Special Collections Department

SELF WORKS

Diaries, Scrapbooks,
and other
Autobiographical
Efforts

curated by
L. Rebecca Johnson Melvin

An exhibition at the Hugh M. Morris Library University of Delaware Library Newark, Delaware

The exhibition will be on view in the Special Collections Gallery from August 19 - December 18, 1997.

Table of Contents for the Exhibition

Remarks from Opening Reception

Considering Self Works

A Note about citations

Why do people create Self Works?
Living & learning - the efforts of children and students
Domestic diaries
Life and adventures
Duty bound - war diaries
Keepsakes
Word and deed
Inner journeys
Distant views - travel diaries
Professionally inevitable - writers on themselves
Avocational efforts - amateur memories

Index of names

Diaries, Journals, Ships' Logs at the University of Delaware Library

Bibliography of selected works

Links to other "Self Works" on the Internet

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