List of longest diaries

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This is a list of diaries notable for their exceptional length, primarily by word count but also by duration.

Table of diaries sortable by word count and duration
AuthorWord countDurationPeriodNotes
Laura Penrose Francis [a] 40 million60 years1952–2012Word count and duration as of 2012. [2]
Robert Shields 37.5 million25 years1972–1997Exact word count not available until 2049. [3]
Claude Fredericks 30 million80 years1932–2012 [4] Word count is estimated; the manuscript runs to 65,000 pages. [5]
Joseph Holloway25 million45 years1899–1944"Dublin playgoer." Published diaries 1899 to 1944. [6] [7]
Edward Robb Ellis 22 million71 years1927–1998
Heinrich Witt18 million70 years1859–1890Witt (1799–1892) was born in Germany, lived in Peru, and wrote in English. [8]
Arthur Crew Inman 17 million44 years1919–1963155 volumes. [9] Other accounts state 10 million words. [10]
Tony Benn 15 million [b] 69 years1940–2009"…sixty-nine years of writing, typing or dictating almost every day…" [13]
Li Shuxiang13 million74 years1941–2015 [c] 85 volumes. [14]
Nella Last 12 million [15] 28 years1939–1967Participant in Mass Observation project.
Dr. John Henry Salter10 million83 years1849–1932GP of Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Essex. [16]
Thomas McGrath9 million50 years1973–2022 [d] [17]
Henri-Frédéric Amiel 6 million42 years1839–1881173 journals; 16,800 pages. [18]
Harold L. Ickes 6 million [19] 19 years1933–1952"…nearly a hundred volumes of closely-typed copy…" [20]
Ellsworth James5.9 million63 years1944–2007Word count does not include first year (1944) which was handwritten. 1946-2007 manually typed. [21]
Anne Lister 5.6 million [e] 34 years1806–1840She frequently used a cypher or "crypt hand" she had devised herself. [23]
Amos Bronson Alcott 5 million71 years1811–1882…over sixty surviving volumes containing nearly five million words… [24]
Arthur Christopher Benson5 million28 years1897–1925Author of ‘Land of Hope and Glory.’ [25]
Rev. Dr. John Morgans O.B.E. 5 million52 years1952–2004Life as schoolboy, student, and minister in Wales. [26]
Frederic Madden 4 million54 years1819–187343 volumes. [27]
Leo Tolstoy 4 million63 years1847–1910 [28]
George Templeton Strong 4 million40 years1835–1875"A monumental diary, in the tradition of Pepys, Evelyn or Sewall…" [29]
John Gadd4 million45 years1975–2020Started in 1947 [30] but kept consistently from 1975. [31]
Richard Grayson 4 million32 years1969–2001Published diary entries from 1 August 1969 to 20 October 2001 [32] [33] [34]
Rev. Dr. Andrew Clark3 million5 years1914–191992 volumes. [35]
Harold Nicolson 3 million34 years1930–1964Diplomat, journalist, Member of Parliament, junior minister, writer, critic & broadcaster. [36]
George Cecil Ives 3 million64 years1886–1950"…122 volumes and approximately 3 million words." [37]
John Quincy Adams 3 million69 years1779–1848Nearly 3 million words, 1,400 pages, 51 volumes. [38]
George C. Edler2.859 million80 years1907–1987Diary from 1 January 1907 to 25 February 1987, the day of his passing. [39]
Philip Hone 2 million23 years1828–1851“…twenty-eight quarto volumes…” [40]
Henry David Thoreau 2 million25 years1837–1861Over 2 million words in 39 notebooks. [41] [42]
Edward Nason [f] Wrench2 million56 years1856–1912Nearly 2 million words [43] in 57 vols. [44]
Naomi Mitchison 2 million [45] 6 years1939–1945Participant in Mass Observation. Diary published forty years after she wrote it. [46]
Beatrice Webb 1.79 million70 years1873–1943Diaries available online. [47]
Chen Xiukang1.5 million4 years2012–2016 [g] Began keeping a diary to cope with his wife's death. [48]
Samuel Pepys 1.25 million9 years1660–1669Written in shorthand. [49] The 1893 edition is available online. [50]
Margaret Elizabeth Fountaine 1 million61 years1878–193912 volume diary. [51]
Jean Lucey Pratt 1 million61 years1925–1986Over a million words in 45 exercise books. [52]
Ernest Achey Loftus Unknown92 years [h] 1896–1987 Guinness World Record for longest kept diary. [53] [54]
Evie RiskiUnknown89 years [55] 1936–2025 [i] "A 100-year-old American woman has journalled every day for 90 years… nearly 33,000 entries…" [56] [Actually 89 years or 32,547 days]
Albert Memmi Unknown83 years1936–2019Yale archive has journals to 2019; [57] "…hundreds of school notebooks…" [58]
Robert W. RamsayUnknown82 years1869–1951Diaries from April 1869 to January 1951. 44 vols. [59] Commenced when he was 8 years old. [60]
Julien Green Unknown79 years1919–1998"…he wrote with an audience in mind…" [61]
Betty from LancashireUnknown76 years1942–2018"…diaries were meticulously completed every day, and record almost all her everyday activities." [62]
Robert ParryUnknown74 years1539–1613Diary written in Welsh. [63]
Frances Partridge Unknown74 years1927–2002Diary from 31 October 1927 [64] to 15 March 2002, her 102nd birthday. [65]
Anne PerkinsUnknown74 years1935–2009American, Quaker, librarian at Swarthmore College. Over one hundred volumes, only 16 were preserved. [66]
Henry Edward PriceUnknown74 yearsc.1830–1904Cabinet maker, begins with reminiscence of childhood. [67]
Robert BirrelUnknown73 years1532–1605Burgess of Edinburgh, diary of incidents in Scotland. [68]
Jeremiah MoseleyUnknown73 years1803–187618 volumes. [69]
John AmphlettUnknown73 years1854–191842 volumes, extremely full accounts. [70]
Emma Katherine BigwoodUnknown73 years1862–1935"…brief daily entries" [71]
Daniel TimesUnknown72 years1776–1848Coroner, medical diary. [72]
Sir Thomas Francis FremantleUnknown72 years1798–189051 vols, September 1814–January 1815 and 1837–86. [73]
Sir Arthur Pendarves VivianUnknown72 years1851–192364 volumes, personal and travel journals. [74]
Joseph Jeppa AndersonUnknown72 years1878–195020 volumes. [75]
Thomas Asline WardUnknown71 years1800–1871Master Cutler of Sheffield in 1816. Some entries in French, Italian or Latin. [76] [77]
Prince George, Duke of Cambridge Unknown71 years1832–1903Enormous and consistent record of his whole life. [78]
Ellen Laetitia PhilipsUnknown71 years1842–191348 volumes: 1842, 1850-79, and 1881–1913. [79]
Ethel Rudkin Unknown71 years1912–1983"…filled dozens of notebooks." [80] [81]
William Ewart Gladstone Unknown70 years1826–1896Private diary, 1826 to 1895 or 1896. [82] [83]
Mary Barwick BakerUnknown70 years1834–1904Née Fenwick. Personal notes entered in annual volumes. [84]
Lady Louisa de Rothschild Unknown70 years1837–1907Diary from July 1837 to December 1907 (with gaps). [85]
Lady Anne Noel BluntUnknown70 years1837–1917Née King. 214 volumes, July 1847 to November 1917. [86]
Violet Bonham Carter Unknown70 years1899–1969Diaries online. [87]
Sir Moses Montefiore Unknown69 years1814–188385 vols. [88] [89]
William BeaumontUnknown69 years1816–1885British lawyer. Diary April 1816–November 1885 (with gaps): 15 vols. Travel journals 1825–1842. [90] [91]
John Oxley ParkerUnknown69 years1829–1898Land-agent: diaries and day-books. [92] High Sheriff of Essex in 1883.
Claude Mauriac Unknown69 years1927–1995Lejeune gives both 68 and 69 years. "We have yet to count the total number of pages, but the journal measures three and a half meters." [93]
Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle Unknown68 years1789–185741 volumes. Her two sisters also kept diaries. [94]
Fanny KnatchbullUnknown68 years1804–1872Second wife of 9th Bart. Diaries 1804–72 (with gaps). 69 vols. [95]
Colonel John CokeUnknown68 years1820–1887Diaries with gaps, 11 vols. [96]
Frances Russell, Countess Russell Unknown68 years1830–1898Social diary, November 1830–January 1898. [97]
Queen Victoria Unknown [j] 68 years [k] 1832–1901Over 100 volumes. [100] Her daughter Beatrice copied selected passages from the journals and burned many of the originals. [101]
Angelo Roncalli (Pope John XXIII)Unknown68 years1895–1963Published in 1964 as Journal of a soul. [102]
Rev. Thomas SmithUnknown67 years1721–1788May 1721–May 1788; mostly brief, impersonal notes. [103]
Lady Emily Theophilia AshbrookUnknown67 years1813–1880Née Metcalfe. Diaries and travel journals, c.1813–1880: 57 vols. [104]
Rev. John BrownlowUnknown67 years1816–1883Diary and memoranda, part recollection. [105]
J. TaylorUnknown67 years1826–1893Diary with gaps, family and local (Sutton-on-Trent) events. [106]
John Burroughs Unknown67 years1854–1921American naturalist & author; March 1857–February 1921. [107]
Charles WhitwellUnknown67 years1888–1955Detailed daily events, January 1888–July 1955; 70 vols. [108]
Alan WithingtonUnknown67 years1931–1998"Lengthy daily entries with many photographs attached." [109]
Luca LanducciUnknown66 years1450–1516Florentine apothecary. [110]
Sarah SavageUnknown66 years1686–1752Welsh diarist, as was her father Rev. Philip Henry. [111]
John Wesley Unknown66 years1725–1791Daily, even hourly, memoranda were his diaries; the enlarged, fuller versions were his Journal. [112]
Capt. James StackpoleUnknown66 years1755–1821"Diary, with journal of 1790–1821." [113]
Jacob Nagle Unknown66 years1775–1841American Sailor, at sea for forty-five years. [114]
Stephen TerryUnknown66 years1795–1861Sporting diaries and reminiscences. [115]
Katherine ArundelUnknown66 years1804–1870Meetings with French emigrés, tours and pilgrimages. [116]
Charles Cardale Babington Unknown66 years1825–1891Botanical diary, brief entries. [117]
Richard Thomas LloydUnknown66 years1832–1898Family matters; tour of the Continent in 1838. [118]
Jane EdmundsUnknown66 years1834–1900Diary with gaps, 1 vol. [119]
Edward George Percy LittletonUnknown66 years1864–19303rd. Lord Hatherton. Diaries with gaps, 3 vols. Brief entries, military career. [120]
Frederick Augustus Dixey Unknown66 years1869–1935Distinguished entomologist. 20 vols. [121]
William Henry HallamUnknown66 years1886–195263 volumes, broken only twice between 1894 and 1897. [122]
Richard Meinertzhagen Unknown66 years1899–1965British soldier, intelligence officer, and ornithologist: 76 vols. [123]
Rev. Ivory HoveyUnknown65 years1738–1803Written mostly in shorthand: nine octavo volumes, about 7000 pages. [124]
Rev. John MillUnknown65 years1738–1803Parish work in Shetland and North Hebrides. [125]
Frances Burney Unknown65 years1768–1833March 1768–March 1833; diary, memoirs and letters. [126] [127]
Mary BerryUnknown65 years1783–1848Author. Diary from May 1783–August 1848, regularly from 1807. [128] [129]
William DarlingUnknown65 years1795–1860Lighthouse-keeper, father of Grace Darling. Private diary, April 1795–October 1860. [130]
Sir Ernest Mason Satow Unknown65 years1861–192639 volumes, November 1861–December 1926 (with considerable gaps). [131]
Sir Sydney Cockerell Unknown65 years1886–c.1951Museum curator and collector. Diary from January 1886 to c.1951. [132] [133]
Rt. Rev. GwynneUnknown65 years1888–1953Missionary in the Sudan. Diaries, papers, sermons etc. [134]
Hester Thrale Unknown64 years1757–1821 [135]
General William Dyott Unknown64 years1781–1845 [136] [137]
Sir Rowland Hill Unknown64 years1813–1877Eleven volumes. [138]
William RobsonUnknown64 years1817–1881 [139]
Rev. Andrew Bonar Unknown64 years1828–1892Written in shorthand. [140]
Anaïs Nin Unknown64 years1913–1977Published diaries extend to 1974. [141]
Rev. Samuel Fairclough Unknown63 years1614–1677Written in Greek and Latin. [142] [143]
Thomas GardinerUnknown63 years1661–1724Brief notes. [144]
Elizabeth LaugherUnknown63 years1731–1794Née Mascall. [145]
Susanna Holyoke WardUnknown63 years1793–1856 [146]
Joseph HunterUnknown63 years1797–1860Much of it is in shorthand. [147]
Ellen A. HallUnknown63 years1838–1901Has gaps. 22 vols. [148]
Emily Mary HallUnknown63 years1838–1901Has gaps. 23 vols. [149]
Leo Tolstoy Unknown63 years1847–1910 [150]
Reginald Charles Edward AbbotUnknown63 years1856–1919Has gaps. 54 vols. [151]
Dr. Michael Thomas SadlerUnknown63 years1860–1923Medicine, science, travels, reading, Gilbert and Sullivan. [152]
Annette Susannah BeveridgeUnknown63 years1865–1928Née Ackroyd; 62 vols. [153]
Paul Léautaud Unknown63 years1893–1956 [154]
Sanjōnishi SanetakaUnknown62 years [155] 1455–1537His Sanetaka Kōki is also given a duration of 63 years. [156]
William Lyon Mackenzie King Unknown57 years1893–1950Word count not stated; the manuscript exceeds 50,000 pages. [157]

William Matthews, in his British diaries: An annotated bibliography of British diaries written between 1442 and 1942 (University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1950) lists 400 diaries with a duration of 30 years or more.

Wikipedia has a list of books on diaries and journals.

Notes

  1. ↑ Said to be a pseudonym. [1]
  2. ↑ "The full unedited diaries [in 2007] amount to around fifteen million words." [11] A figure of 20 million refers to "the full archive." [12]
  3. ↑ According to article from 2015.
  4. ↑ According to article from 2022.
  5. ↑ Total word count 5,632,524 words. [22]
  6. ↑ Matthews gives Nason, Batts gives Mason.
  7. ↑ According to article from 2016.
  8. ↑ From 1 January 1895 to 31 December 1986, 33,602 days.
  9. ↑ According to article dated 25 February 2025.
  10. ↑ It is calculated that she wrote an average of 2,500 words a day, or sixty million words. However this estimate includes correspondence, notes, minutes, annotations and memoranda as well as her diary. [98]
  11. ↑ From 31 July 1832 to 11 January 1901, 68 years and 5 months. [99]

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