Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Washington Irving Babcock papers (MC 57) consists of eight scrapbooks, sketchbooks and journals kept during the course of his life from his school days to the latter part of his career. The scrapbooks have been arranged in flat boxes according to size. Most of the books are in extremely brittle condition. The earliest scrapbook dating from 1874 includes clippings on a wide variety of topics, math notes, short stories (perhaps written for school...