The Diaries of Howard Leopold Morry, 1939-1965, Vol. 22 (Mar 5 1960 - Apr 9 1966)

• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Subjects: Newfoundland; Newfoundland studies
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/howardmorry/id/1840

The twenty five volumes in this series differ in composition between two diary formats: the first format is that of an unbroken narrative of events in the life of the author, Howard Leopold Morry, or of the history of the community in which he was born and raised, Ferryland, Newfoundland; the second format is that of a conventional daily diary reporting on events of the day, including the weather and sea conditions, the ups and downs in the fishery, births, marriages and deaths of family, friends and neighbours, and newsworthy events at the local, national and international level. None of the 25 volumes are actually all of one format or the other. They all contain a larger or smaller component of each form of diary. The current volume is, slightly different than other volumes in that it includes an almost equal proportion of daily diary entries and Howard’s reminiscences and anecdotes, but it also includes several pages of transcriptions of old documents pertaining to the history of Ferryland and some folksongs and poems. In this twenty-second volume, the diary transcribed nominally covers the years from 1960 to 1966. But in point of fact this is not really the case. The first daily diary entries cover the period from March 1960 to August 1961 intermittently. But there are no daily diary entries for the years from then until the resumption of daily diary entries in February 1966, and even then there are only a smattering of widely separated entries in that year culminating with the last entry on April 9, 1966. Some of the intervening years are covered at least partially in the diaries which form the basis of the remaining 3 Volumes in this series. But the gaps that do exist between 1961 and 1966, as well as the complete absence of any diaries after 1966 until the time of Howard’s death in 1972 are believed to be explained by the loss or destruction of the diaries covering these periods. It is incomprehensible, in particular, that a man who kept meticulous diaries from 1939 to 1961 should not write any diaries in ...