Showing posts with label journal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label journal. Show all posts
Saturday, December 19, 2009

music and books in the journal of Hélène Berr

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Hélène Berr was a brilliant student and talented classical violinist. She was first in her class at a small Parisian private school, the Co...
Friday, December 18, 2009

who takes the life

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"It is raining Death on earth." Hélène Berr wrote this in her Journal on November 1, 1943. And she wrote more than a year later...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

les rides qui étaient pleines de joie

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Hélène Berr was determined to live her life authentically. She wished to be true to herself, her family, her friends, and her colleagues a...
Monday, December 14, 2009

a silence that rustles with memories

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Sunday, October 10, 1943 I am resuming this diary tonight, after a year's interruption. Why? Today, on my way home from Georges and Rob...
Thursday, July 23, 2009

Emerson casts off English overweight

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At Sea, July 23. Dragged day and night continually through the water by this steam engine, at the rate of near twelve knots, or fourteen sta...
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

odiously thin and pale, this republic dances before blue bloodshot English eyes

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Emerson wrote this letter during his voyage home from England. To Samuel Gray Ward, S.S. EUROPA , July 22, 1848 At sea Steamship Europa 22 ...
Sunday, July 12, 2009

Emerson observing the privileged few

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Emerson wrote in his journal a few days before he began his return to America: July 12.         With Mr. Kenyon and Hillard, I joined the...
Tuesday, July 07, 2009

a kind of modern-antique American gymnosophist

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On this day in 1848, Thomas Carlyle wrote his wife about his trip to Stonehenge with Emerson: Thomas Carlyle to Jane Welsh Carlyle Amesbury...
Monday, July 06, 2009

a somewhat moonshiny fellow

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Thomas Carlyle , wrote about the last week of Emerson's trip to England in a letter he sent his mother this day in 1848. Here is an ext...