Notes

Daily Entries, 2015

    These are typed up versions of mostly handwritten poems etc. that were accumulated in bundles and ultimately stored in a box. They were pretty much entirely written on scraps of paper, which I have been sorting and archiving as I've gone along. Where they are not dated, an attempt has been made, based on adjacent pages, writing style and paper type, to provide a 'circa' date. Entries from 1890 - 1898 are from a bound copy of handwritten poems, most with dates and original publisher (also dated). The first few years of that period are also copied into several shorter volumes (including crossed out entries), which allows for some cross-referencing.

     An effort has been made to present these in roughly their original form, including the form of print or type, punctuation and spelling. Only in extreme cases have any of those elements been 'altered'. One exception is where I have found missing words or phrases (blank in the original) in printed copies. In these cases, as with the annotations, they have been entered in an Ariel font. Otherwise, generally, most handwriting is presented in Berylium. Around 1900 some writings were done in an alternative 'style', more akin to block printing. Some poems contain mixtures (as with typed versions containing extra, handwritten, stanzas). I used the Andalus font for this, and Bohemian Typewriter for typed entries.

     These have been entered as the calendar passes - starting in February 2015. Earlier entries will be added when possible and then backdated to ultimately include everything possible within the one year format.

 Columns -

     Most of these will come later. He had numerous examples over the years, the best known probably being 'Jocosities' in the Boston Herald (mostly 1909-1910). Many of these poems exist in those columns, along with short essays, jokes, contributions and, with 'Jocosities', 'Uncle Ezra Says' (similar to 'Old Nutmeg Sayings' in earlier publications).

    Daily entries from 1909 through 1910 that have a "for x" date are referring to the date of their publication in Jocosities..