Diaries of Beatrice A. Lane
19 - 20th c. / Books, ink on paper
Suzuki's wife Beatrice's (1878-1939) diaries. She had apparently kept diaries from her teens, and many from her later years (even 1939) survive. Her scrupulous diligence is thought to have influenced her husband and provided an impetus for his voluminous English diaries. They first met in 1906 in New York, where Suzuki was interpreting for one of Sōen Shaku's lectures. Beatrice was in the audience, and when she decided to pose a question after the talk, found herself eye to eye with Suzuki. This prolifically-inscribed notebook, her earliest diary held at Matsugaoka, belonged to her when she was seventeen or eighteen.
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