November 9
Laura M., age 15, North Carolina
November 9, 1997
Went 2 work from 8-1. Eddie picked me up. Typed poems, did homework, ate dinner. Came home at 7:00. (Mom out.) Talked, watched TV.
Anna L., age 75, Illinois
November 9, 1960
Did a lot of picking up and putting away also raking, thot it might rain. Lo thot we should go to Elgin so did. They had quite a snow late afternoon. Didn’t get home until after 10:30.
Marcy S., age 14, Tennessee
November 9, 1938
Cold. Didn’t practice. Went to chapel. Sang patriotic songs. Usual classes. Home for dinner. Usual classes in afternoon. After school I talked to Mary awhile and then went home. Walked part way with Mrs. Stevens. Too cold to play out. Read the paper. Mr. Nelson and Mrs. Killifer came to call on Mother so I sat in the kitchen and got my Latin. The little colored boy came for the garbage. Mother thought he had stole the gum yesterday but it was his cousin instead. M. talked to him. I finished my studying and then practiced an hour. Ate supper and did dishes. At 7:00 I listened to One Man’s Family. Anne had died and left a baby boy. Cliff had gone away from the family for awhile. After that I studied for my dramatic lesson tomorrow. Then to bed.
Henry S., age 26, Michigan
November 9, 1887
Did a few odd jobs this forenoon, and had Kate cut my hair. We had our dinner at 11 o’clock and I went up to the store so Case could go to his dinner as Hopkins was away hunting. It began to snow about noon and the ground was soon covered. It stormed about all the afternoon. I posted up the books at the store today. Received a letter from ma this evening. Have been writing copies. Am tired again.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Cornelia H., age 26, North Carolina
November 9, 1862
A heavy frost this morning but the sun shines warm out of doors. George Peake left this morning. Mr. Henry has gone a short distance with him. He will be back to dinner I think. George Peake is going to the salt works in Va. He has five waggons along. He is going to haul some for salt if he can get it that way. I am alone in my room, the children are at play. It is very cold for little Zona’s feet as she has no shoes & I can’t tell when she will get any. Willie’s are old ones. Pinck can wear his boots on only one foot as the other is not well yet but improving very fast. We have turkey for dinner. Mr. Henry says we must eat one every Sunday that Fannie cooks as she is so much better to prepare such things than Jinnie. I will soon stop as I want some walnuts. We have a quantity this fall laid away for winter. Mr. Henry came home to dinner. A man from the armory in Asheville came here a short time before Mr. Henry got back. He staid till after dinner. He wanted to see the patent loom. Mr. Henry & I took a walk, at least he went up to the spring with the loom man & I met him at the old store. There was some men with him so I went down to Bets McKinnish & staid awhile then we came home.
*(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 9, 1667
Up and to my workmen, who are at work close again, and I at the office all the morning, and there do hear by a messenger that Roger Pepys would speak with me, so before the office up I to Westminster, and there find the House very busy, and like to be so all day, about my Lord Chancellor’s impeachment, whether treason or not, where every body is mighty busy. I spoke with my cozen Roger, whose business was only to give me notice that Carcasse hath been before the Committee; and to warn me of it, which is a great courtesy in him to do, and I desire him to continue to do so. This business of this fellow, though it may be a foolish thing, yet it troubles me, and I do plainly see my weakness that I am not a man able to go through trouble, as other men, but that I should be a miserable man if I should meet with adversity, which God keep me from! He desirous to get back into the House, he having his notes in his hand, the lawyers being now speaking to the point of whether treason or not treason, the article of advising the King to break up the Parliament, and to govern by the sword. Thence I down to the Hall, and there met Mr. King, the Parliament-man for Harwich, and there he did shew, and let me take a copy of, all the articles against my Lord Chancellor, and what members they were that undertook to bring witnesses to make them good, of which I was mighty glad, and so away home, and to dinner and to my workmen, and in the afternoon out to get Simpson the joyner to come to work at my office, and so back home and to my letters by the post to-night, and there, by W. Pen, do hear that this article was overvoted in the House not to be a ground of impeachment of treason, at which I was glad, being willing to have no blood spilt, if I could help it. So home to supper, and glad that the dirty bricklayers’ work of my office is done, and home to supper and to bed.
*(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.)