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Clarence Day papers, (bulk 1890-1953).

Title
Clarence Day papers, 1796-1993 (bulk 1890-1953).
Author
Day, Clarence, 1874-1935.
Supplementary Content
Finding Aid

Details

Additional Authors
  • Boylston, Hele Dore, 1895-
  • Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961.
  • Day, George Parmly, 1876-1959.
  • Day, Julian.
  • Day, Katharine Briggs Dodge.
  • Day, Wilhelmine Johnson.
  • De Kruif, Paul, 1890-1971.
  • Hackett, Francis, 1883-1962.
  • Hand, Learned, 1872-1961.
  • Hovey, Carl B., 1875-
  • Keller, Albert Galloway, 1874-1956.
  • Kinney, Troy, 1871-1938.
  • Lane, Rose Wilder, 1886-1968.
  • Levien, Sonya, 1888?-1960.
  • Miller, Alice Duer, 1874-1942.
  • Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941.
  • Phelps, William Lyon, 1865-1943.
  • Scott, Miriam Finn.
  • Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968.
  • Smith, Julia Stockwell.
  • Toksvig, Signe, 1891-1983.
  • Vaill, Dudley Landon.
  • Ward, C. H. (Charles Henshaw), 1872-1935.
  • White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985.
  • White, Katharine Sergeant Angell.
Description
121.2 linear feet (277 boxes).
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Account books.
  • Artifacts.
  • Diaries.
  • Drawings (visual works).
  • Manuscripts for publication.
  • Photographs.
  • Scrapbooks.
Access (note)
  • Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref
Source (note)
  • Wilhelmine Blower, daughter of Clarence Day,
Biography (note)
  • Author and illustrator Clarence Day, best known for his book Life With Father, was born in New York City on November 18, 1874. He graduated from Yale College in 1896, then worked in his father's brokerage house and served briefly in the U. S. Navy. In 1898 he was stricken with rheumatoid arthritis. He traveled for some years in search of a cure, then settled in New York, where he became active in the alumni affairs of Yale College and launched his writing career. Day's essays, book reviews, short stories, verses and cartoons appeared regularly during the 1910s-30s in Harper's Magazine, The New Republic, The Metropolitan Magazine, The New York American, and The New Yorker. His first book, This Simian World, was published in 1920. Day achieved his greatest popularity during the 1930s with the publication of Life With Father, a series of comic memoirs of family life. In 1928 he married Katharine Briggs Dodge. Clarence Day died of pneumonia on December 28, 1935.
Processing Action (note)
  • Cataloged.
Call Number
MssCol 741
Author
Day, Clarence, 1874-1935.
Title
Clarence Day papers, 1796-1993 (bulk 1890-1953).
Restricted Access
Advance notice required. Apply at http://www.nypl.org/mssref
Summary
The Clarence Day Papers document the literary career, business activity, personal life and family background of the author and illustrator. The papers include personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscripts, typescripts, galley proofs and publication tearsheets; business and financial records; family papers; news clippings and literary reference files; school and college records; and drawings, photographs, and artifacts. There is extensive material regarding his work as a Yale alumnus, including his publication of Yale Alumni Weekly. Correspondents include such artists, authors and intellectuals as Helen Dore Boylston, Henry Canby, Paul De Kruif, Francis Hackett, Learned Hand, Carl Hovey, Albert G. Keller, Troy Kinney, Sonya Levien, Rose Wilder Lane, Alice Duer Miller, Elsie Clews Parsons, William Lyon Phelps, Harold Ross, Miriam Finn Scott, Upton Sinclair, Signe Toksvig, E. B. White, and Katharine White. The Clarence Day Papers are an important resource for the study of American magazine literature during the 1910s-1930s, and provide essential background information regarding Day's most popular and enduring work, Life With Father. In addition to Clarence Day's own material on Life With Father, Katharine Day's papers in the collection document the posthumous incarnations of the property as a tremendously successful play, motion picture and television series.
Biography
Author and illustrator Clarence Day, best known for his book Life With Father, was born in New York City on November 18, 1874. He graduated from Yale College in 1896, then worked in his father's brokerage house and served briefly in the U. S. Navy. In 1898 he was stricken with rheumatoid arthritis. He traveled for some years in search of a cure, then settled in New York, where he became active in the alumni affairs of Yale College and launched his writing career. Day's essays, book reviews, short stories, verses and cartoons appeared regularly during the 1910s-30s in Harper's Magazine, The New Republic, The Metropolitan Magazine, The New York American, and The New Yorker. His first book, This Simian World, was published in 1920. Day achieved his greatest popularity during the 1930s with the publication of Life With Father, a series of comic memoirs of family life. In 1928 he married Katharine Briggs Dodge. Clarence Day died of pneumonia on December 28, 1935.
Finding Aids
Finding aid available in repository and on internet. http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/741.pdf
Location of Other Archival Materials
Related collections include the H.L. Mencken Papers and The New Yorker Records, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library; related collections in other repositories are listed in the finding aid.
Source
Gift of Wilhelmine Blower, daughter of Clarence Day, 1996, 2001, 2006.
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Authors.
Added Author
Boylston, Hele Dore, 1895-
Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961.
Day, George Parmly, 1876-1959.
Day, Julian.
Day, Katharine Briggs Dodge.
Day, Wilhelmine Johnson.
De Kruif, Paul, 1890-1971.
Hackett, Francis, 1883-1962.
Hand, Learned, 1872-1961.
Hovey, Carl B., 1875-
Keller, Albert Galloway, 1874-1956.
Kinney, Troy, 1871-1938.
Lane, Rose Wilder, 1886-1968.
Levien, Sonya, 1888?-1960.
Miller, Alice Duer, 1874-1942.
Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941.
Phelps, William Lyon, 1865-1943.
Scott, Miriam Finn.
Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968.
Smith, Julia Stockwell.
Toksvig, Signe, 1891-1983.
Vaill, Dudley Landon.
Ward, C. H. (Charles Henshaw), 1872-1935.
White, E. B. (Elwyn Brooks), 1899-1985.
White, Katharine Sergeant Angell.
Research Call Number
MssCol 741
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