General Correspondence of R.T. Fisher, 1905-1934
- HF-ID: HFCor-864
- Category: Correspondence
- Creator: Fisher, R.T.
- Date: 1905-1934
- Media: Paper
- Abstract:
- Letters from Fisher are unsigned carbon copies of typewritten letters.
- There may be multiple letters to and from each correspondent.
- • illegible, Mehr – enjoyed visit to Harvard Forest, noted that principle of forestry selected is same principle as in Switzerland
- • Albee, H. W. – Fisher’s response to request for information about Mt. Hermon School for boys
- • Allen, Gordon – Fisher’s response to letter from Carter about sign sub-committee
- • American Academy of Arts and Sciences – information about the organization
- • American Association for the Advancement of Science – Certificate of Fisher’s election as a Fellow [received from D. Tatlock, 02-22-2011]
- • American Forestry Association - Ridsdale, P. S. (Executive Secretary) – various letters & receipt
- • Ames, Fred (Assistant Regional Forester) – reference to letter to C.J. Buck & questionnaire
- • Amos, Felipe – Fisher’s response to request for information about Harvard courses in forestry & lumbering
- • Arrick, Clifford – Fisher’s response to request for information about road-side trees
- • Association of Eastern Foresters - Gaskill, Alfred - invitation to become charter member
- • Automobile Legal Association – letter to members [received from D. Tatlock, 02-22-2011]
- • Baker Box Company - Curtis, P. N. - lumber sales
- • Baker, Hugh P. – Fisher’s response to request for referral (Philip Coolidge, undergrad 1905)
- • Baker, Willis M. – request for copies of "Forest Weeding" and "Pruning for Profit"
- • Ballard & Little - Ballard Jr., Harlan H. - acknowledging receipt of checks (re: estate of E. T. Fisher)
- • Barr, P. M. – request for information about Forestry & Lumbering at Harvard; appreciations after visit to HARVARD FOREST
- • Batchelor, J. H. - Arkansas Lumber Company - Fisher’s response to request for pamphlets for graduate work at Harvard
- • Baxter D. Whitney & Sons – Fisher’s response to request for sale of Scotch pine
- • Blakeslee, M. D. (Mrs.) – Request for information regarding Forestry School
- • Black Walnut – Correspondence regarding Fisher’s requests for specifications for purchase of Black Walnut (Iver Johnson Arm & Cycle Works; Stevens Arms Co.; American Walnut Co.; U.S.D.A. Forest Products Laboratory
- • Blue Mountain Forest Association - Edgett, G. S. (secretary & treasurer) – response to request for permission to bring students into the Park
- • Bolling, Louis A. – inquiries & responses about training in forestry
- • Boston Chamber of Commerce – Fisher’s response to appointment to Committee on Forestry
- • Boston, City of - Assessing Department - tax exemption for Harvard land used by Bussey Institution
- • Bovet, Pedro - Ministerio de Agricultura – request for information about Harvard Forest school courses and organization
- • Bowditch, Olivia – Fisher’s response to Harvey Mayo's interest in Harvard Forestry course
- • British Columbia Forest Branch – request for Forestry Club Bulletin
- • Brown, T. W. – Fisher’s response to request for information about white pine plantations
- • Brues, C.T. – Museum of Comparative Zoology; reference to copy of letter [not found] sent to Nash and request that Brues send Nash a pamplet about entomology courses
- • Burdon, E. Russell – plans for forestry building at Agricultural School (Cambridge, England)
- • Cambridge, City of - Board of Assessors – Fisher’s request for tax abatement due to being a legal resident of Petersham
- • Camp Idlewild for Boys - Roys, L. D. (director) - looking for boys interested in working in exchange for summer camp
- • Carey, P. L. – Fisher’s response to request for how to obtain German numbering hammers
- • Case, Marion Roby - Hillcrest Farm – Fisher regretfully declining invitation to speak at Hillcrest Farm
- • Chamberlain, Allen – visiting Petersham
- • Chapman, George – Fisher’s response to request for information about best spray for elm trees
- • Chase, Harry G. – Fisher’s response to request for information about about Herbert N. O'Dell
- • Cheyney, E. G. - College of Forestry (Univ. of Minnesota) - requirements of forestry courses
- • Clapp, Dorothea – Fisher’s notice to Harvard University librarian about forestry books in Pierce Hall library being transferred to Bussey Institution
- • Clark, W. D. - Massachusetts Agricultural College - request for data about forest land
- • Clinton H. Scovell & Company - Scovell, C. H. - discussion of bills and payments
- • Clyde Iron Works - MacIntosh, Charles - offer to send college motion picture, "Modern Logging"
- • Coleman, Howard D. (Mrs.) – Fisher’s response to request for student information
- • Collinwood, G. H. – Fisher’s response to interest in graduate work
- • Cummings, Charles (Mrs.) – Fisher’s response to offer to remit a portion of loan to Kenneth Clark
- • Cutler, George C. – Fisher networking on behalf of student and a correspondent; yield statements
- • D. Hill Nursery Co. – quote for European Larch seedlings
- • de las Casas, W. B. – employment opportunities query
- • Douglas, E. C. – Fisher’s response to demonstration of Douglas' hand pump at meeting of foresters in Petersham
- • Dunning, J. H. – analysis of shook and lumber prices & costs
- • Dyer, Walter A. – Fisher’s apology for not responding regarding article about history of the Harvard elms
- • East, E. M. – Fisher’s response to request for funds to build tennis court
- • Fabyan, M. - Harvard Medical School - Fisher’s response to request for information about planting walnut trees
- • Farlow, W. G. – Fisher’s response to request for information about Albert Peets
- • Federal Land Bank of Springfield - Strait, Earl D. - request for information for use in appraising woodlands
- • Ferguson, J. A. - Penn. State College Dept. Forestry - questions about graduate Forest School at Harvard
- • Ferguson, P. – following up on recommendation of J. C. Allen for graduate work at Harvard Forest
- • Fitzhenry-Guptill Company - Guptill – Fisher’s response regarding contract for spraying machine
- • Forest Quarterly – Fisher’s request for copies of Report of Committee on Conference of Forest Schools
- • Framingham Nurseries - Tobey, Geo. B. - inquiries about purchasing European Larch
- • Franklin Fluospar – Fisher’s request for fluospar specimens
- • Friedrich Co. – Fisher’s response to estimate for plumbing work at house in Petersham
- • Gale, Conrad – Fisher’s acknowledgement of receipt of payment for lumber
- • Gardner Jr., G. P. – Fisher declining sending delegate to dedication of Cornell Forestry Building
- • General Box Company - Yeaw, C. G. – Fisher’s request for information about hardwood timber
- • General Chemical Company – receipt for purchase of arsenate lead
- • General Preservatives Corporation - Rice, Geo. Elton - wood preservation information
- • Glidden Company - Swift, E. C. – Fisher’s response to question about insecticide order
- • Graham, Abraham - Quebec Forest Industries Association - white pine questions (includes copy of letter to Dr. C.D. Howe)
- • Grand Rapids Vapor Kiln – information about lectures on kiln drying lumber
- • Grant, E. B. – Fisher’s response to letter about summer work for son
- • Greeley, William B. – Letter of appreciation
- • Green, John B. – response to outstanding bill
- • Greenleaf, R. F. and Company – Fisher’s response to notice of outstanding bill
- • Greenough, William – Fisher’s decline of visit to Parramor's Island, recommendation for J. R. Coolidge
- • Gurley, W. & L. E. – Fisher’s transit order
- • Hale, Richard W. – sawmill; J. Rogers (HF student, 1911-12); copy of letter to USDAFS re: charcoal
- • Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration - Gay, Edwin – postcard with notice of staff meeting
- • Henry, Augustine - Royal College of Science, Dublin, Ireland - Larix laricina
- • Herbert, P. A. - Michigan State College – news of new position as Administrative Head of forest school
- • Heywood Brothers and Wakefield Co. - Wright, L. A. - request for cordwood
- • Houghton Mifflin Company – Fisher’s reply to letter regarding book, Important Timber Trees of the United States
- • Howe, Lucian – Fisher’s response to request for list of German professors
- • International Union of Forest Research Organizations - Petrini, Sven - Harvard Forest membership in the International Union
- • Iowa State College - MacDonald, G. B. - positions available at Iowa State College
- • Jackson, Robert A. – Fisher’s responses to letter about plan for forestry at the University Settlement [NY]
- • Johannes Rafn & Son - Rafn, H. - Scots pine seed of Scandinavian origin order
- • John Wiley & Sons – Studies in French Forestry by Theodore S. Wooley Jr.
- • Jonson, Tor - Swedish Forest School - appreciation for kindness during trip to HF; Scotch pine seeds from Sweden
- • Jordan Marsh Co. – Fisher’s response to inquiry about Luke Brennon (assistant gardener)
- • Jordan, Nellie – Fisher’s response to Bates Forest land concerns
- • Keuffel & Esser Co. – Fisher’s order for [surveying] instruments
- • Kingsbury, J. S. – Fisher’s response to request to talk to Tufts students about forestry vocation
- • L. Morse & Sons – lumber orders from furniture manufacturer
- • Lange, Erwin T. – interest in Forestry School
- • Laurentide Company, Limited - Wilson, Ellwood - visit from Wilson; reference to aeroplane photographs, type maps
- • Library of Congress - Hastings, C. H. - cost of cards for publications on Forestry
- • Lidgerwood Mfg. Co. - Dikinson, J. H. – Fisher’s request for bulletins and cost data
- • Lumber World Review – Fisher’s subscription request; Harvard school of forestry announcement
- • Lumbermens Bureau – regarding money owed
- • Maine Forest Service - Jones, B. E. - enclosing copy of Estimate of Standing Timber in Maine
- • Massachusetts Agricultural College - Crampton, G. C. – Fisher’s response to Bliss Scholarship recommendation for P. M. Reed [HF student 1923-24]
- • Massachusetts Dept. Civil Service - Harrison, P. A. – Fisher accepting position of Examiner for the position of Forest and Type surveyor
- • McBurney, Henry – Fisher’s response to request for information about farming and invitation to visit Harvard Forest
- • McConnell (Miss) – Fisher’s letter regarding E. C. Bleecker [sic] and request for abatement of portion of tuition fee
- • Montan Treating Company - Coolidge, J.R. - preserving tree trunks or stems for indoor exhibition (museum)
- • Moon, F. F. – Fisher’s response to request for information about J. M. Mineuse
- • Morrison, W. G. – thanks from Fisher for Pinus radiata seed
- • Mulford, Walter – Fisher missing dedication of new building [at Cornell University]
- • Myers, R. V. – Fisher’s response to request for details about timber estimating work
- • Nebraska, University of – Program of the Forest Club
- • New York (state of) Conservation Commission - Howard, W. G. - red pine seeds
- • Oksnevad, Arnt – plans to visit America, including Harvard Forest
- • Olmsted Brothers – review of Parkman report for Percival Gallagher
- • Osgood, Charles E. – Fisher’s response to request for addresses of Harvard Forest students and staff
- • Paine, Robert (Mrs.) – Fisher’s letter declining consulting work
- • Park, Charles Edward – Fisher’s response to information about entering forestry school
- • Pennsylvania Forestry Association – forestry exhibition
- • Pennsylvania State College – Schedule in the Course in Forestry of the Pennsylvania State College
- • Pettis, C. P. – personal note from Fisher to “Cliff”
- • Philbrick, E. – Fisher’s response to letter regarding city forestry work
- • Philbrook, H. G. – Fisher’s response to receipt of administration figures; student recommendations (W. B. Averill, W. I. Stevens)
- • Pierce, Roger – Fisher’s response to letter about publications
- • Pitts & Leva – attorney representing Gernert Brothers Lumber Company requests tree ring references
- • Pomeroy, A. C. – Fisher’s request for size and price of English walnut trees
- • Pulsifer, John – Fisher’s recommendation for A. F. Allen [HF student 1921-22]
- • Rawle, Francis –request for advice about purchasing seedlings
- • Resseguie, Lathrop – Fisher’s acknowledgment of receipt of Mudge-Slate Spark Arrester circular
- • Ruckweed, F. – Request for bulletin, description of forestry courses
- • Russell, Emma F. – Fisher’s response to question about Harvard Forest land and planting
- • Schauffler Jr., W. G. – request for list of students in the Forestry School
- • Schonland, Richard S. - Union of South Africa Department of Forestry - Appreciation after visit to Harvard Forest
- • Schubert, Jr., B. L. – plans to study lumbering at Harvard
- • Shattuck, George C. – includes copy of "The Problem of Hygiene for the Tropics" and copy of letter from Gast
- • Shives Lumber Company - Napier, W. F. - blue print & log tables sent at G. C. Cutler's request [see also G. C. Cutler letters]
- • Smith, Fassett & Co. – Fisher’s timber tree identification clarification
- • Snow, John – response to unpaid bill [received from D. Tatlock, 02-22-2011]
- • Spurr, J. Edward – retired geological and mining engineer wanting to learn more about forestry
- • Stalker, Murray J. – Fisher’s letter about tree work at home in Weston [personal, not Harvard Forest business?]
- • Stokes, Helen M. – has trees that the college might like ("Pennsylvania Ash")
- • Stratton Bros. & Co. – follow-up letter regarding lumber contract
- • Strauss, C. W. – Fisher declining, on behalf of Forestry Club, invitation to attend dedication of [Cornell Forestry] Building
- • Swift, P. B. - Fireman's Fund Insurance Co - insurance of Harvard lumber
- • Taft (Mrs.) – letter regarding husband's employment at Harvard Forest [received from D. Tatlock, 02-22-2011]
- • Tanner, G. D. - Thos. N. Tanner & Son Lumber - request for information about lumber business
- • Taussig, F. W., Harvard University Department of Economics - inquiry about courses in forestry that would be "helpful to a business man"
- • Thaxter, Roland – Fisher’s response to request for identification of fungus disease on Western Yellow Pine seedling
- • Thayer, W. R. - Harvard Graduates' Magazine – Fisher sending copy about Forest School for magazine
- • Treat, D. S. – Fisher sending information about instruction in Forestry and in Lumbering at Harvard
- • Troup, R. S. – University of Oxford School of Forestry - Scots pine and European larch seeds
- • U.S. Veterans' Bureau - McLeod, Fred - status of Wayne C. Holsworth's training at Bussey Institute
- • Upson, Arthur T. - National Lumber Manufacturers Association - receipt of page proof of new wood-using industries survey of Massachusetts
- • Vaughan, Esty and Clark – Fisher sending a pamphlet of Harvard School of Forestry
- • West, F. M. – Fisher’s letter regarding meeting to discuss Petersham matters
- • West, Myron H. – Fisher’s response to job opening description
- • Wheeler, W. M. – Fisher’s acknowledgement of receipt of entomology course descriptions and Bussey building photograph
- • Wheelock, William (Bill) – questions and answers about trees and treatments
- • White, Donald – Fisher’s instruction on how to purchase Harvard Forestry Bulletin
- • Whitford, H. N. – Fisher’s response that there are no funds for suggested lectures on Forestry in the Philippines
- • Whitney, Frank – Fisher’s recommendation for firm of Coolidge, Brooks and Rogers for work on estate
- • Woods, C. F. – Fisher’s acknowledgment of receipt of questionnaire answers
- • Worthley, L. H. – Fisher’s elm leaf beetle spray questions
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