Ward Shepard Correspondence: Conant, J.B.
- HF-ID: HFCor-893
- Category: Correspondence
- Creator:
- Shepard, W.
- Stackpole, S.H.
- Associated Person:
- Conant, J.B.
- Bell, Laird
- Merrill, E.D.
- Gast, P.R.
- Turesson, G.
- Alm, C.G.
- Cline, A.C.
- Rowlands, W.
- Stillman, E.G.
- Date: 1937-1939
- Media: Paper
- Abstract:
- Letters from Ward Shepard are unsigned carbon copies of typewritten letters.
- There may be multiple letters to and from each correspondent.
- Topics include: draft of letter to Laird Bell; Weyerhaueser group; journalism work at Harvard; Cummings Scholarship; opposition to "the proposed new road in the old growth timber near Connors Pond in the Harvard Forest"; meeting in honor of Crown Prince of Sweden; work and salaries of Cline and Rowlands; Stillman's contribution to Harvard Forest; hurricane damage and clean-up
- Copy of letter to members of the Harvard Corporation & Board of Overseers prior to their inspection visit of May 9, 1937 [see also HF 1937-13, Activities at the Harvard Forest]
- Copy of letter to Conant from Franklin D. Roosevelt granting Shepard an additional year of leave from the Office of Indian Affairs so that he may continue serving as Director of Harvard Forest and as a member of the faculty of Harvard's School of Public Administration.
- Typewritten copy of the annual report of the Harvard Forest, 1936-37
- Harvard Forest report, reprinted from the Report of the President of Harvard College and Reports of Departments, 1938-39
- Archives Location: Map Room, stack 6, drawer 5
- Access: Restricted
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