Commercially printed diary completed by Mary Alexander Walker detailing her activities for part of the year 1908.
Diary begins 1 January 1908 and continues intermittently until the last entry on 24 August.
Cursive script; varying number of long lines per page.
Written in English in pencil.
Gift; Matthew Teitelbaum; 2013; MS.13.021.
Lady Mary Alexander Walker was the daughter of Isabella Buchan and Alexander Alexander, a carpenter who emigrated from Scotland to Lockport, New York, in 1834. Mary Alexander married Edmund Walker in 1874 while living in New York. Together they had four sons and three daughters.
