Facsimile pages from Haydn's journal, with dictated entries about his activities on a given day, show how incredibly busy the seemingly relaxed master was.
"Universities should provide clear and unambiguous guidance without favour on the best preparations for their courses and then allow merit to dictate entry," he added.
He began regularly dictating entries into his forbidden phone, and sneaking random paragraphs into voluminous love letters, while Alex did the editing and posting.
After he became disabled in 1997, Mr. Shields dictated diary entries to his wife until she — quickly — tired of the exercise.
Thatcher famously told Bush on that middle-of-the-night call, "This is no time to go wobbly". But Bush's dictated diary entries, revealed in Meacham's landmark 2015 biography, "Destiny and Power," show Bush wasn't going wobbly.
Some people can write in their diary, or dictate their entry to someone else, while they are experiencing a headache, but if this worsens your headache or nausea, wait until the symptoms have passed.
The thickness of the accumulation was dictated by the entry pressure of the perforated well.
During a serious illness in 1871, the Queen dictated her journal entries to Beatrice, and in 1876 she allowed Beatrice to sort the music she and the Prince Consort had played, unused since his death fifteen years earlier.
"While I was up during the middle of the night, I dealt with my client and assorted inspectors at ports of entry and dictated documents by phone to my longtime paralegal, who still takes shorthand," she said.
When Mary Anne decided it would be "easier" if she composed the first entry, she dictated in the third person for Will to type and post — a practice that continued until the blog's, and Mary Anne's, last days.
