Abstract

This collection contains 108 letters to and from Paul S. Parsons (dated 1918-1934) with 18 of them in French, 26 written poems, as well as 2 pieces of ephemera (mainly other correspondence).

Scope and Contents This composite collection consists of correspondence, diaries, notebooks on ornithology, photographs, and slides, as well as some financial records and house bills from numerous other collections related to ornithology. The correspondence primarily transpire between Frank M. Chapman and Swarthmore College mammologist, Robert K. Enders (1899-1988), between ornithologist Herbert Keightley Job and other ornithologists and naturalists including A.C. Bent, John Burroughs, Frank Chapman, Elliott...