Guide to the Donald Culross Peattie and Louise Redfield Peattie Papers
Guide to the Donald Culross Peattie and Louise Redfield Peattie Papers, 1912-1984
Collection number: Mss 94
Department of Special CollectionsDavidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
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- Davidson Library
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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- Processors:
- Arranged and described by Special Collections staff
- Date Completed:
- Latest revision 3/26/99
- Encoded by:
- David C. Gartrell
Todd Chatman
Scope and Content of Collection
Arrangement
- Series I: Biographical/Bibliographical Files
- Include articles about DCP and bibliographies/lists of his writings, Mark R. Peattie and Noel Peattie's Biography, as well as other biographical sketches, LRP's diaries, and Noel Peattie's Reminiscences.
- Series II: Correspondence
- Contains two subseries: Personal and Family, and General. Personal and Family correspondence includes material both for DCP and LRP. General correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent or topic; and mostly pertains to DCP's research, travels, writing, and publishers. It includes some drafts of articles and related material; and has some LRP correspondence mixed in. Notable correspondents include Gertrude D. Benchley, Stephen Vincent Benet, George T. Bye (the Peatties' literary agent), Tom C. Clark, August Derleth, William O. Douglas, Clifton Fadiman, Hamlin Garland, Raymond Massey, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Robert Redfield, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Ida M. Tarbell, Tiffany Thayer/Fortean Society, Mark Van Doren, and prominent botanists such as Thomas Barbour, David Fairchild, William H. Weston, Jr., William M. Wheeler, and G. R. Wieland.
- Series III: Financial Records
- Mainly contains contracts and other records relating to the writings of DCP and LRP.
- Series IV: Lectures and Talks
- Includes a small number of items, only partially identified.
- Series V: Notebooks
- Includes several numbered volumes, both for DCP and LRP. Generally there is no attribution, but DCP's tend to be botanical in nature, with daily entries, lists, keys, and early drafts of writings, while LRP's tend to be early drafts of fiction, with extensive use of dialogue.
- Series VI: Projects
- Contain three subseries: General, Publisher Files, and Subject Files, each alphabetically arranged. General includes lists, notes and drafts of articles. Publisher Files mainly contain drafts of articles for specific publishers/magazines. Subject Files include correspondence, notes, bibliographies, clippings and copies or excerpts of relevant articles, and other related material.
- Series VII: Writings
- Mainly include monographs and articles by Donald Culross Peattie and Louise Redfield Peattie, as well as some book reviews, forewords, introductions, letters to editors, poetry, and translations. There also are a few articles by other family members, particularly Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Malcolm R. Peattie, Margaret Rhodes Peattie, and Noel Peattie. The files most often contain typed drafts, but there also are some handwritten drafts and notes, research files, publicity, reviews, and related correspondence.
- Series VIII: Research Files
- Contain notecards pertaining to DCP's research on trees.
- Series IX: Photographs
- Photographs are black and white prints, and negatives, unsorted but pertaining mainly to family and travel.
- Series X: Scrapbooks
- Contain reviews and other materials relating to DCP's and LRP's writings.
- Series XI: Oversize Materials
- Include larger size scrapbooks of articles, portfolios of articles and personal/family items, as well as a 78 rpm sound recording entitled "Skagway [Alaska] Street Car."
Series I: Biographical/Bibliographical Files
Articles about DCP, Reviews, Criticisms
Bibliographical Lists
Bibliography - Card File
Bibliography - "Notes on a Bibliography of the Printed Volumes of Donald Culross Peattie"
Biographical Material
Biography - Articles about DCP
Biography - By Mark R. Peattie and Noel Peattie, 1980
Criticisms
Entolomogy Course (Arnold Arboretum), 1922
EWP List of Published Works
France (mostly financial documents), ca. 1936-1938
Harvard (clippings), 1946
LRP Diaries, 1940s-1960s
LRP Obituary, 1965
"Meet the Peattie Family" (article)
The Midway (University of Chicago, University High School), 1912-1915
Peattie, Noel - Reminiscences
Polk County News (information about DCP and series of nature articles by DCP), 1934
Publicity (includes biographical sketches and lists of publications), ca. 1940s-1950s
Series II: Correspondence
Personal/Family
DCP
1918-1932, n.d. (arranged chronologically; includes ALS and typed transcripts, mainly to his mother, EWP, and to LRP prior to their marriage in 1923)
1932-1935 (to EWP)
1940-1941 (to Keith H. Baker, a fan)
ca. 1941-1944 (to and from various individuals)
ca. 1944-1946 (to Congressman George E. Outland re Malcolm Peattie)
1947 (Re La Loma Feliz School; DCP was Secretary of the Parent's Association)
LRP
1921 (primarily condolences to LRP's mother re death of LRP's father, Robert Redfield)
1928-1934, n.d. (to EWP)
Postcards (mostly EWP to DCP and LRP), ca. 1928
Miscellany, 1934, n.d.
General
Scope and Content Note
Atlantic Monthly
Audubon Society
Bakeless, John
Berea College (Francis S. Hutchins)
Better Homes and Gardens
Books and Booksellers
Booksellers, 1944-1951
Botanical Review
Botany
Broadcasts
Bye, George T. (New York literary agent), 1935-1958
Chandler, Henry
Chanticleer Press, Inc.
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company
Clipping Service
Clubs, Societies, etc.
Congressional Miscellaneous Correspondence (mostly relating to Senate and House Committees on Public Lands)
Country Gentleman
Crocker-Union -Standard Oil (Assignment of Copyright)
Eastern Tree Book - Early Correspondence
Edition Mediterraneennes
Elms
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1940-1954
Encyclopedia Americana E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
Exotic Trees Book
Fan Mail, 1940-1942, 1945-1951
Fassett, Dr. Norman
Foreign Editions
Freedom Train
Government Agencies (other than USIS), 1944-1959
Grolier Society, Inc., 1948-1959
Gruen Article (Victor Gruen)
Holiday, ca. 1946-1960
Houghton Mifflin
Illustrators
James Brown Associates, Inc.
Japanese (mostly re relocation during World War II), 1942-1945
John Sutherland Productions
La Loma Feliz
Landacre, Paul (illustrator)
Letters for Possible Collection (incl. George Macy, Robert Redfield, Mark Schuster, Richard Simon, Ida M. Tarbell/Pen and Brush, and William Morton Wheeler), ca. 1936-1946
Letters of Appreciation from the Services, 1943-1945
Letters of Importance and Future Value (mostly outgoing to publishers; also includes letter from Clifton Fadiman), ca. 1934-1936
LRP Appreciations, 1942-1951
McGraw-Hill Company
Magazine Subscriptions
Magazines - Miscellaneous
Minor Pieces, 1950-1964
Monoghan, J. (Illinois State Historical Society Library)
Movies
A Natural History of Trees of East and Central North America
Opinions - Advice - Recommendations
Parkinson, Roscoe (Roscoe Parkinson and Associates)
Pearn, Pollinger and Higham
Peattie, Roderick
Permission for Copyright
Permissions, 1940-1950
Permissions - Domestic, 1951-1965
Permissions - Foreign, 1951-1963
Personal
Petersen, Paul Willer
Plans for Articles
Plumb, Milton B.
Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Professional Matters - Miscellaneous
Publishers - Miscellaneous
Putnam (G. P. Putnam's Sons)
Race
Reader's Digest
General
1941-1945
1946
1962-1964
Chargeable Expenses, 1946-1956
Corollary, 1948-1950
Editorial, 1947-1964
Fan Mail, ca. 1944-1951
Financial, 1945-1965
Foreign, 1946-1962
General Policy, 1953-1962
Precis (Clips and Other Research Material), ca. 1950s
Projects, 1946-1959
Projects - Inactive, ca. 1946-1956
Research, 1949-1956
Repogle, L. I.
Research and Researchers
Researchers
Reviewers, 1945-1954
Reviews, 1944-1963
Row, Peterson & Company
Saturday Evening Post
Scientific American
Scientific Monthly
Shakertown
Sports Afield
Sportsman's Country
Stewart, Rosalie
Supreme Court of the United States (William O. Douglas), 1943-1957
Television
This Week Magazine
Together Magazine
Travel, 1956, 1960
Travel and Camera
Trees
Trips - Europe, 1957
Trips in the USA, 1957-1959
Tryon, North Carolina
University of Chicago Press
U.S. Information Agency, 1951-1958
Valued Appreciations (includes letters from Gertrude D. Benchley, Stephen Vincent Benet, Tom C. Clark, August Derleth, Hamlin Garland, Raymond Massey, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Tiffany Thayer/Fortean Society, Mark Van Doren, and prominent botanists such as Thomas Barbour, David Fairchild, William H. Weston, Jr., William M. Wheeler, and G. R. Wieland), ca. 1935-1954
Vanguard Press
Wallace, DeWitt ( Reader's Digest), 1938-1956
Western Tree Book
Western Trees - Magazines
World Publishing Company
Writers' War Board (includes Clifton Fadiman, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Rex Stout)
Miscellany
Series III: Financial Records
Contracts
DCP
American Contracts
English Contracts
Foreign Contracts
LRP
American Contracts
English Contracts
Motion Picture Contracts
Collaborative Contracts
RP Contracts
Reader's Digest Contracts
Rovers Afield
Finances - Confidential (re estate of DCP's parents)
Income/Expenses (includes royalty statements, correspondence with George T. Bye, bills, and tax matters), 1930-1965
Series IV: Lectures and Talks
General (places and dates usually not indicated)
Army Talk -What Are We Fighting For?"
Federal Union Lectures, ca. 1941
Pomona Lecture
Radio Scripts, ca. 1956-1958
Series V: Notebooks
General
Eastern U.S., n.d.
Trees, n.d.
Numbered
Scope and Content Note
Nos. 1-24
Nos. 25-56
Series VI: Project Files
General
Scope and Content Note
Animal Articles
Article Ideas
Awards/Commendations
Biographies
Bird Articles
Book Projects
Children's Articles
Current Agenda, 1962
Early Miscellaneous Articles
Fragments of Abandoned Projects
Further Precis
General Nature Articles
Insect Articles
Inspirational Articles
Juvenile Nature Articles
List of Articles
Minor Jobs
Odd Article Ideas
Pending, 1954
Plant Articles -Country" Pieces
Science Articles
Precis, Inactive
Projects, ca. 1950s
Projects, 1960-1962
Published Short Stories - for which no clippings found
Sold and Published Articles
Standard Oil Company (articles written for in-house magazine?)
Unsold Articles
Publisher Files
Scope and Content Note
American People's Encyclopedia
Better Homes & Gardens
Good Housekeeping
Junior Red Cross Magazine
Ladies Home Journal
New York Times
New York Times Magazine
Reader's Digest
Rotarian
This Week Magazine
Today
Treasury Star Parade
Wings
Subject Files
Scope and Content Note
Ants
Arlington Cemetery and the Capitol
Art of Living Pieces
Beggar's Opera, by John Gay
Big Bend Biota
Bill of Rights
Biographies
Biography
Birds of Lower Rio Grande
Bonsai
Boys and Guns
British Columbia
California Flowers
California Zoology
Canoe Cedar
The Capitol
Careers in Nature
Chrysanthemum, etc.
Colorado
Comedie Francaise
Coming of the Flowers - Index
Conservation
Coral
Crataegus
Crataegus in the Ozarks
Cross Country Travel Notes
Declaration of Independence
Diamond Hoax
Doctor Rife
Documentary Film on Conservation
Dogwood
Dvorak, Antonin
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Epics of History
Ethnobotany
F. D. Roosevelt and His Trees
Farallones
Filson's Kentucky
Fire
Firewood
Firs
Flight
Flora
Florida Notes
Forest Conservation
Forest Service
Franklin, Benjamin
Frost, Robert
Fungi, etc.
Fungous Diseases
Glacier National Park
Green Witchery
Homing Instincts
Honey
Hummingbirds
Illustrative Anecdotes
Introduced Game Birds
Invasion of Cote d'Azur
"Jap Diary" - Captured Enemy Diary, 1943
Jefferson Memorial
Jefferson, Thomas
John Smith and Pocahontas
Juniper
Knowing Your Trees
La Grange
Leaves
Lewis and Clark Notes
Lincolniana
Lincoln's Nomination, Chicago, 1860
Louisiana Purchase
Marblehead
Marriage
Mary Washington Garden
Men for Birds (Audubon)
Mistral, Gabriela
Mosquito Control
Mount Vernon
Movies
National Parks
Nature Book for Children
New English Bible
New Salem
New York Botanical Garden
Oaks
Ostrya Knowltonii
Paleobotany
Paleobotany and Geobotany
Parker, Cynthia Ann
Parkinson Plans - "Shrines of Liberty"
Pearson's Falls
Pictures
Pines
Pines - Keys to Local Floras
Pinus Edulis
Pinyon
Poems of Bonnie Day
Pompeii
Postage Stamp Republic - San Marino Outline
Precis of Civil War Spy Stories
Preserving Our Past
Pupin
Quinine
Riggs, Austen Fox
Riggs - Notes
Riggs on the Almanac
Salem Witches
San Marino
Sanctuaries
Sanibel and Captiva
Santa Barbara
Santa Fe Railroad
Shakespeare
Socrates
Spring
Stonehenge
Stradivarius
Tahoe
Texas Panhandle Flora - Especially Grasses
Touffreville, France
Trees
Turf Grass
Tut-Ankh-Amen
Venice
Vets Writing Contest
Washingtonia Palms
Water Conservation
Water Fowl
Wild Flowers
Wilderness
Wilderness Areas in Public Domain
Wilderness Roads
Winter
Winter into Spring Notes
Words to Live By
Miscellany
Writings
Monographs
Scope and Content Note
An Almanac for Moderns (1935)
American Heartwood (1949)
American Year (Nature Anthology)
Audubon's America (1940)
Book of Ferns
A Book of Hours (1937)
A Catalogue of Flowering Plants of Vence and Vicinity
A Catalogue of the Spontaneous Flowering Plants of Kennicott's Grove
A Cup of Sky (with Noel Peattie, 1950)
Cybele Ligustica (early notebook by DCP, ca. 1930; edited, with introduction by Noel Peattie; 1984)
A Flora for Laymen
Flora of Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties [notes]
Flowering Earth (1948)
Forward the Nation (1942)
French Flora
A Gathering of Birds (1939)
The Green Book of Spring Wildflowers [unpublished]
A History of Children
Immortal Village [Vence] (1945)
Journey into America (1943)
The Kings Depart [unpublished]
Lives of Destiny [Introduction] (1954)
Long Yesterday (draft of A Prairie Grove)
The Natural History of Kennicott's Grove
A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America (1950)
A Natural History of Western Trees (1953)
The Nature of Things
Of the Grove
Parade with Banners (1957)
A Prairie Grove (1937)
The Rainbow Book of Nature (1957)
Red Book of Summer Flowers [unpublished]
The Road of a Naturalist (1941)
Singing in the Wilderness: A Salute to John James Audubon (1935)
[Southern Tree Book]
Sportsman's Country (1952)
The Sylva of the Tryon Region
This Is Living (1938)
[Tree Books - notes]
Young Discoverers
by LRP
American Acres (1936)
Bitter Orange Blossoms (script)
The Californians (1940)
A Child in Her Arms (1938)
The Happy Kingdom: A Riviera Memoir (with DCP; 1935)
Ring Finger (1943)
Tomorrow Is Ours (1937)
Untitled
Articles
Scope and Content Note
by DCP
"About Myself and Your Book"
"Acorns in His Pocket"
"Additions, Corrections, and Deletions for the Flora of the Tryon Region"
"Again the Miracle of Rebirth"
"Alexander Hamilton"
"Along Pacific Shores"
"America as God Made It"
"America Is Learning to Walk"
"American Adventure"
"American Autumn"
"The American Elm"
"American Heartwood"
"An American Saint, Old-Style"
"The American Standard"
"American Tory"
"America's Birds"
"America's Don Quixote"
"America's First Families"
"America's Greatest Host"
"Animal Architects"
"Animal Homes"
"Animal Lessons"
"Animal Prints on Winter's Page"
"Animal Travels"
[Anti-Billboard Article for The Rotarian]
"Appalachian Spring"
"The Apple - First of Fruits"
"Arabian Nights Adventurer: Sir Richard Burton"
"Artificial Evolution by X-Rays"
"The Art of Memory"
"As the Last Leaf Flutters Down"
"As We Live and Breathe" ( Good Housekeeping column)
"The Atlantic Coastal Plain Element in the Flora of the Great Lakes"
"At Nature's Flood Tide"
"Audubon Among Southern Birds"
"Audubon as a Conservationist"
"Audubon in the South"
"Audubon, John James"
"Author of a Sun-Kissed Legend"
"Autumn Belongs to America"
"Autumn Colors"
"Autumn Flight"
"Autumn Hum"
"Autumn Piece"
"Autumnal Notes from the Carolina Blue Ridge"
"The Axeman's Woman"
"Bass Country"
"The Bat: Child of Night"
"The Beauty Makers"
"The Beech and the Pigeon"
"Beethoven - The Man Who Set Music Free"
"Behind Glass"
"The Bell"
"Ben Franklin: Multiple Genius"
"The Best Is Free to Everyone, in Santa Barbara"
"The Best Is None too Good"
"Better than Money"
"Beyond Death: A Biologist's Evidence"
"Biggest Sucker"
"The Bigtree: Forest Titan" (title pages only)
"The Billboards Must Go"
"A Biologist Hears the Guns"
"Bird Migration"
"Bird Song"
"The Birds of Paradise"
"Birds That Are New Yorkers"
"The Birds Wing Northward Again, but Why?"
"Bloom on the Land"
"The Bluebird Yet Comes Back - It's Spring"
"Bobwhite Country"
"Bookworm into Naturalist"
"Boulder Dam and Lake Mead - Man-Made Wonderland"
"Braves on the Warpath"
"Bride of Spring - The Dogwood"
"The Business of Nature Writing"
"Butterflies: Beauty Afloat"
"The California Missions - Father Serra's Rosary"
"The California Poppy"
"The Canoe Cedar"
"The Capitol - Home of Congress"
"Captain of the Seven Seas: Cook"
"The Captive and the Free"
"Careers in Nature"
"Carl Schurz: German American"
"Carrier Pigeon: Bird of Peace and War"
"Casuarinas of America Identified by Branchlets and Seeds"
"Celestial Lotus"
"Charles Adams"
"Cherchez Two Connecticut Femmes"
"Cherish our American Heritage: The Stars and Stripes"
"Chief Joseph, Noble Red Man"
[Children]
"Christmas Day in the Morning"
[Christmas Tree article]
"A Chronicle of Night"
"Clara Barton: Crusader"
"Clouds"
"The Colorado River: A Giant Tamed"
[Conservation article]
[Coronado article]
"A Country Gentleman Rides to Office"
"Dan Boone Cuts the Wilderness Trail"
"Dan Boone Fills a Coffin"
"Daniel Boone: Trailblazer"
"Dead of Winter"
"Death in the Grass"
"Death Trap of Hollywood"
"December Skies"
"Declaration of Independence"
"The Declaration of Independence: America's Godsend"
"Democracy Sweeps Forward"
[Desert article]
"The Devil and Donald Peattie"
"Do You Give Yourself Away?"
"Do You Waste Your Happiness"
[Doctor article]
"Does Man Face Extinction?"
"Does Radio Affect the Weather?"
"Dogwood"
"The Dominie and the Mouse'
"Don Quixote and His Maker"
"Don Quixote and His Quixotic Maker"
"Don't Squander Your Happiness"
"Dr. Austen Fox Riggs"
"Dr. Benjamin Franklin"
"The Dreamer in the Desert"
"Drink and My Children"
"Duck Country: The Marshes"
"The East vs. the West"
"The Ecology of Extratropical Pteridophytes - Helmut Gams"
"The Elms Go Down"
"Emeline Pankhurst - Gentle Amazon"
"The End of the Moon"
"Energy into Matter"
"Enter (Whistling) Bert Harwell"
"An Estate for My Sons"
"The Eternal Gold Standard"
"The Eternal Story"
"Every Man His Own Naturalist"
"Everybody Needs Beauty"
"Everybody's Saint - Francis of Assisi"
"The Evolution of Charles Darwin"
"Excursion into Pure Nature"
"Fabre - Homer of Insects"
"The Facts of Life"
"The Fall and Rise of San Francisco"
"Family Expedition"
"Farming Your Forest"
"The Fateful Queen - Mary Stuart of Scotland"
"Feathered Ambassadors"
"The Ferns of Polk County"
"The Fight that Has Never Been Lost"
"Fireflies - Miracle of Light"
"The First Christmas Gifts"
"First Farmer of the Land"
"The First Fifty Years"
"The First Golden Age of the Academy"
"First Lady of Hollywood"
"Five Great Small Towns"
"Flaming Wagons: Death Valley - Christmas '49"
"The Floral Wealth of Santa Barbara"
"Flower Names"
"The Flowering Seed"
"The Flowers that Changed My Life"
"Flying Wedge against the Stormy Sky"
"Footsteps-of-Spring: A Wild Flower Trail"
"For Eighty-three Years the Liberty Bell Resounded"
"Forest Fires"
"The Forest Ranger"
"Four American Towns"
"Four Cents an Acre: The Louisiana Purchase"
[Foursquare]
"Freedom on Trial - The Zenger Case"
"The Friendly Desert"
"From Forest to Hearth: The Tale of a Tree"
"A Future in Natural Science"
"Galileo - Old Discoverer"
"A Garden Alliance"
[Garibaldi]
"Garibaldi the Liberator"
"Gentle Amazon"
"George Washington's 'Finger'"
"George Wythe: Elder Statesman"
"Glittering World of Winter"
"The Glories of the West"
"Godfather of Play"
"God's Chisel: Michelangelo"
"Gold Rush Country"
"Golden Days Are Here Again: It's Autumn"
"The Golden Rogue - Benvenuto Cellini"
"The Golden State"
"Good Hawks and Bad"
"Good Morning"
"Gothic Glory - The Cathedral"
"Grace at Table"
"The Grand Canyon"
"The Grandeur of America"
"Gray Squirrel Country"
"Green Bough and Golden"
"Green Citizens"
"Green Holidays in the Golden State"
"Grubstaking the Best Folks: The Guggenheim Foundation's Way"
"Hail Caesar"
"Hans Christian Anderson - Wizard of Fairy Tale"
"Have a Secret Affair!"
"The Hawk: Sportsman of the Sky"
"Hayn Salomon, a Jew Broker"
"He Invented Botany"
"Hearthfires"
"Heiress Apparent"
"Henry Bergh - Scourge of the Cruelists"
"Henry Blake Fuller"
"A Heritage Misused: The Nation's Wildlife"
"High Adventure Begins"
"Honey - Golden Wonder"
"Horace Mann - The Schoolchild's Friend"
"Hormones - Watch Them Grow!"
"How Is Asarum Pollinated?"
"How to Attract Butterflies"
"How to Discover Audubon"
"How to Read"
"The Hummingbird"
"I Saw Your Face, America"
"I Speak to Strangers"
"In Quest of Fern Seed"
"In the Days of Giants"
"The Invincible Armada"
"The Irresistible Bud"
"Is Thoreau a Modern?"
"Isabella - The Queen Behind Columbus"
"It's Better to Travel than to Arrive"
"Jack Rabbit Country"
[Japanese Cherries]
"Jean Laffite, Patriot Pirate"
"Jedediah Smith: Methodist Pathfinder"
"Jim Bridger and the Bard"
"Jim Bridger: Great Scout"
"Johann Strauss I and II - Kings of the Waltz"
"John James Audubon"
"John Marshall - Inspired Justice"
"John Paul Jones: Invincible"
"Joseph Lee, Godfather of the Playground"
"Journey into America"
"Journeying into America"
"The Joy of Walking"
"July Invites You"
"Keep the Flags Flying"
"Keeping Memory Green"
"Kennicott, Knight of the North"
[Kennicott's Grove]
"La Salle, Wilderness Cavalier"
"La Traviata"
"Labrador Crusader"
"LaFayette, American Citizen"
"Land of Plenty"
"Last Year in Venice"
"Leading the Life of Riley"
"Lee's Greatest Victory"
"The Legend of Luther Burbank"
"Leonardo da Vinci: The First Modern"
"Let Us Raise a Standard"
"Let's Keep Them High!"
"Let's Make this the Best Christmas Yet"
"Liberty"
"The Library That Thinks"
"Lick Japan? We Did!"
"Life in Stoughton"
"Little Fiddlers of the Fall"
"Lo Takes the Warpath"
"Locust Armies Menace the Earth"
"The Locust Trees: Robinia"
[Locusts]
"The Long Good-Bye"
"Long Live Linnaeus"
"Long Tom Lives to See the Day"
"The Longest Hooky"
"Look at Leaves"
"Looking Toward Fall"
"Looking Toward Spring"
"Looking Toward Summer"
"Looking Toward Winter"
"Lotta Crabtree: America's First Darling"
[Louis Agassiz Fuertes]
"Louis Agassiz: Man of the Glaciers"
"Lucy Audubon, American Wife"
"The Magic of Motoring"
"Make Friends with the Mantis"
"The Making of a Style"
"Malta Wins Its Cross"
"The Man I Want My Son to Be"
"Man of the Month"
"March - Month of Challenge"
"Marco Polo: Explorer Extraordinary"
"Marcus Aurelius - Noblest Roman"
"Marcus Whitman, Martyr for Oregon"
"Mark It with a Tree"
"Martin Luther, Mighty Reformer"
"Mary, Queen of Scots"
"Master Caterpillar"
"May"
"Meadow Mice"
"Meet America"
"Meet Your Neighbor - Mexico"
"Men Who Made the Modern Garden"
"Meridian"
"A Mighty and Unfinished Adventure"
"A Missionary to America"
"Mistletoe - Its Bough Hangs High - But Why?"
"Mojave in Flower"
"Mosquito Strategy"
"The Most Historic Avenue in all America"
"The Most Practical Thing in the World"
"The Most Unforgettable Character I've Met"
"A Mother's Care"
"Mozart, Music's Wonder Child"
"Mr. Carson and the Indians"
"Mule Deer Country"
"Mystery of the Flyways"
"The National Audubon Society"
"The National Bird - A Defense of the American Eagle"
"National Parks"
"National Shrines"
"Natural History for Everybody"
"A Naturalist in the City"
"A Naturalist Transplanted"
"A Naturalist's Path to Faith"
"A Naturalist's Testimony"
"Nature and War"
"Nature East and West"
"Nature for Everyone"
"Nature Hobbies"
"The Nature of Nature Writing"
"The Nature of Things"
"Nature Quiz"
"Nature Unlimited"
"Nature's Night Life"
"Needed - A Science of Smell"
"New Harmony - A Trial of Communism in America"
"News Bulletin"
"Norman Carter Fassett, 1900-1954"
"The Northmen - First Americans"
"Not Traveling Past the Best of Things"
"Old-fashioned Flowers for Today"
"Old Glory Takes to Sea"
"Old Hickory - Great American"
"Old Ironsides - Eagle of the Sea'
"Old Trinity - Rock of Wall Street"
"On Morals"
"On the Mojave"
"On the Popularization of Botany"
"Once in Seventeen Years - The Cicada"
"One-man Citation of Authorities for Botanical Names"
"One Square Mile"
"One-way Street - Straight Up!"
"Orchid Extravagance"
"The Orchid - Queen of Flowers"
"Orchids, the Royalty of Flowers'
"Our Enchanted Desert"
"Our First War with Japan"
"Our Heritage from the Arabs"
"Our Land of Plenty"
"Our National Bird: A Defense of the American Eagle"
"Our Plant Populace"
"Pageant of the Powers"
"Paradise not Yet Lost"
"Peaceful Nature, Enemy of War"
"A Peal of Bells"
"Penny Pip"
"People on the Move"
"The Persimmon"
"Pied Piper of Play"
"Pirate Knight: Sir Francis Drake"
"Planted by the Padres"
"Plant Hunters"
"Plant Parasites"
"Plants with a Poison Touch"
"Pocahontas, Our First Great Lady"
"Poison Gas - Beware!"
"Pollen - Wonder Dust of Nature"
"The Pony Express"
"Prairie-Dog Towns"
"A Prairie Grove"
"The President's Secret Surgery"
"The Prettiest Spot on Earth"
"Private Ownership of Forests"
"Prodigal Nature"
"Put in Your Three Cents Worth"
"Putting Idle Curiosity to Work"
"Rabbits on the Rampage"
[Race Prejudice]
"Rain"
"Rainbows at Work"
"The Ranchos of California"
"Rangers for Dangers"
"Red Fox Country"
"The Redwood Empire - America's Greatest Province"
"The Redwood Groves"
"The Redwood Highway"
"Redwoods - America's Immortals"
"Retreat to Nature"
"Return of the Sea Otter"
"Riley as a Nature Poet"
"The Riviera - Happy Kingdom"
"The Road of a Naturalist"
"Robert Kennicott, 1835-1866"
"Robins, Crocuses, the Rising Sap - Spring!"
"Roger Williams - First Modern American"
"Rolling Wheels on the Trail of Lewis and Clark"
"The Romance of Maps"
"Roses All the Way"
"Russians in America"
[Salmon]
"Salute Thyself!"
"Sam Houston, Lone Star"
"San Francisco - Western Cosmopolis"
[The Santa Fe Trail]
"The Santa Fe Trail"
"Sassafras and Witch Hazel of Their Fabulous Properties"
"The Saving Grace"
"Science or Superstition?"
"Seaweed, Harvest of Ocean"
"Seventeen Year Cicadas"
"Shagbark Hickory Tree of the Pioneer"
"Ships of the American Desert"
"Shooters' Suicide"
"Should We Elect a National Flower?"
"Show Your Heart!"
"Singing in the Wilderness"
"Sinless and Godless"
"Situations Wanted"
"Six Breathless Vistas"
"Six Towns"
"The Sluggard Goes to the Ant and Examines Its Way of Life"
"Snake Venom - Death and Cure"
"Snow"
"Soaring Symbol of Independence"
"Social Life of the Ant"
"Something to Fight For"
"A Son in the Service"
"Southward Sweep the Splendors"
"The Spark on the Anvil"
"Speed of Animals"
"Spider Silk - Wonder-Stuff of Nature"
"Spring Is Faith"
"Spring on the Prairie"
[The Spring Returns]
"Spring Song at the Grove"
"Spring Song in the Trees"
"Spring Surprises"
"Spring Wildflowers"
"Spruce, Balsam and Birch"
"Squirrel War"
"Stanley of Africa"
"A Star Fell on Siberia"
"The Star of Stars"
"Star Prospector"
"Starlings"
"Stephen Decatur, Sea Fighter"
"Stories and Glories of the Alps"
"The Stork - Living Legend"
"Strange Bird Calling"
"Strangest of all Insect Dramas"
"Sugar Maple"
"Summer"
"Summer at Its Great Lazy Peak"
"Summer Secrets"
"Sun, Sea, Snow"
"Superstitions on the March"
"Survival on the Desert"
"The Swallow: Best-Loved Bird"
"The Sycamore"
"Taking Your Children to Nature"
"The Tales of Hans Christian Anderson"
"Tall Animal Tales - and the Truth"
"The Testament of Spring"
"There Is No Season so Rich in Ritual as Christmas..."
"There's a New America"
"These Are the Times"
"They Fight for Their Country"
"This Golden State"
"Thoreau for Moderns"
"Thomas Jefferson: Architect of Democracy"
"Thunder and Lightning"
"Timber Crisis"
"Titan of Trees"
"To Each His Own"
"To the Garden Club of South Carolina"
"Tombstone's Fighting Marshal: Wyatt Earp"
"Toward Extinction?"
"Tracks West"
"Transylvania - The State That Never Was"
"Traveling Around Home"
"Traveling with Nature"
"Trees"
"Trees for Your Streets"
"The Trees of America"
"Trillium in North and South Carolina"
"A Trip Through Summer Skies"
"Trout Country"
"Tune in on Quiet"
"Tune in on the Birds"
"Two Ladies"
"Uncle Sam at Home"
"Uncle Sam, Plant-Hunter"
"Uncle Sam's Bird"
"Uncle Sam's Ducks"
"Underworld of the Fungi"
"The Use - and Uselessness - of Local Floras"
"Valley of Fortitude"
"Valley Quail Country"
"Vatican City - The Smallest State in the World"
[Venus Flytrap]
"Verdi, Master of Melody"
[Virgin Islands]
"Virginia City - Boom and Bust"
"The Virginia Plantation - Cradle of Good Government"
"Voici L'Amerique"
"Voltaire - Spark of Liberty"
"Walk into the World"
"The Waltz Kings"
"The War of the Roses"
"The Wars and Peace of Leo Tolstoy"
"Washington - Your Capital"
"Water Conservation"
"Water Wealth"
"A Way to Chastity"
"The Weather Eye"
"Westbound Whistle"
"The Western Sycamore"
"Westminster Abbey"
"What Is America?"
"What Is Meant by the Tonnage of a Ship?"
"What Life Means - An Answer in Nature"
"What Science Fights For"
"What You Can Do about Conservation"
"What You Can Do about Race Prejudice"
"Where Do You Bank Your Happiness?"
"Where the Spring Begins"
"Which Have Eyes and See Not"
"The White Oak"
"White Pine"
"White-Winged Dove Country"
"Who Are Nature's Public Enemies?"
"Why Be Blind to Beauty?"
"Why I Chose Santa Barbara"
"The Why of Spring"
"Why Stuff Your Ears?"
"The Widow's Bite"
"The Wild Black Cherry (Prunus Serotina)"
"Wild Life in Winter"
"Wilderness - A National Resource"
[Wilderness article]
"William Penn, Pioneer of Democracy"
"Wind"
"Window Gardens"
"Winter: A Tone Poem"
"Winter Comes"
[Winter Resort Articles]
"Winter Wisdom"
"Winter Wonder"
"A Woman's Tears"
"The Wonderland of Ants"
"The Wonder World of Words"
"The Wonders of a Tree"
"Wood: Friend of Man"
"A World of Wildflowers"
"Yosemite: Earthly Paradise"
"You Don't Say"
"Your Best for Everyday"
"Your Bill of Rights"
"Your Birds, Senors, Our Diplomats"
"Your Emotions Are Power"
"Your Globe"
"Your Nature Hobby"
"Your Nearest and Newest Neighbor"
"Your Wife's Clothes"
"You're on the Air"
"Youth Marches on Science"
"Yuletide Brings the Woods to the City"
"The Zenger Case: Freedom on Trial"
[Untitled]
by DCP and LRP
"All About Crickets"
"Andrew Johnson: Lincoln's Heir"
"Armchair Travel: Roving the Border"
"Barnum, Jumbo Sized Showman"
"Beauty at Your Fingertips"
"The Browning Romance"
"Chartres Cathedral: Epic of Faith"
"The City that Died to Live"
"Color Trickery"
"Country Auction"
"The Flower: Nature's Masterpiece"
"France's Tragic Queen: Marie Antoinette"
"The Greatest Book in the World"
"The House of Moliere"
"Immortal Harmony - The Love Story of Clara and Robert Schumann"
"Invincible Malta"
"John and Lucy Audubon: An American Marriage"
"Louisa Alcott: Greatest of 'Little Women'"
"The Mother Lode: Cradle of California"
"My Favorite Sex"
"Old Glory Made New"
"Our Vanishing Birds"
"Patrick Henry - Genius of Liberty"
"Rocky Mountain Roving"
"The Saving Virtue"
"Shells of the Seven Seas"
"Stephen Mather, Father of Our National Parks"
"The Swan, Royal Bird"
"Tree Stories"
"Venice - Beauty in Distress"
"Versailles, Glory of France"
"Wells Fargo Rides the West"
"Widen Your World"
"The Wonder of Grasses"
"Words to Live By"
by EWP (Elia Wilkinson Peattie - DCP's mother)
"The Stage Coach"
Miscellany
by LRP
"Ak, Sommeren..."
"All Men Are Created Equal"
"The Attic"
"Behind the Book"
"Binny Goes to the Stake"
[Biographies]
"Catlin, Painter of Indians"
"Christmas in July"
[Christmas Piece] Everywoman's Magazine
"Do You Tell"
"East Injy"
"Escape of April"
"The First Law"
"Folksong"
"For Whatever Ends"
"The Fort That Held"
"Give Heart to the Brave"
"Give Yourself a Chance"
"The Gob and the Lady"
"The Golden Coin"
"A Hero Horse"
"Historic Playground - The Virgin Islands"
"How Big Is Your World?"
"How to Do the Impossible"
"If You Were Donald Culross Peattie's Wife"
"In Memorium: Donald Culross Peattie"
"Keep It to Yourself"
"Keeping Your Ancestors Lively"
"Lost Daughter"
"Meet America!"
"The Miracle of Joan of Arc"
"Moliere, Master of Comedy"
"Never Forget to Live"
"No Separate Peace"
"Not Built with Hands"
"On the Eve of Christmas"
"One Woman Is Plenty"
"Open Your Fingers"
"The Proud Are Lonely"
"Some Day in April"
"The Spotlight Shawl"
"Star at Noon"
"Summer's Lease"
"Table Talk"
"Talk: Any Number Can Play"
"Tempest in a Teapot"
"Thanksgiving, 1943"
"They Look to You"
"Tie Your Camel"
"The Unknown Guest"
"The Voice"
"What Are You Dreaming Of?"
"The White Picket Fence"
"You Can't Tell Me!"
"You Have it in You"
"You Vote Every Day"
"Your People"
"You're Braver Than You Think"
[Stories, Poems]
by MP (Malcolm R. Peattie, son of DCP and LRP)
"California Government in Transition"
"Dog-About-Town"
by MRP (Margaret Rhodes Peattie, wife of DCP's brother Roderick Peattie)
"Emmy for Sugar, Sarah for Salt"
by NP (Noel Peattie, son of DCP and LRP)
"The Flight"
"Shooting Stars"
Book Reviews (by DCP)
Introductions (by DCP)
Letters to Editors (by DCP)
Newspaper Column (by DCP)
Breath of Outdoors
Poetry
by BPE (Barbara Peattie Erskine) - The Little Poems of Barbara Erskine
by DCP and LRP (includes loose material and notebooks)
Translations (by DCP)
Series VIII: Research Files
Notecards relating to trees
Series IX: Photographs
Black and white prints and negatives, mainly family and travel (unsorted, most in original envelopes)
Series X: Scrapbooks
DCP
1932-1937
1937-1939
1939-1941
1942-1950
1950-1958
LRP
1922-1933
1934-1938
1939-1943
Loose Material (accompanying scrapbooks)
Series XI: Oversize Materials
Scrapbooks
DCP - Breath of Outdoors (copies of articles)
DCP and LRP - Articles, 1924-1934
Portfolios
Articles (copies, from larger format magazines and newspapers)
Family Materials (including children's drawings and copies of school magazines)
Standard Oil Folios - "California Poppies" and "Mission Santa Barbara"
Record (78 rpm - "Skagway" [Alaska] Street Car, 1940)