Eighteen pocket diaries kept by Charles F. Bacon from 1882-1934, a pocket memoranda book, and a pocket address book. Most diary entries are very brief, noting the weather and one or two activities. Two of the diaries contain trip reports instead of daily entries. Diaries are for the following years: 1882, July 1883 (description of trip to Paris), 1891, 1892, 1893, 1894 1905 (description of trip to West Conway, NH), 1910, 1917, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1928, 1932, 1933, 1934. Charles Franklin Bacon (1858-1944) was born in Newton to 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. Charles Bacon worked as a bookkeeper and bank clerk and as a church organist and music teacher. As an adult, he lived with his widowed father and his brother, Edward Learned Bacon. He never married.
