John Clare
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Entries from the journal that C19th English poet John Clare kept from Sep 1824 - Sep 1825, posted on the day of the year they were written.
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1825: Newspaper wonders 'There is now living at Barton an old lady of the name of Faunt who has nearly attaind the great age of 105 years - she has lately cut new teeth to the great surpprise of the family' - Stamford Mercury - took a walk in hilly wood brought home another plant of the white...
January 23, 2026 at 6:30 AM
1825: Newspaper wonders 'There is now living at Barton an old lady of the name of Faunt who has nearly attaind the great age of 105 years - she has lately cut new teeth to the great surpprise of the family' - Stamford Mercury - took a walk in hilly wood brought home another plant of the white...
1825: 'A new Vegetable called the Asparagus Potatoe' has been introduced into this country it comes into season just as the asparagus goes out' - 'So little wind prevails in Italy that not a windmill is to be seen in any part of it, there were two in Venice but were taken down as usless for want...
January 22, 2026 at 6:30 AM
1825: 'A new Vegetable called the Asparagus Potatoe' has been introduced into this country it comes into season just as the asparagus goes out' - 'So little wind prevails in Italy that not a windmill is to be seen in any part of it, there were two in Venice but were taken down as usless for want...
1825: A robin whistling on the plumb trees by the window I never heard one so early before
January 21, 2026 at 6:30 AM
1825: A robin whistling on the plumb trees by the window I never heard one so early before
1825: Wrote a letter to Hessey
January 20, 2026 at 6:30 AM
1825: Wrote a letter to Hessey
1825: A slight storm of snow for the first time this winter - just compleatd the 9th Chapter of my Life - corrected the poem on the 'Vanitys of the World' which I have written in imitation of the old poets on whom I mean to father it & send it to Montgomerys paper the 'Iris' or the 'Literary...
January 19, 2026 at 6:30 AM
1825: A slight storm of snow for the first time this winter - just compleatd the 9th Chapter of my Life - corrected the poem on the 'Vanitys of the World' which I have written in imitation of the old poets on whom I mean to father it & send it to Montgomerys paper the 'Iris' or the 'Literary...
1825: Took a walk in ‘Porters snow Close' to hunt ferns in the morning & in Turnills 'heath wood' in the afternoon found nothing but the fox fern which is the commonest of all about here - Receivd a letter from Mrs Emmerson & answerd it
January 16, 2026 at 6:30 AM
1825: Took a walk in ‘Porters snow Close' to hunt ferns in the morning & in Turnills 'heath wood' in the afternoon found nothing but the fox fern which is the commonest of all about here - Receivd a letter from Mrs Emmerson & answerd it
1825: This day is my Fathers birthday who is 60 years old - 'Thus runs the world away'
January 15, 2026 at 6:30 AM
1825: This day is my Fathers birthday who is 60 years old - 'Thus runs the world away'
1825: A scarlet daisey in flower in the Garden - Recievd a latter from C. A. Elton who tells me there is a many plants & ferns about Bristol downs & valleys & 'some rathe peculiar to the country' I hope I shall be able to go in Spring
January 14, 2026 at 6:30 AM
1825: A scarlet daisey in flower in the Garden - Recievd a latter from C. A. Elton who tells me there is a many plants & ferns about Bristol downs & valleys & 'some rathe peculiar to the country' I hope I shall be able to go in Spring
1825: Helpd Billings to take in Beans
January 13, 2026 at 6:30 AM
1825: Helpd Billings to take in Beans
1825: Began to fetch maiden earth from molehills for my flower beds - heard the Mavis thrush sing for the first time this winter it often sings earlier & has been heard on Christmas day when the weather has been open
January 11, 2026 at 6:30 AM
1825: Began to fetch maiden earth from molehills for my flower beds - heard the Mavis thrush sing for the first time this winter it often sings earlier & has been heard on Christmas day when the weather has been open
1825: Saw a whitethorn bush yesterday in Oxey wood in the leaf all over & by next Sunday no doubt the knots of May may be seen - the winter ackonite just peeping out with its yellow flowers - the aron just appearing under the hedges as in April & the Avens (a common hedgerow plant) has never...
January 10, 2026 at 6:30 AM
1825: Saw a whitethorn bush yesterday in Oxey wood in the leaf all over & by next Sunday no doubt the knots of May may be seen - the winter ackonite just peeping out with its yellow flowers - the aron just appearing under the hedges as in April & the Avens (a common hedgerow plant) has never...
1825: Newspaper Miracles Wonders Curiositys &c &c under these heads I shall insert anything I can find worth reading & laughing at - 'two extraordinary large eels were last week taken upon the Saltings at Steeple in Dengre hundred Essex - these monsters of their species (& there is every reason...
January 9, 2026 at 6:30 AM
1825: Newspaper Miracles Wonders Curiositys &c &c under these heads I shall insert anything I can find worth reading & laughing at - 'two extraordinary large eels were last week taken upon the Saltings at Steeple in Dengre hundred Essex - these monsters of their species (& there is every reason...
1825: A ryhming schoolmaster is the greatest bore in literature the following ridicilous advertizement proves the assertion taken from the 'Stamford Mercury' Boston / Mr Gilberts boarding & day school will reopen on / Monday January 17th 1825 / For favours past his heart must flow / & Kind...
January 8, 2026 at 6:30 AM
1825: A ryhming schoolmaster is the greatest bore in literature the following ridicilous advertizement proves the assertion taken from the 'Stamford Mercury' Boston / Mr Gilberts boarding & day school will reopen on / Monday January 17th 1825 / For favours past his heart must flow / & Kind...
1825: Bought some cakes of colors with the intention of trying to make sketches of curious snail horns Butterflys Moths Sphinxes Wild flowers & whatever my wanderings may meet with that are not too common
January 7, 2026 at 6:30 AM
1825: Bought some cakes of colors with the intention of trying to make sketches of curious snail horns Butterflys Moths Sphinxes Wild flowers & whatever my wanderings may meet with that are not too common
1825: My dear boy Frederick is 1 year old this day
January 6, 2026 at 6:30 AM
1825: My dear boy Frederick is 1 year old this day
1825: Jiliflowers Polyanthuses Marigolds & the yellow yarrow in flower & the double scarlet Anemonie nearly out & crocuses peeping out above ground swelling with flower the authoress (Miss Kent) of the 'Flora Domestica' says the snowdrop is the first spring flower she is mistaken the yellow...
January 5, 2026 at 6:30 AM
1825: Jiliflowers Polyanthuses Marigolds & the yellow yarrow in flower & the double scarlet Anemonie nearly out & crocuses peeping out above ground swelling with flower the authoress (Miss Kent) of the 'Flora Domestica' says the snowdrop is the first spring flower she is mistaken the yellow...
1825: Recievd a parcel from Mrs Emmerson took a walk to 'Simons Wood' found 3 distinct species of the 'Bramble' or Mulberry - Henderson will have it there is but 2 but I am certain he is wrong & believe there is 4 - the common one that grows in the hedges - the larger sort that grows on commons...
January 2, 2026 at 6:30 AM
1825: Recievd a parcel from Mrs Emmerson took a walk to 'Simons Wood' found 3 distinct species of the 'Bramble' or Mulberry - Henderson will have it there is but 2 but I am certain he is wrong & believe there is 4 - the common one that grows in the hedges - the larger sort that grows on commons...
1825: Saw a Reciept to mend broken China in the Stamford Mercury - 'Gloucestershire cheese softend by warm water & mixd with quick lime is a good cement for China-ware &c &c - Newspapers have been famous for Hyperbole & the Stamford Mercury has long been one at the head of the list of...
January 1, 2026 at 6:30 AM
1825: Saw a Reciept to mend broken China in the Stamford Mercury - 'Gloucestershire cheese softend by warm water & mixd with quick lime is a good cement for China-ware &c &c - Newspapers have been famous for Hyperbole & the Stamford Mercury has long been one at the head of the list of...
1824: Recievd a letter from Hessey containing a Draft for £20, being the fund money & Earl Spencers half yearly salary - nothing further about my new poems is mentiond - wrote to Rev. H. F. Cary - Gatherd a cornflower in full bloom
December 31, 2025 at 6:30 AM
1824: Recievd a letter from Hessey containing a Draft for £20, being the fund money & Earl Spencers half yearly salary - nothing further about my new poems is mentiond - wrote to Rev. H. F. Cary - Gatherd a cornflower in full bloom
1824: Recievd an answer from F Freeling to my enquiry wether the charge of a penny is legal at Deeping office for post paid & frankd letters & Newspapers & I find that it is for letters but no mention is made about newspapers so I am as ignorant as ever on that head but I will enquire furthe
December 30, 2025 at 6:30 AM
1824: Recievd an answer from F Freeling to my enquiry wether the charge of a penny is legal at Deeping office for post paid & frankd letters & Newspapers & I find that it is for letters but no mention is made about newspapers so I am as ignorant as ever on that head but I will enquire furthe
1824: Went with neighbour Billings to Southey Wood & Gees Holt to hunt ferns - found none - met with a new species of moss fern stripd growing on a common species like the mistletoe on a thorn it is a sort of moss mistletoe - preservd a specimen - saw a branch of blackthorn dogrose & eldern in...
December 29, 2025 at 6:30 AM
1824: Went with neighbour Billings to Southey Wood & Gees Holt to hunt ferns - found none - met with a new species of moss fern stripd growing on a common species like the mistletoe on a thorn it is a sort of moss mistletoe - preservd a specimen - saw a branch of blackthorn dogrose & eldern in...
1824: Found at the bottom of a dyke made in the roman bank some pootys of varied colors & the large garden ones of a russet color with a great many others of the meadow sort which we calld 'badgers' when I was a schoolboy found nowere now but in wet places - there is a great many too of a water...
December 26, 2025 at 6:30 AM
1824: Found at the bottom of a dyke made in the roman bank some pootys of varied colors & the large garden ones of a russet color with a great many others of the meadow sort which we calld 'badgers' when I was a schoolboy found nowere now but in wet places - there is a great many too of a water...
1824: Gatherd a handful of daiseys in full bloom - saw a woodbine & dogrose in the woods putting out in full leaf & a primrose root full of ripe flowers what a day this usd to be when a boy how eager I usd to attend the church to see it stuck with evergreens (emblems of Eternity) & the cottage...
December 25, 2025 at 6:30 AM
1824: Gatherd a handful of daiseys in full bloom - saw a woodbine & dogrose in the woods putting out in full leaf & a primrose root full of ripe flowers what a day this usd to be when a boy how eager I usd to attend the church to see it stuck with evergreens (emblems of Eternity) & the cottage...
1824: Recievd a letter from Lord Radstock.
December 24, 2025 at 6:30 AM
1824: Recievd a letter from Lord Radstock.
1824: Recievd a letter from Mrs Emmerson & the Observer after a long absence in France - wrote a letter to Mrs. E & to Francis Freeling Esqr
December 23, 2025 at 6:30 AM
1824: Recievd a letter from Mrs Emmerson & the Observer after a long absence in France - wrote a letter to Mrs. E & to Francis Freeling Esqr