54. Henry James's Date Book

This pre-printed date book, “Walker’s Society Diary” for the year 1914, written in London and in Rye, Sussex, is one of 16 volumes of the novelist’s diaries and journals, which have been digitized as a group and can be seen through links in the finding-aid for James’s correspondence, photographs and journals.

James used his journals to work out plots, problems of narration and point of view, and kept the diaries to record addresses, appointments, and days, good and bad.