« […] John Smith performed the gigantic task of transcribing the whole diary, except for certains passages he labelled “ objectionable ”. A small selection from his fifty-four notebooks was published by Lord Braybrooke […]. It had an immediate and phenomenal success. […] Another transcription, by the Rev. Mynors Bright […] was published (again in severely shortened form) in six volumes in 1875-9. It was reissued in ten volumes, with some revision and much better footnotes, by H. B. Wheatley in 1893-9. About nine-tenths of the diary was now made public : Wheatley deliberately omitted only the erotic passages, and those could hardly have been published in Victorian England without offence. »