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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

Correspondence (J. L. Hill), ca. 1928 Letters: S. Wolcott to Julius Reed, 1832 (from Hill’s collection?) Letters (from Hill’s collection?) [3 folders] Bill of sale of slaves (from scrapbook) Sale of land, July 18, 1828 (from scrapbook) Items from scrapbook Postal receipts, 1840-42 (from scrapbook) Lyman Whiting correspondence and materials (from scrapbook)

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.

Letter from administrator of Kemmerer’s estate Expedition (autobiography) Along the Raccoon River (including some corrected pages for typesetting) -- 4 folders A winter’s day (reminiscence) The roundhouse (printed copy of the published story) Marais des cygnes (stories) White clouds (stories) The woodchopper and other stories The flying cloud (poems)

Folder 5: News releases from Parsons College, December 1, 1962 – February 6, 1963 (some undated). Folder 6: Minutes from Humanities Division, June 20, 1962-Septenber 21, 1962. Folder 7: Minutes of the Meeting of the Faculty Senate, May 21, 1962-october 15, 1962 Folder 8: Minutes of the Council of Deans, June 16, 1962 – January 15, 1963 Folder 9: AAUP minutes, reports, constitution, bylaws, 1962-63 Folder 10: Fairfield news clippings 1966-1967 Folder 11: Better Education for Less Money, transcript of speech given by President Millard Roberts, May 15, 1963 Folder 12: “Institutional Climate at Parsons College,” January 20, 1967. Office of Institutional Research, Parsons College. Folder 13: “Tutorial Assistance in College Core Courses, “, by E. Martin Etters, Director of Institutional Research, Parsons College. Handwritten note states that it is to be published in Journal for Educational Research. Folder 14: “Instructional and Low Grade Comparison,” Occasional Report #2. Office of Institutional Research, Parsons College, August 25, 1965. Folder 15: “Attrition at Parsons College 1950-1965 (Preliminary Data),” Office of Institutional Research, Parsons College, April 12, 1966. Folder 16: “Profile of Parsons Graduates February 1965-February 1966 (Preliminary Data),” Office of Institutional Research, April 11, 1966. Folder 17: “Enrollment Trends During the Trimester period 1960-1965,” Occasional Report #5. Office of Institutional Research, Parsons College, January 5, 1966. Folder 18: “Bivariate tables, Parsons profile Fall 1964-Fall 1965 (June 24, 1966) Folder 19: Office of the President. “The Planning Phase/Reorganization/Results of the Reorganization.” Probably compiled in 1958 or 1958. Folder 20: Parsons College annual report for 1958

Folder 1: Parson’s low grade, Dean’s list, conditional student list, enrollment reports, adds and drops. Summer and fall 1962. Folder 2: Student Reports (demographics, etc.) Folder 3: Materials distributed to all faculty members by Parsons College. 1962-63 (memos, fliers, lists, grading instructions, etc.) Folder 4: Materials for public distribution from Parsons College (calendars, advertising) Folder 4a: Vol. 1, no. 2 of the student newspaper The Portfolio.

Photograph of J.D. Stoops with Mary Stevenson (relation?). Photograph of two women indoors, with J.D. Stoops seated and reflected in a mirror. Photographs of members of Stoops's family. Photographs of various people, both indentified and unidentified. Three tintypes of three men and three women in various groupings.

Photographs of Mary E. Milner (sometimes Millner; first wife of J.D. Stoops), taken in various locations, including Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and East Hampton, Massachusetts. Several photographs of unidentified people without Mary Milner

Photographs of J.D. Stoops alone and with friends and family (including his brother, and first and second wives), in various locations, including East Hampton, Massachusetts, and Grinnell. Photggraph of Stoops printed on cloth. Several photographs of friends of Stoops without him. A few photographs of unidentified people without Stoops.

Memorandum book with notes on the German and French languages. Nurses' Bill and Receipt Book, now containing only the hand-written receipts, which date to between 1894 and 1898. 1875 Pocket Diary, used as an address book, notebook, and ledger. Small address book, with initials J.D.S. on front cover. Leather-bound notebook with pocket; notebook used as address book, notebook, and ledger; includes pressed leaf. Notebook with newspaper clippings of articles by J.D. Stoops (of Easthampton), and typescript and manuscript notes on the Prophets. Peninsula Annual Conference: Official Journal, 1951. Canada, My Home, by Grant Balfour. Views on and about Mt. Tom and of Mt. Tom Railroad, Holyoke, Mass.. Echoes of Silverado, by Guy Sparks; inscribed to J.D. Stoops by the author. A Book of Poetry, by Guy Sparks; inscribed by the author. The Handy Book of Synonyms, fifth edition (?), c. 1882. Rhapsody on Love, by Edwina Wills, '37; inscribed by the author to J.D. Stoops, in recognition of his 100th birthday. Black, cloth-bound notebook. Autograph book, with Mary E. Millner [sic], Charlottetown, May 20th, 1879 inscribed on the first front fly-leaf (first wife of J.D. Stoops); includes some pressed flowers.

Prairie voices; compact disc demo recording. 1995. [Note: a copy is available in the Listening Room, Burling Library.]   Programs, published reviews: Eric Hermannson’s soul Oh Millersville Broken Ground   Photographs of Swander, Carey, Hunter

Audiocassettes of performances of: Broken ground. Performed by the Des Moines Symphony and Grinnell Singers, 1996. Chamber symphony, for 31 instruments. Performed by Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra, 1985. Duo variations for double bass & harp. Performed by John Chiego (double bass) and Jeanmarie Chenette (harp), 1991. Eric Hermannson’s soul (2 tapes). Four character pieces; for flute and piano. Performed by Claudia Anderson (flute) and Richard Gloss (piano), 1992. Idyll. Performed by Leslie Morgan (soprano), Margaret Linnan (flute), and Jeanmarie Chenette (harp), 1982. Jazmines. Performed by ten performers including Jeanmarie Chenette, Ken Goldsmith, and Terry King, 1986. Oh Millersville! Performed by Kristie Tigges (soprano) and Elizabeth Mollison (piano), 1992. Oh Millersville! Performed by Amy Johnson (soprano) and Richard Gordon (piano), 1990 and orchestral version performed by Kristie Tigges (soprano) and the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra. Liberty from the Tyranny of 12 equal tones. 1989. Out of the land. Performed by the Grinnell Singers, 1992. Posthumous Orpheus. Performed by Catherine King, mezzo-soprano, and Jacob Heringman, lute, 1995. Triple feature. Performed by the Cedar Rapids Symphony Chamber Orchestra, 1994.   Note: Copies of these recordings that may be listened to are available in the Listening Room, Burling Library.

Musical scores--Vocal music: Idyll.  Text from John Hawkes’ novel The blood oranges.  [1981] Jazmines.  On a poem by Juan Ramon Jimenez for baritone, harp, woodwind and string quartets.  1979. Oh Millersville! 14 slices of small town life for soprano and piano.  Texts by Fern Gravel (a.k.a. James Norman Hall).  c1990. Oh Millersville! 9 slices of small town life for soprano and orchestra.  Orchestration commissioned by the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra.  [1991] Out of the land, for solo baritone, choir, and organ.  Text from “The past of our college” by Paula V. Smith and George F. Magoun.  1991. The prayer of St. Francis.  1978. Posthumous Orpheus, for mezzo-soprano and lute.  Text by Edward Hirsch.  1995.   Musical scores--Instrumental music: Duo variations.  1991 Fantasy and fugue on Bach, piano trio.  1985. Frenzy, for string quartet (work in progress).  1981/86. Invocation, for harp and organ.  1984. Liberty from the tyranny of 12 equal tones, suite in 19 note equal temperament for 4 synthesized horns.  1989. Triple feature, for chamber orchestra.  1994.   Oversized folder:  Musical score--Instrumental music: Chamber symphony, for 31 instruments.  1983.

Musical scores--Vocal music: Broken ground, for choir and orchestra. Texts by Ray Young Bear, Michael Carey, Paula V. Smith, Edward Hirsch, Dean Hunter, and Mary Swander. Choral-piano score and choral- orchestral score. 1996. Eric Hermannson’s Soul, vocal-piano score and vocal-orchestral score. Opera. c1993. "Eric’s salvation", scene 1 from the opera, Eric Hermannson’s Soul. Based on a story by Willa Cather. 1986-1988. Glory to God (Gloria in Excelsis), music for Episcopal worship. 1991.

71 audiotapes of the interviews 19 - 3-1/2" computer disks