WELCOME TO SALLY’S DIARIES:

Before I get started describing this piece, I want to let you know that I have a podcast. I’ve taken some diaries from my private collection and shared them on our podcast called “Diary Discoveries.” We’ve got 48 episodes out now and you can find it on all the usual podcast venues. So if you enjoy the compelling and adventurous stories from vintage diaries then please check it out.

Plus, I was asked to do a TEDx talk in Vienna about this very thing, collecting diaries, and if you are interested in this sort of thing just put into the search engines “10,000 diaries” and you should come up with it. It was a privileged and blessing to be able to share what I’ve learned in the last 36 years. And with all that said……

Up for auction today is a handwritten autograph album from the 1920’s and belonged to Margaret Scott who was from Sherbrooke Quebec Canada. It has 30 pages of either handwritten sentiments and/or drawings. In fact there are a total of 11 original drawings or artwork. I’ve scanned all of them above.

I did find a Margaret Scott on the genealogy sites living on King Street in Sherbrooke. She was born in 1912 in Scotland, arriving in Canada a year later in 1913. Which makes her 14 years old when this album was kept. Many of the sentiments are also signed S.H.S. which I believe is Sherbrooke High School.

Some of the names inside the album are: Selden Stoddard, Eileen McKenna, W. L. Tomkins, Olga Jackson, Mait Soles, Elizabeth LeBaron, Gwen Purdy, Hilda Pollack, Margaret MacDonald, Jean Mac Kinnon, Nan Holgate, Fanny Becker, Thelma J. Crawford, Helen L. Harris and more.

The album is in good shape except there is an ink mark, as if the ink bottle spilled on the bottom edge of most of the pages and the cover. It doesn’t affect the drawing or handwriting. The album measures about 4 1/2” x 6 1/4”.