jottings
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In between the book’s linked stories, Ms. Daanje inserts excerpts from those scant archives—Millicent’s letters, the poems and cryptic jottings from Eliza May’s notebooks—as well as passages from various later biographies of the Draydens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Among the other famous jottings that sold were those belonging to Jamaican reggae icon Bob Marley, South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela and all four members of The Beatles.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2024
Let John Denton’s doggerel stand in for all the great jottings that didn’t make it into “Dear California.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2023
Freist said she was “electrified” when archivists opened several letters and found jottings on chalkboard tablets that had only survived unerased because of their sudden seizure.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
He never wrote out fair copies of these jottings for me, fugitive as were the marks and impossible of interpretation.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
