Account book, scrapbook, and memorandum volume, 1902-1925, begun during Whaling's pastorate in Lexington, Va., with title page inscription, "Private Book of Sundries - For no eye but my own." Volume includes list of articles written for various publications, list of proposed articles, titles of books loaned out, financial accounts, and newspaper clippings, including Whaling's review of The Agricultural Situation: Economic Effects of Fluctuating Prices (1924), by G.F. Warren and F.A. Pearson, and a sermon, "The Catholicity of Christ," the opening sermon as moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly at Lexington, Kentucky, 1925 (p. 7); and an interview, July 1925, in which Whaling,indentified as the "retiring moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, Southern Assembly," expresses his opinion on a potential reunion "of the Northern and Southern branches of the Presbyterian denomination," which split at the time of the Civil War, with references to work of Charles R. Erdman (published in Philadelphia Public Ledger). A contemporary clipping from the Presbyterian Standard comments on Whaling comments and addresses tensions between Fundamentalist and Modernist factions within the Presbyterian faith (p.11) during the 1920s. A one page entry, titled "[Rev.] Dr. F[rank] J. Brooke or other antagonist" (possibly a draft of a letter written for publication in a Presbyterian publication) re Brooke's published disapproval of a visit from President [Theodore] Roosevelt, "I dislike to rudely destroy the grandiose dream with which he soothes his exacerbated spirit to the effect that he squelched the Presidential visit. Mr. Roosevelt declined before Dr. B set his spacious organs of speech in motion..." (undated, p. 53); broadside, 1903, listing expenses at the historic Lexington Presbyterian Church in Lexington, Va. (p. 67); list of contributions, 1911, from Ladies Aid Societies around S.C., as well as Georgia, Florida, and Alabama, with contact names of women from each organization (p. 108); and list of professors' salaries earned in various states (p. 109), presumably dating to Whaling's tenure at Columbia Theological Seminary that began in 1911.
