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<body> <h2 align="center"> <font color="#663333">The Diary Library of Corralitos, CA</font> </h2> <p> </p> Ray Zager is the owner/librarian of The Diary Library of Corralitos. Corralitos is on the central coast of California, between the cities of Monterey and Santa Cruz. <p> The Library consists of over 1,200 volumes. There are diaries by major diarists, as well as biographies, treatises, illustrated books, autobiographies, and pamphlets about the major and lesser diarists. Some of the major diarists included in the Library are Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Virginia Woolf, James Boswell, Samuel Pepys, Opal Whitely, Nathanial Hawthorne, and Anne Frank. The main part of the Library consists of Non-Categorized Diaries, which represent ninety percent of the entire collection. Some of these diaries are by Sylvia Plath, Sophie du Pont, Thomas Mann, and Isaac Mickle. </p> <p> The Library also contains reference books (including those which list both published and manuscript diaries in the United States and Great Britain), as well as diary compilations (anthologies) such as: <i>Men Without Masks</i> (Wesley), <i>English Diarists</i> by Posonby, <i>Westward Ho</i>, and <i>A Treasury of the World's Great Diaries</i>. </p> <p> There are also exhibits in the Library. These include: The Samuel Pepys Exhibit; The Children's Diaries Exhibit; and the Concord, Massachusetts Diarists. In the Pepys Exhibit, there are several sets of his diary—from Latham and Matthews' eleven-volume set to several one, two, and three-volume sets. (There are also many biographies of Pepys, his own songbook, and Sir Francis Drake's almanac.) The Concord, Massachusetts Diarists Exhibit includes a ten-volume set of Emerson's diaries published by Houghton Mifflin, a set by Belknap Press, and twenty-seven other volumes. There are also several sets of the Hawthorne diaries, and numerous books on the other Concord diarists. The Children's Diaries Exhibit includes eight different volumes of Anne Frank's diary; several copies of Opal Whiteley's diary; the illustrated Louisa May Alcott; three books on Marjory Fleming; and 40 other children's diaries. </p> <p> Pictures, audiotapes, and posters are also in the Library, including posters of: the Anne Frank Annex; John Muir; Anais Nin; and The Diarists of Concord, Massachusetts (which includes the portraits of Emerson, Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, A. Bronson Alcott, and Nathanial Hawthorne). </p> <p> The Diary Library is for reference purposes only, and can be used for research and study while on the premises. Duplicate diaries are also available for sale (please write or call for a price list). </p> <center> <p>Ray Zager<br /> 330 Eureka Canyon Drive<br /> Corralitos, CA. 95076 </p> <p> Phone: 831-724-6601<br /> Fax: 831-724-7456<br /> e-mail: <a href="Mailto:diarylib@aol.com">diarylib@aol.com</a> </p> <p>   </p> <p> <font size="-1">Copyright © 2000–2003 by Olivia Dresher</font> </p> <p> <a href="corralitos.htm">Home</a> </p> </center> </body>