a more miserable christmas dinner would be difficult to imagine
December 25, 2022 9:56 AM   Subscribe

The Public Domain Review has curated a collection of diaries from Christmas past, all sourced from the Internet Archive. [Many without alt text.]
posted by eotvos (6 comments total) 16 users marked this as a favorite
 
How lovely to read these descriptions from the yesteryears; ending with Thoreau's natural eloquence, specious!
posted by Oyéah at 10:19 AM on December 25, 2022


Setting my time machine to give Samuel Pepys a black eye to show off at each church service.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 10:20 AM on December 25, 2022 [17 favorites]


Metafilter: That is kind, I am quite overpowered.
posted by slater at 11:13 AM on December 25, 2022 [1 favorite]


"Not a single case of drunkenness was reported; which is, I believe, very rare, and I am sure, very creditable."

-George William Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle

Sarcasm in journal entries is apparently not something we invented with the blog.
posted by COD at 1:57 PM on December 25, 2022 [7 favorites]


“Christmas Eve came, no stockings to hang, no Santa Claus to come down our chimney in that cold starving camp. No Papa to come home to his children … Christmas morning came and our breakfast was a pot of glue, it was stewed ox hide, but we were pleased to have even that to eat. But as soon as we had gone through this … our mother’s face began to brighten …she had a surprise awaiting us.” --- Martha Reed, age 8, of the Donner-Reed party, trapped in the Sierra Nevada mountains, December, 1846.
posted by SPrintF at 3:33 PM on December 25, 2022 [4 favorites]


Shame about the lack of alt text there. The actual attribute on the IMG tags is present, but undefined, while the class attribute is defined as "undefined" lol.
posted by otsebyatina at 7:57 PM on December 25, 2022 [1 favorite]


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