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Ward Shepard Correspondence: Merrill, E.D.

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• HF-ID: HFCor-907
• Category: Correspondence
• Creator:
  • Gast, P. Rupert
  • Korstian, C.F.
  • Merrill, Elmer D.
  • Shapley, Harlow
  • Shepard, Ward

• Associated Person:
  • Ames, John S.
  • Appleget, Thomas B.
  • Bailey, Irving W.
  • Black, John D.
  • Burr, Allston
  • Cabot, Godfrey L.
  • Cline, Albert C.
  • Conant, James B.
  • Curtis, James D.
  • Fisher, Georgina Paine
  • Fisher, Richard T.
  • Goodell, Bertram C.
  • Graves, Henry S.
  • Greeley, William B.
  • Hosley, Neil W.
  • Ickes, Harold L.
  • Little, David M.
  • Lowes, J.W.
  • Menzel, D.
  • Merrill, Arthur
  • Morgan, Henry S.
  • Pack, Charles L.
  • Parkhurst, I.B.
  • Raup, Hugh M.
  • Sax, Karl
  • Stillman, Ernest G.
  • Tryon, Henry H.
  • Upham, Albert H.
  • Wallace, Henry A.
  • Weaver, Warren
  • Wyman, D.

• Date: 1936-1939
• Media: Paper
• Contents:
  • Letters from Ward Shepard are unsigned carbon copies of typewritten letters.

• Abstract:
  • Letter topics include: text for publication in Chronica Botanica; copy of letter from Korstian to Merrill forwarded to Shepard; funds from Stillman; moving and reconstruction of house; new buildings [at Harvard Forest headquarters]; Visiting Committee; grant for Dr. Gast; Hamilton Plantations; Fisher Memorial Boulder; new School of Public Administration; motion picture of Harvard Forest models [dioramas]; Oak Ridge Observatory; Harvard Kopje; Cabot Foundation; pond at Harvard Forest; purchase of evergreens from Arnold Arboretum; Land Use Seminar; construction of garage at Harvard Forest headquarters; Social Science Research Committee grant for an assistant to Raup; Ware Farm at East Rindge, NH; Damon tract; Merrill's recommendation of A.C. Cline for Acting Director (Sept. 1939) and Shepard's response suggesting Cline as Director (in part due to hurricane damage); final payment to Shepard by Corporation (October 1939)

• Archives Location: Map Room, stack 6, drawer 5
• Access: Restricted