Poetry notebook

Item — Box: W0025.01

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

This collection contains a notebook of Diard's poetry and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings and letters relating to his work. Diard annotated many of the poems collected in this 200-page notebook, noting when they were written and/or published. The majority of the notebook contains clippings of poetry published by local newspapers during World War I. Most of these poems are patriotic, praising the sacrifices of Alabama servicemen. Toward the back of the volume are several letters to Diard from the vice-president of the Mobile Register, Erwin Craighead, soliciting poems for an anthology of Mobile literati.

The Mobile scrapbook contains newspaper items clipped from theMobile Register, the Mobile Times, and other Mobile newspapers. The articles were published between 1849 and 1945, with most of the articles published between 1929 and 1945. While most of the items address city events and Mobile's literary community, other items include obituaries and state and national news briefs. Approximately one-quarter of the articles clipped are copies of Erwin Craighead's column "Dropped Stitches From Mobile's Past."

Dates

Creation: 1917-1929

Creator

From the Collection: Diard, Francois Ludger (Author, Person)
From the Collection: Williams, A. S., III (Collector, Person)

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