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Budget for Alumni Office Grinnell-in-London budget summary and proposed 1975 budget Final report on participation in the U.S.A. - U.S.S.R. Senior exchange... by Gregory Guroff Complaints regarding Bookstore operations

Comments on academic pressure Policy and standards for admission of students, 1975-1976 Policy and standards for admission of students, 1974-1975 The development of an interdisciplinary program in Communictions at the College

Preparation for the Professions: Journalism

Diary was begun on January 1, 1862 in Eldora, Hardin County, Iowa. Last entry on February 6, 1863.

One letter from Chekhov’s sister, a replica of Chekhov’s letter (November 2, 1903) to Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko (co-founder of the Moscow Art Theatre), and a note (June 14, 1985) from Kennan explaining the provenance of the Chekhov letter. Also included are photocopies in Russian.

“The Unapostolic Succession” manuscript for February 19, 1948 Chapel Talk Welcoming Remarks and introduction of Robert Frost at 1949 Writer’s Conference (Frost was Foster’s teacher and mentor when Foster was in College at Amherst.) “Ralph Waldo Emerson:  America’s Looking Glass” lecture given at Grinnell College, 1953 “On Being Intellectual,” November 3, 1954, Phi Beta Kappa address, later reprinted in Scarlet and Black (November 5, 1954), and op/ed page of Des Moines Register (November 14, 1954) Notes on Talk to Men at Clark Hall, November 19, 1957 “The American Predicament” manuscript for 1949 Chapel talk, two draft versions

Carbon copy review of Robert Frost’s A Masque of Mercy, published in “The Tanager,” December 1947 Published “The Genesis of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s ‘The Minister’s Wooing,’” “New England Quarterly,” December 1948 Published book review of Edwin Cady’s The Gentleman in America: A Literary Study in American Culture, American Quarterly, Summer 1950 “The Shot Heard Round the World” text written by Foster for a brochure announcing 1951 George F. Baker Foundation Grant to Grinnell College, and its published version titled “A Quest for Leadership in Small Town Schools of America” “Jonathan Edwards” carbon copy of original manuscript submitted to Broadcast Music, Inc. for “The American Story” radio program, letter of receipt March 6, 1958, check stub for $75m and radio script Foster’s copy of September 10, 1955 “New Yorker” in which Edmund Wilson reviews his book, The Rungless Ladder.

Handwritten early version of poem “Moving In” written to “Charlie and Doris” dated April 1, 1939. This poem was later published in Poetry, LV, December, 1939. (Note: wording is slightly different than published version.) Letter dated February 3, 1946 Undated typed note over reprint of “Three Poems” in envelope post-marked January 7,1951 Letter dated January 12,1951 Letter dated June 15, 1955 and enclosed privately printed poem on Averell Harriman Letter dated May 16, 1955 Letter dated December 22, 1955 Letter dated June 24, 1985 and copy of response from Foster dated July 1, 1985 1945 Engle Christmas card “For the Midwestern Dead” 1946 Engle Christmas card “Book and Child,” three sonnets by Paul Engle printed for his and his family’s friends, Christmas, 1956 Undated Christmas card designed by Sara Engle Undated Christmas card Photograph of Engle child April 29, 1962 Christian Science Monitor book review of Edmund Wilson’s Patriotic Gore by Perry Miller. Engle has written at the top of the page “Dear Charlie, You’ve been vindicated, Paul” and marked Miller’s criticism that Wilson had not given proper acknowledgement of his use of Foster’s writings in his new book. Although Wilson had reviewed The Rungless Ladder in the “New Yorker,” he seemed vague on his use of material from it in The Patriotic Gore to the dismay of Miller, Engle, and other scholars, as well as Foster. Undated reprint of “A Name”

Letter dated July 5, 1957 Letter dated July 16, 1957 Letter dated August 29, 1957 Letter dated December 30, 1957 “Something More Powerful,” The Alumni-Senior Chapel Address, June 8, 1957

(At one point in 1957, Wall and Foster had planned to collaborate on abook on the Abolitionist movement. The 1957 letters were written while Wall was on leave researching Andrew Carnegie and NY Senator Lehman, two projects that ultimately precluded the Abolitionist project.) Letter dated March 21, 1957 Letter dated February 19, 1957 Letter dated May 1, 1957 Letter dated June 12, 1957 Letter dated July 15, 1957 with attached transcript of an item Wall found in the Carnegie papers in the Library of Congress Letter dated August 15, 1957 Letter dated September 3, 1957? Letter dated October 27, 1957 Letter dated December 8, 1957 Letter dated March 4, 1961 with a March 9 response from Foster Wall’s Andrew Carnegie’s Hogmanay, 1970 with Christmas greeting from Joe and Bea Letter dated July 10, 1980

(Note: Novelist Harnack was also a former student of Foster at Grinnell College.) Letter dated February 13, (1956? Year is based on reference to Foster going to Minnesota to teach summer school) Letter dated July 26, 1957 Letter dated October 7, 1957 Letter dated November 24, 1957 Letter dated January 6, 1958 Letter dated January 12, 1958