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Matlack Sisters and Anna Kiesel

Mary M. Davenport Drawings, cards, programs Two travel diaries from Mary M. Davenport Margaret M. Kiesel High school commencement, cards Anna Kiesel (MMK's mother-in-law) Photos and programs Jane M. Rutherford Letters, newspaper article, programs Obituary memorial book for Jane M. Rutherford Helen Constance M. Wieman Letters Stories about birth of Helen C. M. Wieman

1904-1933

Folder 1 Grinnell 1904-1912:  Notes from the Scarlet and Black and Grinnell Herald Register, notes on early family life and move to Grinnell. Folder 2 1908-1910:  Various Scarlet Black articles including “What Grinnell Is; Its Spirit and Life” President Main, December 2, 1908. Various notes on Hopkins taken from SB. Folder 3 1911:  SB articles on Hopkins’ basketball career Folder 4 1912:  “Outline of the Possible Organization and Scope of Work of a Poverty Commission” by John A. Kingsbury. Folder 5 1913:  Notes from Grinnell Herald Register, “Women’s Work Shops” Bailey B. Burritt, Folder 6 1914:  Unemployment Relief Correspondance, “Study of the Methods Employed by the AICP to secure work for unemployed applicants”, notes from the Grinnell Herald Register Folder 7 1915:  “Should the work be continued?”  Confidentional memorandum on the work of the Department of Social Welfare by John A. Kingsbury Folder 8 1917:  United States Civil Service Commission correspondence a propos Hopkins, Board of Child Welfare notes, recommendations for Hopkins’ appointment to proposed Army and Navy War Life Insurance Bureau, Red Cross Gulf Division Annual Report, “Report of the Bureau of Civilian Relief Gulf Division” American Red Cross October- December 1917 Folder 9 1918:  Letter to United States Civil Service Commission from John A. Kingsbury recommending Harry Hopkins. Folder 10 1919:  Red Cross Gulf Division Bulletin, Minutes from the Central Council of the National Assocation of Social Workers, Gulf Division; Red Cross Reports January- September 1919, multiple articles from the Gulf Division Bulletin concerning the future of Home Service, excerpts from Hopkins’ monthly reports Folder 11 1920:  February 1920 American Relief Council correspondence, AMC Gulf Division Bulletin April 1920, Hopkins’ report on trip to Mexico after Vera Cruz Earthquake and Flood, Folder 12 1922: Correspondence regarding Hopkins’ Red Cross and Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor Folder 13 1923:  Minutes from meetings of the American Association of Social Workers Folder 14 1924:  Minutes from meetings of the American Association of Social Workers Folder 15 1925:  Minutes from meetings of the American Association of Social Workers Folder 16 1926:  Letter to Lawson Purdy from Hopkins as the Director of the New York Tuberculosis Association Minutes from meetings of the American Association of Social Workers Folder 17 1927:  Extracts from: Hopkins’ “Consolidating Private Health Work Under One Banner,” Nation’s Health, January 1927, Vol. 9, No. 1. Minutes from meetings of the American Association of Social Workers Folder 18 1931:  Continued correspondence with Lawson Purdy Confidential Memo “Comments on selective rehabilitation of unemployed on the land”, unsigned Red Cross documents concerning the State Unemployment Relief Plan Folder 19 1932:  “A Social Work Study of Federal Aid for Unemployment Relief: Report of the Steering Committee” January 1932. Folder 20 1933:  Minutes from meetings of the American Association of Social Workers; list of Hopkins’ engagements from May 1933 to December 1934; FERA Grant Reports “Outline of Remarks on Occasion of Testimonial Dinner to Mr. Harry Hopkins” June 22, 1933; record of June 1933 FERA Conference Beginning of correspondence with FDR as Federal Relief Administrator

September 1935 – April 1937

Folder 1 September – October 1935: “Hopkins- Ickes Dispute To Go To President” Baltimore Sun September 11, 1935; “Memorandum of Conference on Status of Emergency Funds…” September 12, 1935 Folder 2 November- December 1935: “The Works Program Situation” Memorandum to the President from Harry Hopkins, November 20, 1935; “Field Report- Regional Adviser Labor Assignment: Ohio” Chester A. Smith, December 10, 1935. Folder 3 January- March 1936: “The Constitution and the New Deal” and “The Price of Failure” Howard Lee McBain; “Meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Stuyd or Relief Procedures and Techniques” January 17, 1935; “Report to Mr. Hunter on the Wisconsin Workers’ Alliance” January 31, 1936; “Conference at the White House Regarding Additional Funds For Work Relief Projects…” February 6, 1936; Nationwide Radio Address given by Harry L. Hopkins March 14, 1936. Folder 4 April – July 1936: WPA and FERA correspondence; Henry Morgenthau Diary Entires Folder 5 August – October 1936: “Conference with the President at Hyde Park” August 19, 1936; “Works Progress Administration Comparative Analysis of Administrative Costs as of August 31, 1936”; “Employment and Relief Policy for 1936 and 1937”; “Relief and Work Relief in Illinois”; “Relief and Work Relief- New York City” September 18, 1936; “Report on Mr. Hopkins’ Western Trip: August 25 through September 29, 1936”; “Conference with the President at Hyde Park” August 4, 1936; Report of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget Folder 6 November- December 1936: “Sponsors’ Fund Procedure in the Operation, Recording, and Reporting of the WPA Program” R. Ecker November 3, 1936; “Deficiency Appropriation for Works Program”; “Conference with the President on Relief, December 30, 1936; “Conference with the President Regarding Additional Funds Needed to Operate the WA and Resettlement Programs from February 1 to June 30, 1937” December 29, 1936. Folder 7 January- April 1937: “Summary and Selected Table Concerning the Investigation into Skills of WPA Brick and Stone Masons, Carpenters and Painters in Seven Cities in January 1937”; “Outlook for Employment, Unemployment and Relief” Division of Research, Statistics, and Records Works Progress Administration February 25, 1937; “How to Prevent Another 1929 in 1940” Harry Hopkins, 1937; “Meeting at 2201 R Street on Selective Federal Expenditures” April 1, 1937; “Conference at the White House” April 19, 1937.

July 1940- June 1941

Folder 1 July- December 1940: “Memorandum Regarding Latin America”; “Economic Defence in the British Empire and the Western Hemisphere” Folder 2 January- February 1941: Hopkins’ appointments between January 9 and Febrary 10, 1941. This is during his visit to London; “List of Items Urgently Required From U.S.A”; Several Telegrams to FDR from Hopkins’ regarding British Armament needs. Folder 3 March 1941: “Examples of war-time Increases in Taxation” Hopkins to Morgenthau, March 4, 1941; War Department Reports regarding “Recent Lend Lease Activities”; “Operations Under the Act of March 11, 1941”; “Minimum Legal Steps Required to be Taken In Disposing of Defense Articles Under H.R. 1776” Folder 4 April 1941: “Proposed Public Statement by the President” April 11, 1941; “Lend Lease Aid for Exile Governments” April 14, 1941; “Establishment of British Air Schools in the United States”; “Machine Tools” Folder 5 May 1941: “Some Policy Considerations on Defense” Oscar Cox May 25, 1941; “Proclaiming a Full National Emergency in Order to Meet the Imminent Danger to Our National Security and to Strengthen the National Defense of the United States and of the Western Hemisphere”; “Lend-Lease Agreements” General Burns May 19, 1941; “Future Lend-Lease Operations” Oscar Cox May 30, 1941. Folder 6 June 1941: “First Report Under the Act of March 11, 1941 (Lend-Lease At)”; “Proposed Master Agreement with the British under the Lend-Lease Act” Oscar Cox June 6, 1941; “Subversive Activities” Oscar Cox June 30, 1941; “Reduction of Automobile Production” Oscar Cox June 16, 1941.

Chapter Outlines/ Drafts

Folders in Box 10 contain drafts of several chapters from Harry Hopkins: Ally of the Poor, Defender of Democracy. Folder titles are those of the chapter within. Folder 1 Chapter Outline: Overview of all Chapters Folder 2 London Folder 3 Delivering the Goods Folder 4 Supplies and Strategy Folder 5 Russia Folder 6 Making the Goods Folder 7 Laying the Groundwork Folder 8 No Front Stairs in Washington Folder 9 Casablanca Folder 10 Arcadia Folder 12 Reference: Timelines, Collection References, McJimsey’s research correspondence

WWII

Folder 1 Mobilization: Correspondence regarding mobilization and manpower. Folder 2 War Cabinet: Correspondence and notes regarding the War Cabinet. Folder 3 Morgenthau Plan: “American Policy for Treatment of Germany After Surrender,” September 1, 1944; “American Draft of Directive for Germany in the Period Immediately Following the Cessation of Organized Resistance”; “Treatment of Germany,” September 15, 1944. Folder 4 War Economy: “My Recent Trip: Statement by General Marshall,” December 28, 1943; “Public Opinion- The NRPB Report and Social Security,” April 28, 1943; “Jobs After the War” Folder 5 War Manpower: “Austin Manpower Bill- S. 2805,” Oscar Cox, October 5, 1942; “The Job Facing Us Today Is One of Action and Policy Rather Than One of Arithmetic”; “Principles and Assumption to Be Applied by the Army and Navy in Connection With a Program of Universal Military Training,” September 7, 1944. Folder 6 Munitions Assignment Board: Minutes of Meetings 1942-1945 Folder 7 Lend- Lease Transfers 1941: “The Consolidated Statement of Production: British, Canadian, American” Folder 8 Phase II: “Chronology of Discussions Concerning Lend- Lease to U.K. and Related Matters January 1943 to date,” September 16, 1944; “Policy Concerning Assignments of Lend- Lease Munitions Following the Defeat of Germany,” May 5, 1944; “Lend Lease and Civilian Production- U.S. and U.K.,” August 21, 1944; “Lend Lease Policy After Defeat of Germany,” September 7, 1944. Folder 9 Free French: “The French Committee of National Liberation,” Robert D. Murphy, June 6, 1943; Correspondence with Giraud Folder 10 Great Britain Morale 1942: “The British Rejections of Operation Sledgehammer, An Alternative Motive,” Joseph L. Strange, June 24, 1980. Folder 11 Lesser Allies: Correspondence with and regarding NewZealand, Poland, Canada, Australia and the Netherlands. Folder 12 Eastern Europe: Correspondence regarding bomber supply for Poland. Folder 13 USSR 1943: “Hopkins on Russian Problems,” Davies Diary Entry, April 19, 1943; “Minutes of Meeting of President’s Soviet Protocol Committee,” February 23, 1943; “Memorandum Prepared for President of Chronological Development of Stalin’s Attitude as I Analyzed It,” Davies Diary Entry, March 1943; “Roosevelt on Churchill and Stalin,” Davies Diary Entry, April 12, 1943. Folder 14 Kottman U.S. - Soviet Relations: Notes from various works on U.S. Soviet Relations. Folder 15 Yalta: “How Haste Could Lose the Peace,” Davies Diary Entry, October 11, 1944.

Tarsus (1911-1924), Talas (1927-1952), Diyarbakir and Mardin (1952-1957), Retirement from Mission Board.

Tarsus Postcard from October 11, 1910. Thomas Christie's money raising campaign for Building Strickler Hall on Tarsus Campus. Talas. Our Student Song Book: Music Unites the People. Booklet. Tarsus. A History of the Tarsus American School 1888-1988 Booklet. Talas School Reports Talas/Kayseri. General Mission Activities, 1930-1932 Talas. Miscellaneous Information. Letters. Reports to Mission officials from Diyarbakir. Letters to acquaintances in the military, Diyarbakir and Adara, as well as the Embassy in Anka Information and Correspondence pertaining to Mission work in Turkey, Generic. March 25, 1949, October 16, 1956. Documents about Diyarbakir/Mardin work in ABCFM Mission Station between 1952 and 1957. 1947 Report. Letters from Diyarbakir, 1952-1954. Property reports and correspondence written about/from Mardin, addressed to Dave Bergmark, Mission Administration, and Ray and Fern White. February 1953, July, 1955. Letters from Harriet to Children and Friends from Mardin and Diyarbakir. July 1953, July 1956. Letter about life story of Pastor Isak Dikmen. May, 1955. Assorted Diyarbakir: Correspondence regarding lawsuit for distributing Sermon on the Mount, medical reports of injured children, correspondence to and from Nafi Donat. General letters about Diyarbakir and Mardin. 1954-1957. Paul E. Nilson's letters from Diyarbakir. 1955-1957. Letters from Paul E. Nilson, July 1957: Leaving Diyarbakir, Retiring from ABCFM. Paul Nilson correspondence. Notes: 1956, 1957, Retirement from Mission. Academies for Anatolia: A Study of Rationale, Program and Impact of the Educational Institutions Sponsored by the American Board in Turkey: 1830-2005 by Frank Andrew Stone. San Francisco: Caddo Gap Press.

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Articles Book reviews Correspondence (political, charitable, personal) Correspondence (professional) Correspondence with Grinnell College “The Labor Party and constitutional reform for India” (Ph.D. thesis, 1960)Items Discarded: form letters from public officials

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Newspaper clipping, concert notice, daybook, 77 photographs and negatives of the Womens' Glee Club trip to California in 1912. Photos are not labeled, program from the Ames-Grinnell dual track and field meet in May, 1909, program/music from the 50th Anniversary celebration of the Girls and Women's Glee Clubs in June, 1957.

Oversize maps, oversize articles, etc.

Tenth U.S. Census: Town of Grinnell, 1880 Plan of Grinnell, published in Historical Atlas of Iowa, 1875-several oversize copies of Craver, Steele and Austina^?(TM)s Harvester Works-article and sketch, College Newsletter, 1890. Randolph Header Works article Building outlines of Park and First Avenue, 1911 Sectional map of a township-4 photocopies Map of Grinnell, circa 1865 (western half) Photocopy of a partial Sanborn Map of Iowa College (undated) Photocopy of letter from Henry Hamilton to L. F. Parker, December 28, 1904 Partial exhibit pieces of Sanborn maps-copies Photocopies of 1880 map of Grinnell (one copy with red markings by John Kleinschmidt) Photocopy of 1911 Sanborn map of area bordered by 1st Avenue, Broad Street, 2nd Avenue , Park Street. Homeowners as of 1879 noted. Mayflower Home buildings on other half of photocopy. Overlay Mayflower Home buildings onto Sanborn map houses. Photocopy of Poweshiek County town maps (date not determined) Photocopy of map of West Grinnell (c. 1878?). Book 371, page 361. 2 copies Photocopy of Jerusalem plat map bordered by 6th Avenue on north, Commoroo Street on south. Modern map of town of Grinnell, circa late 1980s. (two-sided) Thermofax copy of 1934 Sanborn map of Grinnell. Oversize. Photocopy of 1888 Sanborn map of college area and south. Photocopy of town and gown? poster (dated 1898). Plat map of area surrounding Grinnella^?|no date. Photocopy of Sanborn map, showing Armstrong Hastings Coal Yard near 5th and State. Undated. Photocopy of Des Moines Sunday Register photo and caption about a Chicago and Northwestern locomotive. Six 8 1/2 x 11 photocopies of Sanborn maps, mostly undated, of town. Copy of the Harvey Tribune-Citizen, dated 1902-1903 , featuring manufacturers and businesses in Harvey (Illinois) Oversize copy of Craver and Steele and Austin ad; astronomical clock photo given to college by Corinna Hobart. Folder of oversize photocopies of prints from microfilm about the fires in downtown Grinnell during last part of 19th century. Earl Blair sketches of buildings in Grinnell: 8 x 10s Grinnell General Hospital--photocopy Spencer Building (4th and Main Street)-photocopy Masonic Temple (Main Street-photocopy Spaulding Manufacturing Company Railroad Depot (Union Depot) Sullivan Bank photocopy Lyman-Spencer House at 1206 Broad Spaulding House at 1109 Main Street Citizens Bank,1899 3 photocopies Seaman Building-Commercial Street-four photocopies

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Series 1: Letters to Salter, 1860s-1870s Letters to Salter, 1880s Letters to Salter, 1890s Letters to Salter, 1900- Letter to Salter, undated Salter’s lists of authors and titles Notes in Salter’s handwriting (?); sermon preached in 1853 Series 2: Letters from Salter to L.F. Parker, 1902-03 (re letters 1847-48) Letters to Salter concerning establishment of schools in eastern Iowa, 1847-48 Series 3: Prayer and The founders of Iowa College, 1898

Letters from various correspondents

Dates of letters and numbers of letters from each correspondent is on inventory in box: Alden, Ebenezer Adams, Ephraim Adams, H. Apthorp, W.P. Anderson, E. Badger, Milton Beech, Curtis Beecher, E. Beecher, Henry Ward Bevan, P. Bird, T. Blair (Blain?), M.W. Blanchard, J. Brainard, J.M. Brown, Alexander Bullen, Henry L. M.K.C. (Cross, Moses K.) Coleman, W.L. Clark, James A. Clark, J.B. Cobb, H.W. Cooke, P.G. Cooper, Joseph E. Dinnon (Dimon?), Oliver Dwight, Samuel G. Edie, J.P. Edson, H.K. Emerson, Oliver Emery, Samuel Hopkins Esbjorn, L.P. Ferris, Stephen G. Fessenolen (?), Samuel C. Flathers, Thomas A. Gates, C.H. Gillette, E.J. Gridley, A.D. Grinnell, J.B. Guernsey, J. Hall, A.H. Harding, Lewall Harlan, Senator James Herriott, F.I. Hill, J.J. Hinds, T.A. Hitchcock, George B. Hitchcock, A.B. Holbrock, J.C. Howard, Isabella Hunter, R. Hutchinson, Mrs. Susan Jessup, Silas Johnson, Miss Elisa Jones, D.E. Jones, Edward Joy, Arad Keith, William A. Kimball, J.P. King, Alexander Kirkuss, Edwin Knowles, D. Lambrite, J. Lane, Daniel Lane, Elizabeth J. Lewis, Eleda P. Lewis, John Magoun, G.F. Menick (Merrick?), C.H. Mitchell, D.M. Moody, D.L. Nichols, W.A. Noyes, Daniel P. Parker, L.F. Parvin, T.S. Peet, Stephen Reed, J.A. Rice, George G. Rice, H.F. Ripley, Erastus Robbins, A.B. Salter, Frances (sister) Salter, Mary (sister) Savage, G.S.F. Scudder, H.M. Shaw, J. Shreck, George W. Sheldon, D.S. Shephard, L.H. Snowden, J.E. Smith, Albert Smith, Elijah P. Spaulding, B.A. Sprague, Mrs. H.B. Sterling, John C. Stiles, Edward H. Stone, H.M. Storrs, R.S. Stuart, E.W. Taylor, H.W. Thacher, George Thompson, W.A. Todds, John Turner, Asa Turner, E.B. Turner, Mrs. E.B. Van Cleef, George S. Waters, S. Westernelt, W.A. Whiting, Lyman Whittlesey, M.K. Wilkinson, R. Windsor, John W. Wood, Glen Woods, E.C..A.

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Photographs of J.D. Stoops alone and with friends and family (including his brother, and first and second wives), in various locations, including East Hampton, Massachusetts, and Grinnell. Photggraph of Stoops printed on cloth. Several photographs of friends of Stoops without him. A few photographs of unidentified people without Stoops.

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