 The distinction thus drawn is far from clear, though. On the one hand, information gleaned from a poet’s diary, workbook, letters, and rough drafts, or information about what he was reading or thinking about as he created his work, isn’t internal evidence in that it can’t be had from directly inspecting his poem. On the other hand, it does seem to be internal, in that such information is publicly accessible, and might well be part of “all that makes a language and culture”. Resolving that tension is only part of the issue, however. “The character of the author” or the “private or semi-private meanings attached to words or topics by the author or by a coterie of which he is a member” might be revealed in a diary or workbook, and part of a “word’s history and meaning” might be recorded in a letter. That makes it sound like intermediate evidence. More than anything else, though, what a diary or a workbook contains is “evidence [respecting] the psychological and social background” of a work, and such information is no different from “revelations… in journals… or letters”. It would thus seem to be external evidence, as Beardsley talks about it. Is the information found in diaries, journals, workbooks, rough drafts, letters, and so on internal, external, or intermediate evidence, then? All three, it would seem.