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Men like Matthew Morry, of whom there were no doubt scores, each occupying a position of prominence in one of the many Newfoundland outports, represented a different class of entrepreneur - the last of the West Country merchants - those who came and stayed. In so doing, they provided the essential infrastructure and economic support to their small communities that allowed the people of those villages to eek out an existence during the first half of the 19th Century at a time when support from England was declining, along with the interest of the large merchant class families, and the push for Responsible Government was just beginning to take shape. 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In many cases, their knowledge, gained by word of mouth from generation to generation, is our only record of the events that took place in these tiny villages for many decades and even centuries.\u003cbr\u003e In his diaries, he spoke of his own personal experiences, at home in his youth and in his later years, his adventures in western Canada as a young man, and overseas with the Royal Newfoundland Regiment in WWI. But he also recorded observations on the significant and insignificant (to most historians) events of daily life in a small outport village on the Southern Shore of Newfoundland in the early to mid-1900s. And he also recounted events from the history of his village as passed down to him by earlier generations of oral historians.\u003cbr\u003e The current volume is almost exclusively of the type in which reminiscences of the past take the forefront.\u003cbr\u003e In this twenty-fifth volume, the diary transcribed nominally covers the very brief period from January 31,1965 to February 18,1965. But in reality, these dates simply represent the start and the finish of the writing and there are almost no details given of what was happening in the present time between those two dates.\u003cbr\u003e The lion's share of the diary that constitute reflections on the past, is largely repetitive of thoughts recorded in earlier diaries. This is useful as it serves to pick up accidental errors in dates and names that have entered into some of these accounts and also on occasion provides additional detail on the subject matter.\u003cbr\u003e This diary is also unique in one unfortunate respect. It exists only in the form of a photocopy of the handwritten original and an anonymous typed transcript of that original, both of which appear to have been made soon after the diary was written. The handwritten diary itself is missing or, if it still exists, its location is unknown.\u003cbr\u003e Upon first reading this diary, it seemed strangely familiar, as if I had seen it somewhere previously. Then it dawned on me. This was the memoir that someone gave to Stewart McLean as background material when he wrote a chapter on Ferryland in his 10th anniversary edition of the book Welcome Home. Several of the tracts published in that chapter are taken word for word from this memoir.\u003cbr\u003e Finally, it is important to note that this diary was written following about five years of research by Howard and his daughter Jean on the Morry family history. The truths revealed by Jean in her research, primarily conducted by using the encyclopaedic resources available from the Church of the Latter Day Saints - Mormon, in many cases did not conform with Howard's long-held and cherished views of the family history, which came down to him via oral history from previous generations of the family. Howard clearly was conflicted in this regard and tended to hold on tenaciously in is writings to those old beliefs, in many cases, even though the documentary evidence had either proven that they were wrong or could not be used to give them support.\u003cbr\u003e As in previous volumes, in order to provide readers not familiar with the cast of characters or the local and international historical events mentioned in the pages of the diary a clue to their identity, an extensive set of endnotes has been provided as an assistance in reading and fully understanding the context of the diary","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51138188280081,"sku":"NIN9781990865350","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1990865356.jpg?v=1750901803"},{"product_id":"diaries-of-howard-leopold-morry-volume-24-book-christopher-j-a-morry-9781990865336","title":"The Diaries of Howard Leopold Morry - Volume 24","description":"This book represents the twenty-fourth volume of what will ultimately be twenty-five volumes in a series of verbatim transcripts of the diaries of Howard Leopold Morry, written by him starting in 1939 and concluding with the last known volume in 1966.\u003cbr\u003e Howard was a raconteur and oral historian cast in the same mould as dozens of other men and women in Newfoundland in those days who carried forward the history of the small outport villages in which they lived. In many cases, their knowledge, gained by word of mouth from generation to generation, is our only record of the events that took place in these tiny villages for many decades and even centuries.\u003cbr\u003e Howard was 54 years old when he took up pen or pencil to write the first of his many diaries in December 1939. What motivated him at that time was the belief (wrong, as it fortunately turned out) that he would not live much longer, as a result of a bad heart condition resulting from diseases he endured during his time in the trenches in Gallipoli, on the Somme and in Ypres during WWI. He was worried, and in this he was justified, that many of the stories of the old days that he faithfully retained would be lost forever if he did not record them in writing. The younger generation even then had lost interest in such things and the race of community oral historians of which he was one was coming to an end.\u003cbr\u003e In his diaries, he spoke of his own personal experiences, at home in his youth and in his later years, his adventures in western Canada as a young man, and overseas with the Royal Newfoundland Regiment in WWI. But he also recorded observations on the significant and insignificant (to most historians) events of daily life in a small outport village on the Southern Shore of Newfoundland in the early to mid-1900s. And he also recounted events from the history of his village as passed down to him by earlier generations of oral historians.\u003cbr\u003e The current volume is, slightly different than other volumes in that it includes an almost equal proportion Howard's reminiscences and anecdotes and daily diary entries which are mostly comprised of accounts of his several visits to Scotland during this time period.\u003cbr\u003e In this twenty-fourth volume, the diary transcribed nominally covers the years from March 27,1964 to September 9,1965. But in point of fact this is not really the case. The days on which current events are recorded are spread widely over this time period with many gaps in coverage\u003cbr\u003e Of the portions of the diary that constitute reflections on the past, many are a repetition of thoughts recorded in earlier diaries. This is useful as it serves to pick up accidental errors in dates and names that have entered into some of these accounts.\u003cbr\u003e At this time in his life, Howard is very definitely feeling his age and the weight of those years weighs heavily upon him, not just physically, but also in terms of his mood and his disdain for improvements in the human condition brought about over his eighty years.\u003cbr\u003e As in previous volumes, in order to provide readers not familiar with the cast of characters or the local and international historical events mentioned in the pages of the diary a clue to their identity, an extensive set of endnotes has been provided as an assistance in reading and fully understanding the context of the diary.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51138190737681,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51138193457425,"sku":"NIN9781990865336","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/199086533X.jpg?v=1750998634"},{"product_id":"diaries-of-howard-leopold-morry-volume-22-book-christopher-j-a-morry-9781990865299","title":"The Diaries of Howard Leopold Morry - Volume 22","description":"This book represents the twenty-second volume of what will ultimately be twenty-five volumes in a series of verbatim transcripts of the diaries of Howard Leopold Morry, written by him starting in 1939 and concluding with the last known volume in 1965.\u003cbr\u003e The current volume is, slightly different than other volumes in that it includes an almost equal proportion of daily diary entries and Howard's reminiscences and anecdotes but it also includes several pages of transcriptions of old documents pertaining to the history of Ferryland and some folk-songs and poems.\u003cbr\u003e In this twenty-second volume, the diary transcribed nominally covers the years from 1960 to 1966. But in point of fact this is not really the case. The first daily diary entries cover the period from March 1960 to August 1961. But there are no daily diary entries for the years from then until the resumption of daily diary entries in February 1966 and even then there are only a smattering of widely separated entries in that year culminating with the last entry on April 9, 1966. Some of the intervening years are covered at least partially in the diaries which form the basis of the remaining 3 Volumes in this series. But the gaps that do exist between 1961 and 1966, as well as the complete absence of any diaries after 1966 until the time of Howard's death in 1972 are believed to be explained by the loss or destruction of the diaries covering these periods. It is incomprehensible, in particular, that a man who kept meticulous diaries from 1939 to 1961 should not write any diaries in the last six years of his life when he was in reasonable health and had much more free time in which to do so.\u003cbr\u003e Of the portions of the diary that constitute reflections on the past, many are a repetition of thoughts recorded in earlier diaries. For example, there is one lengthy section dedicated to Howard's memories of his time serving in the Newfoundland Regiment, which was covered in detail in two previous diaries and in part in several others. This was Howard's way of ensuring that these memories, which he felt were important in that they represented the views of an ordinary foot soldier and not those of an officer or military historian, must be preserved. 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