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Passage translated from the original Japanese by Alex Dudoq de Wit An edition of the whole text: Lady Sarashina,
The Sarashina Diary
, in
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
, translated by Annie Shepley Omori and Kochi Doi (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company) 1920

A Tasty Dinner in a Rustic Tavern
• Cyrus P. Bradley

Cyrus P. Bradley, “Diary 1818
–1838,”
Ohio
Archaeological and Historical Society Quarterly
1906

The Excellence of Marinaded Pilchards
• Humphry Davy

T. E. Thorpe,
Humphrey Davy: Poet and Philosopher
(London, Cassell) 1896

A Great Plenty of Party Treats
• Anna Winslow

Anna Green Winslow,
Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston Schoolgirl of 1771
, edited by Alice Morse Earle (Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Co.) 1894

WELL-BEING

A Landscape Fit for a Stroll
• Thomas Green

Thomas Green,
Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of Literature
(Ipswich, John Raw) 1810

The Joy of Coming Home
• Seydi Ali Reis

Seydi Ali Reis, in
The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, Vol. 6: Medieval Arabic, Moorish and Turkish
, edited by Charles F. Horne (New York, Parke, Austin, and Lipscomb) 1917

A World in Bloom
• Pehr Kalm

Peter Kalm,
Travels into North America
, translated by Johann Reinhold Forster (London, Eyres) 1771

Home, Sweet Home
• Jane Welsh Carlyle

Jane Welsh Carlyle,
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
, edited by James Anthony Froude (New York, Harper) 1883

A Traveler’s Sweeping Prospect
• Benjamin of Tudela

Benjamin of Tudela, in
The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, Vol. 4: Medieval Hebrew: The Midrash; The Kabbalah
, edited by Charles F. Horne (New York, Parke, Austin, and Lipscomb) 1917

The Joy of Finding a Vocation
• Jarena Lee

Jarena Lee,
Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee, Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel, Revised and Corrected from the Original Manuscript Written by Herself
(published for the author in Philadelphia) 1849

Winter Sunshine on a Warm Wall
• George Eliot

George Eliot,
George Eliot’s Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals
, edited by J. W. Cross (New York, Harper) 1885

A Peaceful, Late-Night Bath
• Walter Scott

Walter Scott,
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott
(New York, Burt Franklin) 1890

A Long and Rewarding Life
• Ptah-Hotep

Hardwicke D. Rawnsley,
Notes for the Nile:
Together with a Metrical Rendering of the Hymns of Ancient Egypt and of the Precepts of Ptah-Hotep
(New York, Putnam) 1892

A Cottage Near the Sea
• William Blake

William Blake,
The Letters of William Blake
, edited by Archibald Russell (London, Methuen) 1906

CREATIVITY

A Shady Grove on a Hot Day
• Sappho

H. T. Wharton,
Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings
(London, John Lane) 1895

The Pleasure of Mathematical Solutions
• Bhaskara

Henry Thomas Colebrooke,
Algebra, with Arithmetic and Mensuration, from the Sanskrit of Brahmegupta and Bhascara
(London, John Murray) 1817

A Day among Great Thinkers
• Ralph Thoresby

Ralph Thoresby,
The Diary of Ralph Thoresby (1677
–1724)
(London, H. Colburn and R. Bentley) 1830

A Long-Sought Great Idea
• Anselm of Canterbury

Passage translated from the original Latin by George Myerson An edition of the whole text: Archbishop Anselm,
Proslogium; Monologium: An Appendix in Behalf of the Fool by Gaunilo; and Cur Deus Homo
, edited and translated by Sidney Norton Deane (Chicago, The Open Court Publishing Company) 1903

The Feeling of Inner Strength
• Sojourner Truth

As dictated by Sojourner Truth to Olive Gilbert,
Narrative of Sojourner Truth
(Boston, published privately by William Lloyd Garrison for the author) 1850

The Reward of Studying the Stars
• Ptolemy

Owen Gingerich,
The Eye of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler
(New York, American Institute of Physics) 1993

The Longing to Write
• Francesco Petrarca

Francesco Petrarca,
Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters: A Selection from His Correspondence with Boccaccio and Other Friends, Designed to Illustrate the Beginnings of the Renaissance
,
translated by James Harvey Robinson with Henry Winchester Rolfe (New York and London, G. P. Putnam’s Sons) 1898

Paternal Praise for a First Novel
• Fanny Burney

Fanny Burney,
The Diary and Letters of Frances Burney
, edited by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Boston, Roberts Brothers) 1880

The Lightning Flash of Knowledge
• Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin,
Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
(Philadelphia, McCarty and Davis) 1834

The Vitality of Spring
• Edward FitzGerald

Edward FitzGerald,
Letters of Edward FitzGerald
(London, Macmillan) 1910

LOVE

The Best Perfume
• Elizabeth Barrett

Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning,
Letters 1845
–46, Vol. 1
(London, Smith Elder) 1900

A Thousand Kisses
• Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac,
The Love Letters of Honoré de Balzac, 1833
–1842
, translated and edited by D. F. Hannigan (London, Downey and Co.) 1901

The Harmony of Souls
• John Smith

Albert C. Myers,
Hannah Logan’s Courtship
(Philadelphia, Ferris and Leach) 1904

A Tingling about the Heart
• Sydney Owenson

Lady Morgan (Sydney Owenson),
Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence
(London, William H. Allen) 1862

A Skeptic Has Lost His Head
• Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy,
The Diaries of Leo Tolstoy
, edited by Vladimir Tchertkoff, translated by C. J. Hogarth and A. Simis (London and Toronto, J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd.) 1917

Venus Kept Her Promise
• Sulpicia

Sulpicia, poem “Tandem venit amor.” Translated from the original Latin by Eleanor Myerson

Text with a translation of the poems as a whole in: James Grainger,
A Poetical Translation of the Elegies of Tibullus and of the Poems of Sulpicia
(London, Millar) 1759

A Matchless Face
• Richardson Pack

Richardson Pack, “To Clara,” in
Poetical Remains
(London, Edmund Curll) 1738

The Softness of His Lips
• Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft,
The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay
, with a prefatory memoir by Roger Ingpen (London, Hutchinson) 1908

A Comfortable Moment of Communion
• Claire de Rémusat

Claire de Rémusat,
Selections from the Letters 1804
–13
, translated and edited by Frances Cashel Hoey, John Lillie and Paul de Rémusat (New York, D. Appleton and Company) 1881

Life Surpasses Art
• Benjamin Haydon

Benjamin Haydon,
The Life, Letters and Table Talk of Benjamin Robert Haydon
, edited by Richard Henry Stoddard (New York, Scribner, Armstrong & Co.) 1876

EVENING

Moonlight in the Château Garden
• Washington Irving

Washington Irving,
The Journals of Washington Irving
,
edited by William Trent and George S. Hellman (Boston, The Bibliophile Society) 1919

A Touch of Autumn
• Wang Wei

Wang Wei, in
Gems of Chinese Verse
, translated and edited by W. J. B. Fletcher (Shanghai, Commercial Press) 1919

The Music of the Mountain
• Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen,
Hans Christian Andersen’s Correspondence
, edited by Frederick Crawford (London, Dean and Son) 1891

Books That Bring the Past Alive
• Niccolò Machiavelli

Niccolò Machiavelli,
Machiavelli and His Friends: Their Personal Correspondence
, translated and edited by James B. Atkinson and David Sices (DeKalb, Northern Illinois University Press) 1996

A Sense of Beauty as the Sun Sets
• Unknown Author

Poem translated from the original Japanese by Alex Dudoq de Wit Selection from the
Manyoshu
available in
The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East with an Historical Survey and Descriptions, Vol. 13,
edited by Charles F. Horne
(New York, Parke, Austin, and Lipscomb) 1917

The Heart Comes Home to Quietness
• Dorothy Wordsworth

Dorothy Wordsworth,
Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth
, edited by William Angus Knight
(London, Macmillan & Co.) 1897

A Stroll along the Water
• Henri Frédéric Amiel

Henri Frédéric Amiel,
The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel
, translated and edited by Mrs. Humphry Ward (London, Macmillan and Co) 1921

Sweet Calm after a Storm
• Francis Higginson

Alexander Young,
Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, from 1623 to 1636
(Boston, Little & Brown) 1846

A Divine Little Book
• George Ridpath

George Ridpath,
Diary of George Ridpath, Minister of Stitchel, 1755
–1761
, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul (Edinburgh, T. and A. Constable) 1922

At Ease Watching the Boats
• Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman,
Diary in Canada, with Extracts from Other of His Diaries and Literary Note-books
, edited by William Sloane Kennedy (Boston, Small, Maynard & Co.) 1904

A Poet’s Son Goes to Bed
• Ann Yearsley

Ann Yearsley,
The Rural Lyre
(London, C. G. and J. Robinson) 1796

Index

Abercorn, Lady,
183–84

Aberdeen,
189–90

Abolition of slavery (New York),
163

Alabama,
163
,
164

Alexander the Great,
86

Alexandria,
86
,
165–66

Ali Reis, Seydi
,
135–36

Alicante,
146

Allen, John,
173