Barker's manuscript diary is located in the Historical Manuscript collection of the Michigan Historical Museum where his engraved Henry Repeating Rifle is also preserved.

Over 300,000 printed items include 700 archival collections of manuscript diaries, correspondence, pictures, cine-films, maps, scrapbooks and newspaper cuttings.

The British Library has among the Harleian Collection his manuscript diary, the 'Life of Mr Pineas Pett', Harl.

The manuscript diary, itself, is in the collections of the New Jersey Historical Society, "Manuscript Group 123".

From manuscript diary of a participant in the Western Union Telegraph Expedition, and his autobiographical account, written later.

Trevor-Roper ended by writing "He may read his manuscript diaries correctly.

Woolley died in 1858 and Pochin kept a manuscript diary of the illness, treatment and death of his partner.

Cole mentions also a manuscript diary of Archer's, which contained anecdotes.

He is most noted for his Entring Book, a manuscript diary which provides a description of society in the years 1677 to 1691.

The collection formed by Whitehouse, which includes Ruskin's manuscript diaries and a superb range of his drawings from every period, is now estimated to be worth £5 million.