Ward Shepard Correspondence: General - B
- HF-ID: HFCor-867
- Category: Correspondence
- Creator: Shepard, W., Cline, A.C.
- Associated Person: Curtis, J.D.
- Date: 1936-1939
- Media: Paper
- Abstract:
- Letters from Ward Shepard are unsigned carbon copies of typewritten letters.
- There may be multiple letters to and from each correspondent.
- • Beattie, Roger S. – offer from Harvard Forest to sell cordwood and Beattie’s response
- • Bernheim, Isaac W. – request for information about organization of the Harvard Forest and Shepard’s response
- • Berthing, K., Amerika-Institut – letter with enclosure about the Institute [not found with letter]
- • Bigelow, Albert F. – Bigelow’s land and possibility of joint work between School of Landscape Architecture at Cambridge and the Harvard Forest; road through the Harvard Forest; Shepard’s upcoming visit with Governor Saltonstall “concerning the very dangerous fire situation caused by the devastation of the forests of central New England” by the hurricane of 1938
- • Billings, C.L., Potlatch Forests, Inc. – copy of letter from Billings to James W. Girard of the U.S. Forest Service regarding salvage of white pine blown down by 1938 hurricane; Billings' response to Shepard’s timber salvage plan
- • Brown, Nelson C. – get-together of Oberlaender Trust fellows; community forests
- • Brown, R.C. – red pine sawfly situation
- • Bunker, John W. M. Chairman of the Committee on the Permanent Science Fund, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Shepard’s request for a small grant for the “preparation of a thirty year progress report”. Includes letter to Mr. Bunker from Willett Rowlands with reference to the 1938 hurricane and copy of answers to grant application questions, follow-up request, and rejection letters.
- • Burns, G. P., University of Vermont Department of Botany – letter from Burns to E. D. Merrill about son’s photosynthesis work; copy of response from E. D. Merrill referring letter to Shepard; response to Burns from Shepard
- Archives Location: Map Room, stack 6, drawer 5
- Access: Restricted
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