ABSTRACT
This chapter includes Elizabeth Inchbald's diaries, which record her social contacts and professional activities, itemize her day-to-day expenditure, and chart the development of affairs. Inchbald kept her diary of 1782 in THE LADIES’ Own Memorandum-Book: OR, DAILY POCKET JOURNAL, For the YEAR 1782, published yearly in London by G. Robinson. The 1782 diary includes three items in the back pocket, protected by a Mylar sheet that has been folded in two to keep the papers in place. The first item is an irregularly cut sheet of paper, measuring roughly 7.5 cm in length by 19 cm in width, folded twice into (roughly) quarters. The second item also is an irregularly cut sheet of paper, and it measures roughly 4 cm in width by 10.5 cm in length. The third item in the back pocket of the 1782 diary is an irregular piece of paper, measuring roughly 4.5 cm in width by 10.5 cm in length.
