Scope and Content From the Collection: The diary covers the period May 20-Oct. 15, 1917, and Jan. 5-May 6, 1918. It is complete; the gaps in chronology reflect the timing of those events and activities to which Talbot devoted his greatest professional attention.His most important activities during the War consisted of attending meetings in Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, working under the Council of National Defense (CND) to establish a Committee on Child Welfare (CCW) that would address the...