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THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT ALSO TO LOOK AT KIP FENN, A MAJOR NOVEL ABOUT THE 21st CENTURY - freely available on this site Doble, John ___ 1828-1866 ___ American ___ soldier BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY There is very little biographical information about Doble readily available on the internet. He was born in Indiana, and served in the war with Mexico in 1846. After returning to Indiana, he journeyed to California in 1851 via New York City and a steamer to Panama. On leaving the Sierra foothills he joined his brother at his iron works in San Francisco. Doble wrote a diary of his trip to California and of his daily life as a prospector during the gold rush, which is considered one of the best contemporary accounts of the time. One biography link - pdf DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS 1851-1854 ___ social commerce WEB TEXT LINKS a couple of quotes sample pages ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS SOME PUBLISHED TITLES John Doble's Journal and Letters from the Mines: Volcano, Mokelumne Hill, Jackson and San Francisco 1851-1865 May 06 THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS Please email if you have any corrections, additions or comments.

IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.

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