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SERIES 1.0. DIARIES, READING JOURNALS AND DAY PLANNERS<br />

Date Range: 1954 - 1993<br />

Physical Extent: 34 cm of textual material (4549 p.)<br />

Scope and Content:<br />

Series consists of 29 diaries, dated Reading Journals and Day Planners created and preserved<br />

by Watson during her adult life. These Material contain fragments of her creative writing;<br />

drawings in graphite, coloured pencil and ink; reading notes and language exercises; collected<br />

ephemera; recordings of her daily activities and financial transactions; and reflections on her<br />

experiences, emotions, relationships and surroundings.<br />

In general Watson kept confessional and reflective diaries from 1954 (1955?) to about 1957.<br />

When she moved to Toronto in 1956 to pursue her doctoral studies, Watson began to keep<br />

what can be best described as Reading Journals: dated notes pertaining to books she was<br />

reading interspersed with short diary entries regarding her correspondence, her observations<br />

of her surroundings and her academic experiences. After she moved to Edmonton to teach<br />

at the <strong>University</strong> of Alberta, and upon her retirement in Nanaimo, Watson's recorded<br />

thoughts become more infrequent. In her later life, Watson appears to have purchased<br />

commercial Day Planners to record her daily activities and financial translations.<br />

It is apparent that Watson kept journals during her early teaching career in Cariboo Country<br />

in British Columbia. However, it seems she destroyed these at a later period.<br />

Notes:<br />

No publication of this material, in whole or in part, without the permission of the Literary<br />

Executor.<br />

Location: Files 2006 01 01 – 2006 01 29 Boxes 1 – 4<br />

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