Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection is comprised of correspondence from two generations of the Day and McCarthy families dating from 1837 to 1846, 1943 and 1945. The 19th-century documents are written mostly in German but also in French and English. There is a large date gap between 1847 and 1942 and there are also small gaps in 1841, 1843, and 1845. The correspondence is mostly written in old German script (Kurrent) to John Day dating from 1837 to 1846. The notes are small pieces of paper,...