Collection of incomplete runs of small, pocket diaries kept by Abby J. Reed Kendall, 1870-1911, Nathan Kendall, 1854-1870, and son George Kendall, 1879. Also, one small memo book dated 1891 kept by E.A. Barnes (unidentified). Contents of Abby and Nathan's diaries deal primarily with daily expenditures, receipts, memos to self, weather reports and short comments about the day. George, aged about 16, is more detailed about his life and activities on the farm in Fowler, Indiana. E.A. Barnes, apparently an avid reader and writer of sentimental poems, gives short reports of life at home with her mother.