The Joseph Mathia Svoboda Diaries
Our project is now engaged in preparing for publication a portion of the
diaries kept by Joseph Mathia Svoboda from about 1861-62 to 1908. We have
made digital copies of 15 diaries held by the Makiya family and have digital
images of unpublished transcriptions of 31 other Joseph Mathia diaries made
by Margaret Makiya during the 1970s. The original diaries from which Mrs. Makiya
made her transcriptions are located in the National Manuscript Center in
Baghdad but have been unavailable to us because of inventory work being done
at the Center. As we prepare individual diaries for publication, they will
be made available on this page. What you see now are just unedited draft examples
of what will constitute a rich and varied story about life in Iraq during the
second half of the 19th century.
Electronic version of Joesph Svoboda's Diary 47
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Joseph Svoboda's Journal number 47 as photographed and transcribed by OTAP
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1892
[01]
1894 Nov Light N.W. & fine weather
[02]
at 8am I came on board the
[03]
steamer, finished Alexander's
[04]
letter to be posted today ;
[05]
I sent it to the Post Office and
[06]
had it registered, also wrote one
[07]
to Pezooki Korkis London
[08]
of yesterday's date. At 10 1/2
[09]
went home & had my breakfast
[10]
& returned at 12 1/2.
[11]
We shipped a good deal of local
[12]
cargo & finished at 4 pm
[13]
All the cabins are engaged.
[14]
The river is slomdelite[illegible].
[15]
At 5 pm I went to my house
[16]
the carpenter had finished
[17]
his works I paid him for
[18]
4 days.
[19]
I went over to Sister Medula
[20]
to dine with her; & while
[21]
there I received a letter from
[22]
my son Alexander by
[23]
the Damascus Post which
