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Ironbound, July 30, 1926 : [manuscript]

Ironbound, July 30, 1926 : [manuscript]

Item is a manuscript of diary entries, genealogical notes, lists of idioms, and anecdotes written by Frank Parker Day in preparation for writing his novel Rockbound, which was based on families on East Ironbound Island.

Jameson - Kirshen

Correspondents are Owen Jameson, Philip C. Jessup, A. V. Karpov, C. Kemp (Bank of Montreal) responding to letter from Anne Beattie, Frederick R. Keppel, Florence Killam, Fred Killam, George Killam, J. Walton Killam, M. S. Kirshen (Stratford Company).

Kitchen - Merrett

Correspondents are Merrell Kitchen, Fred Lape, H. S. Latham (Macmillan Co.), David Stanley Likely, A. Lochly McEntee, Florrie Lovitt, H. M. MacCallum, Douglas MacDonald, D. MacGillivray, G.M.J. MacKay, Herbert D. MacLeod, Archibald MacMechan, W. G. McKay, T. A. McLoughlin, Watson Marshall, Martin and Allardyce (attachment is the Day family crest), Charles E. MayhewDorothy Merrill, T. E. Merrett (Bank of Montreal).

Lamb - McPherson

C. H. Lamb, Allan M. Langille, Mr. Lawson (Bank of Montreal), Ralph Layte, Henry Goddard Leach, W. S. Learned (Carnegie Corporation), Walter Libby, Harriet Long, Daniel Longwell, H. Irvine Lynds, A. G. Macdonell, Clarence MacKinnon, Archibald MacMechan, Ed Maillard, F. McCarthy, R. Tait McKenzie, M. D. McKiegan, C. Herbert McLean, Maxwell McRae, J. A. McPherson. Includes Mabel Day's sketch of the insignia for the 185th Cape Breton Highlanders in correspondence with Major M. D. McKiegan dated February and March 1921.

Literary Writings of Frank Parker Day

This series contains manuscripts for all autobiographical writings, essays, novels, plays, poetry, and short stories present in the Frank Parker Day fonds. Most works are not individually dated, so the materials have been group into the following categories: Biographical and autobiographical writings, novels (published and unpublished), plays, poetry, and stories.

"Looking Forward"

Author may be Charles A. Beard, but the typescript includes a note saying that he "denies writing it, admits reading it to a circle of his friends."

Manley - Ralston

Correspondents are Cicely Manley,R. B. Marshall, John A. Miller, Fred Millett (Carnegie Institute of Technology), Angus W. Mishaw, Henry Allen Moe, Austin B. Newell, George W. Nicola, Frank W. Nicholson, Edward O'Brien, Josiah H. Penniman (President of the University of Pennsylvania), M. B. Pearl, Washington Pezet (The Forum), F. M. Pickard, John L. Porter, A.H.H. Powell, Edith E. Provost, Layton Ralston.

Mills - Powers

Correspondents are William C. Mills, Motor Vehicle Branch (Dept. of Highways), Henry Allen Moe (Association of American Rhodes Scholars), Robert Norwood, A. D. Noyes (Century Association), R. B. Ogilby, Theodore S. Oppenheim, Thomas Ordway, Brace W. aPaddock, Robert M. Palmer, G. Fred Pearson, Anne Powers.

Miscellanous notes, manuscript poems, and clippings

Among the manuscript poems are "I stood alone," "The Cat Came Back," "Be True," "Ecstasy" (translation from Dumas by W. M. Tweedie, "To a --" (portion of "To a Skylark" by Shelley), "Sac'd," "Twas in Hallam's," "Consule Planco," "The Step on the Stair"

Notebooks - "Day Book, Sackville, Jan Feb Mar 1935," Untitled (containing "Tweedie - 50 years of Teaching"), "Day Book, March 1935, Sackville"

"Day Book, Sackville, Jan Feb Mar 1935" contains "Old Alumnus" poems and essays published in the Mount Allison Argosy well as manuscript versions and notes toward poems"

The untitled notebook contains poems (including "Tweedie - 50 years of Teaching") and notes

"Day Book, March 1935, Sackville" contains manuscripts of the following poems: "Marsh Fantasies," "Geography," "Birthday Ode to Mrs. DesBarres and the DeBarres family in general," "O Brave New World," "[Some day I will make a will]," "Last Will and Testament," "The Best Professor," "The Coming Epidemic," "Vale," "Allison" (?), Speech for the Silver jubilee, May 6, 1935, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

"Old Alumnus" to "Soldiers" - Notebook, manuscripts and typescripts

"Old Alumnus" series of poems: "Marsh Moods," "The Regular," "War," "The Last Long Hill," "The Civilian Soldier," "Think Well!," "Through the Sleeping Village," "House-Painter Hitler," "The Trench Cat," "Peace," "The Pacifist" (see also Box 1, Folder 7) "On the Nashwaak in the Springtime" "On the North Sea" "One Way Road" "Philosophers" - November 1926 "The Professor" ("The Old Don") "Question and Answer" "The Reformer" "Regret" "A Rhodes Man at Oxford" "The Serious Business of Scholarship" "Sigismund" "Six Years of Scientific Feeding" - 1920 "The Soldier" "Soldiers"

Personal Materials of Frank Parker Day

This series includes files from his time at Mount Allison and Oxford universities, family -related materials and memorabilia, legal and financial documents (which include publishing contracts and insurance forms), as well as documents related to Swarthmore and Union Colleges. Other assorted documents include the address given at his funeral, clippings of book reviews, and scrapbooks (on microfilm) from 1905-1907.
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