Box 2

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Covers activities during the summer at "Byway"

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Covers Parker's last semester at Harvard; his year working on a novel; his marriage to Sydney Buchanan Sullivan; and his employment at Armstrong & Parker, structural steel company. The diary entries are introspective as well as social. Beginning in 1933 there are observations on Washington politics that come from Parker's contact with his father-in-law, New YorkHerald Tribune columnist Mark Sullivan.

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Covers Parker's work at Armstrong & Parker; the formation of Parker & Derby, also a structural steel firm; visits with the Parker family at “Cloisters” Brooklandville, Md. and the Sullivan family in Washington, D.C. and “Avohdale” Chester County, Pa. The entries are introspective and social. They also include observations after conversations with Mark Sullivan

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The papers of Jameson Parker (1909-1972) are largely diaries (1923-1964), copies of personal letters he wrote, and the letters he wrote to his wife Sydney [Sullivan] Parker Walling. Both the diaries and letters contain much about his social life and his observations on books he read and people he met. The papers from the 1930s and 1940s have material on the political scene in Washington, D.C. stemming from Parker's contact with his father-in-law Mark Sullivan, columnist for the New York...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The papers of Jameson Parker (1909-1972) are largely diaries (1923-1964), copies of personal letters he wrote, and the letters he wrote to his wife Sydney [Sullivan] Parker Walling. Both the diaries and letters contain much about his social life and his observations on books he read and people he met. The papers from the 1930s and 1940s have material on the political scene in Washington, D.C. stemming from Parker's contact with his father-in-law Mark Sullivan, columnist for the New York...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The papers of Jameson Parker (1909-1972) are largely diaries (1923-1964), copies of personal letters he wrote, and the letters he wrote to his wife Sydney [Sullivan] Parker Walling. Both the diaries and letters contain much about his social life and his observations on books he read and people he met. The papers from the 1930s and 1940s have material on the political scene in Washington, D.C. stemming from Parker's contact with his father-in-law Mark Sullivan, columnist for the New York...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The papers of Jameson Parker (1909-1972) are largely diaries (1923-1964), copies of personal letters he wrote, and the letters he wrote to his wife Sydney [Sullivan] Parker Walling. Both the diaries and letters contain much about his social life and his observations on books he read and people he met. The papers from the 1930s and 1940s have material on the political scene in Washington, D.C. stemming from Parker's contact with his father-in-law Mark Sullivan, columnist for the New York...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The papers of Jameson Parker (1909-1972) are largely diaries (1923-1964), copies of personal letters he wrote, and the letters he wrote to his wife Sydney [Sullivan] Parker Walling. Both the diaries and letters contain much about his social life and his observations on books he read and people he met. The papers from the 1930s and 1940s have material on the political scene in Washington, D.C. stemming from Parker's contact with his father-in-law Mark Sullivan, columnist for the New York...