David Cornel De Jong papers (MS.92.8)

Brown University Library

Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
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Series I. Correspondence, diaries, and personal papers, 1920-1973

Container	Description	Date
Box 1	Correspondence	1920-1973
Box 1	Journals and Diaries	1925-1958
Box 5	Journals and Diaries	1959-1967
Box 1	Financial records, notes, and lists
Box 6	Card catalog Contents Note: Card catalog of De Jong's works with publication history.
Box 7	Photographs	1910-1961
Box 8X	Photographs - Oversize
Box 8X	Scrapbooks - 3 volumes	1934-1941
Box 9	Scrapbook of artwork by well-known artists Contents Note: Artwork mostly on postcards and clipped from magazines pasted to scrapbook pages and organized by artist. Includes European masters and 20th century American painters. Also includes an original watercolor drawing by De Jong depicting a seaside landscape with a man and woman standing near the water.	circa 1930s

Series II. Writings

Novels and Longer Writings

Container	Description	Date
Box 2	Alexander the Monkey Sitter
Box 2	Around the Dom
Box 2	Beechcombers
Box 7	The Bible - 20th Century Fox project
Box 2	Happy Birthday Egg
Box 2	Happy Birthday Umbrella
Box 2	I Cannot Whistle
Box 2	Ice Holiday
Box 2	Long Summer
Box 2	Looking for Alexander
Box 7	The Loon Who Laughed Too Hard	1960-1964
Box 8X	The Loon Who Laughed Too Hard - original illustrations	1960-1964
Box 2	Murder of a Rat
Box 2	The Rainbow Grill
Box 2	Season of Rest
Box 2	The Secret Life of Migiel or Forever is Six Days
Box 2	Seven Sayings of Mr. Jefferson
Box 2	The Squirrel and the Harp
Box 2	Stay Alive Eleanor
Box 3	Sweet Are the Promises
Box 3	Trespassers
Box 3	Twee
Box 3	Year of the Dove
Box 3	Year of the Pigeon

Short Stories

Container	Description	Date
Box 3	Some aspects of the modern short story with original examples Contents Note: Master of Arts thesis (Duke University)	1932
Box 3	Short stories: A-N
Box 4	Short stories: O-Z, fragments

Poems

Container	Description	Date
Box 4	Poems: A-M
Box 5	Poems: N-Z, unsorted Contents Note: Includes five folders of unsorted poems.