1785 diary containing notes written by William Temple Franklin. Written in the 1785 edition of Almanach des Rendez-Vous, printed in Paris.

Field diary kept by Suzanne Miles in the Cuchmatanes mountains of Huehuetenango Department, Guatemala.

From the 1920s through the 1940s, the University of Pennsylvania anthropologist Frank Gouldsmith Speck worked on Cherokee language and culture with his primary consultant, Will West Long. Raised in Big Cove, North Carolina, Long was a respected elder and spent much of his adult life attempting to record and preserve traditional Cherokee culture. The Speck Cherokee Collection consists of diaries, accounts, and medicinal texts in Cherokee collected by Will West Long and Morgan Calhoun, accompanied by notes by Speck and John Witthoft. Among these are several diaries kept by Long (mostly 1904-1917), records of the Gadugi (a Cherokee mutual aid group), accounts, records of births and deaths at Big Cove, Cherokee-English vocabularies, and material collected on Cherokee botany collected by James Mooney in 1887. Several of the items contain information on Cherokee medicine, including formulae and curing charms.

These diaries comprise volumes I and II, and record Sorby's daily activities and his interest in the use of the microscope in geology and mineralogy.

This diary records the weather and appearances of birds, flowers, and insects.

This is a volume of "Aitken's General American Register" for 1773, with entries dated 1774, and 1782-1786. The notes are in two different hands, and record receipts, expenses, and activities, the last probably not Wilson's.

This incomplete, partially mutilated item forms the conclusion of James Hutchinson's diary, recording a mid-winter Atlantic crossing from Europe to America.

This volume is a record of a schoolboy's life in Switzerland, with comments on his life in Passy with his grandfather, Benjamin Franklin.

Twice a refugee from the revolutionary violence in the French colony of Saint Domingue, John Thomas Carré became head of the Clermont Seminary in Philadelphia from 1804-1825, a select boarding school for boys. Carré's diary from 1807-1809 provides a basic chronology of his life at the Clermont Seminary, with a few comments on his students and their families. The entries are typically very brief and are confined to a relatively limited range of topics, including the weather, Carré's poor health, his visitors, and correspondents. There is also a biographical memoir by his granddaughter, Ann Virginia Sanderson Farquhar.

These papers include diaries (1887-1959), lists of books read (1887-1904), scrapbooks relating to Haney, his family, friends, and Central High School, and original and revised drafts of Haney's autobiography entitled "Days of My Years" (1954).

This collection consists of two manuscript diaries of engineer James Brindley (1745-1820). Brindley, nephew of the celebrated English canal engineer of the same name, worked on a number of canal projects in the United States, including the Potomac Canal in Maryland and the James River Canal in Virginia. The two diaries cover part of the time Brindley worked on the Susquehanna and Conewago Canal in 1794-1795 and the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal in 1803.

This diary records David Brainard's sermons and travels among the Indians of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

These are transcripts of original documents and letters from various libraries. There is extensive annotation by Claude-Anne Lopez.

A diary kept during service as a surgeon in the American Civil War, in Cape Hatteras, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Vicksburg, and then home to Philadelphia.

This collection includes letters, a diary, photographs, printed matter, souvenirs, etc. of the international geographical trip of the American Geographical Society of New York to the west coast. Included are circulars and bulletins printed and issued along the way.