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Frank Parker Day fonds

  • MS-2-288
  • Fonds
  • 1899-1957
The fonds includes poetry, plays, short stories, and novel manuscripts which span Day's writing career; correspondence; speeches and essays; personal documents including various legal, financial, academic, and family-related materials; photographs; and various materials and manuals pertaining to his time in the military.

Day, Frank Parker

Chanties by various authors

Chanties by various authors

File contains handwritten copies of various sea chanties collected by Frank Parker Day. Includes "Yankee Ship," "A la Claire Fontaine" (accompanied by musical notation), "Storm Along," "Shenandoah," and other untitled chanties.

Daybook

Contains notes on a variety of subjects including Shakespeare, Edith Cavell, United States immigration policy, ms of "The Golden Maple Leaf."

A - Z

Correspondents are P.M.L., Margaret M. Jennings, Harold J. Hinman.

Friggens - Raleigh

Correspondents are F. Friggens, Mrs. George Fulton (invitation), A.C.G., Reginald R. Gates, R. S. Greenwood, Frans Hahn, Davies Hall, H. E. Halliday, H. H. Hasmilton, N. J. Hardwick, Granger Hargreaves, Fran Harrer, Lena Heartz, Christina F. Hicks, C. S. Hodges, George Hope, Margery Horn, Annie Hunton, Sidney W. Hunton, Nell Irvine(?), A. L. Johnson, A. G.(?) Jones, Carrie Killam, Frank Killam, George Killam, I. H. Killam, Lawrence Killam, Lydia Killam, Mabel Killam, Margaret L. Lee, Flo Lovitt, John S. MacArthur, M. G. Clark, John Maclean, "Mary," Sophie Meldrim, Jane B. Monks, E. B. Moore, J. C. Morris, George H. Muir(?), Dora Nichols, G. N. Northbrook, Hamilton Osgood, Grace R. Osler, May Ottley, M. Jennie Parker, M. R. Parkin, Julius H. Parmelee, H. M. Patterson and Harold E. Bigelow, (Acacia Villa School), G. W. Phillips, E.A. Purcell-Edwards, E. M. Purdy, M. R., Louise Raleigh, W. Raleigh.

Includes correspondence from the Killam family (including Mabel), Walter Raleigh at Oxford, and congratulation letters on receiving a Rhodes Scholarship.

Altman - Bell

Correspondents are Nigel P. Altman, G., D. Anderson, Charles Angoff, Theodore W. V. Anthony, R. C. Archibald, E. C. Ashton (Militia Council) Frank Aydelotte (Rhodes Scholarship Trust), F. C. Baird, President Baker (Carnegie Institute of Technology), Merritt Clark Barden, A. W. Barmby, H. J. Barney, Bernard I. Bell.

Broddy - Davis

Correspondents are Nella Broddy (later Henney) (Doubleday; includes critique of early version of Rockbound and royalty statements), Arthur H. Brook, Tucker Brooke, Charles W. Brown, Spaulding Chapin, Arthur Hunt Chute, Robert P. T. Coffin, A. Page Cooper (Doubleday), H. Jermain Creighton, , M. Curie, A. W. Currie, George B. Cutten, and Allan Davis.

Higgins - Kubring

Correspondents are Francis C. Higgins, Bernjamin Hoffman, Ethel S. Howard, Edgar(?) Horne, Gernet Hughes, Edith D. Hull, L. C. Hull (includes some poems by Day), P. L. Jackson, R. C. Jackson, W. S. Johnston, C. C. Jones, John S. Keir, Arthur Kellogg, Annie O. Killam, George Killam, J. H. Killam and family, Minerva King, L. Paul Kubring.

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.

Ray - Tweedie

Correspondents are John V. Ray, Charles Elbert Rhodes, Lawrence Richey, Charles A. Richmond, Thomas Ripon, Rupert M. Rive, Eugene F. Russell, Frank Rybka, Olive Brown Sarry, Otto Schierbeck, Arthur Shepherd, Charles Allen Smart, Aubrey D. Smith, Frank Speck, Ethel Spencer, D.W.B. Spry, R. L. Stearns, H. Stethem, Steward of Christ Church (Oxford), W. Stewart, Beecher Stowe (Doubleday), "Tartan," W. M. Tweedie. Includes a copy of the Constitution and By-Laws of the United Services Institute of Nova Scotia, 1927.

Unknown - Young

Correspondents are Unknown (dated May 20, 1905; May 27, 1922; July 9, 1924), Alan C. Valentine, Henry van Dyke, Herbert T. Wade, Thomas B. Wells, Laura D. Wilck, B. H. Williams, Emily Wilson, H. D. Wilson, Sidney W. Winslow(? Henslow?), B. H. Woodward, F. J. Wylie, Harris Young, Mary H. Young, R. O. Young. Includes poems by Theodore V. W. Anthony with critiques by Day.

Allen - Anthony

Correspondents are C. K. Allen, Dorothy Neisuler Alofsin, Theodore V. W. Anthony.

Ball - Bigelow, Harold

Correspondents are "A.B.," F. O. Baldwin, Florence Crocker Ball, Ernest Allan Barbeau, George E. Barnes, A. C. Barrell, Anne Beattie, Pauline Beekman, Winthrop Pickard Bell, Charles J. Bennett, Harold Bigelow.

Comstock - Estabrooks

Correspondents are L. A. Comstock (Doubleday), Lilliam K. Conaty, Gardner Cornett, Alden W. Cossar, H. Jermain Creighton, D. A. Cunningham, Frederick B. Day, B. L. Delack, H. F. Dewey, Marjorie Dorman, T. Eaton Company, W.L.R. EmmetG. H. Estabrooks. Includes several letters from relatives.

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).

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.

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.

"Rockbound" (as "Ironbound") - Manuscript

  • MS-2-288, Box 20, Folder 2; Box 20, Folder 3; Box 20, Folder 4; Box 20, Folder 5; Box 20, Folder 6; Box 20, Folder 7
  • Item
  • July 30, 1926

    • Part of Frank Parker Day fonds

Interspersed amongst the manuscript are notes and newspaper clippings used in Day's research of Ironbound and vicinity.

"Fog" to "Mount Allison" - Manuscripts and typescripts, some contain notes and phrases on verso

"Fog" "Friday Afternoon" "The Glee Club Ball" "Haste Lovers Haste!" "Hell" "In the Forest" "[notes for In War Time]?" "Indian Legends" "Island Blitz Krieg" "It's Lonely Down Here" "K. H.," notes that include snippets of dialogue and several poems - 1943 "Looking Back" "Lover's Still Sing" "Midnight" - October 30, 1926

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

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