Lord Ponsonby
It may well be the consensus of opinion that this concluding talk by Lord Ponsonby on diaries is even more interesting than those that have gone before. He deals with eccentric diaries, written by many people, in many walks of life, most of them kept in the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries ; among them a diary in which the writer reveals that he is suffering from hallucinations ; one kept by a shopkeeper who continually chided himself for his failing for drink ; one kept by a woman who would insist she was a martyr ; and one kept by a doctor who constantly rebuked himself for gluttony. Listeners will be grateful to Lord Ponsonby for this series of five talks, and many will wish there were to be more.