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Clive Day papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 173

Scope and Contents

The Clive Day Papers contain correspondence, printed material, newspaper clippings, and other papers which document the career of Clive Day, an educator and political scientist. The papers document Day's role on behalf of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace (1917-1919) and as a faculty member at Yale University. The Day Papers date from 1892-1936, with the bulk dates of 1917-1936. The papers were donated to Yale University by Clive Day and are arranged in the following six series: I. GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE; II. PLATTSBURGH ARMY CAMP: MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS; III. PEACE CONFERENCE: CORRESPONDENCE, 1918-1919; IV. THE PARIS PEACE CONFERNECE: MISCELLANEOUS MEMORANDA AND REPORTS; V. PRINTED MATERIAL AND MEMORABILIA; and VI. YALE UNIVERSITY FILES.

SERIES I contains routine correspondence, exclusive of Peace Conference materials. SERIES II contains personal papers relating to Day's activities at the Plattsburg army camp. SERIES III-V contain correspondence, memoranda, reports, and printed material documenting Clive Day's role with the American Commission to Negotiate Peace following World War I. SERIES VI contains correspondence, papers, teaching materials, and other documents relating to Day's extensive involvement in faculty and university activities at Yale. Files for several university and faculty committees, courses and seminars, and other projects are arranged in this series. This includes files for committees on educational costs, fellowships, the sourse of study, and undergraduate reorganization.

In addition, several folders (box 7, folders 25-44) contain correspondence and papers relating to Day's activities on the Connecticut Unemployment Commission (1931-1933).

Dates

  • 1892-1943

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The materials are open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright status for collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Clive Day.

Extent

5.5 Linear Feet (12 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Catalog Record

A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog

Persistent URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.0173

Abstract

The papers contain correspondence, printed material, reports, and other papers documenting Clive Day's activities as an advisor to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace, a Yale University professor of political economy, and a member of the Connecticut Unemployment Commission.

Biographical / Historical

Clive Day was born in Hartford on February 11, 1871, and received his B. A. from Yale in 1892; he came from a long line of famous Yale men — indeed the direct line of Day's ancestry had had every generation represented at Yale since the founding of the College. Following a year of graduate studies at the University of Berlin, Day went to California and taught history and economics at Berkeley. Then, after another year of postgraduate work at the universities of Paris and Berlin, he returned to Yale and completed his Ph. D. requirements in 1899. That same year he embarked on his long and distinguished academic career at this university: at the time of his retirement in 1936 Day was Knox Professor of Political Economy and was the author of Policy and Administration of the Dutch in Java (1904); A History of Commerce (1907); The Question of the Balkans (1920); and A History of Commerce in the United States (1925).He wrote several books, served on many university committees, and was a member of the Connecticut Unemployment Commission, 1932-1933.

There was only one significant break in Day's academic career: late in 1917 he was asked to join Colonel E. M. House's "Inquiry" group as an adviser on economic questions relating to Austria-Hungary. During 1918 Day produced a large number of reports on Eastern and Central Europe which were meant to assist the intended American negotiators at the Paris Peace Conference. (Copies of many of these reports can be found in the Yale University Library's "The Inquiry Papers" [Mss. Group 8].) By December 1918, when the nucleus of the "Inquiry" experts had rejoined Colonel House in Paris, Day had emerged - faute de mieux, as he was always the first to point out - as the Chief of the entire Balkan Section of the Division of Territorial, Economic, and Political Intelligence of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace. Day remained in France until the signing of the treaty of Versailles and was directly involved in some of the most complicated debates and discussions bearing upon the territorial settlements imposed by the Conference on various segments of the former Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires. Indeed, Day's letters from Paris contain a mine of information about the peace conference in general and about the inner workings of the American Delegation more particularly. After his return from Europe Day contributed a chapter on "The Atmosphere and Organization of the Peace Conference" in the collection of essays edited by E. M. House and Charles Seymour entitled What Really Happened at Paris (1921). He died in 1951.

Title
Guide to the Clive Day Papers
Status
Under Revision
Author
compiled by William E. Brown, Jr.
Date
February 1986
Description rules
Finding Aid Created In Accordance With Manuscripts And Archives Processing Manual
Language of description note
Finding aid written in English.

Part of the Manuscripts and Archives Repository

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