Title: Franklin J. Matchette Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1893-1958

Creator:

• Matchette, Franklin J., 1863-1943

Call Number: Mss 313

Quantity: 7.6 c.f. (20 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Franklin J. Matchette, a successful hotel manager, inventor, and philosopher, relating primarily to his scientific interests and the development and propagation of his Absolute-Relative Theory as a metaphysical basis for the universe. Included is correspondence, notes, writings and speeches, and records of the Matchette Foundation which supported his theory after his death. Correspondents include Horace J. Bridges, Edward Macomb Duff, Mary Anita Ewer, I.I. Rabi, Alan W. Watts, and Dudley Zuver.

Language: English

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Franklin James Matchette was a successful businessman, an inventor, and a philosopher. Until the age of fifty he was active in the hotel business. He played a significant role in the development of modern hotel management, both through his inventions, which brought about more efficient service, and through new promotional techniques, which brought more people and groups into the hotels. During these years Matchette was also involved in real estate and in agricultural chemistry. After 1924, Matchette devoted the majority of his time to the formulation and development of a system of philosophy, his Absolute-Relative Theory, through which he sought to provide a metaphysical foundation for the entire universe.

A chronology of Matchette's life follows. For additional information, numerous biographical sketches both in published and draft form, can be found in the Matchette Foundation's Subject File of the collection (box 16, folder 12).

1863, February 24	Franklin James Matchette born in Manchester, Wisconsin, son of John and Lucinda (Parshall) Matchette.
1879-1881	Matchette in Arcadia, Wisconsin.
1879	Left school (Sparta, Wisconsin) to work as a telegraph operator.
1881	Cashier at the Trempealeau County Bank.
1882-1887	Matchette in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Employed at an Eau Claire bank and as bookkeeper at the Galloway House, an Eau Claire hotel.
1885	Married Nellie Smith, daughter of Eau Claire lumberman Thomas Harvey Smith.
1887-1894	Matchette in West Superior, Wisconsin.
1888-1893	Proprietor of Tower Hotel, which was destroyed by fire in 1893.
1893	Matchette's interest in physics began about this time.
1894-1895	Matchette in Chicago, Illinois.
1895-1916	Matchette in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1895-1913	Leased St. Charles Hotel (Milwaukee) and the Palmer House (Fond du Lac), and leased, bought, and sold Hotel Superior (West Superior). Developed many innovations in the techniques of hotel management, e.g. a uniform system of accounting for hotels, exhibition procedures, and co-operation between hotel and civic leaders.
1901	Elected president of Wisconsin Hotel Association which he had helped organize.
1904	Developed a nitrogen-based commercial soil-inoculator and founded the Nitragin (sic) Laboratories of Milwaukee.
1906	Invented a vacuum cleaning system for hotels and founded the American Air Cleaning Company.
1910	Sold American Air Cleaning Company and retired.
1913	Invented Servidor, a device on the principle of the elevator, which facilitates service to hotel rooms. During these years Matchette also organized the Citizens' Business League of Milwaukee and helped found the Milwaukee Vocational School, which he served as director and president for some years.
1916-1943	Matchette in New York, New York.
1915-1919	The Pennsylvania Hotel was constructed and leased in agreement with Matchette. At the time this was the largest hotel in the world.
1924-1943	Devoted majority of his time to physics and the development of Absolute-Relative Theory.
1926	Matchette had a deluxe Fifth Avenue apartment-house built, in which he took up residence.
1935, January	Death of Nellie Matchette.
1935, April	For the first time Matchette hired an assistant (Dr. Ohrens?) to work with him in developing the Absolute-Relative Theory.
1939	Publication of A Preview to the Absolute-Relative Theory (in three booklets).
1943, February 23	Franklin J. Matchette died.

The Matchette Papers relate mainly to Matchette's scientific interests and the development and propagation of his Absolute-Relative Theory, and similar philosophical theories. The collection includes correspondence, handwritten and typewritten notes by Matchette, book manuscripts, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, reports and papers, speeches, and miscellaneous materials. Although the dates of the papers range from 1893 to 1958, the majority span the years 1931 through 1942, when Matchette was most intensively involved in developing his Absolute-Relative Theory. The collection is divided into two subject files--Matchette's Personal Subject File and the Matchette Foundation's Subject File, maintaining the originator's arrangement and subject headings as closely as possible.

The Personal Subject File is the file Matchette kept for reference. It demonstrates his various interests in science generally and the different aspects and developments of his theory. Matchette's scientific interests were many and varied--Einstein's theories, magnetic attraction, nutrition, and so on. Many of these subjects were applied to the Absolute-Relative Theory in an effort to confirm or enhance it. Others have no direct connection to his theory, and simply indicate Matchette's interest in a given area. Such subject headings as Virtue, Ethics, Zero-Atom Unit, etc., may refer to the different aspects and basic assumptions of the Absolute-Relative Theory, or to philosophy in general.

About 1934, Matchette designated his notes on certain subjects, which related to the Absolute-Relative Theory, as his “subject papers.” All the handwritten notes in these subject areas were typed, arranged in chronological order, and prefaced with an index. These “subject papers” remain in the regular alphabetical file; however, note is made in both the Contents List of this finding aid and on the folder heading if the papers in a given folder are part of the “subject papers.”

Beginning in 1935, Matchette hired various philosophers, scientists, and other experts to assist him in developing his theory. Many of these people also served as ghost writers for Matchette's publications concerning the Absolute-Relative Theory. Matchette's philosophical, as well as budgetary, dealings with them are to be found in the Personal Subject File.

The file is arranged in a single alphabetical sequence. Folder titles may be a person's name or a subject heading, and the type of material or information within the folder is indicated on the Contents List below.

The Franklin J. Matchette Foundation was established in 1943 after Matchette's death. Its purpose was to further propagate the Absolute-Relative Theory as well as to provide financial support for the development and publication of other similar philosophies. The Matchette Foundation's Subject File has material dealing with the organization of the Foundation, the writing and attempted publication of a biography of Matchette, and the propagation and support of the Absolute-Relative Theory and other theories. The arrangement of the Matchette Foundation's Subject File is a single alphabetical file similar to the Personal Subject File.

Acquisition Information

Presented by the Franklin J. Matchette Foundation, Mineola, Long Island, New York, via Robert B. Eckles, Lafayette, Indiana, November 29, 1971. Accession Number: M71-349

Processing Information

Processed by Carolyn Dellenbach and Joanne Hohler, June 2, 1975.

	Series: Personal Subject File
Box   1 Folder   1	Absolute: Subject papers and handwritten notes, July 1934-September 1941
Box   1 Folder   2	Absolute--Relative--Dualism: Subject papers, July 1931-August 1934
Box   1 Folder   3	American Association for the Advancement of Science: Correspondence and nomination for membership, April-May 1940
Box   1 Folder   4	Aphorisms: Subject papers, December 1926-September 1933
Box   1 Folder   5	Astronomy: Clippings, January 1927-March 1931
Box   1 Folder   6	Atom--Electron--Proton: Handwritten notes and clippings, October 1923-February 1931
Box   1 Folder   7	Bad Nauhein Baths: “Digest of Observation of CO2 gas in Bad Nauhein Baths” correspondence and clippings, May 1930-June 1935
Box   1 Folder   8	Bennet, Edward (Professor of electrical engineering at University of Wisconsin): Correspondence, September-October 1939
Box   1 Folder   9	Bessarboff, Nicholas: Correspondence, handwritten notes and job application form, October 1939-August 1940
Box   1 Folder   10	Bethe, Hans A. (Professor at Cornell University): Articles, handwritten and typewritten notes and papers, and clippings, May 1936-1942
Box   1 Folder   11	Bond: Handwritten notes and paper, October 1935-July 1942
Box   1 Folder   12	Bridges, Horace J. (Leader of the Chicago Ethical Society): Correspondence, articles, speeches, February 1938-July 1940
Box   1 Folder   13	Bucklin, Walter S.: Correspondence, June-July 1938
Box   2 Folder   1	Bulletins--“good,” January 1939-July 1942
Box   2 Folder   2	Bulletins--“no good,” January 1939-January 1942
Box   2 Folder   3	Business Economics: Subject papers, April 1931-January 1934
Box   2 Folder   4	Cancer: Letter and memoranda, September and December 1938
Box   2 Folder   5	Compton, Arthur H. (Professor at Chicago University): Correspondence and clippings, May 1930-April 1931 and , May-July 1938
Box   2 Folder   6	Compton, Karl, (Professor at MIT): Correspondence, conference outline, and clipping, April 1931-May 1939
	Confirmations: Correspondence, articles, clippings, notes
Box   2 Folder   7	Bond, May 1936-December 1938
Box   2 Folder   8	Cancer, September 1939-October 1941
Box   2 Folder   9	Miscellaneous, July 1941-May 1946
Box   2 Folder   10	Constant (element in Absolute-Relative Theory), February 1933-September 1937
Box   2 Folder   11	Copyright: Correspondence, May 1937-March 1942
Box   2 Folder   12	Corpuscular theory: Subject papers, October 1931
Box   2 Folder   13	Cosmic rays: Correspondence, notes, clippings, article, July 1938, May-August 1941
	Craig, Palmer H.
	Correspondence, general
Box   2 Folder   14	July-December 1938
Box   2 Folder   15	January-June 1939
Box   2 Folder   16	July-December 1939
Box   2 Folder   17	January-June 1940
Box   3 Folder   1	July-December 1940
Box   3 Folder   2	January-May 1941
Box   3 Folder   3	June-December 1941
Box   3 Folder   4	January 1942-January 1943
Box   3 Folder   5	Accounts: Budgetary correspondence and suggested monthly budgets, November 1938-February 1942
	CO2 lamp (Craig invented and sold the rights to it to the Foundation in 1945): Correspondence, agreements, notes
Box   3 Folder   6	November 1941-August 1942
Box   3 Folder   7	November 1945-July 1946
Box   3 Folder   8	Magnet: Correspondence and experiment reports, July 1942, undated
Box   3 Folder   9	Reports on bio-physics, September 1939-March 1940
Box   3 Folder   10	Reports on physics, December 1938-April 1939
Box   4 Folder   1	Cycle of atom: Subject papers, April 1930-December 1941
Box   4 Folder   2	Defense (military): Clippings and articles, May 1936-July 1940
Box   4 Folder   3	Definitions (of Absolute-Relative Theory terms), February 1930-December 1938
Box   4 Folder   4	Disequilibration--Equilibration: Subject papers, October 1929-October 1931
Box   4 Folder   5	Divergence: Subject papers, December 1931-January 1940
Box   4 Folder   6	Dualism: Subject papers, August 1931-September 1933
	Duff, E.M.
Box   4 Folder   7	Correspondence, February 1941-November 1942
	Manuscript (book)
Box   4 Folder   8	Introduction-Chapter 11
Box   4 Folder   9	Chapters 12-15 and Epilogue
Box   4 Folder   10	Manuscripts--“No good.”
Box   4 Folder   11	Miscellaneous papers, reports, and notes, February 1941-March 1942
Box   4 Folder   12	Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley: Clippings re, June-November 1930
Box   4 Folder   13	Einstein, Albert: Correspondence re, articles, and clippings, January 1930-May 1939
Box   5 Folder   1	Electricity--Electro-magnetism: Subject papers, December 1929-December 1940
Box   5 Folder   2	Electron; Theory of proton: Subject papers, March 1930-November 1932
Box   5 Folder   3	Electron microscope: Clippings, articles, reports, November 1940-1942
Box   5 Folder   4	Elements (chemical): Clippings, March 1926-April 1931
Box   5 Folder   5	Energy: Correspondence and notes, September 1934-May 1942
Box   5 Folder   6	Energy--Time--Motion: Subject papers, January 1931-April 1934
Box   5 Folder   7	Ether: Subject papers, January 1895-September 1931
Box   5 Folder   8	Ether drift: Clippings, December 1929-October 1930
	Ethics and kindred laws
Box   5 Folder   9	Subject papers, June 1935-December 1936
Box   5 Folder   10	“Working papers:” handwritten notes and clippings, December 1931-December 1936
	Ewer, Mary Anita, and St. John, Grace
	Correspondence, general
Box   5 Folder   11	November 1938-1939
Box   5 Folder   12	1940
Box   5 Folder   13	1941
Box   6 Folder   1	1942, January 1943
	Book
Box   6 Folder   2	Correspondence, progress reports, plans, July 1937-1942
	Chapter outlines, rough drafts (1940)
Box   6 Folder   3	Chapters 1-4
Box   6 Folder   4	Chapters 5-7 and “recommended changes”
Box   6 Folder   5	Chronological file: Correspondence, reports, notes, January-July 1940
Box   6 Folder   6	Papers and previews, December 1938-February 1942
	Time sheets
Box   6 Folder   7	March 1939-December 1940
Box   6 Folder   8	January 1941-July 1942
Box   7 Folder   1	Fields: Reports and handwritten notes, January 1936-May 1942
Box   7 Folder   2	Fission, nuclear: Notes and article, June-July 1940
Box   7 Folder   3	Genealogy: Subject papers, February 1933-April 1934
Box   7 Folder   4	Graphs, charts and diagrams (of Absolute-Relative Theory), June 1938-June 1939, undated
Box   7 Folder   5	Gravitation and magnatism (Unification): Reports, notes, clippings, July 1934-February 1942
Box   7 Folder   6	Gravity: Subject papers, January 1929-April 1933
Box   7 Folder   7	Greed: Handwritten and typewritten notes, March-July 1940
	Health matters
Box   7 Folder   8	Clippings, November 1893-January 1935
Box   7 Folder   9	Suggestions (report) and article, January 1920-November 1940, undated
Box   7 Folder   10	Highlights of Absolute-Relative Theory: Miscellaneous subject papers, November 1922-December 1938
	Hillman, Owen W.
Box   7 Folder   11	Correspondence, August 1937-July 1939
	Book (An Introduction to the Absolute-Relative Theory)
Box   7a Folder   1	Correspondence, chapter outlines, notes, February 1937-1938
Box   7a Folder   2	First draft, June 1938
Box   7a Folder   3	Second draft, July 1938
Box   7a Folder   4	“Index to Second Draft,” July 1938
Box   8 Folder   1	Homogeneity and heterogeneity: Correspondence, May 1940
Box   8 Folder   2	Hoovan Letters and J.A. Want Organization, Inc.: Correspondence, May-June 1939
Box   8 Folder   3	Hull, Gordon F.: Correspondence, June-August 1938
Box   8 Folder   4	Immortality: Clippings and notes, February 1933-January 1934
Box   8 Folder   5	Indexes (to various subject papers, manuscripts, etc.), August 1934-July 1940
Box   8 Folder   6	Integration and disintegration: Handwritten and typewritten notes, March 1938-July 1942
Box   8 Folder   7	Jeans, Sir James H.: Clippings, November-December 1930
Box   8 Folder   8	Jones, Milton E.: Correspondence, April 1938-May 1941
Box   8 Folder   9	Kaempffert, Waldeman (Science editor of New York Times): Correspondence, April 1933-August 1937 (scattered)
Box   8 Folder   10	Life: Notes, reports, clippings, September 1937-August 1941
Box   8 Folder   11	Light: Notes, reports, clippings, April 1940-August 1942
Box   8 Folder   12	Light--Peter Fireman: Correspondence, notes, reports, and clippings, January 1939-June 1941
Box   8 Folder   13	Lines of force and field: Subject papers, March 1938-June 1939
Box   8 Folder   14	Lodge, Sir Oliver: Report and clippings, January 1920-November 1931 (scattered)
Box   8 Folder   15	MacKaye, James (Professor at Dartmouth): Note and clipping, January-April 1930
Box   8 Folder   16	Magnetic attraction: Subject papers, May 1938
Box   8 Folder   17	Magnetism: Notes, correspondence, and clippings, October 1928-October 1941
Box   8 Folder   18	Malisoff, William: Correspondence, notes, reports, February 1937-March 1942
	Man's duality
Box   8 Folder   19	Subject papers, December 1926-October 1933
Box   8 Folder   20	Working papers, November 1930-April 1942
Box   9 Folder   1	“Manuscripts--Franklin J. Matchette,” undated
Box   9 Folder   2	Mass: Notes and reports, January 1935 and January-August 1939
Box   9 Folder   3	Matchette, William: Correspondence re science and notes, June 1937-July 1940
Box   9 Folder   4	Mesotran: Notes and clippings, June-August 1941
Box   9 Folder   5	Metal, powdered: Correspondence, notes, and clippings, April-September 1941
Box   9 Folder   6	Michelson, Albert A.: Article and clippings, June 1930-March 1931
Box   9 Folder   7	Millikan, Robert A.: Clippings, October 1926-November 1931
Box   9 Folder   8	Minature atom--Electrons: Subject papers, May 1940 and September and October 1941
Box   9 Folder   9	More, L.T.: Correspondence, biography, and reports, July 1938-July 1939
Box   9 Folder   10	Neutron: Subject papers, February-December 1932
Box   9 Folder   11	“New Idea for Calculating Weight of Any Particle--Eddington:” Subject papers, March 1934
Box   9 Folder   12	Notes, miscellaneous--“no good,” September 1931-May 1942
Box   9 Folder   13	Notes, miscellaneous--“Okay,” February 1931, July 1934-October 1941
Box   9 Folder   14	Nutrition: Handwritten and typewritten notes, January 1941-June 1942
	Ohrens, Irving P.
Box   9 Folder   15	Correspondence, April 1935-March 1938
Box   9 Folder   16	“Chronological Review; Science--Ohrens especially,” December 1936-July 1937
	Manuscripts and papers
Box   9 Folder   17	I. Logical Outline of Absolute-Relative Theory, April-June 1935
Box   10 Folder   1	II. Philosophical Discussion of Absolute-Relative Theory, June 1935-April 1936
Box   10 Folder   2	III. The Laws of Science, November 1935-March 1936 Note: IV not received in the Archives.
Box   10 Folder   3	V. Basic Features of Absolute-Relative Theory, July 1936
Box   10 Folder   4	VI. Chapter Outlines for Books, June and July 1936
Box   10 Folder   5	First manuscript of first book, July 1936-February 1937
Box   10 Folder   6	Second manuscript of first book, February-May 1937
Box   10 Folder   7	Miscellaneous papers and notes, April 1935, March 1937
Box   10 Folder   8	Order: Subject papers and handwritten notes, August 1935-April 1942
Box   10 Folder   9	Patterns: Correspondence, handwritten and typewritten notes, clippings, January 1927-May 1938, July 1942
Box   11 Folder   1	Physics--Biology--Science: Subject papers, December 1894-August 1931
Box   11 Folder   2	Plato: Notes and correspondence re, September 1938-April 1939
Box   11 Folder   3	Polarity: Correspondence, notes, reports, September 1934-June 1942
Box   11 Folder   4	Polarity--Stress: Subject papers, August 1929-June 1938
Box   11 Folder   5	Positive--Negative: Subject papers, July 1931-July 1934
Box   11 Folder   6	Potentiality: Handwritten and typewritten notes, correspondence, March 1938-June 1942
	Previews
Box   11 Folder   7	No. 1, March 1939; No. 2, , July 1939; and No. 3, , August 1939
Box   11 Folder   8	Announcement brochure, acknowledgements, and requests, February-June 1942
Box   11 Folder   9	Excerpts from, January 1939-August 1941
Box   11 Folder   10	Primary and secondary properties: Handwritten and typewritten notes, January 1937-May 1942
Box   11 Folder   11	Primodial particles: Quotations by different authors re, July 1938
Box   11 Folder   12	Principles: Typewritten notes, March 1930-August 1933
Box   11 Folder   13	Proof of priority: Affidavits and “Miscellaneous priority evidence,” November 1934-April 1938
Box   11 Folder   14	Propeller--Propulsion: Correspondence, notes, clippings, January 1895-May 1939
Box   12 Folder   1	Psychology: Handwritten and typewritten notes, clippings, September 1936-June 1942
	Pyre, Walton
	Correspondence
Box   12 Folder   2	September 1931-April 1939
Box   12 Folder   3	May 1939-December 1939
Box   12 Folder   4	January 1940-December 1940
Box   12 Folder   5	“Digests” (Pyre's comments on Absolute-Relative Theory), January-December 1931
Box   12 Folder   6	Miscellaneous papers and notes, June 1939-November 1940
Box   12 Folder   7	Quartz glass: Correspondence, clipping, articles March 1924-September 1930
	Rabi, I.I.
Box   13 Folder   1	Correspondence re, clippings, notes, reports, December 1938-November 1940
Box   13 Folder   2	Chronological Index of Events, December 1939-April 1940
Box   13 Folder   3	Rays, radio-therapy and radiation: Clippings, notes, article, January 1924-April 1931
Box   13 Folder   4	Reality--Underlying: Subject papers, December 1931-August 1937
Box   13 Folder   5	Receptors: Correspondence and clippings, January 1925, May 1929-December 1930
Box   13 Folder   6(1)	Referants: Subject papers, August 1932-March 1933
Box   13 Folder   6(2)	Referant--Referend series: Handwritten and typewritten notes, February 1938-March 1942
Box   13 Folder   7	Relations: Subject and working papers, September 1936-April 1938
Box   13 Folder   8	Roosevelt, Eleanor: Correspondence, July 1938
Box   13 Folder   9	Roosevelt, Franklin: Correspondence, notes, and clippings, March 1932-November 1936
Box   13 Folder   10	Ryan, Joseph P. (teacher of cosmology at St. John's University): Correspondence, reports, notes, January 1940-February 1942
Box   13 Folder   11	St. John, Ancel: Correspondence and report, January-April 1940
Box   13 Folder   12	Science Service (newsletter): Correspondence, March 1939-May 1940
	Science working papers: Notes, clippings, articles, December 1929-February 1938
Box   13 Folder   13	Inventory and folders 1-3
Box   14 Folder   1	Folders 5, 7, 9, and 10
Box   14 Folder   2	Folders 11-13
Box   14 Folder   3	Science, miscellaneous: Clippings and articles, November 1930-April 1931
Box   14 Folder   4	Sense organs: Handwritten and typewritten notes, book excerpts, March-December 1938
Box   14 Folder   5	Sheldon, W. H. (Professor of philosophy at Yale): Correspondence, July 1939-February 1942
	Smith, Thomas Harvey: Correspondence
Box   14 Folder   6	June 1933-June 1935
Box   14 Folder   7	August 1935-August 1940
Box   14 Folder   8	Soul: Notes, lecture, and clipping, January 1936-August 1940
Box   14 Folder   9	Soul of the Universe (book by Gustave Stromberg): 'Group' comments, handwritten notes, clippings, December 1939-April 1941
Box   14 Folder   10	Source of life: Clippings, January 1926-September 1930
Box   14 Folder   11	Space: Notes and correspondence, April 1938-May 1940
Box   14 Folder   12	Spirit--Matter--Metaphysics: Subject papers, March 1930-August 1932
Box   14 Folder   13	Stahle, D.: Correspondence, November 1933-September 1937
Box   14 Folder   14	Swann, W.F.G.: Correspondence and clippings, October-December 1940, November 1946
Box   15 Folder   1	Theme: Handwritten notes, November-December 1937
Box   15 Folder   2	Theory of application: Subject papers, January 1922-April 1933
Box   15 Folder   3(1)	Theory of the atom: Subject papers, November 1928-January 1932
Box   15 Folder   3(2)	Theory of electron: Subject papers, April 1930-March 1932
Box   15 Folder   3(3)	Theory of life: Subject papers, August 1928
Box   15 Folder   3(4)	Theory of radiation: Subject papers, January 1930-August 1931
Box   15 Folder   3(5)	Theory of universe: Subject papers, April 1930-December 1932
Box   15 Folder   4	Thought--Imagination, etc.: Subject papers, March 1894-April 1932
Box   15 Folder   5	Time: Typewritten notes, July 1936-July 1942
Box   15 Folder   6	Unity of substance: Subject papers, January 1895-August 1934
Box   15 Folder   7(1)	Universal and particular: Handwritten and typewritten notes, May-August 1941
Box   15 Folder   7(2)	Universal nucleus: Subject papers, January 1932-August 1934
Box   15 Folder   8	Uranium fission: Notes, clippings, and articles, February 1939-June 1940
Box   15 Folder   9	Virtue: Subject papers, January 1937-March 1938
Box   15 Folder   10	Wiggam, Albert Edward: Correspondence, February-March 1928
Box   15 Folder   11	Woodbridge, Frederick J.: Correspondence, July 1937
	Zero-Atom Unit
Box   15 Folder   12	Subject papers, May 1931-July 1938
	Miscellaneous notes, clippings, correspondence
Box   15 Folder   13	December 1933-December 1938
Box   15 Folder   14	January 1939-August 1942
	Zuver, Dudley
Box   15 Folder   15	Correspondence and agreement, August 1938-April 1940
	Writings
Box   16 Folder   1	Inventory of writings, July 1939; and chapter outlines, , January-April 1939
Box   16 Folder   2	Chapters, January-May 1939
Box   16 Folder   3	Essays, October-December 1938
Box   16 Folder   4	Miscellaneous, March-July 1939
	Miscellaneous: Handwritten and typewritten notes, correspondence, reports, papers, clippings
Box   16 Folder   5	December 1894-May 1939
Box   16 Folder   6	June 1939-December 1942, undated
	Series: Matchette Foundation's Subject File	⇧
Box   16 Folder   7	Bieber, Hugo and Fern, Vergilius: Polarity (book) manuscript, 1951
Box   16 Folder   8	Blum, Fred H.: Correspondence, articles, reports, biography of, January 1955-May 1958
Box   16 Folder   9	Ecklos, Robert (author of Matchette biography): Correspondence, July 1955, December 1956
Box   16 Folder   10	Ewer, Mary Anita and St. John, Grace: Correspondence re Foundation, May 1943-June 1947
Box   16 Folder   11	Institute for Humane Studies, Inc.: Correspondence and information about Institute, February 1967
	Matchette, Franklin J.
Box   16 Folder   12	Biographical clippings and articles, 1891-May 1937
	Research for biographical book
Box   16 Folder   13	Correspondence, general (Matchette's), March 1888-November 1941 and undated
Box   17 Folder   1	Correspondence with John Willy (Matchette's), February 1923-May 1943
	Business interests-Hotels
Box   17 Folder   2	Galloway House, Hotel Superior, Palmer House and St. Charles: Clippings, 1892-November 1904
Box   17 Folder   3	Penn Hotel: Correspondence, agreement, financial reports, 1914-August 1948
Box   17 Folder   4	Business interests--miscellaneous: Articles, clippings, reports, September 1897-May 1937
Box   17 Folder   5	Kaufman, Percey: Interview, undated
Box   17 Folder   6	Patents (for Matchette's inventions), September 1907-May 1935
Box   17 Folder   7	Poetry, April 1923-September 1941
Box   18 Folder   1a	Servidor Service and Merchandise Books, 1920
Box   18 Folder   1	Survey notes, 1951
Box   18 Folder   2	Miscellaneous: Clippings, passport, articles, August 1893-1940
Box   18 Folder   3	Matchette, Louis D.: Correspondence, June 1945-June 1953
Box   18 Folder   4	Moncrieff, John: Correspondence, January 1950-March 1950
Box   18 Folder   5	National Cyclopedia of Biography: Correspondence, May 1943-March 1946
	Outline of a Metaphysics (Book based on Matchette's theories, published by Foundation)
Box   18 Folder   6	Chapter manuscripts, undated
Box   18 Folder   7(1)	Epstein, Joseph (author): Correspondence and agreement, February 1947-August 1951
Box   18 Folder   7(2)	“Record of Books Mailed and Given Away,” 1950
Box   18 Folder   8	Pyre, Walton: Correspondence and biographical leaflet, October 1946-January 1951
Box   18 Folder   9	Russell, Bertrand: Lectures of, correspondence, Fall 1950-May 1952
Box   18 Folder   10	Sheldon, W. H.: Correspondence, December 1948-February 1950
Box   18 Folder   11	Synopsis of the Absolute-Relative Theory of Philosophy (published by Foundation), 1946
	Watts, Alan W.
Box   18 Folder   12	Correspondence, agreement, and articles, February 1950-June 1951
Box   18 Folder   13	Manuscripts of Wisdom of Insecurity and an unnamed book, undated
	Zuver, Dudley
Box   19 Folder   1	Agreement and manuscript for Retreat to Reality, undated
Box   19 Folder   2	Manuscript of unknown work: Handwritten and typewritten drafts, undated