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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 Strong, George Templeton ___ 1820-1875 ___ American ___ lawyer BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY Strong was born in New York, educated at Columbia College (for which he later became a trustee), and trained as a lawyer. Throughout the Civil War he served as treasurer on the executive committee of the Sanitary Commission. He helped found the Union League Club of New York, an organisation pledged to 'cultivate a profound national devotion' after the war. Strong was an unusually committed diarist, writing detailed observations for 40 years. Irene and Alan Taylor say his diary is remarkable for its length and for the 'flavoursome precision' of the writing. One biography link DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS 1835-1875 ___ political social commerce culture family society slavery WEB TEXT LINKS substantial extracts ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS Columbia University Rare Books and Manuscript Library SOME PUBLISHED TITLES The Diary of George Templeton Strong May 2005 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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