Box 1

Scope and Contents 1 Autograph Manuscript notebook dated 03/14/1906 to 02/06/1909 containing Autograph Letters and diary entries comprising for the most part a journal of Chesson's dreams, interspersed with records of his correspondence and associations, and occasional tallies of progress on his "lexicon" or the "Chesson-Encyclopaedia", totaling his entries alphabetically. The diary records the death of his wife, Nora, on 04/14/1906 [p. 10], after the birth of their third child, Dagmar Chesson, and the...