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MS 466, Edward Mandell House Papers, Series II, Diaries, Volume 1

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Title	MS 466, Edward Mandell House Papers, Series II, Diaries, Volume 1
Creator	House, Edward Mandell, 1858-1938.
Date	1912-1926
Call Number	MS 466, Series II
Language	English
Abstract	Series II is arranged in four sections: Diary, "Reminiscences", "Memories", and Logbooks. The series consists of typewritten transcripts of three separate documents prepared over a number of years under Colonel House's personal supervision. The diary proper, dated September 25, 1912 to June 5, 1926, consists of roughly 3,000 pages and is not indexed. It was dictated almost daily to Frances Denton, House’s private secretary, who accompanied him on all his trips abroad. Denton transcribed the entries, resulting in an original typewritten transcript and a carbon copy. The transcripts were reviewed by House, who occasionally made annotations and corrections. (The letters and various documents cited by House in the test of the diary that he intended to insert to complete the records were not added to the diary and remain in the House papers.) The diary provides a daily record of Colonel House's activities from 1912 to 1919, and less elaborate entries from 1920 to 1926. House began to keep a daily record in September 1912 during the presidential campaign and continued almost without interruption until the end of 1912. After concluding the regular entries with a discussion of the Wilson Administration and its legacy of idealism, he made sporadic entries through November of 1926. The work is remarkable for its revelation of House’s frank and personal assessments of the personalities and projects of the era. House augmented the record of his life before and after the diary with the writing of the "Reminiscences" in 1916 and "Memories" about 1928. Also included in Series II is a bound volume containing electrostatic copies of four log books (kept on a day-to-day basis by Colonel House's secretarial staff in Paris) covering the period October 31, 1918 June 29, 1919: the entries recorded therein provide dramatic evidence of the incredible number of "suitors and supplicants" who passed through Colonel House's private offices during the winter and spring of 1918-1919. "Memories" is a transcription from the original manuscript given to the Yale Library in 1929. "Memories", which was received by Charles Seymour in 1929, is a revision of "Reminiscences". "Reminiscences" was transcribed from the original typewritten draft, dated July 1, 1916, and subsequently revised and corrected.
Genre	Diaries
Type	Archives and Manuscripts
Identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0466
Related Resource	Manuscripts and Archives
Related Resource Identifier	http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa/
Location, YUL	Manuscripts and Archives
Location, YUL URL	http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa/

MS 466, Edward Mandell House Papers, Series II, Diaries, Volume 1

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