Box: 58 Folder: 1
FERA (Federal Emergency Relief Administration)
Date span: 1934, July 25 and August 2
Description: Contains two inter-office memos and newspaper
clipping regarding
the FERA agency in North Dakota.
Box: 58 Folder: 2
FERA - Burns, Allen T.
Date span: 1933, March 23 - September 12
Description: Contains correspondence and carbon drafts of a bill
from Burns,
then Director of "Mobilization for Human Needs", regarding
federal relief for
the unemployed via state aid.
Box: 58 Folder: 3
FERA - Hoke, Fred
Date span: 1933, June 19 - 1944, January 20
Description: Contains correspondence from Fred Hoke, Director of
the Indiana
State National Emergency Council.
Box: 58 Folder: 4
WPA - Crutcher, James H.
Date span: 1936, May 29 - 1940, September 4
Description: Contains correspondence and clippings from Crutcher,
Works
Progress Administrator for Louisiana.
Box: 58 Folder: 5
WPA - Delaney, Denis W.
Date span: 1941, May 27 and May 29
Description: Contains correspondence from Delaney, Work Projects
Administrator
for Massachusetts.
Box: 58 Folder: 6
WPA - Dill, Robert J.
Date span: 1938, April 7 and April 22
Description: Contains correspondence from Dill, Works Progress
Administrator
for Florida.
Box: 58 Folder: 7
WPA - Dryden, F.H.
Date span: 1938, October 17
Description: Contains correspondence from Dryden, Works Progress
Administrator
for Region 11 (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland,
District of
Columbia, and West Virginia).
Box: 58 Folder: 8
WPA - Edmonds, T.J.
Date span: 1938, October 19 - 1943, September 15
Description: Contains correspondence and clippings from Edmonds,
then with the
Oregon Works Progress Administration.
Box: 58 Folder: 9
WPA - Ely, Gertrude
Date span: 1936, August 27 - 1945, April 28
Description: Contains correspondence from Ely, then with the
Pennsylvania Works
Progress Administration. Includes copy of Eleanor Roosevelt's
letter regarding
the proposed removal of Miss Ely from her WPA position.
Box: 58 Folder: 10
WPA - Evans, Silliman
Date span: 1937, May 28 - June 1
Description: Contains telegram, letter, and newspaper editorial
from Evans,
publisher of the Nashville Tennessean, regarding Hopkins'
tenure as
Works Progress Administrator.
Box: 58 Folder: 11
WPA - Felt, Truman T.
Date span: 1938, December 20
Description: Contains letter and invitation from Felt, then with
the Federal
Works Progress Administration.
Box: 58 Folder: 12
WPA - Fleisher, Alexander
Date span: 1935, July 31 and 1940, January 27
Description: Contains correspondence from Fleisher, then with the
National
Resources Board.
Box: 58 Folder: 13
WPA - Fort, Hollis
Date span: 1936, September 4 and September 8
Description: Contains correspondence from Fort, Solicitor General
for
Southwestern Circuit.
Box: 58 Folder: 14
WPA - Gaillard, E.P.
Date span: 1938, October 1 and November 12
Description: Contains correspondence from Gaillard, then with the
law firm of
Auchincloss, Parker, and Redpath.
Box: 58 Folder: 15
WPA - Goodman, George H.
Date span: 1942, January 9 - November 9
Description: Contains correspondence and clipping from Goodman,
Work Projects
Administrator for Kentucky, regarding Hopkins' contribution to
the WPA.
Box: 58 Folder: 16
WPA - Griffith, Emerson J.
Date span: 1938, December 30 - 1945, July 20
Description: Contains correspondence from Griffith, Works
Progress
Administrator for Oregon, regarding their old WPA days.
Box: 58 Folder: 17
WPA - Hackett, Horatio B.
Date span: 1936, March 28
Description: Contains correspondence and Christmas card from
Hackett, Public
Works Assistant Administrator.
Box: 58 Folder: 18
WPA - Hall, Helen
Date span: 1936, December 28
Description: Contains 1 letter from Hall, then with the Henry
Street (New York)
Settlement, regarding Hopkins' possible resignation.
Box: 58 Folder: 19
WPA - Homan, Paul T.
Date span: 1938, September and October 6
Description: Contains a letter from Homan, Cornell University
professor of
economics regarding his proposed study of the WPA.
Box: 58 Folder: 20
WPA - Hudson, Banks
Date span: 1940, September 9 and September 12
Description: Contains a letter from Hudson, then with the Work
Projects
Administration for Region VI (Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Oklahoma, and
Texas).
Box: 58 Folder: 21
WPA - Hyde, Frederic Bulkeley
Date span: 1937, December 8 and December 20
Description: Contains 1 letter from Hyde, then with the Florida
Works Progress
Administration.
Box: 58 Folder: 22
WPA - Keller, George J.
Date span: 1939, March 29
Description: Contains 1 outgoing from Hopkins to Keller, Iowa
Works Progress
Administrator.
Box: 58 Folder: 23
WPA - Kimball, Fiske
Date span: 1941, May 28 and June 2
Description: Contains 1 letter from Kimball, Director of the
Philadelphia
Museum of Art, regarding the presentation of WPA art achievements
to the
Museum.
Box: 58 Folder: 24
WPA - Larned, Abner E.
Date span: 1939, April 8 - 1940, October 18
Description: Contains correspondence from Larned, Works Progress
Administrator
for Michigan.
Box: 58 Folder: 25
WPA - McCullough, F.W.
Date span: 1943, April 15 and April 19
Description: Contains 1 letter from McCullough, then with the
Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad, and formerly with the WPA.
Box: 58 Folder: 26
WPA - McDonough, John J.
Date span: 1938, June 18 - 1940, September 4
Description: Contains correspondence, telegram, and invitation
from McDonough,
Works Progress Administrator for Massachusetts.
Box: 58 Folder: 27
WPA - Miller, Malcolm J.
Date span: 1938, April 18 - 1943, June 7
Description: Contains correspondence and telegram from Miller,
Field
Representative for the Works Progress Administration in
Louisiana.
Box: 58 Folder: 28
WPA - Moodie, Thomas H.
Date span: 1939, February 3 - 1940, May 27
Description: Contains memos and correspondence from Moodie, Works
Progress
Administrator for North Dakota.
Box: 58 Folder: 29
WPA - Naughton, John M.
Date span: 1937, April 5 - and April 8
Description: Contains 1 letter from Naughton, District Director
for the Works
Progress Administration in Iowa.
Box: 58 Folder: 30
WPA - Pinckney, Lawrence M.
Date span: 1938, February 7 - 1939, October 9
Description: Contains correspondence, memos, and clippings from
Pinckney, Works
Progress Administrator for South Carolina.
Box: 58 Folder: 31
WPA - Rowland, Lea
Date span: 1936, September 30 - October 30
Description: Contains correspondence from Rowland, Works Progress
Administrator
for New Mexico.
Box: 58 Folder: 32
WPA - Schnepfe, Fred E.
Date span: 1943, August 2 - September 27
Description: Contains correspondence from Schnepfe, formerly with
the Works
Progress Administration.
Box: 58 Folder: 33
WPA - Schoellkopf, Alfred H.
Date span: 1935, August 22 - 1936, January 2
Description: Contains correspondence and telegram from
Schoelkopf, formerly
with TERA (Temporary Emergency Relief Administration).
Box: 58 Folder: 34
WPA - Shackleton, Julia Kessel
Date span: Undated
Description: Contains 1 letter from Shackleton, formerly with the
Works
Progress Administration.
Box: 58 Folder: 35
WPA - Stephens, Ron
Date span: 1939, March 24
Description: Contains 1 letter from Stephens, Works Progress
Administrator for
Oklahoma.
Box: 58 Folder: 36
WPA - Stillman, Charles C.
Date span: 1935, November 6 and November 12
Description: Contains 1 letter and photograph from Stillman,
formerly with the
Ohio Works Progress Administration, and the Federal Emergency
Relief
Administration.
Box: 58 Folder: 37
WPA - Sullivan, Vincent J.
Date span: 1940, May 6
Description: Contains 1 letter from Sullivan, formerly with the
Works Progress
Administration of Connecticut.
Box: 58 Folder: 38
WPA - Van de Vrede, Jane
Date span: 1940, March 14 and May 6
Description: Contains 1 letter from Van de Vrede, Director of the
Professional
and Service Projects, Work Projects Administration, Georgia.
Box: 58 Folder: 39
WPA - Wall, Roland B.
Date span: 1939, May 26 and June 7
Description: Contains 1 letter from Wall, Works Progress Deputy
Administrator
for Mississippi.
Box: 58 Folder: 40
WPA - Williams, Pierce
Date span: 1935, December 24 - 1945, July 6
Description: Contains excellent correspondence from former Works
Progress
Administration official, Pierce Williams, regarding a Senate
Committee
investigation of the WPA.
Box: 58 Folder: 41
WPA - Wilson, Louisa
Date span: 1933, June 14 - 1936, October 9
Description: Contains a letter and telegram from Wilson, then
with the
Temporary Emergency Relief Administration of New York.
Box: 58 Folder: 42
WPA - Witters, Harry W.
Date span: 1935, December 4 and December 9
Description: Contains 1 letter from Witters, Works Progress
Administrator for
Vermont.
Box: 58 Folder: 43
WPA - Wright, Helen
Date span: 1935, December 13
Description: Contains Hopkins' outgoing to Dorothy C. Kahn,
Director of the
Philadelphia County Relief Board, regarding Helen Wright.
Box: 58 Folder: 44
WPA - Miscellaneous
Date span: 1938, May 5 and Undated
Description: Contains Hopkins' office memo to all project workers
regarding
partisan politics; a song entitled "America Works, America Plays,
America
Sings"; and a card from blind WPA workers.
Box: 58 Folder: 45
WPA - Resignation of Hopkins
Date span: 1938, December 23 - 1939, January 10
Description: Contains Hopkins' outgoing regarding his resignation
as Works
Progress Administrator at $12,000 per annum. Includes acceptance
of his
resignation by Chief Clerk for the Adminstration, Harry L.
Kinnear.
Box: 59 Folder: 1
Grinnell College - Correspondence
Date span: 1933, November 10 - 1941, May 8
Description: Contains correspondence, trustee reports, and alumni
news from
former Grinnell graduates.
Box: 59 Folder: 2
Grinnell College - Correspondence
Date span: 1940, January - November
Description: Contains correspondence and reports from Grinnell
College
administration and Grinnell alumni.
Box: 59 Folder: 3
Grinnell College - Correspondence
Date span: 1941, February 7 - 1944, November 1
Description: Contains correspondence, reports, bulletins, and
catalogues from
Grinnell College administration and alumni.
Box: 59 Folder: 4
Grinnell College - Correspondence
Date span: 1943, January 13 - 1945, December 15
Description: Contains correspondence, minutes of meetings, and
calendar of
events from Grinnell College administrators and alumni.
Box: 59 Folder: 5
Grinnell Institute of International Relations
Date span: 1941, February 1 and February 28
Description: Contains 1 letter from Max Burke, Executive
Secretary of the
Institute of International Relations, inviting Hopkins to become
a sponsor of
the program.
Box: 59 Folder: 6
Grinnell College - Nollen, John S.
Date span: 1921, May 28 - 1945, January 5
Description: Contains correspondence, telegrams, postcards, and
newspaper
clippings from Nollen, president of Grinnell College. Includes
Hopkins' 1921
alumni contribution.
Box: 59 Folder: 7
Grinnell College - "Twelvers"
Date span: 1940, August 3 - August 26
Description: Contains correspondence from Paul Barrett, member of
the Grinnell
alumni club, "Twelvers".
Box: 59 Folder: 8
FDR Library - Cornerstone Ceremony
Date span: 1939, November 19
Description: Contains Hopkins' copy of the bound transcript from
the Franklin
D. Roosevelt Library Cornerstone Ceremony. 1 of 1,000 copies.
Box: 59 Folder: 9
FDR Library - Addresses at Dedication Ceremony
Date span: 1941, June 30 and August 19
Description: Contains typed carbon copy of the dedicatory
addresses for the
Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park.
Box: 59 Folder: 10
FDR Library - Correspondence
Date span: 1939, February 1 - 1945, November 14
Description: Contains correspondence from the Roosevelt Library
staff as well
as Hopkins' outgoing. Includes lists of FDR speeches; artwork;
book
collections; and ship models housed in the Library.
Box: 59 Folder: 11
FDR Library - Miscellaneous
Date span: 1941, August - 1944, November
Description: Contains some correspondence, annual reports, and an
issue of
The American Collector with a feature article on the
Roosevelt Library.