Overview
Diaries and notebooks kept in the late 1960s and early 1970s by Harvard College undergraduate, David C. K. McClelland.
Dates
- Creation: 1966-1971 and undated
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.
This collection is not housed at the Houghton Library but is shelved offsite at the Harvard Depository. Retrieval requires advance notice. Readers should check with Houghton Public Services staff to determine what material is offsite and retrieval policies and times.
Extent
1.5 linear feet (3 boxes)Diaries include McClelland's observations on his life as a Harvard College undergraduate, music, philosophy, psychological difficulties, friends, lovers, his connection to the Philip Hofer family and Houghton Library, and travels. Also concerns his 1968 trip to Patagonia for a field study fellowship, time spent in Michigan, New York City, and San Francisco. Includes some of his cartoon drawings, fiction writing, and much commentary on life and the culture of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Biographical / Historical
David C. K. McClelland (1947 February 11 - 1976 September 8) attended Harvard College with the Class of 1969. His family was from Rochester, Michigan. While at Harvard he was a member of Lowell House and joined the Harvard Lampoon in his freshman year as a cartoonist, eventually becoming the president. One of his best-known Lampoon covers was his parody of the Bayeaux Tapestry, portraying Harvard's victory over Yale in the Harvard-Yale football game; he also drew the "Boggie" cartoons. During the summer of 1968, he went on a trip to a Welsh colony in Patagonia where he collected field recordings with Paul David Lagomarsio. McClelland also produced beautifully illuminated calligraphic manuscripts, many of which several examples are in the collection of Houghton's Department of Printing and Graphic Arts.
Arrangement
Arranged into the following series:
- I. Diaries, dated
- II. Diaries and notebooks, undated
Physical Location
Harvard Depository
Immediate Source of Acquisition
71M-119. Deposited by David C. K. McClelland (Harvard Class of 1969), 888 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139; received: 1971 December 14.
General note
This collection is shelved offsite at the Harvard Depository. See access restrictions below for additional information.
Processing Information
Processed by: Bonnie B. Salt
Part of the MS Storage project, 2008-2009.
- Title
- McClelland, David C. K. David C. K. McClelland diaries and notebooks, 1966-1971: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou02028
Repository Details
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