A. Piatt Andrew

The diary entries are short, businesslike notations of daily activities, such as lunches and dinners, meetings, and attendance at performances or social events. They lack detail about the events and have no narrative of any length; however, they provide names of principal people and locations of activities, and occasionally titles of performances seen. The diary begins with Andrew's days as an instructor and assistant professor at Harvard and makes reference to his colleagues and students. The diary makes reference to his home and neighbors in Gloucester, Massachusetts as well as to his relatives, his career, and prominent figures of Andrew's day in education, the arts, politics, and society.