Statistics

Headline figures

• Documented days: 13,716 distinct calendar days carry an entry.
• Possible days in his life: 27,171 (1835-11-30 → 1910-04-21).
• Life coverage: 50% of the days he lived are documented.
• Entry blocks: ~14,419 date-anchored blocks (slightly exceeds documented days because some days hold multiple dated sub-entries, e.g. quoted dictations/letters).
• Total documented text: ~2.8 million words.
• Average entry length: ~197 words (median ≈ 105 — a typical entry is short, with a long tail of multi-paragraph days).
• Date precision: 98% of entries are pinned to an exact single day; ~2% cover a span, range, or month.
• People ~6800
• Corporate Bodies ~2800
• Places ~2200

Documentation density by decade

Density climbs steadily across his life as his fame, correspondence, and the surviving record grow.

Decade	Documented days	Words	Coverage of decade
1830s	15	1,138	1%
1840s	53	4,191	1%
1850s	337	26,176	9%
1860s	1,507	188,550	41%
1870s	2,352	291,925	64%
1880s	3,106	504,473	85%
1890s	2,856	560,875	78%
1900s	3,400	1,235,417	93%
1910s	90	32,511	81%

Desnity by Year

Year-by-year

Year	Doc. days	Days alive	Coverage	Words	Avg words/entry
1835	1	32	3%	123	123
1836	2	366	0%	179	90
1837	5	365	1%	312	62
1838	3	365	1%	112	37
1839	4	365	1%	412	103
1840	2	366	0%	109	54
1841	5	365	1%	184	37
1842	6	365	2%	410	68
1843	3	365	1%	515	172
1844	1	366	0%	38	38
1845	7	365	2%	454	65
1846	7	365	2%	337	48
1847	12	365	3%	1,477	123
1848	4	366	1%	416	104
1849	6	365	2%	251	42
1850	14	365	4%	896	64
1851	10	365	3%	844	84
1852	17	366	5%	1,619	95
1853	44	365	12%	5,368	122
1854	11	365	3%	1,140	104
1855	18	365	5%	1,648	92
1856	23	366	6%	4,122	179
1857	50	365	14%	3,459	69
1858	88	365	24%	4,445	50
1859	62	365	17%	2,635	42
1860	66	366	18%	3,467	53
1861	90	365	25%	10,282	112
1862	58	365	16%	20,418	335
1863	133	365	36%	16,580	118
1864	184	366	50%	14,737	78
1865	102	365	28%	9,988	92
1866	180	365	49%	25,632	138
1867	256	365	70%	30,834	118
1868	200	366	55%	21,897	106
1869	238	365	65%	34,715	143
1870	221	365	60%	26,386	114
1871	231	365	63%	24,412	100
1872	233	366	64%	22,691	91
1873	243	365	67%	27,479	110
1874	251	365	69%	37,314	137
1875	235	365	64%	32,957	132
1876	258	366	70%	36,784	135
1877	234	365	64%	28,243	114
1878	235	365	64%	28,071	115
1879	211	365	58%	27,588	125
1880	277	366	76%	35,982	124
1881	310	365	85%	47,008	139
1882	318	365	87%	49,269	148
1883	260	365	71%	31,661	116
1884	304	366	83%	46,498	145
1885	336	365	92%	61,968	177
1886	318	365	87%	58,688	177
1887	320	365	88%	59,999	181
1888	322	366	88%	48,234	148
1889	341	365	93%	65,166	184
1890	339	365	93%	59,815	167
1891	320	365	88%	60,807	187
1892	284	366	78%	40,345	140
1893	291	365	80%	58,999	199
1894	276	365	76%	56,989	205
1895	293	365	80%	68,503	231
1896	307	366	84%	52,783	170
1897	266	365	73%	58,845	208
1898	233	365	64%	52,473	217
1899	247	365	68%	51,316	204
1900	326	365	89%	77,108	227
1901	323	365	88%	91,594	278
1902	350	365	96%	112,095	304
1903	331	365	91%	82,059	238
1904	312	366	85%	76,712	239
1905	360	365	99%	151,028	365
1906	359	365	98%	179,065	401
1907	362	365	99%	178,281	457
1908	362	366	99%	180,748	439
1909	315	365	86%	106,727	314
1910	90	111	81%	32,511	342

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