Irene's Diaries

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The answer for 15 October 2001: An umbrella!

ABOUT THE TRANSCRIPTIONS: I've tried to honor Irene's spellings. For those of you who are wondering, "[sic]" follows any spelling or grammar error that I've intentionally replicated from the diary. Using this notation helps me when I'm correcting my own typos and tells you a little something endearing about the diarist. There are some misspellings that happen with such frequency that I don't always bother to identify them. Namely, they are: "moped" (for mopped), "embrodered" or "embroderied" (for embroidered), "finely" (for finally), "dosen't" or "dosent" (for doesn't), and quite often "bot" or "bought" (for brought). Night is always "nite" whether it's "tonite", "midnite" or "last nite". For my own personal thoughts on these diaries, see my About Me page.

The maroon Memorandum Book:
 1925, January and February
The light-brown suede 5-year diary:
1932, Full year, includes letters
1933, Full year
1934, Full year
1935, Full year
1936, Full year
The green and orange cloth 5-year diary:
 1937, Full year
 1938, Full year
 1939, Full year
 1940, January to May
 1941, Only 1 day: Inauguration day
The purple 5-year diary:
 1942, Partial year
 1943, January through June
 1944, Feb 7th and 8th only
The burgundy 5-year EVERY DAY diary:
 1952, Full year 
 1953, Full year
 1954, Full year 
 1955, Full year 
 1956, Full year 
The faded, blue "Five Year Diary":
 1957, Full year
 1958, Full year
 1959, In process... 
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The black "Record" notebook with the red binding:
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The olive green "Five Year Diary" that's missing its spine:
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The forest green "Five Year Diary":
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The red "Five-Year Diary" with the broken lock:
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The red "five year Diary" with no lock:
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The dark blue "Five Year Diary":
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Here's a compilation of facts from the diaries:
  Irene at the movies!