Scrapbooks

File — Box: 22-23

Identifier: VI

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: The William H. McDougall papers (circa 1900-1960) consist of the personal and professional papers of McDougall, pastor and monsignor of Salt Lake City's Cathedral of the Madeleine. Personal materials, the first of six divisions, consist of only eight folders. Included in this division are family genealogy, school records, passport information with a copy of McDougall's birth certificate, press cards, and similar information arranged chronologically. Correspondence, the second and largest division, is contained in four and one-half boxes. The family correspondence fills the first three and one-half boxes beginning with a voluminous series from his mother, father, and two sisters then, in alphabetical order, other relatives. The family letters include some from McDougall, but most are those he received between 1926 and 1951. The general section of correspondence consists of alphabetically arranged letters from friends and people from the internment camp and chronologically arranged miscellaneous correspondence. This section includes letters dating from 1927 through 1950. One box of materials, comprising the third division, is made up of items related to McDougall's internment and World War II. McDougall's typed diary transcripts, holograph correspondence diary consisting of letters to his sister Jean, and his holograph notes on a variety of subjects taken while interned are filed first. These are followed by holograph diaries, journals and notes made by other men in the same internment camp. A number of telegrams, letters, newspaper clippings, notes and similar materials regarding McDougall's release from internment are filed together. Also included in this division are copies of some tabloid-type newspapers or newsletters published as information bulletins for soldiers fighting in the Pacific Theater. Most of the material filed in the fourth division, manuscripts, is also concerned with McDougall's internment. Correspondence about publication, manuscript drafts and galley proofs from Six Bells Off Java and By Eastern Windows, the two books which relate his experiences in the orient and the internment camps are included. There are also a number of magazine articles from 1946, 1947, and 1948 based on those same incidents. Also included in the manuscript division is a short story titled "Prelude" written in 1929 by McDougall in hope of publication in the magazine Columbia. The last part of the fourth division includes material related to McDougall's career as a journalist, filed in chronological order. These papers include background notes and articles written by McDougall for the Salt Lake Telegram, as well as other items connected with this Salt Lake City newspaper job. Press dispatches and articles written by McDougall about his internment and release are filed here. Transcripts and notes on a series of interviews done by McDougall in Singapore in 1945 about the future of Malaya and Indonesia are also included in this division. In 1946 McDougall was awarded a Nieman Fellowship for newspapermen at Harvard University. The fifth division is comprised of information about the fellowship and class notes and materials, most on China, taken while at Harvard. The final, miscellaneous division is made up of a number of kinds of material. Included is information on China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and the Soviet Union. Also filed here are pamphlets and booklets about the National Catholic Welfare Conference and the Catholic Church in general. The other miscellaneous items are a short story written by Jean McDougall, an unidentified book of short stories, and a list of manuscript materials returned to Monsignor McDougall at his request.

The addendum to the collection has not been subject to extensive processing. The materials in the collection have been loosely categorized into four groups. The documents housed in boxes 13-19 comprise all loose sheets in this addendum, including such items as correspondence, writing drafts, and memorabilia. The card files in boxes 20 and 21, apparently, relate to McDougall's preparation of sermons; they reference various aspects of the Catholic faith. Scrapbooks are housed in boxes 22 and 23, and news clippings relating to World War II and McDougalls career in the clergy are in boxes 24 and 25.

Dates

circa 1900-1960

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.