John James Morris started writing his diaries in 1913, keeping newspaper clippings and seed packs.
Diaries written by a Cornish farmer covering 60 years are to be preserved in an archive after being found in a derelict house.
They brought three wheelbarrow-loads back to their nearby home and felt compelled to save them because one had instructions for readers, she said.Mr Morris, who lived his life in Lanivet, near Bodmin, wrote: "Those into whose hands this journal of mine may fall, had better preserve it, as it may be of interest in the years to come.
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