I sit up till after 9 last night reading & knitting so it was late when I woke this morning & consequently late breakfast as the negroes never get up till they are called. I wrote to Mr. Henry this morning. The mail came before I finished it but I put it in. Mr. Boyd is cutting out a window in dining room as we are going to have a chimney added to it & have to move the windows. I sewed a little on Sam’s shirt, did not get it done. Mrs. Jamison & Betsey spent the day here. I tacked some pieces of glass in dining room window to mend the holes. Did nothing after dinner.
*(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 34, London
November 14, 1667
At the office close all the morning. At noon, all my clerks with me to dinner, to a venison pasty; and there comes Creed, and dined with me, and he tells me how high the Lords were in the Lords’ House about the business of the Chancellor, and that they are not yet agreed to impeach him. After dinner, he and I, and my wife and girl, the latter two to their tailor’s, and he and I to the Committee of the Treasury, where I had a hearing, but can get but 6000l. for the pay of the garrison, in lieu of above 16,000l.; and this Alderman Backewell gets remitted there, and I am glad of it. Thence by coach took up my wife and girl, and so home, and set down Creed at Arundell House, going to the Royal Society, whither I would be glad to go, but cannot. Thence home, and to the Office, where about my letters, and so home to supper, and to bed, my eyes being bad again; and by this means, the nights, now-a-days, do become very long to me, longer than I can sleep out.
*(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.)