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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.

Samuel Cooper on Chapel.

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 and photograph of ground breaking. Blueprints are in Oversize file (RG-T ser. 4.9)

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.

Henry Matlack on power and installation of new organ; L. F. Parker on Gates, Herron and fund raising; Trustee John Meyer.

Includes correspondence with various banks and lawyers.  Covers court case by family contesting the will, sales of parts of the estate, some newspaper clippings.

Arranged alphabetically by account. Tape on cover of original binding: "Current Accounts up to July 1921 when new system of accounting was established by J. Brooke & Co."

Arranged alphabetically by account. Tape on cover of original binding: "Current Accounts up to July 1921 when new system of accounting was established by J. Brooke & Co."

Arranged by fund.  Incomplete, ledger pages not numbered.  Some funds are recorded in several different places in the ledger.  Includes records of college income and expenses, college-owned real estate and investments.  These records are preceded by Endowment and Current Accounts 1921-1925 and continued in Current Ledger 1925-1942.

Current Ledger: Arranged by fund. Incomplete index, ledger pages not numbered. Includes records of college expenses, college-owned real estate and investments. The records continue "Current Ledger 1925-1937". Grinnell College Investments, Endowments, Annuities, Mortgages Ledger, 1925-1941. (Last half of film) Index. Ledger sheets not numbered, index not an indicator of where to find each record listed.