His documents, however, reveal that he took many praiseworthy resolutions in this direction.
They include a large number of bulky books, each labelled "Diary" and inscribed with the year whose events were to be recorded.

The outlook is a promising one; but when the books are opened they reveal only fragmentary good intentions.

Entries are kept up for a few days, and then the work comes to an end.

These volumes contain many scraps of interesting writing, however, which are worth preserving; some of them are herewith presented in haphazard fashion, with no attempt at order in subject matter.
1913 PETHERICK Petherick: may he be immortal; for he is a man who has made of a humble task a high calling; and without knowing it he has caused a man of a high calling to degrade it to a mean level.

Now Petherick is a humble Englishman, whose father many years ago enjoyed the distinction of carrying the mail pouch to and from the post office for the American Embassy in London.