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Journaling - The Write Stuff For You?
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It is worth talking to the archival librarian or staff if you have a state library or local university that might be interested. Do your journals cover political and historical events or are they purely personal? Are there letters or papers of interest that go along with them? No way to know if there is interest but worth asking. Lots of state libraries and archives have journals of ordinary folks that are of use to historians. The University of the state I live in collects certain material--literary history, counterculture accounts, land use and farming, etc. But if you don't want to share, Ginger's suggestion is a good one.
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I have separate files chock full of letters. The one file that has been sought over the years contains my 31-year correspondence with A.W. Lawrence, younger brother of T.E. Lawrence, more popularly known as 'Lawrence of Arabia'. Biographers of the Arabian Lawrence have asked over the years if they might have access to the younger brother's letters. I have already arranged for the archiving of those letters. As for the rest? I'm still not sure. Dispose. or safekeep? It remains to be seen.