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RG-T: Treasurer's Office Records 1847-1980 File
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Correspondence: A-L

Frank Almy; E. Adams on selection of Bradley as president, 1902; Dan Dradley; S. F. Cooper; S. A. Cravath on selection of Bradley as president; Frisbie; Henry Holsman (architect; building on W. Ohio, Chicago); Gershom Hill; Sh. H. Herrick on investments; James L. Hill; S. H. Herrick.

Correspondence and legal documents

Correspondence between Phelps and Lewis Scharnberg, farmer, deals with daily activities, problems and trials of farming at the time: planting walnut ttrees as a windbreak, Dec. 3, 1936; building repairs; marketing crops; list of grains to be planted, cost of seed, roads closed because of mud, March 1936; description of an "old timer" snowstorm and reminiscences of "the old days" ("oldest child was born in the barn, done it ourselves, had no $5 to get a Doctor, second child was born in a machine shed...:" "...walked 8 miles to and from work every morning and night and got $1.50 for 10 hours work...did not have time them days to smoke cigarettes..." Feb. 11, 1936 Correspondence and legal papers related to the college mortgage on the farm. Arranged more or less in reverse chronological order, as they came to the archives.

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.

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