28 pocket diaries from 1882-1928 and a pocket memorandum book listing animals at the Smithsonian Museum. Most diary entries are very brief, noting the weather and one or two activities. Diaries are for the following years: 1882, 1884, 1885, 1886, 1892, 1893, 1894, 1895, 1896, 1898, 1901, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1908, 1910, 1912, 1911, 1913, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1919, 1922, 1925, 1926, 1928. Edward Learned Bacon (181-1955) was born in Newton, the second son of Benjamin Franklin Bacon and Adeline E. Learned (Bacon). The family lived on Bacon Street. B. Franklin Bacon served as vice president of the Newton National Bank. Edward Bacon worked as a bookkeeper at the Newton Trust Co. As an adult, he lived with his widowed father and his older brother, Charles Franklin Bacon. He never married.
