There are a couple of websites devoted to the Leech diaries:
http://www.chethams.org.uk/leech/leech_main.html
http://www.leechdiaries.com
One
of the Leech diaries, supposedly kept by ‘Miss Hermione Humber’, was actually written
between 1927 and 1935 by Ernest Leech. The Hermione Humber was his car and in
the diary he made a complete record of all the journeys the family made in it,
including speedometer readings, petrol station stops, minor bumps, services and
repairs. ‘One of the things I like about diaries is the way that the writers
feel the need to report boredom or ennui,’ Michael writes. ‘Looking through the
Leech collection I would guess that the single most common entry is “Nothing
much happened today”.’
That’s
still more loquacious than the entry in Louis XVI’s diary for 14 July 1789,
which comprises one word: ‘Rien’.
I
think my favourite diarist at the moment is Walter Musto, who lived in East
Moseley, Surrey and was a civil servant in the General Stores Department of the
Crown Agents for the Colonies at Millbank. He kept a diary during the war which
was published a few years ago under the title The War and Uncle Walter. Here is
an example of his style, which one might call Pooterish if that were not too
ungenerous a word for someone so generous in his interests:
‘Noses
are queer things … Again this morning, in the train from Vauxhall, a whole row
of noses obtruded themselves upon my attention. Anatomically the same, they
offer the same infinite variety of form as do feet, ears, even potatoes.
Without a good supply of noses, the handkerchief industry must perish –
Manchester and Belfast would be on half-time. The beauty business would go into
mourning, distillers would languish and barley-growing cease. Vineyards would
no longer inspire the muse. Without a natural support for spectacles, the
manufacturers would cease to exist.’
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