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Diaries of Nellie Irene Bates Thomas
Dec. 1912-Aug. 1913, 1920, 1922-1932


Nellie's five-year diary, 1928-1932
July 10-11
Enlarged view of this diary page here.
 



Diary: December 1912 to August 1913.
     1912-1913



 
Annual diaries transcribed by Patricia (O'Brien) Hellmers (in PDF format):
     1920
     1921 (No diary has been found. Does anyone have it?)
     1922
     1923
     1924
     1925
     1926
     1927
     1928
     1929
     1930
     1931
     1932
Note: 1920-1927 were in individual diaries (3.25" x 4.75"). 1928-1932 were in one book covering five years (3.75" x 5.75").





A Little Book of Comfort
     An inspiratonal book (5.5" x 2.5") with additions by Nellie.





Note: Word (doc) versions of the diaries can be viewed or downloaded here.





History of the Diaries
Nellie Irene (Bates) Thomas was born in 1861 and died in 1948. During at least part of her life she kept a daily diary of her activities. These diaries were later saved by family members and eventually ended up in the hands of a great-granddaughter, Karen (Read) Wolfson. Karen’s cousin, also a great-granddaughter, Patricia (O’Brien) Hellmers, visited Karen in February 2008. Patricia offered to take the diaries and transcribe them. The years represented are: 1912 (part of December through part of August 1913), 1920, and 1922-1932.

The diaries were transcribed as closely as possible to the original way that Nellie wrote the entries. Therefore, misspellings, abbreviations, shortened words or names, etc. were not corrected, but left the way they were written. Therefore, this document should not be “spell-checked” or any changes made without referring to the actual diary.

Although much of the dairies are fairly readable, there are many words and names that could not be read precisely and there are many that were probably transcribed incorrectly. Where the entry was not clear, a question mark or underline was generally used in the transcription.

Patricia Irene (O'Brien) Hellmers, great-granddaughter of Nellie Irene (Bates) Thomas



 
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