The Diary Review

‘Observed a nice looking girl waiting as well as myself so got into conversation with her but was soon interrupted by the arrival of the eng...

‘My paintings are always disasters while I am doing them. It isn’t until I see them later, and someone else likes them, that I can see their...

‘A Menshevik deputy ascended the rostrum and attempted to refute the charges brought against his party, but the other Soviet members interru...

‘I watched Shostie while Lukas and Kabalevsky played a Haydn Symphony 4 hands. He loves music with a kind of innocent joy I have rarely seen...

‘To keep the people from directing their rage at their actual oppressor, rulers in every age have used diversionary tactics to shield their ...

‘I availed myself of a regular rainy day to stay at home and prepare books for binding and file my letters. Such a day once in a while is a ...

‘Marshal Stalin stressed in his remarks his feeling that the three Great Powers which had borne the burden of the war should be the ones to ...

‘ The Daily Express has an incredible feature article: “Why Barbara is King of the Castle.” As I thought, the press is crediting me with ha...

‘There it was - a bound ledger of the kind used in simple bookkeeping; it was in just such ledgers as this that Wolfe had written his first ...