book list II ('east wind and struggling snowflakes, bitter miserable cold')

'east wind and struggling snowflakes, bitter miserable cold.' - kilvert on this day 1870

21st december 2024 the winter solstice

horsemouth will probably write a description here. grey cloudy morning at stonehenge. no a-ha moment. better luck at newgrange. 

'happy winter solstice' 

from here on in the days become longer and the sun creeps northward on the horizon. (he does hope he's got that second part right). 

kilvert finds sir gilbert lewis waiting in his garden. kilvert  hears from him about his recently deceased aunt maria kilvert, 

'he told me a good deal about maria kilvert of worcester whom he knew... she shut herself up almost entirely ever since he had been canon of worcester, 15 years. lady lewis used to call and was sometimes admitted. sir gilbert had not called for three years. the house looked most melancholy and dreary, like a house of the dead...' 

book list II

where not actual diaries, journals, autobiographies or essays (mostly) at least that sort of thing. 

the books horsemouth has not lent to howard

- a voice from the chorus by abram tertz (andrei sinyavsky). assembled by tertz (sinyavsky) from letters sent to his wife while he was incarcerated by the soviet authorities. he cannot write directly of where he is (because of the fear of censorship) but he can write about it. in a curious kind of way it resembles montaigne and rousseau (with rousseau tertz shares an admiration for robinson crusoe). 

- pages from the goncourt journal by edmond and jules de goncourt. (jules dies relatively early on)  written at the time and published over the course of edmond's life and after. 

- reveries of a solitary walker by jean-jacques rousseau. allegedly structured round a series of walks. a book unfinished at rousseau's death. the first is written autumn/ winter 1776, the tenth is dated palm sunday1778, the eighth and ninth have been edited from rough drafts, the tenth is unfinished. it was published four years after the author's death in 1782. 

-  kilvert's diary by the reverend francis kilvert. edited by william plommer and published some time after kilvert's death. 

- landscape with machines by l.t.c. rolt. engineer gradually becomes writer. goes to live on narrow boat, helps found inland waterways association.