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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; drawings, photographs and artifacts. Correspondents include 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. less

Diaries describe family, social and school life in the Catskill region of New York (April 30-Sept. 9, 1847); give details of the wagon train journey from Batavia, Illinois en route to Oregon (April 21-July 23, 1852); and provide notes on life at the home established on the Columbia River, near Portland, Oregon (Jan. 1-July 4, 1853). Also includes correspondence of the Whipple family with friends and relatives about life in Oregon, family welfare, etc., between 1849-1888. 16 letters plus1 leaf genealogical notes. less