Nýlega birtist fræðigrein á ensku eftir Þorstein Vilhjálmsson um dagbækur Ólafs Davíðssonar. Greinin biritist í Scandinavian Journal of History undir heitinu,The boundaries of pleasure: the diary of Ólafur Davíðsson and the heterotopia of the nineteenth-century Reykjavík Latin School.