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Personal Calenders 1965-6, 1970-4, 1983 Army discharge papers Financial notebooks

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Folder 1 May- December 1937: “Employment on Works Progress Administration Projects, Civilian Conservation Corps and Projects of Other Agencies, By Month: August 31, 1935- October 16, 1937”; “Number of Person Certified as In Need of Relief Employed on Works Progress Administration Projects, Civilian Conservation Corsps and Projects of Other Agenices, August 31, 1935- October 16, 1937”; “Employment on Works Program Projects, By Agency”; “Employment on Works Program Projects, By Relief Status and By Agency”; “Employment on Works Progress Administration Projects, Civilian Conservation Corps and Projects of Other Agencies, By State” Folder 2 January- July 1938: Matthews, William H. “These Past Five Years” March 1938; “Review of ‘Administration of Work Relief in the City of New York August 1936 to December 1937’”; “The WPA Project on Technological Change and Unemployment” Folder 3 August- December 1938: “Basic Considerations Affecting A National Public Assistance Program” General Industrial Advisor Council August 13, 1938; “Text of Mr. Hopkins’ Speech Given at the Departmental Auditorium November 14, 1938”; Williams, Pierce “Problems of Social and Economic Planning Which Will Be Raised By a Large Scale Program of Armaments,” December 15, 1938; Williams, Pierce “Population Basis of Allocating W.P.A. Funds” December 18, 1938. Folder 4 January- March 1939: “Suggested Revision of the Old Age Security Program”; “Broad Case for Drastic Amendment of the Present Old Age Security Program”; “Comments on Pending Amendments to the Social Security Act” Harry L. Hopkins. Folder 5 April- December 1939: “Reorganization Suggestions By the Secretary of Commerce” April 1939; Johnston, Alan “Reflections on Public Work and on The President’s Reorganization Plan No. 1 of April 25 and The President’s Relief Message of April 27” Arpil 29, 1939. Folder 6 January- May 1940: “Organization of Defense Research”; “Press Conference Transcript” Harry L. Hopkins May 23, 1940; “U.S. Inventors to Be Mobilized” Sandor S. Klein, June 1940. Folder 7 June 1940: Executive Order Creating “National Defense Research Committee”

Folder 1 January 1-15, 1942: “Combined Raw Materials Board,” January 26, 1942; “Munitions Assignment Board,” January 26, 1942; “Combined Shipping Adjustment Board,” January 26, 1942. Folder 2 January 16-31, 1942: “First Meeting of the Munitions Assignments Board,” January 31, 1942; “Allocation of finished military equipment to Allies,” January 9, 1942; “Merchant Ship Construction in the United States,” Mr. Lubin January 24, 1942. Folder 3 February 1-15, 1942: “Petroleum Refining Plants for the U.S.S.R.”; “Policy Towards Russia” Lord Beaverbrook,” February 1942; “Text of Resolution No. 30 Passed by the Rio Conference: Improvement of Health and Sanitary Conditions,” February 12, 1942; “Possibility of a Negotiated Russo-German Settlement,” Raymond E. Lee February 12, 1942. Folder 4 February 16-29, 1942: “Munitions Assignment Board Minutes of Second Meeting,” February 16, 1942; “Used Octane Gasoline Refining Equipment for Russia,” E.R. Stettinius, Jr. February 21, 1942. Folder 5 March 1942: “Method of Establishing Shipping Priorities”; “Russia,” March 25, 1942. Folder 6 April 1942: “Hopkins and Marshall in London,” Davies Diary Entry April 8, 1942. Folder 7 May 1942: “Harry Hopkins to Overseas Writers,” May 18, 1942; “Organization for controlling aid to Russia,” May 1, 1942; “Combined U.S.- British Committee on Armament and Ammunition Production,” May 1942; “Survey of Lend- Lease Administration,” Donald C. Stone May 16, 1942. Folder 8 June 1942: “Recommendation of the Committee Appointed by the Munitions Assignments Board,” June 6, 1942; “Memorandum Covering the Inter-Departmental Relationship Between the Army and the War Shipping Administration to form a Basis for Full and Complete Cooperation in Connection with the Purchase, Charter, Use and Operation of Vessels and Terminal Facilities”; “Combined Production and Research Board,” June 19

Folder 1 July- August 1942: “Danger in Delay of Normandy Invasion,” Davies Diary Entry, June 20, 1942; “Maritime Commission’s letter of August 14 to the President”; “Importance of the Middle East,” Bonner F. Fellers, August 4, 1942; “Movement of Airplanes to Russia,” J.H. Burns, August 21, 1942; “Prime Minister’s Visit to Moscow,” British War Cabinet, August 23, 1942. Folder 2 September 1942: “Plans for Operation against the Enemy,” H.H. Arnold September 3, 1942. Folder 3 October 1942: “Aid to Russia,” October 6, 1942; “Conference with the President, HL Hopkins, Admiral Land,” October 21, 1942; “Memorandum for the President,” War Shipping Administration, October 16, 1942; “Report to Hopkins on Soviet Press on Stalin- Churchill Row,” Davies Diary Entry, October 3, 1942. Folder 4 November 1942: “Summary of Minutes of Meeting of President’s Soviet Protocol Committee,” November 25, 1942; “Proposal that CLLA Take Over the Contract of Defense Supplies Corporation with Amtorg Trading Corporation,” Office of Lend-Lease Administration, November 13, 1942; “Lend-Lease Aid to the Fighting Frech in North Africa,” E.R. Stettinius, Jr., November 13, 1942; “Allocation of Net Increase in U.S. Dry Cargo Merchant Fleet to British War Services,” at Shipping Administration, November 20, 1942. Folder 5 December 1942: “North Africa: Summary of Proposed Course of Action,” December 24, 1942; “Importance of Soviet Relationships and Suggestions for Improving Them,” J.H. Burns, December 1, 1942; “General Bradley’s Conference with Mr. Harry Hopkins,” December 8, 1942. Folder 6 January- February 1943: “Minutes of Meeting of President’s Soviet Protocol Committee,” January 5, 1943; “Report to the President on Policy Decisions Relating to Dollar Position of Lend-Lease Countries” Folder 7 March 1943: “The British Foreign Secretary’s Visit to the United States- March 1943”; “Hopkins’ Concern,” Davies Diary Entry, March 12, 1943; “United Kingdom Import Requirements,” Joint Economic Analysis Folder 8 April 1943: “Why Moscow Broke with the London Poles,” Davies Diary Entry, April 30, 1943; “Summary of Events Leading to Establishment of Hopkins Committee,” April 5, 1943; “Memorandum Concerning Meat for the U.K.,” April 26, 1943; “Russia’s Position,” J.H. Burn, August 10, 1943.

Folder 1 May 1943: “Notes on Statements of Dry Cargo Shipping Position,” May 10, 1943; “Committee on supplies to Russia,” May 18, 1943; “Minutes of Fourth Meeting of President’s Soviet Protocol Committee,” May 15, 1943. Folder 2 June- July 1943: “Tonnage through the Persian Gulf,” J.H. Burns July 22, 1943; “Hopkins’ Anxiety: Things Were Bad and Breaking Fast,” Davies Diary Entry June 7, 1943; “Hopkins’ Concern Over Lend- Lease in Moscow,” Davies Diary Entry, June 3, 1943. Folder 3 August- September 1943: “Russian Request for Additional Oil Refineries,” J.H. Burns, August 20, 1943; “Probabilities of a German Collapse,” Joint Intelligence Sub- Committee, September 9, 1943; “Similarities Between Germany’s Situation in August 1918 and August 1943,” Joint Intelligence Sub- Committee, September 9, 1943; “Minutes of Sixth Meeting of President’s Soviet Protocol Committee,” September 30, 1943; “Report of Subcommittee on Shipping to the Soviet Protocol Committee” Folder 4 October- December 1943: “Liaison Between European Advisory Commission and Combined Chiefs of Staff,” November 30, 1943; “Chiang Kai Shek and China,” December 31, 1943; “Policy on Industrial Equipment for Russia,” October 26, 1943. Folder 5 January- April 1944: “Things Needing Definition or Management in Connection with Reoccupation”; “Coordinated Attack on Japan’s Inner Zone,” John Davies, January 16, 1943; “Observers’ Mission to North China,” John Davies, January 15, 1944. Folder 6 May- August 1944: “Marshall’s Concern for His Soldiers,” Davies Diary Entry, August 10, 1944; “Check List of Essential Differences Between the United States, the British, and the Soviet Proposals,” August 19, 1944. Folder 7 September 1944: “The Need for Flexibility in American Policy Toward China,” John Davies, August 30, 1944; “Considerations with Respect to Possible Recongnition by Principal Allied Governments of a Provisional Government of France,” September 17, 1943. Folder 8 October- November 1944: “The Pacification of Japan,” John K. Emmerson, October 6, 1944; “Policy Concerning Our Military Air Activities in Other American Republics,” H.H. Arnold, November 16, 1944; “Policy for Creation of Balanced Air Forces in Central and South American Republics,” H.H. Arnold Folder 9 December 1944: “Munitions Assignment Board in Washington,” December 9, 1944. Folder 10 January 1945: “Combined Military Transportation Committee,” January 2, 1945. Folder 11 February- April 1945: Hopkins to Stalin, April 13, 1945. Folder 12 May- December 1945: “Hopkins- Law Shipping Agreement,” Combined Military Transportation Committee, May 1, 1945; “Allocation of U.S. Supplies to U.S.S.R,” Joint Chiefs of Staff, May 2, 1945; Folder 13 1946 H.H Arnold to Mrs. Harry Hopkins, January 29, 1946.

Folder 1 HLH Personal Relationships Folder 2 John A. Kingsbury (Assistant to Hopkins at WPA) Folder 3 Harry S. Truman (33rd President of the United States) Folder 4 Richard Law (British Minister of State during WWII) Folder 5 Hap Arnold (General Henry H. Arnold, “Architect of American Air Power”) Folder 6 Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner 1941 (Respected Washington Columnists) Folder 7 Harry C. Butcher Diary (Friend and member of Eisenhower’s Staff) Folder 8 James Byrnes: Supreme Court Justice involved in Lend- Lease. Folder 9 Sidney Hyman Notes (Hired by HLH to sort through his papers after leaving politics) Folder 10 Louise Macy (Married to Hopkins from 1942 until his death). Folder 11 Lorena Hicock (Press Correspondent to and confidant of Eleanor Roosevelt) Folder 12 Henry Wallace (Vice President under Roosevelt from 1940-1944) Folder 13 Jesse Macy (Professor of Political Science during Hopkins’ years at Grinnell). Folder 14 Burns, Cox and Young (worked with Hopkins on developing Lend- Lease). Folder 15 Eleanor Roosevelt (Wife of FDR, worked with HLH on New Deal policy) Folder 16 Franklin Delano Roosevelt (32nd President of the United States) Folder 17 Diana Hopkins (Daughter) Folder 18 John N. Hazard (Worked with Hopkins on Lend- Lease for USSR)

Essays, sermons, addresses (ca. 55). Some dated in 1930’s, most undated. Manuscript (holograph and typescript) of unidentified work or works. 3 folders, various pagings. Honors and awards presented to Professor Conard. 1906-56.

[Items are from the Science Building, deposited by Ben Graham in November 1995] “Preliminary notes on a probable new species of Taenia from the common fowl,” Theses for A.M. degree, Haverford College, June 1895. (18 leaves). Also a paper on the locomotion of a cestode embryo. (17 leaves). Holograph in a notebook. Plants of Iowa. Corrections for the 1961 edition. Vegetation of Iowa. 1965. Typed manuscript with original photographs and maps. Typescript. Also typescript of a later version.

Scrapbook contents: Land grant from Pres. James Monroe to James C. Smith for a tract in Illinois, 1817 [letter in code/shorthand/?] Commission to Samuel F. Cooper as U.S. Consul from Queen Victoria, 1876 Partial record of a minister’s meeting, 1799 New Hampshire Gazette, Oct. 7, 1756 [facsimile], 1856 Shipping document, 1715 Handwritten pamphlets, 1715? Photograph of original of “America” “One of two sermons preached at his own ordination by Nathaniel Sparhawk, Lyn End, Mass., 1720 “And if the righteous scarcely be saved...” [handwritten pamphlet], 1791 Letters tied together/or diary from Newburg Port, 1772-80? Letter to James Cummings from Benjamin Allen, 1821 A bond, Barrow to Fantleroy, 1731 Letter to Rev. Jesse Appleton (Pres., Bowden College?), 1803 Bill of merchandise, 1724 Letter to Wm. Pepperell, 1729 A commercial letter to Wm. Pepperell, 1746 Warrant for wages, 1778? Letter from Joel Barlow, 1785 Receipt, 1805 [Diary, 1766?] Notebook, 1813-40? Letter or notes in code/shorthand/? [Notes], 1729 Handwritten pamphlet, No. 18, 1724 [Rev. Ebenezer Parkman?] Notes of Joseph Buckminster, 1774-80? Notes of Rev. Chas. G. Finney Lancaster: Francis Bailey, 1777. (owned by Lyman Whiting) N.B. The “Articles of Confederation and perpetual union between the states...” are cataloged and shelved at: KF4508 1777

7 folders and one envelope

1. First Congregational Church in Grinnell at present location; also school. 2. Later school enlarged. Church with bell added. 3. Sunday church services in Grinnell. 4. J.B. Grinnell home in block across from Central Park (house moved to 720 _ Broad ca. turn of century, demolished in 1980s). 5. High School, Fourth Avenue between Broad and Park. 6. Same. 7. Old Stone Congregational Church, replaced first church at Fourth and Broad. 8. Broad and Fourth, opposite Central Park. 9. West side of Main Street between Fourth and Fifth Avenues looking north 10. “Shooting ducks” with Ed Brande, corner Main and Fourth, east side. 11. First McNally’s store, present location of Eckerman’s Jewelry (915 Main St.) 12. Inside McNally’s store about 1907. 13. Southeast corner Fourth and Main, present site of Elks building. 14. Same, looking east on Fourth Avenue. 15. Looking south from Fourth on Main St. 16. From Central Park, northwest corner Commercial Street and Broad, 1907. 17. Central Park, corner Fourth and Broad. 18. Co-op delivery service, south side of Fourth Avenue, between Main and West Street. 19. Same. 20. Fourth Avenue north side. Early movie house to left. 21. Co-op delivery stables, later Ford garage (now gone). 22. Northeast corner Fourth and Main. 23. Northwest corner Fourth and Main. 24. Spanish-American company 1898, Main Street south of Fourth Avenue. 25. Main Street south of Fourth Avenue; buildings demolished; now (1983) a parking lot. 26. Looking east on Fourth Avenue and West intersection. Spaulding car. 27. Central Park looking west. (1930's?) 28. Broad Street from Fourth, looking north. 29. Northwest corner Fourth and Main. 30. Southwest corner Fourth and Broad. 31. Looking west on Fourth between Park and Broad; High School and Congregational Church to right. 32. Broad Street north of Fourth. 33. East side of Broad; Norris livery stables, now Post Office. 34. Stewart Library and north end of Congregational Church. 35. Stewart Library, old high school in rear. 36. Present site of Post Office after Norris livery stables and before Post Office was built, before 1916. 37. Broad Street north of Stewart Library, before Post Office built. 38. Paving Broad Street; library, Congregational Church, and Methodist Church in rear. 39. North side of Commercial Street buildings, now gone. 40. City water work, Main and First Avenue. 41. National Guard Armory, World War I, 1028 Fourth Avenue, south side. 42. Grinnell fire of 1889: started by sparks from a train, burned blocks between Broad and Main south of railroad tracks to FourthAvenue. 43. After the fire of 1889, looking northeast from railroad tracks. [alley between Broad and Main] 44. Central Park: temporary buildings erected for businesses which were destroyed by fire of 1889. 45. Park Hotel. Southwest corner of Commercial and Broad. Livery service buggy to railroad depot and drays for trunks. 46. Same. 47. Park Hotel with chimneys of city heating plant in background. This plant furnished steam heat for downtown and college. 48. First Rock Island depot, looking east. 49. Rock Island depot, looking east, with passenger train crossing north on Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad. 50. Looking east to depot. Chapin House in foreground. Chapin House built in 1876, located east of Broad in small park west of depot. Here James Norman Hall worked for his room and board while attending Grinnell College. 51. Chapin House. 52. Rock Island depot (possibly in the Fall when students were returning to college with their trunks on baggage carts.) 53. Rock Island depot. 54. Steam train, east-bound. 55. Last of the trains on Rock Island. 56. Monroe Hotel, corner Park and Third, across from depot. 57. Monroe Hotel with a gazebo in foreground where Chapin House once stood. 58. Lobby of Monroe Hotel. 59. Monroe Hotel in 1970s before demolition. 60. Spaulding buggy factory. 61. Inside Spaulding plant, showing the auto frames. 62. Arbor Lake about 1915. 63. Laros buggy factory, northeast corner of Fourth and spring. 64. Laros buggy factory across from Spaulding factory (north). 65. South side of Central Park with early bandstand. 66. Fourth and Broad, before Memorial Building. 67. Central Park with bandstand (now gone) on east side. Old Baptist Church in background and Brande apartments. 68. Foster and Bailey Implement Store, south side of Commercial Street before fire of 1889. 69. Fourth Avenue between Broad and Main, looking east, before snow plows. 70. Broad Street between Fourth and Fifth with center parking (1961). 71. Main and Fifth, southwest corner, Colonial Opera House, later a movie theater, demolished in 1970's. 72. Parker Grade School, south side of Sixth and Spring (demolished). 73. Old Baptist Church, Fourth and Park, just before demolition. 74. Grinnell College campus, Men’s Gym (became Women’s Gym ca. 1942) 75. First Friends Church, north on Sixth Avenue (demolished?) 76. North side Commercial Street 77. John Manly home, Fifth and High (demolished) 78. Depression days of the 1930s, a merchant’s promotion with drawings for free merchandise. 79. Oldest veteran’s grave in Hazelwood Cemetery. 80. Early transportation on trek west. Scene may be at corner of Park and Fifth.