Collection contains the diary of Thomas Francis Fitzgerald for the calendar year of 1903. Fitzgerald documented some aspects of his life every day of the year with entries regarding the weather, road conditions, people he visited, what he ate for dinner, and anything else he might have done that day. The entries are typically several sentences long. Fitzgerald lived in Knoxville, Tennessee at the time he wrote the diary. The only missing entries are from four days at the beginning of January.