PRIMARY SOURCES : DIARIES

Diaries and memoirs give us first-hand information and can be particularly useful in learning more about everyday life. They are often very personal accounts, so consideration must always be given to the author and their background.

Dickinson Gorsuch Diary
Moores Memorial Library, Christiana, Pa.
Activity: Help us Transcribe the Gorsuch Diary

Transcription of Prominent Events in life of Rev. J.W. C. Pennington, D.D. by his adopted son Thomas H. Sands Pennington, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
LCHS Document Collection, Box 17, Folder 16

Transcription of Capture, trial and return of the fugitives, Stephen Pembroke and his two sons, to slavery. They are the brother and nephews of the rev. J.W.C. Pennington, D.D.
LCHS Document Collection, Box 17, Folder 16

Transcription of Phoebe Earle Gibbons diary (1849 & 1854)