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Elizabeth Blagg Anderson attended Grinnell College as a student for one year in 1926.  She went on to receive her B.A. from Iowa Wesleyan and her M.S. from Iowa State College, but she returned to Grinnell to teach zoology from 1929-1937.  The Grinnell College Archives received her undated memoirs in the fall of 1990.
 
H. George Apostle served Grinnell College as a professor of mathematics from 1948-1978.  This collection of his papers contains his translations and commentaries of Aristotle, his PhD thesis, and several versions of the Nicomachean Ethics.
 
Paul Appleby graduated from Grinnell College in the class of 1913.  During his life in Iowa he edited the Iowa Magazine and wrote editorials for the Des Moines Register and Tribune.  He and his wife Ruth, who attended Grinnell in the same years, had three children, who also came to study at Grinnell College.  This collection contains a wide range of artifacts from Appleby’s life, including photographs (some at Grinnell), political and personal correspondence, and many of his published writings. 
 
Kara Bakken interviewed more than 50 alumni of Grinnell College in order to compile an oral history collection celebrating nearly 70 years of the college’s history.  The project is entitled, “What We Remember: An Oral History of Grinnell College 1925-1992.”
 
Clara Baster (class of 1924) and Anita Lucke (1925) coauthored Books of the Middle Ages, a 20-leaved, typewritten manuscript in the Grinnell College Archives collection.

Paul Beall attended Grinnell College from 1928-1932 where he majored in Economics and minored in Speech. The collection includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, programs, school paperwork, and small artifacts.
 
Shelton Beatty wrote the “History of Grinnell College and its Curriculum to 1931” for his PhD thesis at Stanford University.This collection consists of the notes he made for his thesis.  Beatty served Grinnell College as Dean of Men, Dean of Personnel Administration, and as a member of the English Department between the years of 1929 and 1943.

Loren Berry was a trustee of Grinnell College from 1894 until his death in 1900. This collection includes his addresses and sermons from 1888 -1898, and his letters from Europe written in 1893.

Tony Blair. One letter, dated May 22, 1992, concerning the placement of a Grinnell student in Blair’s office while Blair served as MP. Two other letters from Blair’s aides are included.

Business Diary of 1862, 1863. This handwritten ledger diary was begun on January 1, 1862 in Eldora, Hardin County, Iowa. The unnamed writer discusses property purchases and disposals; loans and payments; tax information.
 
John Forrest Chapman, a 1924 Grinnell graduate, spent two years post-graduation teaching at the Porter Middle School near Techow in the Shantung province for the Grinnell-in-China program.  He spent the next year at Anatolia College in Thessaloniki, Greece.  This collection, donated by Chapman’s nephew Francis P. Howland, contains notes, snapshots, photographs, post cards, three small scrolls, and three books, mementos of these three years.  
 
Anton P. Chekhov was a Russian dramatist and short story writer from the late nineteenth century.  This collection consists of a letter from his sister and a replica of his letter to the co-founder of the Moscow Art Theater.
 
Jonathan Chenette began teaching at Grinnell College in 1983 and was promoted to Associate Professor of Music in 1989.  As a composer and librettist, with the assistance of several grants, awards, and fellowships, he has worked with a number of symphonies and orchestras in Iowa and abroad.  Chenette donated print materials and recordings from 1984-96 to the Archives.
 
Amy Clampitt’s two-act chronicle, “Mad With Joy or A Guilty Thing Surprized,” was sent to Grinnell College by an alum and distant relative of Ms. Clampitt and can be viewed in the Iowa Room of the Grinnell College Archives.
 
Harold L. Clapp was a Professor on the Modern Language faculty of Grinnell College from 1939-61.  Many of his talks, unpublished articles, stories, books, verse, and translations are in this collection as well as newspaper clippings and correspondence.  A significant portion of his writing deals with American public schools and his ideas for their improvement.
           
Henry S. Conard served the Department of Biology at Iowa/Grinnell College* from 1906 to 1944. With his expertise in botany and bryology, with special emphasis on bryophytes and water lilies.  An assortment of essays, sermons, awards, clippings, correspondence, manuscripts, and notes make up this collection of his work.
 
The First Congregational Church of Victor, IA organized in 1883 and faced many financial challenges.  The ledgers and notebooks of this collection along with meeting minutes offer insight to these difficulties of making ends meet while serving the needs of the congregation.
 
Church Women United of the Grinnell Council. The Public Relations Notebook (1956-84) kept by the organization was donated to the Grinnell College Archives by Sue Drake in 1987.  The notebook contains clippings, membership records, legal information, and programming.
 
Lenabel B. Courtney was a student at Iowa College around 1900, but this collection of tapes and transcripts from an oral interview with her grandson mainly details her life on an Iowa farm at the end of the 19th Century.
 
John M. Crossett served as an associate professor of classics at Grinnell College from 1963-1970, and a small portion of this collection is material related to that experience.  Parsons College in Fairfield, IA, where Crossett taught from 1962-63, is the subject of the bulk of this collection, which includes clippings, published work, information on campus groups, and a documentation of the conditions at the school from 1962 until it closed in 1973.

Wes Davies graduated from Grinnell College in 1940. This collection includes typed speeches and comical sketches drawn by Davies and presented at his 50th and 55th class reunions.
 
Truman Douglass, a pastor of the Congregational Church in Osage, IA from 1868-82 and Superintendent of the Congregational Home Missionary Society from 1882-1907, compiled a record of biographical information for Congregational ministers in Iowa up to 1900.  This typed manuscript in the Grinnell College Archives collection was used as a source for his published work, Pilgrims of Iowa, but was never published itself.  His work in Iowa eventually brought him to Grinnell, where he developed a connection with the college and served as a Trustee from 1906-19.
 
Harry Downer was an Iowa College graduate of 1882, and this collection, donated by his nephew Philip S. Rinaldo, contains his memoirs of his time in Grinnell along with letters of correspondence with classmates and other published pieces concerning the history of the college.
 
The Drake Family Papers collection consists mostly of material from George Bryant Drake and includes correspondence, sermon notes, photographs, and financial records from his life as a congregational minister.  The collection also contains professional papers from his three children, George Albert, Richard Bryant, and Alberta Jane Drake, from Nell Rice Drake, his mother, and from his wife’s family.
 
The Dunham/Grinnell Photograph Collection was donated to the Archives by Marian Dunham, who received it from her uncle, Josiah Bushnell Grinnell.  Grinnell graduated from the college in 1894, and the collection of photographs includes those of members of the 1894 class along with written reminiscences. 

Dwight D. Eisenhower Autograph
 
Entre Nous was organized in 1908 by a group of women who had been active in Iowa College literary societies.  Thematic papers and book reviews were presented at meetings and discussions followed.  This collection contains meeting minutes, financial and program records, and some miscellaneous information. 
 
The Fortnightly Club, founded in 1904 by Edward Steiner, for the purpose of “literary and social improvement” was an organization for men and may have been the model for Entre Nous.  Men from the town and college met fortnightly to read and discuss their written papers.  In this collection are club records from 1904-66.
 
The Forum Magazine collection is a compilation of 53 articles published from 1886-91 by 49 writers.  The magazine was a political, sociological, and economic review published in New York (1886-1950).

Charles H. Foster Papers. Foster was and English professor at Grinnell College from 1947-1958/This collection contains copies of correspondence written by Foster to Robert Frost and also letters received by Foster from MacKinlay Kantor, Paul Engle, Perry Miller, Curt Harnack, and Joseph F. Wall. 

Fleming Fraker Historic Iowa Post Cards. A collection of approximately 7,000 postcards from all Iowa counties. Includes town scenes, buildings, people, events, and catastrophies.
 

Grant O. Gale Personal Papers. Grant O. Gale served as a physics professor at Grinnell College from 1928 until his retirement in 1972. His most famous student was Robert Noyce (class of 1949), one of the inventors of the integrated circuit. Gale was notable not only for his teaching, but also for his leadership of the Grinnell Physics Museum. He taught physics abroad in Iraq, Pakistan, and Ethiopia.

Horace Greeley. The Archives holds two autographed letters from Horace Greeley written in 1842 and 1848 to Rev. T. G. Bromerd in Londonderry, New Hampshire.  Librarian Emeritus Henry Alden donated the letters in 1988.
 
Josiah Bushnell Grinnell founded the town of Grinnell in 1854 and was a trustee of Iowa College from 1854-84.  These archived papers include correspondence, mainly with his wife between the years 1852-54 and 1868-69, land deeds, and his 1850 diary.
 
The Grinnell-Chapin Collection consists of genealogical material from 1480 to 1920 for the families of Josiah Bushnell Grinnell and his wife Julia Chapin.  The Grinnell files date back to Pierre Grenelle, born about 1480 in France, and the Chapin line is traced back to 1576.  Also in the collection are correspondence, portraits, some cemetery inscriptions, and a number of deeds and legal documents. 

The Grinnell College Womens’ Glee Club toured California under the direction of Charlotte Knowles Vandenburgh in 1912.  This is a collection of clippings, concert notices, a daybook, photographs and negatives from that trip.
 
James Norman Hall, coauthor of Mutiny on the Bounty, holds a very special place in the heart of the Grinnell College Archives.  This manuscript collection (1906-54) contains many clippings about Hall’s WWI adventures and about his later published works.  The letters of correspondence between Hall and his publishers, family, and friends, concerning personal matters, life in Tahiti, or status reports for works in progress are numerous.  Also in the collection are the original manuscripts and drafts for his published books, poems, short stories, along with original copies of unpublished stories and poems, many of which he wrote for his daughter.  The remaining photographs and drawings complete the largest collection in the Archives with detailed illustration. 
 
Harriet Hamlin attended Grinnell College in the year 1923, but she was also a close friend and neighbor of John H.T. Main in Brooklyn, New York.  In this file dated 1917-1931 are newspaper clippings and photographs in a scrapbook about President Main, a short biography of Harriet Hamlin, and the bulk of the collection consists of personal letters between Hamlin and Main.
 
Mary Jane Peck Harrell, daughter of David Peck, a director of the Grinnell Men’s Glee Club for many years, and a member of the graduating class of 1938, completed an extensive research project on the history of the Glee Club at the college from 1894-1958.  This collection contains the interview correspondence and drafts of the project, research materials, and an alumni file.
 
I. M. Harrington. According to one small diary written between June 1892 and September 1893, I.M. Harrington, a resident of Grinnell, IA, sold buggies and carriages for the Spaulding Manufacturing Company. 
 
Irving Hart. There are two pieces to the Irving Hart collection in the Grinnell College Archives.  One is a letter that Elizabeth Kelsey (’98) wrote to Hart in April 1898 as he was leaving Grinnell to serve in the Spanish –American War, and the other is an autograph album with signatures of students and faculty from the 1870s when Irving’s mother Elizabeth Biggar Hart was a student.
 
Louis Hartson received his bachelor’s degree from Iowa College in 1908 and returned to teach psychology from 1911-23.  Between the years 1973 and 1976, he recorded his memories of those years and of the following 19 years at Oberlin College.  This set of memoirs as well as several personal letters are held in this collection.
 
Walter Scott Hendrixson was a member of the chemistry faculty at Iowa/Grinnell College* from 1890 until his sudden death in 1925.  Professor Oelke donated Hendrixson’s lanternslides of chemical apparatus and his chemical notes to the Archives in 1980.
 
George Davis Herron. A Congregational Church minister and professor of Applied Christianity at Iowa College (1893-99), George Davis Herron was a radical and a Socialist.  This collection contains mostly correspondence from the 1890s regarding college business.  There are also some published and unpublished papers written by Herron along with a number of clippings.
 
James Langdon Hill attended Iowa College with the class of 1871.  He continued his education at Andover Theological Seminary and served as a pastor for Congregational churches in Massachusetts.  The main piece of this collection is a scrapbook of important documents, such as land grants and correspondence with prominent political figures.  The file folders contain similar material, including the bill of sale of a slave.

The Hill Family collection contains works of James J. Hill, Sarah Hyde, Sarah Harriman, the two oldest boys, Gershom and James Langdon, and James Langdon’s wife covering the years 1844-1931. James J. Hill, a minister from the east coast, is well known for his contribution to begin Iowa College, putting down the first dollar to start it. The collection contains mostly printed materials (pamphlets, small books, and typed manuscripts), and a few letters of correspondence.

The Velma Hiser Collection contains three letters written to Professor J. P. Ryan between 1949 and 1950, one letter (1954) to Jean Ryan Squire, the daughter of Ryan, and the syllabus for Prof. Ryan’s Fundamentals of Speech in 1941. 
 
The Historical and Literary Club was begun in 1882 as the Ladies Reading Circle.  This club’s purpose was “to gain an intelligent understanding of the world achievements, and its problems, through the study of its history, literature, science, and arts.”  This collection contains meeting minutes, financial logs, study topics, yearbooks, papers, and paraphernalia from the organization.

Herbert Hoover. This letter, sent December 29, 1942, is an acceptance by President Hoover to speak at a luncheon.

Langston Hughes. Postcard of Gates Tower sent by Hughes in the spring of 1944 when Hughes spoke at Grinnell College.
 
Sen Katayama (1859-1933) graduated from Iowa College in 1892, and completed some graduate studies at Andover Theological Seminary and at Yale University . After returning to teach in his native Japan, Katayama became increasingly active in labor and socialist causes. Eventually, he served as an officer in the Comintern and is buried in the walls of the Kremlin. This collection of seven letters were written to Prof. L. F. Parker from 1895-98 describing his role as a teacher in Japan.

John Charles Kemmerer attended Grinnell College from 1919-1923, earning his degree in English and History.  His poetry was highly published in student publications, and he spent the years serving the Grinnell newspaper and college yearbook staffs.  In this collection are manuscript copies of his poems, stories, and reminiscences of mainly unpublished work from later in his life. 
 
Florence Kerr, following her four years at Iowa/Grinnell College* (1908-1912) during which she became good friends with Harry Hopkins, married Robert Kerr and began her career teaching English at the college.  Later, on a recommendation from Hopkins, she was very active in the WPA until she retired.  This collection contains an interview, photographs and correspondence, memos, reports, and other materials from her tenure with the WPA. 
 
Margaret Matlack Kiesel graduated from Grinnell College with the class of 1930.  She and her husband eventually returned to live in Grinnell in 1970, and the bulk of the material in this collection is from her work after her return.  Personal papers, such as family correspondence, and unpublished and published manuscripts, relating to Grinnell College and Grinnell women, are contained within this file. 

John Kleinschmidt. Materials on Grinnell history and architecture; items from the display of historic Grinnell College plat maps held at the Community Art Center as part of the college’s sesquicentennial celebration.

Helen Burling Kronwall, ’20, and her brother F. Temple Burling, ’17, donated these three letters from Abraham Lincoln to John M. Bush, a probate judge in Pekin, IL.  Bush was a distant relative to the mother of Helen and F. Temple. 
 
Glenn Leggett taught English at a number of universities before he moved into administrative work, leading into his Presidency at Grinnell College, 1965-74.  Before his work in administration, he had already established himself as a noted author in the field of English literature, and the 24 volumes of this collection contain essays, lectures, eulogies, toasts, letters, and reminiscences.  Other miscellaneous and personal papers are filed as well, including his autobiography.
 
Professor M. M. Liberman donated, to the Archives, a copy of the 1973 faculty Christmas letter, sent out to alumni each year, and the 27 responses he received.  The responses, which mostly discuss the May 1970 closing of the college, were just opened to public use in 2000.
 
The Henry G. Little Family Scrapbooks record a family history from approximately 1874-1900.  Little was the mayor of the city of Grinnell during this time period, and the scrapbooks contain clippings, genealogical work, and photographs concerning the Little family, its connections to the college, and life in Grinnell.
 
William Loughbridge, a Congressman from Iowa, wrote this letter in 1866 to Geo. Lanman for inclusion in the Congressional Dictionary.
 
Jesse Macy, or “Jiggs” Macy as he was respectfully referred to by his students, taught political science at Iowa/Grinnell College* from 1885 to 1912, concluding his life long commitment to the school.  This collection contains correspondence, family documents, a diary, and letters of tribute to Macy at his death.
 
The Magoun Club, founded in 1870 and eventually named for its first president Elizabeth Magoun, is the oldest women’s club in Grinnell.  The main focus of the club was the reading and discussing of literature.  These records consist of financial documents, meeting minutes, clippings, correspondence, and a book of recipes from 1870-1995. 
 
Matlack Family Henry William Matlack was a professor of music at Iowa College beginning in 1901.  Two years later, he met his wife, Merta Rebecca Johnson, a student in one of his classes.  Henry taught until his death in 1936, and Rebecca played an active role in the community through the League of Women Voters, Entre Nous, and the Consumer Purchases Study.  Their six children, including Laura Wolcott, attended Grinnell College, left to pursue active lives (with the exception of their eldest son), and eventually returned home to settle down.  The Matlack Family papers collection includes a variety of papers found in Laura’s home after her death and belonging to several members of the family.  The papers range from legal documents to personal correspondence to genealogical work. 

George T. McJimsey Papers. McJimsey, a 1958 graduate of Grinnell College and Professor of History at Iowa State University, published his fine biography of Harry Hopkins in 1958. This collection includes his notes and research on Hopkins, who graduated from Grinnell College in 1912. Hopkins went on to a prominent career in social work, held top posts in Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, and served as special assistant to the President during World War II.

Christopher McKee served as Llibrarian of the College from 1972-2006 and is a distinguished social historian of the U. S.and British navies. This collection contains correspondence with other priminent historians concerning his research.

Lillian Mattison was a Grinnell College graduate of 1915.  This file contains letters from Lillian to her family during her senior year as well as class reunion and alumni materials. 
 
I. B. Mc. described the Iowa Territory in a letter to Dr. C. Blish sent before 1846.  This one letter from I. B. in Mexico, MI to Dr. Blish in Hampton, PA makes up this file.
 
James McNally was a grocer in Grinnell who collected and made photographs of buildings and scenes in the town.  In 1983, his wife Vera donated the photographs (1857-1961) to Stewart Library and a set of slides to the Grinnell College Archives.
 

Hilary Mertaugh's notes for the Beginner's Guide to Grinnell and Its Environs includes material on agricultural and indrustrial issues.

Paul and Harriet Nilson served as Congregational missionaries in Turkey during the first half of the twentieth century. This collection contains correspondence, photographs, and records of their work as educators and missionaries in Turkey.

John Nollen taught at Iowa College as a professor of modern languages from 1893-1902.  He returned to serve as Dean from 1920-31 and then as President from 1932-1940.  This collection, named for both John and his wife Louise, consists primarily of family correspondence.
 
Harry Waldo Norris came to Grinnell in 1870 and attended the Iowa College Academy and Iowa College, graduating in 1886.  He later taught at the college as well, with a focus in botany, biology, and zoology.  This is a collection of notes, reminiscences and correspondence from and of his time in Grinnell.
 
Louise Rosenfield Noun. Graduating from Grinnell College in 1929 was a minor accomplishment in the life of Louise Rosenfield Noun.  Following her time in Grinnell, she helped found the Des Moines League of Women Voters and the Des Moines chapter of the National Organization for Women.  She served as the President of the Iowa Civil Liberties Union and wrote extensively about Iowa women and their accomplishments, earning a prominent seat in the Iowa Women’s Hall of Fame.  This collection contains book notes, correspondence, clippings, and photographs concerning one of her works, Strong Minded Women.
 
George M. Ochs graduated from Grinnell College in 1949.  He received his Masters from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois.  This collection contains his articles, book reviews, correspondence (some with Grinnell), and his Ph.D. thesis, “The Labor Party and Constitutional Reform for India.”
 
William Oelke. This collection of William Oelke’s papers contains manuscripts of chemistry talks, articles, correspondence, and slides, and most are related to chemistry at Grinnell College.  Oelke graduated with the class of 1928, earned his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, and returned to join the chemistry faculty of Grinnell, 1931-1973.

Keith Olson graduated from Grinnell College in 1949. While a student, he took several photos of the campus and student activities, including an aerial shot of north campus.
 
Grace Douglass Orr moved to Grinnell, IA with her family in 1882 and eventually attended Iowa College, graduating in 1902.  At the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics, she studied physical culture for a year before returning to teach physical training at Iowa College from 1903-04.  This file contains life recollections and family photographs.
 
Leonard F. Parker was a professor of Greek and Latin at Iowa College from 1860-70 and of history from 1888-98.  In Grinnell, he was involved with the public schools and the Underground Railroad.  This is a collection of his notes and letters concerning his last book, History of Poweshiek County, published in 1911 just before his death.
 
Paul F. Peck was in the Iowa College graduating class of 1897, and he returned to the college in 1905 to serve as the Parker Professor of History until his untimely death in 1925.  He married Grace Parsons in the class of 1898, and the bulk of this collection is letters and a diary written by his wife during a trip to California.  The collection also contains some professional papers, such as course syllabi, and other academic materials.
 
Roy Henderson Perring was a professor of German at Iowa/Grinnell College* from 1905-43.  His manuscript, “Introduction to German Anatomy,” made its way through the German department to Marisa Miller, a student who graduated in 1984 and later brought the manuscript to the Grinnell College Archives.
 
George F. Pinne was a dermatologist and rare book collector from Omaha, Nebraska.  When he died in 1969 this collection of official documents, with the oldest item dated back to 1684, was donated to Grinnell College.
 
The Prestons were a merchant family in Grinnell from 1869-1962, and the Grinnell College Archives hold Xerox copies of some of the family papers, including a journal covering the years 1854-1916 and a family history with clippings, photographs, and letters.

Julius Reed was one of the first Congregational ministers in the new state of Iowa. From 1845 through 1858 he served as agent of the American Home Missionary Society and was instrumental in founding churches and bringing ministers to Iowa. From 1858-1862, Reed served as Treasurer and principal of Iowa (Grinnell) College before returning to his post as agent of the AHMS. This is a rich collection for the study of early Congregationalism in Iowa. Among the topics addressed are slavery, Mormonism, church finances,and the trials and tribulations of ministers coming to found churches on the prairie.
 
John Patrick Ryan taught speech and drama with the Iowa College Department of English until his encouragement led to the development of one of the first Speech Departments in the country.  He then was named head of the new department and became a highly respected professor of Public Speaking between 1903-47.  This collection contains personal letters, notebooks of books he read, and a few lesson plans.
 
William Salter (1821-1910), a member of the Iowa Band, traveled to the Midwest to establish churches and a college.  He spent many years in Burlington, IA as a Congregational clergyman and was also an author and historiographer.  This collection of personal papers includes correspondence, notes, sermons, and other miscellaneous articles.
 
Mary Ellen Appleby Sarbaugh, ’42, donated a collection of personal papers, including family memoirs and reminiscences, to the Archives in 1995.  The papers were most likely written between 1985-95.

John E. Sarbaugh, '41, served on Landing Ship Tank 325 from February 1943, until almost the end of the Second World War. This collection contains articles and photographs pertaining to the restoration of the L.S.T. 325.

Edward B. Scheve was a member of the Grinnell College Music Facutly from 1906 to 1924. This collection contains some of his published scores.

Ivan Sheets collected approximately 400 post cards of Grinnell and other towns in and near Poweshiek County, Iowa.

Theodore Sorenson, Special Counsel to the President (John F. Kennedy). Letter dated July 30, 1963, from Sorenson regarding an invitation to participate in a symposium at Grinnell College.

Ida Weaver Steinmetz was born in Muscatine, IA and attended Grinnell College as a member of the class of 1914 and was a member of the Girl’s Glee Club. The collection includes photographs, programs, and other materials from the Girls Glee Club trip in 1912.
 

Cassius C. Stiles, born in 1860, was appointed to help establish the Public Archives of Iowa iin 1907. This collection consists mostly of correspondence, both business and personal, but also includes several articles written by Stiles.

John Dashiell Stoops was a professor of Philosophy at Iowa/Grinnell College* from 1904 to 1943 and Professor Emeritus from 1943 until his death in 1973.  This collection of his papers, donated by Rose Stoops, is dated from 1904 to 1950s and includes manuscripts, notes, and correspondence.
 
The Tibbs Family was a black family that lived in Grinnell from 1892-1963.  They lived at 712 Elm Street are still one of the few black families that have ever lived in this town.  The bulk of the collection is letters to the Tibbs family from friends.  Grinnell College students retrieved the letters when they blew out of the abandoned house into the neighborhood.

Harry S. Truman Letter. Letter written by Truman regarding a forthcoming visit to Grinnell College in October 1963.
 
Joseph F. Wall received his B.A. from Grinnell College in 1941 and returned to the history department faculty, 1947-78.  He served as Dean from 1969-73, and in 1978, he earned an honorary degree, L.H.D., from the college.  The collection contains a number of typescripts and proofs of his published work, including his biography, Andrew Carnegie (1970). 
 
Selden Whitcomb spent most of his life in Grinnell, IA, as he was born here, graduated from Iowa College in 1887, and returned to teach English from 1895-1905.  In this file are two personal journals, a poetry manuscript, and a notebook of nature observations with a few surprises.
 
Horace A. Wolcott had a very brief life in Grinnell, IA around 1856.  He and his wife, Louisa Pason Bixby, were one of several Grinnell families that moved out to Colorado in the 1850s and 60s.  This collection contains photocopies of letters and business papers, all related to his Grinnell connections.

Anna and Delia Woodruff collection includes two compositions: one written in 1865 by Anna M. Woodruff entitled “Riding in the Stage”.  The second composition is by her [sister] Delia J. entitled “Climbing the Hill”, dated 1858.

S. (Sammy) M. Wright of Knoxville, Iowa kept a diary of his Civil War experience. It begins on January 1, 1861 and ends Friday, October 18 of that year. A second diary begins on January 1, 1862 and is finished by Sammy’s brother, William E. on February 9, the day Sammy died following a brief illness.
 
Mary Gae Wyly graduated from Grinnell College in 1962 and served as a librarian from 1968 to1976.  This collection contains documents from her desk files, including one on the hiring of blacks and women, and a survey of women on campus for the improvement of Grinnell.
 
Joan Zimmerman. The Grinnell Women Alumni Questionnaire in this collection was put together and administered by Joan Zimmerman, ’71, while working on her dissertation, College Culture in the Midwest, 1880-1930.  The questionnaire, which was sent to women who graduated from Iowa/Grinnell College between 1894 and 1916, dealt with academic, extracurricular, and social interests.
 
 
*Iowa College was officially renamed Grinnell College by the Board of Trustees in the year 1909.

Abstracts written by Bryan Lake, 2002