November 22
Laura M., age 15, North Carolina
November 22, 1997
Went 2 work from 10-close with the Brians. Came home and showered and ate. Went 2 mall with Steven and Bryan. Got Dad and Em a X-mas present.
Marcy S., age 14, Tennessee
November 22, 1938
Practiced. Nice day. No chapel. Usual classes. Test in Algebra. Hate to think what I made. Home for dinner. Back again. Usual periods. Study periods in which I really studied. Mary came with bad news that she couldn’t go with us on Thanksgiving. After school I talked with her and she is going to try and persuade her Daddy to let her go. I went home and practiced. At 4:30 I went to music lesson. Had a good one. No more lessons till a week Saturday. Dark when I got out. Came home and let Mother hear my Latin and English and then worked on my poster till 7:30 with time out for supper. Daddy supposed to be home for supper but wasn’t home all night due to car trouble. I read “Blue Castle” (very good) from 7:30 till 8:30. Then bath and to bed.
Henry S., age 26, Michigan
November 22, 1887
Drew up a few chunks this morning, spent the rest of the forenoon at Pen work, making a notice for Charlie Case and doing some writing to hang up in my class room. I bought some meat for our Thanksgiving dinner. Have been writing several business letters tonight. It has been quite warm today, but the snow is still here.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Abbie B., age 22, Kansas
November 22, 1871
Philip brought my medacine. I helped Mrs. Lane make butter out of pie mellon from my garden. Expect to go to Wichita Sunday, so I must go up tomorrow and pack my trunk.
*(kansasmemory.org, Kansas State Historical Society, copy and reuse restrictions apply)
Cornelia H., age 26, North Carolina
November 22, 1862
Done Sunday mending before dinner & knit some after dinner. Mrs. Jamison & Betsey came here about 12 o’clock & staid till late in the evening. They are spinning for us. I want the children’s linsey got ready for the loom next week. Mrs. Fanning is to weave it. I want her to make better cloth than she did in the flannel. I intend having it red & black & the warp solid purple as I want to make me & the children some sacks on it. That is if it suits me after it is made. Not so cold today as yesterday as there is no wind blowing. I made some peach pies this evening. Fannie has been breaking wool 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.)
Samuel P., age 34, London
November 22, 1667
Up betimes, and drinking my morning draught of strong water with Betty Michell, I had not opportunity para baiser la, I by water to White Hall, and there met Creed, and thence with him to Westminster Hall, where we talked long together of news, and there met with Cooling, my Lord Chamberlain’s Secretary, and from him learn the truth of all I heard last night; and understand further, that this stiffness of the Lords is in no manner of kindness to my Lord Chancellor, for he neither hath, nor do, nor for the future likely can oblige any of them, but rather the contrary; but that they do fear what the consequence may be to themselves, should they yield in his case, as many of them have reason. And more, he shewed me how this is rather to the wrong and prejudice of my Lord Chancellor; for that it is better for him to come to be tried before the Lords, where he can have right and make interest, than, when the Parliament is up, be committed by the King, and tried by a Court on purpose made by the King, of what Lords the King pleases, who have a mind to have his head. So that my Lord [Cornbury] himself, his son, he tells me, hath moved, that if they have Treason against my Lord of Clarendon, that they would specify it and send it up to the Lords, that he might come to his trial; so full of intrigues this business is!
Having now a mind to go on and to be rid of Creed, I could not, but was forced to carry him with me to the Excise Office, and thence to the Temple, and there walked a good while in the Temple church, observing the plainness of Selden’s tomb, and how much better one of his executors hath, who is buried by him, and there I parted with him and took coach and home, where to dinner.
*(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.)