15 yrs ago I had the privilege of transcribing and editing Dorothy Day’s Diaries for publication (“The Duty of Delight”). For the canonical process it is necessary to re-transcribe all the diaries without any editing.
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For this task a team of volunteers stepped forward. This essay describes one volunteer’s experience—and the sense that she was not following Dorothy’s life but Dorothy was following her’s. I can identify. Fun fact: the archives sent me a dozen CDs ...
with separate scans of every pg. They only went to 1979–a yr before her death. I asked the CW if anyone knew what happened to 1980. Searching her room they located her final 1980 diary in her bedside table where it had lain undisturbed for 26 yrs. To hold that in my hands! 🔥❤️⭐️
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