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Series 4: Diaries and Journals 1881 - 1922


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Clifton Johnson kept diaries, journals, and writings of his life in Hadley, MA, most extensively from the age of 15 to 22. He also kept journals of various trips in western Massachusetts and New York and to England.

All diaries and journals are filed chronologically.

 
Diary: autograph
Diary and 3 copies of transcript
1881 Jan 01 - 1882 Sept 28
Diary: autograph
Diary and 3 copies of transcript
1882 Oct 01 - 1883 Dec 31
Diary: autograph
Diary and 3 copies of transcript
1884 Jan 01 - 1885 Feb 28
Diary: autograph diary signed 1885 Mar 01 - 1885 Dec 31
Chautanqua: autograph journal
4 p., autograph of Dr. Vincent
Trip to Framingham, Chautanqua
1885 Jul 20 - 1885 Jul 29
Diary: autograph diary signed
Diary, 3 copies of transcript
1886 Jan 01 - 1886 Oct 31
First Trip to N.Y.: autograph diary
7 p.
1886 Jan 06 - 1886 Jan 13
Camping Out: autograph diary
13 p.
Trip to West Chesterfield.
1886 Aug 08 - 1886 Aug 14
Diary: autograph diary signed 1886 Nov 01 - 1887 Aug 26
Trip to N.Y.: autograph diary
9 p.
1887 Jan 10 - 1887 Jan 21
Diary: autograph diary 1887 Sept 01 - 1888 Nov 07
New York 1888: autograph diary
10 p.
Sunday Morning in a Negro Church found with this journal.
1888 Mar
Sunday Morning in a Negro Church: autograph diary
5 p.
Bundled with New York 1888 journal.
[1888 Mar?]
Camping Cummington: autograph diary
1 diary; 30 p. loose copy
1888 Aug
Cummington Camping: autograph diary
5 p.
1889 Jul 30 - 1889 Aug 06
N.Y.: autograph diary
Symphony concert with Elbridge Kingsley at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
1889 Dec 15 - 1990 Jan 05
N.Y. Mission: autograph diary
10 p.
Trip to New York City. Includes description of Madison Square Garden.
1890 Mar
Franklin County: autograph diary
48 p.
1890 Oct 24 - 1890 Oct 29
Whately Glen: autograph diary
5 p.
Trip with artist Elbridge Kingsley and wood engraver George Kruell.
1891
Winter Hills 1892: autograph diary
19 p.
Trip to Cummington.
1892
Hampden, 1892: autograph diary about 1892 Sept 30
Recent Hockanum: autograph diary
11 p. loose
1893 - 1900
Berkshire 1893: autograph diary
21 p.
1893 Apr
West Chesterfield 1893: autograph diary 1893 Sept 01
Whittier House: autograph diary
8 p.
Visit to [poet John Greenleaf]? Whittier's hometown.
1893 Oct 18
Oct. 1893: autograph diary
Description of Rocky Hill Church near Amesbury.
1893 Oct
Crossing the Atlantic: autograph diary
53 p.
Consists of "Crossing the Atlantic" 22 p., "Getting Ashore" 7 p., and "The Voyage Homeward" 24 p., all typescripts with handwritten inserts. Seems to be about Johnson's first trip to England in 1894.
[1894 Mar 28 - 1894 Jun]
England - Chester, Wales, Shrewsbury: autograph diary
Consists of "A Journey to Chester and Along the Welsh Coast" 9 p., "Chester and York" 3 p., "A Sunday in Wales" 12 p., "Through Middle Wales to Shresbury and Worcester" 4 p., "Stratford, Warwick and Kenilworth" 2 p., and "Market Bosworth" 3 p., "Hadley in England" 1 p. Possibly records Johnson's first trip to England in 1894.
[1894 Apr - 1894 May?]
London: autograph diary
26 p. typescript with handwritten inserts
Possibly records Johnson's first trip to England in 1894.
[1894 May?]
With Mr. Howells: autograph diary
2 p. loose
1895
Trip to Hills: autograph diary
Covers three different trips to the hills of Franklin County and Berkshire County in 1896.
1896 Apr 02; 1896 Sept 23 - 1896 Sept 27; 1896 Nov 03
Poughkeepsie Fight: autograph diary
6 p.
Records Johnson fighting a drunk in Poughkeepsie, NY.
1897 Sept 6
July 5: autograph diary
7 p., 1 copy of typescript
1890s? Jul
Block Island: autograph diary
7 p.
Trip to Block Island in Long Island Sound.
ca. 1890s?
New Ashford June 2 1901: autograph diary
3 p.
1901 Jun 02
Berkshire 1904: autograph diary
7 p.
Trip to Pittsfield and Lenox.
1904 Jul 25 - 1904 Jul 27?
Train Springfield to Holyoke: autograph diary
1 p.
Short account on the train. On verso is autograph signature of Dr. --- (?) of Providence
1915 Mar 17
Hoosac Mt., Vermont, Lake George, Adirondacks 1922: autograph diary
21 p.
Automobile trip with Anna Johnson and son Arthur.
1922 Jun 04 - 1922 Jun 08

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