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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

"Adam" to "Expectancy" - Manuscripts and typescripts

"Adam" / "Paul" (on same set of sheets as "Adam") "[Along the Banks]" "Arsenault, Boudreau, etc." - 1903 "A Ballad of the Ring" - including early versions ("The Young Pug" and "The Fight") and notes "Brooks and Rivers" "The Canadian in Oxford" "The Children's Crusade" "The Coquette" - Nov 1, 1926 "Donald from Bras d'Or" "A Dream" "The Dream Song" "Evening" "Expectancy"

"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

"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"

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

Essays and writings

File contains speeches and essays on a variety of subjects, including drama, Russian novelists, and modern fiction.

Speeches on education and the military

File includes three typescript speeches on education and military. Materials include a speech titled "What Education is of Most Worth," a speech titled "The Will to Learn" (assembly address delivered in Portland, Oregon in October 1925) and a speech titled "Recruiting Canadian Highlanders," delivered to the St. Andrew's Society in Philadelphia on November 30, 1925.

Speeches on literature, fishing, and other subjects

File contains speeches on a variety of subjects, including literature, fishing, and "war and peace." File includes speeches delivered to students at the Irving School and Brown University. File also includes a copy of the Angler's Club Bulletin (Volume 7, Number 1), which includes an address given by Frank Parker Day to the 22nd annual dinner at the university club on January 17, 1928. File also includes a copy of School and Society (Volume 26), which contains an article by Lotus D. Coffman that reference Frank Parker Day.

Speeches on Shakespeare, education, and other topics

File contains speeches and essays on a variety of subjects, including Shakespeare and education. Included in the folder are the published proceedings of the 24th Annual Convention of the National Collegiate Athletic Association held in New York City on January 1, 1930.

Speeches on education, literature, religion, and other topics

File includes speeches and essays on a variety of subjects, including education, literature, religion, academic biographical citations, and the Red Cross. Speeches were primarily delivered at faculty meetings and convocations. File also includes Frank Parker Day's inaugural address as President of Union College and radio talks on education given as president.

Undated essays and writings

Subjects include human and animal nature, literature by Robert Herrick and John Masefield, the English language, and politics.

Speeches on the military and education

File includes speeches on the military and education. Many of the speeches were given to students of Union College. File also includes a notebook and an Armistice Day speech titled "A Country Boy" given to Maritime officers in Saint John, New Brunswick on November 10, 1934.

Speeches on education, citizenship, and reflections on life

File contains speeches and essays on a variety of subjects, including education, citizenship, and reflections on life. Some speeches were given in Day's role as President of Union College. One speech in MS-2-288, Box 13, Folder 2 is written in Spanish.
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