The Archives of Frank Parker Day: A Guide
Collection Number: MS-2-288Collection processed and finding aid created by Jocelyn Harnois, April 2004
Finding aid expanded and electronic version prepared by Kathryn Harvey, November 2004
Collection Level Description
Title: Frank Parker Day fonds
Dates: 1899-1957
Extent: 3.3 m. of textual records; ca. 100 photographs
Frank Parker Day (1881-1950) was a celebrated Nova Scotia author and educationalist. Born May 9, 1881 to George Frederick and Keziah Day at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, Day had a distinguished academic career which saw him earn degrees from both Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB (1903) and Oxford University (1907, 1909), where he had gone as a Rhodes Scholar in 1905. Upon completion of his first degree from Oxford and successful seasons on the rowing team, Day decided to spend the next two semesters at the University of Berlin where he worked as an assistant to Prof. Brandel and studied Beowulf. Returning to England in 1908, he taught at the University of Bristol, took classes at Oxford, and engaged (as he had during his undergraduate years) in athletics. This time he distinguished himself in academically by taking a Master of Arts degree and in boxing by winning the Oxford heavy weight championship and later the combined Oxford and Cambridge championship.
In 1909 Day returned to Canada to assume a professorship in the English Department at the University of New Brunswick. On January 1, 1910 he married the artist Mabel Killam of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia whose work has been exhibited at the Philadelphia Academy, Chicago Art Institute, and elsewhere. They moved to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania in 1912 so he could take the position of Head of the English Department at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Day and his wife remained in the the United States until the outbreak of World War I at which time they returned to Canada so Day could enlist in the Canadian Forces. He served first with the 85th Canadian Infantry Battalion and later helped recruit and commanded the 185th Cape Breton Highlanders. He was promoted to Lt.-Col. on the field at the battle of Amiens. During the war, he and his wife had their first and only child whom they named Donald Frank. As Day notes in an autobiographical sketch: "The war time babies of officers in our regiment were all named Donald because our regimental song was 'Donald from Bras d'Or'" (Box 3, Folder 5).
Day returned to the Carnegie Institute of Technology as Director of Academic Studies and Dean of Freshmen after the war and remained there until 1926. After his first novel was accepted for publication, he decided to leave but was persuaded by a former fellow Rhodes Scholar at Swarthmore College to take up a position in their English Department. He left in 1928 when he was appointed President of Union College. His term as president was brought to a premature halt when ill-health compelled him to resign in 1933. He spent his remaining years at Lake Annis and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
Throughout his life, Day had a passion for writing. He produced a plethora of poetry, plays, short stories, and novels. Many of these, in handwritten or typed format, are represented in this collection. He was also a much sought-after speaker and several of his addresses, particularly during his time as President of Union College, are found in his collection.
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The Frank Parker Day fonds never left the hands of the Day family. It was donated to the Dalhousie University Archives in 1976 by Donald Day.
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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.
Personal Materials / n.d., 1900-1950
Correspondence / 1900-1950
Literary Writings / n.d., 1903-1947
Speeches and Essays / n.d., 1914-1915, 1925-1947
Photographs / 1899-1957
Military Career / 1909-ca. 1945
In the case of most series, the order is chronological. However, in the case of Day's manuscripts, most of which are undated, all materials relating to each individual work are filed together and the entire body is in complete alphabetical order by title. Correspondence, speeches and essays, personal documents, and photographs are arranged chronologically by date range.
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[Identification of item], Frank Parker Day fonds, MS-2-288, Box [box number], Folder [folder number], Dalhousie University Archives and Special Collections, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Combined Series and File Level Descriptions
Date:n.d., 1900-1950
Extent: 38 cm of textual records
Scope and Content:
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.
Arrangement:
Materials are arranged chronologically under each heading with undated materials appearing first.
File Level Descriptions
Academic Materials
n.d., 1901-1950
Folder - 15.8
Mount Allison record of activities, clippings,
1901-1905, 1930
Folder - 15.11-12
Mount Allison and Oxford universities - invitations, notices, programs
1901-1920
Folder - 15.10
Rhodes Scholars - newspaper clippings regarding Day's activities at Oxford
1905-[1909?]
Folder - 15.9
Rhodes Scholars - invitations to reunions, programs of events, selection committee instructions
1905-1932
Folder - 15.13
Oxford University and Swarthmore College - exam papers, clippings
ca. 1905-1909, 1927
Folder - 15.14-15
Union College - inauguration-related materials and clippings
1928-1950
Box 15, Folder 15 contains the inauguration program and invitation.
Family Materials and Memorabilia
n.d., ca. 1900-1944
Folder - 15.3
Calling cards
n.d.
Folder - 15.1
Notes on novels for Donald Day
n.d.
Topics include Samuel Richardson and Samuel Butler.
Folder - 14.8
Sketches and a watercolour by Mabel K. Day
n.d., 1900
See also Box 16, Folder 9 for Mabel Day's sketch of the insignia for the 185th Cape Breton Highlanders.
Folder - 15.2
Miscellaneous notices, reports, and certificates
ca. 1904-1944
Folder - 22.13
War Medals and Ribbons
ca. 1919
Folder - 15.7
Eulogy and obituary for Frank Parker Day
1950
Legal and Financial Records
1904-1931
Folder - 14.3
Income tax returns and receipts
1904-1925
Folder - 14.5
Insurance policies and stock certificates
1917-1928
Folder - 14.4
Receipts, bank statements, declaration of intent to become an American citizen
1918-1929
Folder - 14.2
Publishing contracts
1925-1931
Notes and Literary Works by Other Authors
Folder - 22.14
Booklists and pamphlets
n.d.
Folder - 22.18
Chanties by various authors
n.d.
Folder - 22.9
Indian legend written in Mi'kmaq
n.d.
Folder - 22.20
Poem in German / author unknown
n.d.
Folder - 22.6
Poems by various authors for possible publication in the Halifax Chronicle
n.d.
Typescripts of poems by John Masefield, Jessie Pope, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Sir Henry Newbolt, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Browning, John McCrae, and Rupert Brooke
Folder - 22.8
Six poems / by P. K. Page
n.d.
Folder - 22.22
"Afloat" / by Grace H. Boutelle
n.d.
Folder - 22.17
"The Death of Shelley" / author unknown
n.d.
Folder - 22.7
"High Flight" / by John Magee
n.d.
Folder - 22.10
Frau Elses Verheissung
/ by Kurt Hahn
1910
Autographed by the author for Day and his wife.
Folder - 22.15
"Brookfield" / by William E. Marshall
1914
Includes both the poem, which is dedicated to Robert E. MacLeod, and an explanation of the poem's origin.
Folder - 22.21
"St. George's Day, Ypres, 1915" / by Henry Newbolt
after 1915
Folder - 22.11
Prose notes and quotations from various authors
ca. 1920s
Includes both literary and military notes.
Folder - 22.19
"For Students in a School of Art" by Haniel Long
1920
Folder - 22.23
"Night and Day" / by Carleton F. Bowes
1923
Clipping from the Dalhousie Review, January 1923.
Folder - 22.16
"Looking Forward"
1926
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."
Scrapbooks and Notebooks
1905-1907, ca. 1920
Folder - 14.7
Scrapbooks on microfilm
1905-1907
- Volume 1 - 1905 - Mount Allison
- Volume 2 - 1905 - Mount Allison
- Volume 3 - 1905 - Oxford
- Volume 4 - 1906-1907 - Oxford
Folder - 14.6
Daybook
ca. 1920
Contains notes on a variety of subjects including Shakespeare, Edith Cavell, United States immigration policy, ms of "The Golden Maple Leaf."
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Date:1900-1950
Extent: 45 cm of textual records
Scope and Content:
This series contains all correspondence found in the fonds. Due to the broad scope of Day’s correspondence and the sometimes blurry lines that exist between his personal versus business letters, the series is not ordered by subject. Rather, correspondence is ordered chronologically by decade and alphabetically within the decade.
A detailed list of correspondents' names and exact dates of the letters is available in the Archives.
File Level Descriptions
Folders - 17.13
A - Z
n.d., ca. 1905-1907
Correspondents are T. G. Cochrane, "Daisy," Robert G. Dawes, Dorothy Pudsey Dawson, Nellie Day, Belle (Beth?) Liddon, Alice MacLean, Herbert Nord(? Nona?), "Rails" or "Railens," Edward Sedding, Gilbert S. Stairs, Ethel de Selincourt (ca. 1905), Unknown (Oxford, ca. 1905), T. H. Wade, Gretchen Warren (ca. 1907), Norah Webster, R. C. Willard, Laura Wood, F. J. Wylie.
Folders - 17.14
A - Z
n.d.
Correspondents are George T. McKay, Religious Society of Friends, R. S. Wallace, Christmas cards to and from various individuals, including a card from Day with Cape Breton Highlanders' coat of arms.
Folders - 17.15
A - Z
n.d.
Correspondents are P.M.L., Margaret M. Jennings, Harold J. Hinman.
Folder - 15.16
Allison - Foulees(?)
1900-1909
Correspondents are David Allison, "Annie," W. Stanley Armour, Norman Avard, Philip M. Bartlett, George Robie Beals and Frand L. Lewis (Acacia Villa School), Gladys Bee[??], K. J. Bickersletter, J. L. Black and Sons office, Rose Booth, G. E. Brown, R. A. Bowlby, Egerton Brecken, Harry Burgess, Canadian Pacific Railway, Ethel Bradley Carvell(? Carwell?), W. Cash, C. G. Chapman, Josephine Clark, W. G. Clarke, M. B. Cleve, F. L. Cliff, T. G. Cochrane, Ethel M. Collins, Gustavus A. Colpitts, John A. Cooper (Canadian Magazine), Cicely Dean Corbett, E. A. Craig, S. Cunard and Co., Fred Day, George F. Day (F. P. Day's father), Nellie Day, Grace C. Dewstadt, Charles H. Dunn (invitation), J. Dunn, Norman Eckersky, Margaret Egerton, Ralph R. Enfield, V.B.F., Ina Few, "Ford," E. N.(?) Foulees(?). Includes family correspondence and congratulation letters on receiving a Rhodes Scholarship.
Folder - 15.17
Friggens - Raleigh
1900-1909
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.
Folder - 16.1
Richard - Wylie
1900-1909
Includes Dya's letter of application for a Rhodes Scholarship and congratulation letters on 0receiving the award. Correspondents are Charles Richard, G. W. Rockwell, [Sep?] S. Rogers, S. Schofield, D. S., Alfred D. Smith, Grace Dykes Spicer, Charles Stewart, Thomas B. Strong, H. Sutton, "Teddy," Jeanette Thomas, W. M. Tweedie [?], Fiske Warren, Lina(?) Weaterspoon, Mr. and W. H. Wells, C. W. Wheeler-Bennett, H. Wenman White, Kingsley Williams, Bill Wood, Senator and Mrs. Wood (invitation), George R. Wright, F. J. Wylie, Kathleen Wylie.
Folder - 16.2
A - Z
1910-1919
Correspondents are Charles Armquist, Yves and Yvonne Chuillies, Donald Day (to his father), Frank Day (to Mabel), Mabel Day (to Frank), "Doug," Hattie Fraser (Canadian Red Cross), Charles A. Hamilton, A. A. Hammerschlag, E. M. Johnstone, Cecil Markham, "Martha" (to "Gustav"), F. B. McCurdy, Betty Munro (to Mabel Day), Margaret Osgood, Hugh Rees, and two letters with illegible signatures.
Folder - 16.3
Altman - Bell
1920-1929
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.
Folder - 16.4
Bigelow - Brady
1920-1929
Correspondents are Poultney Bigelow, E. Gordon Bill, B. C. Borden (see also Box 16, Folder 7), J. E. Brady.
Folder - 16.5
Broddy - Davis
1920-1929
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.
Folder - 16.6
Day - Gates
1920-1929
Correspondents are Frank Parker Day (his nephew of the same name), Mabel Day (with note by S. D. Killam), S. E. Eliot, John Erskine, Frank D. Fackenthal, Ruby Fainbridge, E. J. Ford, W. B. Frank, W. M. Marten, R. Gates.
Folder - 16.7
Gerlinger - How
1920-1929
Correspondents are G. T. Gerlinger, A. E. Gladstone, Harold Goddard, Charles Gott, C. N. Greenough [?], Farnham Griffiths, Frans Hahn, Robert Hale, William G. Hale, Arthur Hamerschlag, Charles Hard, Lee Foster Hartman (Harper's), Lewis M. How. Includes correspondence from Lee Foster Hartman of Harper and Brothers critiquing stories by Day and letters from various people to G. T. Gerlinger and William G. Hale regarding the consideration of Frank Parker Day for Presidency of the University of Oregon.
Folder - 16.8
Higgins - Kubring
1920-1929
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.
Folder - 16.9
Lamb - McPherson
1920-1929
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.
Folder - 16.10
Manley - Ralston
1920-1929
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.
Folder - 16.11
Ray - Tweedie
1920-1929
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.
Folder - 16.12
Unknown - Young
1920-1929
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.
Folder - 16.13
Allen - Anthony
1930-1939
Correspondents are C. K. Allen, Dorothy Neisuler Alofsin, Theodore V. W. Anthony.
Folder - 16.14
Armitage - Aydelotte
1930-1939
Correspondents are Frank Guy Armitage, Mary Ellen Armstrong, C. C. Avard, Frank Aydelotte.
Folder - 16.15
Balch, Earle
1930-1939
Folder - 17.1
Ball - Bigelow, Harold
1930-1939
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.
Folder - 17.2
Bigelow, Poultney
1930-1939
Folder - 17.3
Black - Cleveland
1930-1939
Correspondents are Harold Garnet Black, Brand Blanshard, Fred Boyd, Floyd Braillar, A. Brande, Mrs. Edward H. Branson, H.F.B Brett-Smith, Canadian Pacific Offices, J. Ernest Cann, Lynn Carrick, W. Cash, F. R. Champion (Emergency Relief Finance Committee), Edward Potts Cheyney, Edmund J. Cleveland. Includes a letter to Prof. Brandel with whom he studied in Berlin.
Folder - 17.4
Comstock - Estabrooks
1930-1939
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.
Folder - 17.5
Evans - Hill
1930-1939
Correspondents are A. J. Evans, John E. Finley, Clyde Fisher, Thomas K. Fisher, James Foote, Maud A. Foote Ebb J. Ford, Jack Fraser, William E. Fowler, Robert Ferguson Galbreath, W. S. Godfrey, Charles Gott, J. S. Green, Alfred H. Gurney, Kurt Hahn, N.(?) Hale, R. B. Hanson, J. M. Harlan, C. M. Harnies, Franklin W. Heath, John F. Horman, N. F. Howe-Brown, Lawrence C. Hull.
Folder - 17.6
Jameson - Kirshen
1930-1939
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).
Folder - 17.7
Kitchen - Merrett
1930-1939
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).
Folder - 17.8
Mills - Powers
1930-1939
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.
Folder - 17.9
Rhinelander - Shelby
1930-1939
Correspondents are Philip M. Rhinelander, Pete L. Richards, M. Roy Ridley, William J. Rose, Franklin F. Russell (Association of American Rhodes Scholars), Edith Samson, A. G. Sanders (Rhodes, Committee of Selection), Herman Schneider, Max Schoon, Frederick Sexton, Mrs. David Hart Shelby.
Folder - 17.10
Shepherd - Trueman
1930-1939
Correspondents are Arthur Shepherd, Avery W. Skinner, Ira M. Smith, Mary V. Smith, Robert H. Smith, C. R. Spencer, Robert Ernest Spiller, Gordon H. Stedman, Morton Collins Stewart, W. Stewart (Bank of Montreal), Simon A. Steeves, E. Laura Suttis, F. G. Taylor, Frank L. Tolman (New York Library Association), B. Tomlinson, George J. Trueman (President, Mount Allison University).
Folder - 17.11
Tullis - Young
1930-1939
Correspondents are John L. Tullis, W. M. Tweedie, US Department of Labour/Immigration Service, Paul F. Vaka, Alan Valentine, Robert F. Wagner, Raymond Walters, Milton B. Warner, Mark S. Watson, Mrs. M. Penelope Webb, M. F. Westover, H. J. White, Louis H. Williams, Ralph E. Winger, W. T. Wood, Joseph W. Worthen, F. J. Wylie, R. D. Young (Curtis Publishing).
Folder - 17.12
A - Z
1940-1950
Correspondents are Ann Bridge, C. F. Fraser, Roy Fraser (to Mabel Day), Ella Guillemard (to Mabel Day), Bob L. Hartsell, Ralph MacDougall, McClelland and Stewart, Edmund L. Morris, Lawrence H. Reed, Ellen Thibaudeau..
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Date:n.d., 1903-1947
Extent: 2.1 m of textual records
Scope and Content:
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.
Arrangement:
Most of the material in this series is undated and, thus, arranged alphabetically.
File Level Descriptions
Biographical and Autobiographical Writings
n.d.
Folder - 3.5
Autobiographical and biographical notes - Manuscripts and typescripts
n.d.
Folders - 2.2-2.3
"Apology of an Egoist" - Autobiographical prose - 8 notebooks and typescript
n.d.
Folder - 4.4
"Dancing and Light Wines" (also called "The Women of France") - Manuscripts
n.d.
Novels - Published and Unpublished
n.d., 1926-1932
Folders - 15.5-6
Book reviews
1927-1929
Reviews of Rockbound, River of Strangers, and Autobiography of a Fisherman.
Folders - 2.4-3.2
"Autobiography of a Fisherman" - Manuscript and typescript
n.d.
Published by Doubleday (New York) in 1927.
Folder - 3.4
"Backwoodsman and Soldier" - Manuscript (unpublished)
n.d.
Folders - 3.8-4.3, 20.1
"Convalescence" - Manuscript (unpublished)
n.d.
Folders - 6.2-6.9
"John Paul's Rock" - Manuscripts and typescripts
n.d.
Folder 6.2 contains notes, the others contain manuscript and typscript drafts of the work.
Folders - 6.3-7.6
"Love's Not Time's Fool" - Manuscript and typescripts (unpublished)
n.d.
Folders - 8.2-8.10
"River of Strangers" - Manuscript, notes, and typescript
n.d.
The manuscript spans folders 8.2 to 8.5, the typescript 8.6 to 8.10.
Folders - 8.11-8.13
"Rockbound" (as "The Islanders") - 302 pp. - Manuscript
n.d.
Folders - 9.1-9.2
"Rockbound" (as "The Islanders") - 222 pp. - Typescript
n.d.
Folders - 9.3-9.5
"Rockbound" (as "The Devil's in the Sea") - Typescript
n.d.
Folders - 9.10-9.11
"Rockbound" (as "His World - The Islanders") - 192 pp. - Typescript
n.d.
Folder - 20.2-20.7
"Rockbound" (as "Ironbound") - Manuscript
July 30, 1926
Interspersed amongst the manuscript are notes and newspaper clippings used in Day's research of Ironbound and vicinity.
Folder - 9.8
"Rockbound" (as "Ironbound") - Typescript
July 30, 1926
Folder - 15.4
"Rockbound" and "River of Strangers" book jackets, order forms, and announcement lists
ca. 1927
Folder - 9.6
"Rockbound" Chapters 6 and 7 - Manuscript
1932
Folder - 9.7
"Rockbound" Chapters 9, 12 (fragment), and 14 - Manuscript
1932
Folder - 9.9
"Rockbound" - Manuscript and typescript
n.d.
Manuscript pages 85 to 91 and a typescript fragment. The folder also contains an article by Alan Bevan published by
The Dalhousie Review
in 1958 entitled "Rockbound Revisited: A Reappraisal of Frank Parker Day's Novel."
Folder - 10.1-10.2
"Rosalie" - Manuscript/revisions in notebooks (unpublished)
n.d.
Folder - 10.3-10.6
"Rosalie" (as "What Happened to Rosalie") - Typescript (unpublished)
n.d.
Folder - 10.7-10.10
"Rosalie" - Typescript (unpublished)
n.d.
Folder - 10.11-10.12
"Rosalie" - Typescript fragment (unpublished)
n.d.
Pages 121 to 246.
Folder - 11.2-11.6
"Trains, Men, Women, Rivers" ("What the Rivers Heard") - Typescript (unpublished)
n.d.
Folder - 11.7-11.11
"Trains, Men, Women, Rivers" ("What the Rivers Heard") - Typescript (unpublished)
n.d.
Folder - 11.12
"Trains and River" version of Chapter 10 - Typescript (unpublished)
See also the unpublished novel "Trains, Men, Women, Rivers" in folders 11.2 to 11.11.
Folder - 11.13
"Victory Garden" - Typescript with preface (unpublished)
n.d.
Folder - 11.14
"Victory Garden" - Typescript without preface (unpublished)
n.d.
Folder - 12.1
"What the Plumber Said" - Manuscript and typescripts
n.d.
Folder - 12.1
"While the Barber Worked" - Typescript
n.d.
Folder - 12.1
"A Worthwhile Catch" - Manuscript
n.d.
Folder - 12.1
"Yarns in a Mosse Camp" - Manuscript
n.d.
Plays
n.d.
Folder - 3.7
"The Flood"? - Miscellaneous notes and sketch - Manuscript (3 pp.)
n.d.
Folder - 1.8
"For Posterity" - Manuscript
n.d.
Folder - 1.8
"The Giraffe" - Manuscript
n.d.
Folder - 1.9
"The Hour Before Dawn" - Manuscript
n.d.
Folder - 1.10
"A King in His Underclothes" (2 copies) - Typescript
n.d.
Folder - 1.10
"The Roses of Mercatel" (2 drafts) - Typescript
n.d.
Folder - 1.10
"Sigismund" - Manuscript
n.d.
Poetry
n.d., 1903-1943
Folder - 1.1
"Adam" to "Expectancy" - Manuscripts and typescripts
n.d., 1903, 1926
- "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"
Folder - 7.9
"Africa" and other poems - Manuscripts in notebook
n.d., 1903, 1926
The notebook also contains the story "Mary Prout," and various other notes and jottings, including "Notes for a lecture on 'Les Miserables.'"
Folder - 1.2
"Fog" to "Mount Allison" - Manuscripts and typescripts, some contain notes and phrases on verso
n.d., 1926, 1943
- "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
Folder - 1.3
"Old Alumnus" to "Soldiers" - Notebook, manuscripts and typescripts
n.d., 1920, 1926
- "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"
Folder - 1.4
"Soul of the Sweet Dear Child" to "[When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes]" - Manuscripts and typescripts
n.d.
- "Soul of the Sweet Dear Child"
- "Spring is Coming"
- "Surf"
- "Through the Long Years"
- "To Lovers"
- "A Toast to Mount Allison"
- "War in Ulster"
- "The Wave"
- "West Wind Dear Wind"
- "[When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes]"
Folder - 1.5
Miscellanous notes, manuscript poems, and clippings
n.d.
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"
Folder - 1.6
Notebook containing poems and fragments, sketches in pencil and pen.
n.d.
Folder - 1.7
Notebooks - "Day Book, Sackville, Jan Feb Mar 1935," Untitled (containing "Tweedie - 50 years of Teaching"), "Day Book, March 1935, Sackville"
January to May 1935
"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
Stories
1927
Folder - 2.1
"An Answer to a Prayer" (fragment) - Typescript
n.d.
Folder - 2.1
"The Apache's Knife" - Typescript
n.d.
Folder - 3.3
"The Ardmore of Belfast" - Manuscripts and typescripts
ca. 1931
Folder - 3.3
"The Backslider" (2 copies) - Typescript
ca. 1931
Folder - 3.3
"The Black Suit" (2 copies) - Manuscript and typescript
ca. 1931
Folder - 3.6
"A Bottle of Brilliantine" - Manuscript and typescript
n.d.
Folder - 3.7
"Carnegie Steel, Duquesne" - Manuscript
ca. 1921
Folder - 3.7
"C. E. Bowes. An Adroit Introduction to a Loan" - Manuscript
n.d.
Folder - 3.7
"Christmas" - Manuscript
n.d.
Folder - 3.7
"The Convert" - Manuscript
n.d.
Folder - 3.7
"A Curled and Oiled Assyrian Bull" - Typescript
n.d.
Folders - 4.5-4.6
"An Epic of Marble Mountain" - Typescripts and published version
1923
Folder 4.5 contains three typescript copies and an outline; folder 4.6 contains the story as published in
Harper's
, September 1923.
Folder - 4.7
"Father Maillard: Obedience: A Son of the Church" - Manuscript
n.d.
Folder - 4.7
"The Footless Nigger" - Typescript
n.d.
Folder - 4.7
Four Women : "Iphigenia," "Joan of Arc," "Edith Cavell," "Florence Nightingale" - Typescript
n.d.
Folder - 4.7
"The Ghost Catcher" - Typescript
n.d.
Folder - 4.7
"Her Nose" - Typescripts
n.d.
Folder - 4.8
"Home Again" - Typescript
n.d.
Folder - 5.5
"Honest John" - Manuscript fragment
n.d.
Folder - 5.5
"Horsey" - Typescripts
n.d.
Folder - 5.5
"Hot Water" - Manuscript fragment in notebook and typescript
n.d.
Folder - 5.5
"I'll Stay in mY Room" - Typescript
n.d.
The numbering on the bottom right of these pages suggests incorporation into a longer work.
Folder - 4.9
"In the Dark" - Manuscript
n.d.
Folder - 4.9
"Inauguration" - Manuscripts and typescripts
n.d.
Folder - 4.9
"An Inside Lower" - Manuscript in notebook
n.d.
Folder - 4.9
"Intelligence" - Typescript
n.d.
Folder - 4.10
"Ironbound" - Typescripts
n.d.
Folders - 4.11-5.1
"The Iroquois" - Typescripts and published version
1925
Published in
Forum
in December 1925.
Folder - 5.9
"An Island Lover: The Ball Breaks" - Manuscript
n.d.
Folder - 5.2
"Janet Cameron" - Manuscript in notebook and typescripts
n.d.
Folder - 5.2
"Jim Charles' Rock" - Typescript
n.d.
Folder - 5.10
"John Thomas of Turkey Foot" - Manuscript
n.d.
Folder - 5.10
"Just Walking" - Manuscript
n.d.
Folder - 5.10
"Katie Among the Esquimaux" - Manuscript in notebook
n.d.
Folder - 5.11
"Kerensky Dangerous Bandit" - Manuscript
n.d.
Folder - 5.11
"Lady of Shallot" - Manuscript in notebook
n.d.
The notebook also contains notes on 19th century novelists including Carlyle, Richardson, Dickens, Scott, and others.
Folder - 6.1
"A Laughing God" - Manuscript in notebook and typescript
n.d.
Folder - 6.2
"The Letter" - Manuscript and typescript
n.d.
Folders - 7.7-7.8
"McIntosh" - Manuscript and typescripts
n.d.
The first folder contains a manuscript and typescript of the first rough draft; the other folder contains subsequent drafts.
Folder - 7.9
"Mary Prout" - Manuscript in notebook
n.d.
Folder - 7.9
"Matthew's Visit" - Manuscript
n.d.
Folder - 7.10-7.11
"Midnight in the Jungle" (also called "The Nomads") - Manuscript in notebook and typescript
n.d.
Folder - 7.11
"One of Many" - Typescripts
n.d.
Folder - 7.12
"P'tit Pierre" Typescript
n.d.
Folder - 7.13
"The Poet and the Nightingale" - Manuscript
n.d.
Folder - 7.13
"Prison Camp" - Manuscript in notebook
n.d.
Folder - 7.13
"Rehabilitation" - Typescripts
n.d.
Folder - 8.1
"River of the Strangers" - Typescript
n.d.
Folder - 11.1
"Salvage" - Typescripts
n.d.
Folder - 11.1
"Something for Nothing" - Manuscript fragment
n.d.
Folder - 11.1
"The Town Cow" - Typescript
n.d.
Folder -
"Three [Four] Friends Go a Fishing" - Manuscript
n.d.
Folder - 11.12
"The Trench Cat" - Typescript
n.d.
Folder - 11.12
Untitled Story beginning "The May sun was hot but the north wind chilly" - Typescript
n.d.
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Date:n.d., 1914-1915, 1925-1947
Extent: 37.5 cm of textual records
Scope and Content:
This series contains a variety of speeches and essays, ordered completely chronologically, that Day gave during his career. Many of these are related to his academic career, particularly on literary subjects and war. Many were given during his time as President of Union College when he was a much sought-after speaker.
Arrangement:
Undated items appear first by title in alphabetical order; dated items appear chronologically.
File Level Descriptions
Folder - 20.8
"A Brief from Nova Scotia"
n.d.
Folder - 4.4
"David Allison: An Appreciation" - Manuscript essay
n.d.
Folder - 7.10
"Don Quixote" - Manuscript notes in notebook
n.d.
Folder - 4.7
"Honeymoon" - Manuscript essay, illustrated by Mabel Day
n.d.
Folder - 22.12
"On the Teaching of Literature"
n.d.
Folder - 4.4
Several short essays including "David Windsor," "Alders," "Snow in the Woods," and "Green Fields" - Manuscripts in notebook and typescripts
n.d.
Folder - 12.2
1914-1915
Subjects include drama, Russuan novelists, and modern fiction.
Folder - 12.3
1925
Subjects include education and military subjects.
Folder - 12.4
1927-1929
Subjects include literary subjects, fishing, and "war and peace."
Folders - 12.5-12.7
1929
Subjects include education, academic biographical citations for faculty meetings and convocations, literature, religion, and the Red Cross.
Box 12, folder 6 contains Day's inaugural adress as President of Union College.
Folder - 12.8
1929-1930
Subjects include Shakespeare and education. Included in the folder are the published proceedings of the National Collegiate Athletic Association meeting of January 1, 1930.
Folders - 12.9-12.10
1930
Subjects include religion, education, science and literature. Box 12, folder 10 includes speeches given in his role as President of Union College.
Folders - 12.11-13.1
1931
Subjects include education, reflections on life, literature, religion, and athletics. Some are speeches given in his role as President of Union College.
Folder - 13.2-13.4
1932-1933
Subjects include education, citizenship, and reflections on life. Some are speeches given in his role as President of Union College. One speech in box 13, folder 2 is written in Spanish.
Folder - 13.5
1933
Daily diary, mostly empty but with some notes toward a speech on war and nationalism.
Folder - 13.6
1934
Notebook containing jottings and speech/essay drafts on the subjects of education, personal history, and Mount Allison.
Folder - 13.7
1934-1936
Subjects include the military and education.
Folder - 13.8
1938-1939
Subjects include
Don Quixote
and
Les Miserables
.
Folder - 13.9
May 1939
Speech on
The Tempest
.
Folder - 13.10
1939-1940
Subjects include military, education, citizenship, and Mount Allison.
Folder - 13.11-13.12
1947
Manuscript and published edition of "The Good Citizen."
Folder - 13.13-14.1
n.d.
Subjects include human and animal nature, literature by Robert Herrick and John Masefield, the English language, and politics.
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Date:1899-1957
Extent: 11 folders of photographs, includes 3 small photograph albums
Scope and Content:
The photograph collection spans the greater portion of Day's life. Pictures depicting his time in university, his time served during World War One, and his time as President of Union College can all be found in this series. In addition, many photographs of the Day family and their friends are held within this series.
Arrangement:
The photographs are arranged chronologically.
File Level Descriptions
Folder - 18.1
Frank Parker Day, family, and friends
1899-1905
Many of the photographs are of Mabel Killam; some photos are of Day (including in athletic uniform) and his parents and of Mount Allison and Oxford Universities.
Folder - 19.1
Oxford University rowing team
1906
Folder - 19.2
Oxford University rowing team
1907
Folder - 18.2
Frank Parker Day, Rhodes Scholars, 185th Cape Breton Highlanders
1906-1915
Folder - 18.3
Canadian Khaki College Executive Faculty, 5th Canadian Division
ca. 1915
Folder - 18.4
185th Cape Breton Highlanders
Spring-Summer 1916
Although most photographs in these two albums (Spring 1916 and Summer 1916) are of military scenes, some include Mabel Day and the couple's dogs.
Folder - 18.5
185th Cape Breton Highlanders
1916
Most photographs in this album are of military scenes; one shows the wives of men in the 185th at Aldershot.
Folder - 18.6
Family and military photographs
ca. 1916-1926
Folder - 18.7
Frank Parker Day portraits
1926-1929
Included are images of Day's inauguration as President of Union College.
Folder - 18.8
Union College, Frank, Mabel, and Donald Day
1929-1931
Folder - 18.9
Frank, Mabel, and Donald Day; Sir Francis and Lady Wylie
1932-1957
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Date:1909-ca. 1945
Extent: 25 cm. of textual records
Scope and Content:
This series contains materials relating to Day's military career. Included are course materials, military manuals, medals, and sketches about Maritime defence.
Arrangement:
Files are arranged alphabetically; items within the files are arranged chronologically.
File Level Descriptions
Certificates
Folder - 20.9
Certificate of Military Instruction (Royal School of Cavalry)
1911
Courses for Service Men
Folder - 20.10
Practical English for Soldiers - Typescript
[ca. 1914-1918]
This manual was possibly written by Day.
Folder - 20.11
Elementary English for Soldiers - Typescript
[ca. 1914-1918]
This manual was possibly written by Day.
Published Service Manuals
Folder - 21.15
Field Service Regulations, Pt. 1, Operations
c1909, reprinted with amendments 1914
Folder - 21.1
Musketry Regulations, Part II
c1910, reprinted 1914
Folder - 21.3
Songs of the 85 Overseas Battalion: Canadian Expitionary Forces, Nova Scotia Highlanders
[ca. 1914-1918]
Folder - 21.9
Army Signal Book
[ca. 1914?-1918?]
Folder - 21.14
Field Service Pocketbook
c1914, reprinted with amendments 1916
Folder - 22.1
Infantry Training: 4-Company Organization
1914
Folder - 21.8
First Aid to the Injured
1915
Folder - 22.2
Instructions for the Training of Platoons (1917) for Offensive Action and Instructions for the Training of Divisions for Offensive Action (1916)
1916, 1917
Folder - 21.2
Notes for Infantry Officers on Trench Warfare
1916
Folder - 22.3
Field Almanac
1917
Folder - 21.12
Notes on Tactical Schemes
1917
Folder - 21.11
Scouting and Patrolling
1917
Folder - 22.4
Hints on Training
1918
Folder - 21.13
Tactical Employment of Lewis Guns
1918
Folder - 21.10
Training and Employment of Platoons and Training and Employment of Divisions
1918
Folder - 22.5
The Eighty-Fifth Canadian Infantry Battalion, Nova Scotia Highlanders in France and Flanders / by Lt. Col. Joseph Hayes
1920
Folder - 21.7
Plans of Retreat and Defence of the Maritimes
ca. 1939-1945
Four hand-drawn maps.
Folder - 21.4
Vocational Agriculture: Soils and Field Crops: A Soils (Taxt-Booklet No. 1)
1941
Folders - 21.5-21.6
Practical English for the Army
1943
Includes textbooklets numbered 1, 2, and 3.
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