September 27
Laura M., age 15, North Carolina
September 27, 1997
Me and Julie played some pool. I drove home. Did homework. Went 2 mall 4 Chrissi’s present. Did homework. Took shower. Ate. Went 2 Zach’s from 7:30-10:30. (Sean, Tim, Sol, Jules, Chrissi, Renée, and Leslie.) Watched “SNL" with cousins.
Anna L., age 75, Illinois
September 27, 1960
At 11:00 had to have my hair washed, was gone until about 1:00. Had done a little washing and worked at Carrie’s apt. at nite. Lo vac. the floors. I cleaned bath room helped with floors. Cleaned windows too. Ironed some of the drapes.
Marcy S., age 14, Tennessee
September 27, 1938
My hay fever has turned into a cold. Bad, too. No chapel but study period. Usual classes. Ate dinner. Usual classes. After school practiced and was going to hear the Pres. of Czech speak on the radio but he couldn’t because of the international situation. At 4:30 went to my music lesson. Played with A.B. and George when I got back. Mother had some pictures we got this summer, framed and the man brought them up. Mrs. Moore is going to be over at George’s tonight at Mrs. McClure’s Sunday-school class party and is going to give a reading. G. asked me but I can’t go because of my hateful cold. Went in at 5:30 and studied. Mother and Daddy read the paper all evening. I washed the dishes and went to bed early. “Did my head” and doctered [sic]. Warm today. European crisis not any better. Me, worse.
Henry S., age 26, Michigan
September 27, 1887
I put in a window in the south end of the kitchen part of our wood shed and put the battens on the outside also. Jesse Packard came over and got my “Ames Compendium,” to do some pen lettering from. It has threatened to rain all day but has not succeeded much. The Benzie Co. fair opens tomorrow and I expect I will have to be there about all the time but I don’t like the idea very much.
*(R. Henry Scadin Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, UNC Asheville)
Cornelia H., age 26, North Carolina
September 27, 1862
I have done sundry mending today. Have not taken down the quilt. Made Zona & Willie a doll each & knit & read some in “Vallette,” a novel. I have read it once before some years ago. Mr. Henry went to Asheville today, late when he came home. Cloudy & cool all 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
September 27, 1668
(Lord’s day). Up, and to my office to finish my journall for five days past, and so abroad and walked to White Hall, calling in at Somerset House Chapel, and also at the Spanish Embassador’s at York House, and there did hear a little masse: and so to White Hall; and there the King being gone to Chapel, I to walk all the morning in the Park, where I met Mr. Wren; and he and I walked together in the Pell-Mell, it being most summer weather that ever was seen: and here talking of several things: of the corruption of the Court, and how unfit it is for ingenious men, and himself particularly, to live in it, where a man cannot live but he must spend, and cannot get suitably, without breach of his honour: and did thereupon tell me of the basest thing of my Lord Barkeley, one of the basest things that ever was heard of of a man, which was this: how the Duke of York’s Commissioners do let his wine-licenses at a bad rate, and being offered a better, they did persuade the Duke of York to give some satisfaction to the former to quit it, and let it to the latter, which being done, my Lord Barkeley did make the bargain for the former to have 1500l. a-year to quit it; whereof, since, it is come to light that they were to have but 800l. and himself 700l., which the Duke of York hath ever since for some years paid, though this second bargain hath been broken, and the Duke of York lost by it, [half] of what the first was. He told me that there hath been a seeming accommodation between the Duke of York and the Duke of Buckingham and Lord Arlington, the two latter desiring it; but yet that there is not true agreement between them, but they do labour to bring in all new creatures into play, and the Duke of York do oppose it, as particularly in this of Sir D. Gawden. Thence, he gone, I to the Queen’s Chapel, and there heard some good singing; and so to White Hall, and saw the King and Queen at dinner and thence with Sir Stephen Fox to dinner: and the Cofferer with us; and there mighty kind usage, and good discourse. Thence spent all the afternoon walking in the Park, and then in the evening at Court, on the Queen’s side; and there met Mr. Godolphin, who tells me that the news, is true we heard yesterday, of my Lord Sandwich’s being come to Mount’s Bay, in Cornwall, and so I heard this afternoon at Mrs. Pierce’s, whom I went to make a short visit to. This night, in the Queen’s drawing-room, my Lord Brouncker told me the difference that is now between the three Embassadors here, the Venetian, French, and Spaniard; the third not being willing to make a visit to the first, because he would not receive him at the door; who is willing to give him as much respect as he did to the French, who was used no otherwise, and who refuses now to take more of him, upon being desired thereto, in order to the making an accommodation in this matter, which is very pretty. So a boat staying for me all this evening, I home in the dark about eight at night, and so over the ruins from the Old Swan home with great trouble, and so to hear my boy read a little, and supper and to bed. This evening I found at home Pelling and Wallington and one Aldrige, and we supped and sung.
*(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.)