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Iowa College.  Scholarships, Prize Funds

Donations to Grinnell University & Iowa College. 14" x 9" Arranged by date of the donation. Index in front. Terms of donation for some funds copied into the volume.  Some correspondence inserted.  Consistent handwriting and ink suggest that one person copied documents pledging gifts prior to about the 1880s from the originals into this volume.  Most of the inserted correspondence is from the 1890s; possibley this book was begun and actively used during the 1890s.

Correspondence

Letters to the Treasurer (H. H. Robbins). Most deal with fund raising or paying pledges; some are from parents about their children's finances (e.g. Atkinson, which continues 1901-1902), parents seeking help finding student housing; alumni urging admission of promising students; real estate investments (e.g. college lot on West Ohio St., Chicago, letters from E.S. Judd); mortgage payments. Note letters from : Bicknell on Herron 1899, J. F. Darby, A.L. Frisbie, J. Fleming on Mrs. Rand's finances, 1900, S.H. Herrick, J. L. Hill, Gershom Hill (Hill and Robbins were cousins), from H. H. Kennedy re: candidate for presidency of Grinnell, Dr. Harper, 1900; letters from S. A. Merrill and John Meyers re: college investments.

Correspondence

Letters from Rossetter Cole and Henry Matlack on Music School (all in "M: folder); Wm. Parsons on Herron affair effect on donations; from L. F. Parker mention of A. Adams' papers, Julius Reed correspondence, Pres. Gates, Herron (Feb. 1901)

Correspondence M-Z

T. McClelland, president of Knox College, comments on pensions under the "new Carnegie figt for college professors" (June 1905); Paul Peck on election to Chair of History; Albert Shaw to Pres. Bradley on soliciting money from Rockefeller and Carnegie (1902 and 1905); Eugene Taylor (of Josselyn & Taylor, Cedar Rapids) applying to become college architect; Pres. Winchell on construction of railroad depot; Zitterell, contractor for Chapel and YM-YW building.

Congracts

Contracts with General Education Board: "Conditional Appropriation to Grinnell College" Nov. 1906 (college raise $150,000, Board contribute $50,000) "Conditional Appropriation to Grinnell College" Oct. 1911 (college raise $400,000, Board contribute $100,000) "Conditional Appropriation to Grinnell College" June 1920 (college raise $1,000,000, Board contribute $500,000)

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