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The Archives of Frank Parker Day: A Guide
Collection Number: MS-2-288
Collection Level Description | ||
| Title: | Frank Parker Day fonds | |
| Dates: | 1899-1957 | |
| Extent: | 3.3 m. of textual records; ca. 100 photographs | |
Biographical Sketch
Frank Parker Day (1881-1950) was a celebrated Nova Scotia author and educationalist. Born May 9, 1881 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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Custodial History
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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Scope and Content
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
Literary Writings / n.d., 1903-1947
Speeches and Essays / n.d., 1914-1915, 1925-1947
Military Career / 1909-ca. 1945
Access Restrictions
All files are open.
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Arrangement
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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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 | |
| 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 | |
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| 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 - 17.13-15 | A - Z - n.d. | |
| Folder - 15.16 | Allison - Fowlees (?) - 1900-1909 | |
| Includes family correspondence and congratulation letters on receiving a Rhodes Scholarship. | ||
| Folder - 15.17 | Friggens - Raleigh - 1900-1909 | |
| 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 congratulation letters on receiving a Rhodes Scholarship. | ||
| Folder - 16.2 | A - Z - 1910-1919 | |
| Correspondents include Mabel and Donald Day. | ||
| Folder - 16.3 | Ashton - Bell - 1920-1929 | |
| Folder - 16.4 | Bigelow - Brady - 1920-1929 | |
| Folder - 16.5 | Broddy - Davis - 1920-1929 | |
| Folder - 16.6 | Day - Gates - 1920-1929 | |
| Folder - 16.7 | Gerlinger - How - 1920-1929 | |
| Includes correspondence from Lee Foster Hartman of Harper and Brothers critiquing stories by Day. | ||
| Folder - 16.8 | Hoffman - Killam - 1920-1929 | |
| Folder - 16.9 | Lamb - Maillard - 1920-1929 | |
| Folder - 16.10 | Marshall - Ralston - 1920-1929 | |
| Folder - 16.11 | Ray - Tweedie - 1920-1929 | |
| Folder - 16.12 | Valentine - Young 1920-1929 | |
| Folder - 16.13 | Allen - Anthony - 1930-1939 | |
| Folder - 16.14 | Armitage - Aydelotte - 1930-1939 | |
| Folder - 16.15 | Balch, Earle - 1930-1939 | |
| Folder - 17.1 | Ball - Bigelow, Harold - 1930-1939 | |
| Includes a brief exchange with Winthrop Pickard Bell. | ||
| Folder - 17.2 | Bigelow, Poultney - 1930-1939 | |
| Folder - 17.3 | Black - Cleveland - 1930-1939 | |
| Includes a letter to Prof. Brandel with whom he studied in Berlin. | ||
| Folder - 17.4 | Comstock - Estabrooks - 1930-1939 | |
| Includes several letters from relatives. | ||
| Folder - 17.5 | Evans - Hill - 1930-1939 | |
| Folder - 17.6 | Jameson - Kirshen - 1930-1939 | |
| Includes extensive correspondence with Killam family members. | ||
| Folder - 17.7 | Kitchen - Merrett - 1930-1939 | |
| Includes correspondence from Archibald MacMechan. | ||
| Folder - 17.8 | Mills - Powers - 1930-1939 | |
| Folder - 17.9 | Rhinelander - Shelby - 1930-1939 | |
| Folder - 117.10 | Shepherd - Trueman - 1930-1939 | |
| Folder - 17.11 | Tullis - Young - 1930-1939 | |
| Includes correspondence with W. M. Tweedie. | ||
| Folder - 17.12 | A - Z - 1940-1950 | |
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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. | ||
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| 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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| Folder - 1.3 | "Old Alumnus" to "Soldiers" - Notebook, manuscripts and typescripts - n.d., 1920, 1926 | |
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| Folder - 1.4 | "Soul of the Sweet Dear Child" to "[When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes]" - Manuscripts and typescripts - n.d. | |
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| 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. | |
| 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 | |
| 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. | |
| 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 | |
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| 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 - c.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 - c.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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