Box 5

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...