Crabb Robinson in his diary records more than once that Lamb hummed tunes, and Barron Field, in the memoir of Lamb contributed by him to the Annual Biography and Obituary for 1836, mentions his love for certain beautiful airs, among them Kent's "O that I had wings like a dove" (mentioned in this essay), and Handel's "From mighty kings."

Emma Long wrote too, and Ellen wrote to her occasional affectionate notes; but referring her always to John's diary-letters for the details of interest.

Since then it has been widely read, and is still one of the most interesting examples of diary writing that we possess.

Wolf child and human child; being a narrative interpretation of the life history of Kamala, the wolf girl, based on the diary account.

I am not addicted to the diary-keeping habit, but during the next day, which was Friday, I made fragmentary records of things in a journal, from which I now quote verbatim: Seven-thirty a. m.about.

A not much higher order of treatment was Washington sending for Dr. Laurie to bleed his wife, and, as his diary notes, the doctor "came here, I may add, drunk," so that a night's sleep was necessary before the service could be rendered.

Poems and lyrics: Vilia, Girls, girls, girls, The diary song, and others.

For the first time in his life the diary-page for the day remained blank.

[Illustration: diary entry] Seventh day's prison.

Washington took an interest in its management and I have found an entry in his diary recording the day that green peas were available for the first time that year.

My diary remarks that stars and gold lace and ribbons of all the Orders in Christendom were more abundant at the latter, but female beauty at the former.

As soon as he got home he turned over the old diary books, which his father, especially when in the country, was very careful in keeping.

Diary-keepers have turned back to their earliest volumes for stories of the girl-queen; there has been an unprecedented run on the Annual Register for 1837; and every rusty print of Princess Victoria in the costume of Kate Nickleby has been paraded as a pearl of price.

He seemed to think that most likely the novel of the future would take the form of diary; finally he asserted that anybody who keeps a diary works for the common good, and does a meritorious thing.