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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.

9" x 6" volume.

Record book of pledges to the Library fund, Chapel fund, and Endowment campaign

18" x 12" Arranged by fund. Index in front.

18" x 12" Arranged by fund, then chronologically by donation date. Index in front.

11" x 9" volume

Most letters deal with an 1893 fund raising campaign, directed to the alumni, for the YMCA-YWCA building. Most letters were addressed to W. M. Parsons, '87, Iowa College Financial Agent, 1893-?. Some of the correspondents include: E. E. Bartlett, J. F. Darby, Gershom Hill, J. H. Haines, James L. Hill, Henry Holsman (Architect), S. A. Merrill (comment on Herron, 1898), Clinton Nourse (architect), C. R. Shaatto (?) (comment on Herron, 1898), Emma Wolcott (comment on Herron, 1897).

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.

Letters to the Treasurer (H.H. Robbins) from Trustees Gershom Hill (Robbins's cousin) and N. F. Hawley. Subjects of correspondence include campus buildings, Herron affair, Pres. Gates.

Letters to Robbins (continued from folder #2) Note letters from: John Nollen from Germany; E. S. Huston on Mrs. Rand's finances; W. B. Olds (job application; was on Music faculty 1900-1904, wrote words to Grinnell Alumni Song); Mrs. Rand (?) on house rental; H. E. Roberts (father of Fred Roberts, '99 (?)); J. Fred Smith' Albert Shaw; J. K. P. Thompson, trustee, on various business matters.

Most letters are to Robbins (Letter from E. Adams to Dr. Hill is an exception). Note letters from E. Adams on new edition of Iowa Band; A. L. Frisbie (fund raising); George Gates on occupancy of Presidents house (June 1901) and personal financial matters (1901); Gershom Hill; William Hawley (n.b. March 1901 mention of presidency, Shaw gift); James Hill (March 1901 on death of E. Adams); Henry Holsman on architect for Grinnell public library Feb. 1901; Seth Larrabee on Daniel Lane's property in Freeport ME.