Report to Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees, Feb. 1940. Report of special committee to review policies and personnel of the Department of Music. Murray Welch, Chair. Includes copies of correspondence between Welch and David Peck on Peck's position in the department.
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.
Samuel Cooper on Chapel.
Many letters are to Minora Trueblood. Chandler Bullock, Worcester, MA, re: Goodnow Estate donation ($1000); James Hill re: donations for Hill prize and meeting conditions of Carnegie gift.
Correspondence of the committee with alumni donors for the construction of ARH. Most corresondence was of a very routine nature and was discarded. Letters preserved are a selection to indicate exampoes of typical letters, those reflecting problmes fund-fraisers encountered, letters indicating the status of the campaign at a given time or progress on the construction, letters that indicate how the und-raising campaign wa organized. Some of the corrrespondents include: Gershom Hill, Harry Hopkins; S. A. Merrill re: E. H. Taylor as an architect; H. W. Magoun; Jesse Macy; Anne Norris; Merta Matlack.
Correspondence, financial reports and other reports relating to Grinnell's endowment campaign, financial condition, budgets. Mush of the correspondence is between Treasurer Phelps and officers of the General Education Board in New York.
The bulk of the correspondence is between Phelps and Hungate.
Most of the correspondence and financial reports are from 1920.
Henry Holsman (Chicago) to President Main and to W. Brainerd (Boston)
Cross-Wells Co., Chicago. Contracts, proposals, correspondence.
Correspondence with Bailey-Marsh Builders (Minneapolis) and S. H. Crosby. 2 blueprints are located in the Oversize file (RG-T Ser. 4.1)
Primarily correspondence between Bailey-Marsh and vendors. Includes worker accident reports.
Includes a 1913 letter from Crosby (Secretary of Grinnell Foundation) to Pres. Main on Grinnell Foundation and financing the cottages; Dean Fanny Gates's correspondence.