Folder 6: Diary, Stuart Pady

1933 Diary: Topics include weather, church, teaching Sunday School class, college classes, sleeping late, going to town, going for walks, shopping, problems with sand flies, camping, fishing, listening to the radio, preparing for oral part of dissertation, receiving a National Research Council Fellowship award to work at the New York Botanical Gardens, and Rose being ill much of the time.
1934 Diary: Topics include weather, putting wedding photos into photo albums, working at the Botanical Gardens, going to Yonkers, attending different churches, going to Columbia University, shopping, visiting Radio City, shopping for Rose's birthday present, listening to the radio, walking in Times Square, Rose not feeling well, going to Brooklyn and walking over the Brooklyn Bridge to Manhattan, doing lab experiments, taking a weekend trip to Montreal, dealing with a bad rash on his hands that turned out to be poison ivy and spread to his body and blisters developed, going to see Dr. Hopkins for poison ivy treatment, and going to an Easter Parade. Additionally, Rose went to see Dr. Findley and found that she needed a minor surgery. Other activities included camping, attending ball games, walking through the park, Rose going to the dentist, visiting the zoo, visiting Coney Island, renewing lease on apartment, receiving out-of-town visitors, getting a letter from U.S. Immigration stating he can stay in the country until 19 August 1935, receiving a driver's license, buying a 1930 Ford Coach car, visiting Wall Street and Staten Island, swimming in salt water, vacationing in Canada to see parents and other family and friends, camping in the Adirondacks, seeing Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, recording impressions of New York, and documenting car oil changes.
1935 Diary: This diary has loose pages, a postcard, and household expense accounts. Topics include the Lindbergh/Richard Hauptmann trial, going to hockey games, ice skating, weather, Rose's birthday, experiments with spores, playing rummy, going to church, listening to Jack Benny on the radio, his mother visiting and taking her to Radio City and the NBC studios, attending a family reunion in Canada, the end of his National Research Council Fellowship, selling their furniture and leaving New York, entering a hospital in Canada for problems with left ankle and knee, assassination of Senator Huey Long, preparing for and teaching classes at McMaster University, playing volleyball, attending ballgames, playing in the snow, and attending church.