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xiii A NOTE ON THE SOURCE the original diary of Charles Wiltse’s experience as an ohio farmer is lost. it almost certainly was composed in longhand during evenings and other free time while he was living in rural ohio and subsequently transcribed during Wiltse’s brief employment in the new york State bureaucracy in 1934. he says in his preface that he wrote for no audience but himself, and apparently he meant that. there is no evidence Wiltse ever tried to publish his diary or any commentary on his experiences as an ohio farmer. following his appointment to a new deal agency in late 1934, Wiltse moved to Washington and remained there for more than three decades, periodically changing domiciles. he carried the farm journal with him through all his moves, placing it finally on a shelf in his personal library in hanover, new hampshire. it was there when he died in May 1990. the typescript bears no evidence of rewriting. there are numerous strikeovers, mostly to correct typographical mistakes, but there are no longhand additions or corrections. the only notable difference between what Wiltse typed originally and what the reader of this book will encounter is the absence of 2 pages from a 232-page typescript. When and how they disappeared one can only speculate. M J B ...

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