Title: John D. Black Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1915-1960

Creator:

• Black, John D., 1883-1960

Call Number: U.S. Mss BI; M68-259; M95-087

Quantity: 21.6 c.f. (54 archives boxes); plus additions of 4.1 c.f.

Repository:

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

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

See the catalog entry for information of possible additional materials and shelf locations.

Abstract:

Papers of John D. Black, an agricultural economist who taught at Minnesota and Harvard and who studied, worked for, and influenced numerous government agencies concerned with agriculture. The collection documents Black's professional activities and includes material on topics related to domestic allotment plans, population and world food supply, land use policy, government agencies, the economics of developing nations, and nutrition during wartime.

Language: English

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John D. Black, one of the eminent figures in the field of agricultural economics during the first half of the 20th century, probably encountered his first introduction to farm problems during his childhood and youth in a dairy region of southern Wisconsin. However, it was not until after he had spent several years studying and teaching English that he developed his interest in agricultural economics and he returned to the University of Wisconsin to earn his Ph.D. in that subject in 1919. He then taught at the University of Minnesota, becoming chief of the Division of Agricultural Economics in 1921. In 1927, he joined the economics faculty at Harvard University, where he remained for the rest of his life.

Black was vitally concerned with the economic and agricultural problems of this country. His ideas became influential among those charged with forming agricultural policies, and he is credited with formulating some of the earliest domestic allotment plans which were used as models when the New Deal came to power in 1933. Although he undoubtedly could have had innumerable offers of government positions, Black evidently never felt any desire to sever his ties with the academic world. As a teacher, researcher, and writer, he influenced the ideas of many men who were already, or who were destined to become, government administrators. He also served different government agencies in various capacities (for instance, he was chief economist for the Federal Farm Board, 1931-1932, and consultant for the Tennessee Valley Authority starting in 1940, among others), and participated in many research projects studying the operation of government agricultural agencies. Black was also influential in the establishment of the Harvard Graduate School of Public Administration, and his seminars in land use policy attracted many government personnel, both as students and as speakers and participants.

From the start of his career to the end, Black proved to be a prolific writer and researcher. His projects and publications were far too numerous to list here. However, additional biographical information may be found in a folder in Box 32, and a bibliography listing most of his publications accompanies this inventory.

This collection was received in multiple parts from the donor(s) and is organized into 3 major parts. These materials have not been physically interfiled and researchers might need to consult more than one part to locate similar materials.

• Part 1 (U.S. Mss BI): Original Collection, 1916-1960
• Part 2 (M68-259): Additions, 1915-1957
• Part 3 (M95-087): Additions, 1937-1950

Acquisition Information

Presented by Mrs. John D. Black and Guy Black, Belmont, Massachusetts, and John P. Gavin, Washington, D.C., 1962 and 1967. Additions presented by Littauer Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Accession Number: M68-259, M95-087

Processing Information

Original Collection processed by Emilie Al-Khazraji, August 26, 1966.

U.S. Mss BI	Part 1 (U.S. Mss BI): Original Collection, 1916-1960 Physical Description: 21.6 c.f. (54 archives boxes)  Scope and Content Note The Original Collection reflects issues and events current in American agriculture and the economy over a period of four decades. It is divided into several series: CORRESPONDENCE, 1919-1960; BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES; ARTICLES AND SPEECHES, 1916-1959; BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS, 1925-1953; FEDERAL FARM BOARD PAPERS, 1929-1933; TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY PAPERS, 1939-1950s; RESEARCH PROJECTS AND RELATED MATERIALS, 1922-1952; COURSE MATERIALS, 1918-1950s; and ARTICLES AND SPEECHES BY OTHERS. All but the last two series are arranged chronologically, by month where possible. The CORRESPONDENCE contains letters exchanged with many other educators and experts in agriculture and economics, as well as with many government officials, including such persons as Clinton Anderson, Murray R. Benedict, Joseph S. Davis, John Kenneth Galbraith, Charles Kellogg, Henry C. Taylor, Howard R. Tolley, Henry A. Wallace, and Meredith L. Wilson, to name a few. A more detailed index of correspondents follows the contents list at the end of this finding aid. The correspondence may be regarded as the key to the rest of the collection, for it overlaps with the other groups both in types of materials and in subject matter. For instance, items such as reports, minutes, notes, tables, questionnaires, schedules, and even drafts of articles or chapters for books, were left with the correspondence where these were not excessively bulky and were closely related to the correspondence. Subjects covered in the correspondence, as well as in the other groups of materials, are mainly concerned with matters of interest to Black in connection with his teaching, research, and participation in various committees and projects: population and world food supply, domestic allotment plans, agricultural censuses, land settlement, land use policy, the dairy industry, soil conservation, government agricultural agencies and policies, farm management, farm labor, agricultural and economic problems of developing countries, and many other topics. The contents list below and a bibliography of many of Black's writings (filed at the Historical Society with the paper copy of this finding aid) serve as a fairly good guide to the subjects in which he was involved at various times which would also show up in the correspondence. However, several groups of correspondence may be singled out for special mention, not because they are necessarily of greater interest or importance, but because they involved projects or activities which do not seem to have resulted in publications and might otherwise go unnoticed. In 1930-1931, Black became involved in an African-American rural community project which grew out of a plan originally submitted by Herbert Hoover to the Julius Rosenwald Fund in about February of 1928. The basis of the scheme was to have a foundation buy sufficient land to develop communities for the resettlement of poor but ambitious African-American families, who could over a period of time buy the land from the foundation with their earnings. Henry Taylor of the Social Science Research Council became interested in the plan, and his correspondence concerning it during the spring and summer of 1928 is contained in the Black collection. Black and others attempted to revive the project in 1930-1931, but it had to be abandoned when sufficient funds were not forthcoming to complete the pilot study. Of particular interest, however, is an interview with a 91-year-old African-American man, Richard Canty, who had been born a slave (see correspondence for February, 1930). Also of interest in connection with land settlement is the correspondence relating to Black's work as chairman of the Committee on Control and Direction of Land Settlement of the National Land Use Planning Committee in 1932-1933, in an attempt to discourage a vast “back-to-the-land” movement as an escapist and unrealistic approach to urban problems of the Depression. During the early 1940s, Black conceived an ambitious project to study the operation of governmental agricultural agencies. During 1941 he traveled extensively all over the country inspecting the work of the agencies at close hand, and interviewing regional officials as well as local farmers. By 1942 the onset of the war had placed restrictions on travel, so he continued his project by means of questionnaires and letters directed to farmers all over the country, seeking their opinions on the operation of such agencies as the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Farm Security Administration, Soil Conservation Service, Federal Employment Service, and the Department of Agriculture War Boards. The thousands of letters he received probably constitute one of the few sources of contemporary public opinion concerning these agencies for that period. Black's interest in government agricultural policy is revealed constantly throughout the correspondence, but in 1949 he tried a more direct approach, when he exchanged letters with numerous legislators as well as with other economic and agricultural experts concerning the agricultural program of Secretary Brannan. Following World War II, Black's correspondence reflects the growing national concern for the agricultural and economic problems of developing nations. Black himself served in an advisory capacity to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations during the 1940s and to the governments of the Philippines, India, and Pakistan under the auspices of the Foreign Operations Administration. Also of interest are letters from other observers in foreign countries, particularly the extremely detailed descriptions of post-war Korea found in the letters of Clyde Mitchell, who directed land reform there in 1947-1948. Letters of Charles D. Hyson in August, 1950, describe activities of the Economic Cooperation Administration in Portugal. Like the correspondence, ARTICLES AND SPEECHES, and BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS also concern agricultural economics and related topics. In fact, as mentioned above, often the correspondence will refer to items found in these two groups, and chapters or articles were sometimes left with the correspondence when attached to letters discussing their contents or revisions. Printed materials, with the exception of some mimeographed items, were removed from the collection and transferred to the Land Tenure Center Library operated by the Department of Agricultural Economics of the University of Wisconsin (subsequently transferred to Steenbock Library or other campus libraries). A bibliography of transferred materials authored by Black is filed with the paper copy of this finding aid. It is arranged chronologically and therefore may be consulted as a fairly accurate guide to the types of subject matter likely to be found in the articles and speeches for a given period. Papers of the FEDERAL FARM BOARD consist mainly of memos, reports, studies, and other materials prepared by the staff of the Federal Farm Board, covering the periods when J. S. Davis and John D. Black served as chief economists. Papers concerning the TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY (TVA) relate mainly to projects in which Black was interested in his capacity as consultant. Much of the material relates in particular to unit demonstration farm projects sponsored by the TVA. The series RESEARCH PROJECTS AND RELATED MATERIALS includes various types of papers, such as reports, minutes of meetings, notes, interviews, and statistics. These materials will be more useful if regarded as a supplement to the correspondence, rather than consulted separately, since the correspondence also contains many similar types of materials, as well as letters which may refer directly to the research project in question. Materials relating to many other research projects are contained wholly within the correspondence. Black's COURSE MATERIALS are of more than usual interest for this type of material, since they contain many actual transcripts of lectures and discussions by Black and other prominent agricultural economists and government officials invited to address the seminars or participate in symposiums. The final series, ARTICLES AND SPEECHES BY OTHERS, consists of materials written by prominent agricultural economists, government officials, and others, but not directly connected with the other groups of materials listed above. A list of authors appears in the contents list below. Other articles and speeches appear in the correspondence, attached to letters; in the research materials, as part of projects; and in the course materials, among seminar transcripts or class projects.
	Series: Correspondence
Box   1	1919 - 1928, July
Box   2	1928, August - 1930, April
Box   3	1930, May - 1931
Box   4	1932 - 1933, June
Box   5	1933, July - 1934, October
Box   6	1934, November - 1937, May
Box   7	1937, June - 1938, October
Box   8	1938, November - 1940, April
Box   9	1940, May - 1941, August
Box   10	1941, September - 1942, May
Box   11	1942, June - August
Box   12	1942, September - November
Box   13	1942, December - 1944, February
Box   14	1944, March - 1945
Box   15	1946 - 1947, August
Box   16	1947, September - 1948, March
Box   17	1948, April - September
Box   18	1948, October - 1949, March
Box   19	1949, April - September
Box   20	1949, October - 1950, March
Box   21	1950, April - August
Box   22	1950, September - 1951, January
Box   23	1951, February - August
Box   24	1951, September - 1952, July
Box   25	1952, August - December; undated
Box   26	1953, January - August
Box   27	1953, September - 1954, August
Box   28	1954, September - 1955, August
Box   29	1955, November - 1956, August
Box   30	1956, September - 1958, November
Box   31	1958, December - 1960
Box   32 Folder   1	Series: Biographical Sketches	⇧
	Series: Articles and Speeches	⇧
Box   32 Folder   2-7	1916-1931
Box   33	1932-1937
Box   34	1938-1941
Box   35	1942-1948
Box   36	1949-1954
Box   37 Folder   1-3	1955-1959
	Series: Books and Pamphlets	⇧
Box   37 Folder   4-5	1925, Production Economics - text, notes, and suggestions
Box   38 Folder   1	circa 1927, “The Tax Situation in Minnesota” Note: Unpublished.
Box   38 Folder   2	1928, Research Method and Procedure in Agricultural Economics
Box   38 Folder   3	1928, “Review of Agricultural Economics Research” Note: Unpublished?
Box   38 Folder   4	circa 1929, “Chapter 2 - What Tariff Revision Can Do” - possibly from Agricultural Reform in the United States
Box   38 Folder   5	1920s, Chapter 1 and two appendices from an unidentified book concerning the relation between agricultural conditions and business fluctuations Note: It is not clear whether this is by Black or someone else; appendices relate to theories of Professor Moore. See also Boxes 45-46.
Box   38 Folder   6	1931, Conditions Affecting the Agricultural Development of the Cut-Over Region of the Great Lakes States
Box   38 Folder   7	circa 1934-1936, “Analysis of Census Data on Farms” Note: Unpublished.
Box   38 Folder   8	circa 1943-1944, Book on farm labor Note: Unpublished.
Box   39	circa 1943-1944, Book on farm labor (continued)
Box   40-41	1947, Farm Management Note: First draft and final revision.
Box   42 Folder   1	1949, Federal-State-Local Relations in Agriculture Note: See also Box 47.
	Series: Federal Farm Board Papers	⇧
Box   42 Folder   2-7	1929 - 1932, January
Box   43	1932, February -1933
Box   44	Series: Tennessee Valley Authority Papers, 1939-1950s	⇧
	Series: Research Projects and Related Materials	⇧
Box   45 Folder   1	circa 1922, Projects for Farm Management - costs and unrelated materials
Box   45 Folder   2	circa 1924, Creamery Analysis
Box   45 Folder   3	circa 1925, Lakes States Study - materials possibly used in preparation of Land Settlement and Colonization in the Great Lakes States
	circa 1928-1929, Materials possibly used in preparation of Black's book, Agricultural Reform in the U.S. Scope and Content Note: Mostly statistical materials, with several drafts of papers by various persons, and other miscellany.
Box   45 Folder   4	Regarding annual weather surpluses (George M. Peterson)
Box   45 Folder   5	Regarding farm prices
Box   45 Folder   6	Regarding domestic allotment of farm relief plans (Henry Richards, Mordecai Ezekiel, Jesse Tapp)
Box   45 Folder   7	Regarding farm prices
Box   45 Folder   8	Regarding farm prices and tariffs
Box   46 Folder   1	Regarding exports and imports
Box   46 Folder   2	Regarding tariffs and home markets
Box   46 Folder   3	Regarding orderly marketing (Moore)
Box   46 Folder   4	1929-1931, International Union for the Scientific Investigation of Population Problems - Commission I on Population and Food Supply - reports and miscellany
Box   46 Folder   5	circa 1931-1939, Materials relating to the agricultural census - concerning work of the Social Science Research Council and the Committee on Government Statistics to improve census methods - including reports, sample schedules, and other materials
Box   47 Folder   1	1939-1940, County program planning notes
Box   47 Folder   2	1941, 1943, Study of government agricultural agencies - notes, interviews, and report
Box   47 Folder   3	1943, Interviews
Box   47 Folder   4	1943, Farm Security Administration - report to Chester Davis
Box   47 Folder   5	1947-1948, Notes by Charles M. Hardin, and miscellaneous other materials which may have been used in the preparation of Federal-State-Local Relations in Agriculture Note: See also Boxes 42 and 53.
Box   48 Folder   1	1947-1951, Boston Milkshed Price Committee Scope and Content Note: Reports, notes, minutes.
Box   48 Folder   2	1948-1952, New England dairy farm project Note: Sponsored by the Hood Foundation. See also course materials in Box 51.
Box   48 Folder   3	1950, U.S.D.A. Agricultural Research Policy Committee - agenda, notes
Box   48 Folder   4	1953, Soil Conservation Policy Conference - agenda, and reports
Box   48 Folder   5	Undated, Miscellaneous notes, including some on John R. Commons, and some research notes on events concerning agricultural policy in 1932-1933
	Series: Course Materials	⇧
Box   49 Folder   1	University of Wisconsin, course notes and outlines from courses Black took as a student, including materials from courses taught by John R. Commons, circa 1918-1919
	University of Minnesota, circa 1920s, outlines for courses taught by Black, , 1920s
Box   49 Folder   2	Advanced Agricultural Economics
Box   49 Folder   3	Economics of Consumption
Box   49 Folder   4	Agricultural Economics
Box   49 Folder   5	Economic Theory (syllabus)
Box   49 Folder   6	Agricultural Production
	Harvard University, miscellaneous course materials
	Agricultural Economics
Box   49 Folder   7	Early outline, circa 1920s
Box   49 Folder   8	Syllabus, circa 1931
Box   50	Commodity Distribution, Prices, and Consumption - course outlines, transcripts of lectures and seminars with visiting consultants, 1930s-1940s
Box   51	Land use policy seminar - miscellaneous seminar transcripts, reports, notes, outlines, relating to land use policy, New England county land use planning, forestry, conservation, population and world food supply, extension, and farm planning, 1940s-1950s
Box   52 Folder   1-3	Soil Conservation Seminar - transcripts of meetings, 1950-1951
Box   52 Folder   4	Miscellany, Department of Economics - lists of students, project proposals, suggestions for new courses, personnel, opinions of returning graduate students, and other materials, 1930s-1940s
Box   52 Folder   5	Miscellany, Graduate School of Public Administration - opening conferences between faculty and government officials to discuss setting up the GSPA program, faculty meetings, reports, project proposals
	Series: Articles and Speeches by Others	⇧
Box   53	Aiken, George D.
Box   53	Anderson, Clinton
Box   53	Baker, Gladys L.
Box   53	Bean, Louis H.
Box   53	Benedict, Murray R.
Box   53	Black, Guy
Box   53	Bowman, Mary Jean
Box   53	Brunn, Robert R.
Box   53	Caryer, T.N.
Box   53	Cobb, C.W. and Paul H. Douglas
Box   53	Copeland, Morris A.
Box   53	Davis, Joseph S.
	Douglas, Paul H. - see Cobb, C.W.
Box   53	Dennison, Henry, and John Kenneth Galbraith
Box   53	Duckham, A.N.
Box   54	Edminster (?)
Box   54	Elliott, F.F.
Box   54	Ezekiel, Mordecai, and Sherman Johnson
Box   54	Fauser, Immanuel
Box   54	Galbraith, John Kenneth Note: See also Dennison, Henry.
Box   54	Hammar, Conrad H.
Box   54	Hardin, Charles M. Note: See also Box 47.
Box   54	Hyson, Charles D.
Box   54	Johnson, Sherman E. Note: See also Ezekiel, Mordecai.
Box   54	Jordan, Virgil
Box   54	Kellogg, Charles
Box   54	MacIver, R.M.
Box   54	Malenbaum, Wilfred
Box   54	Maris, Paul V.
Box   54	Peterson, George M.
Box   54	Rathbun, Lawrence W.
Box   54	Richards, Henry I.
Box   54	Ronald, W.R.
Box   54	Sorokin, Pitirim
Box   54	Stewart, Charles L.
Box   54	Tapp, Jesse
Box   54	Taylor, Henry C.
Box   54	Tolley, Howard R.
Box   54	Wilson, Meredith L.
Box   54	Working, Holbrook
Box   54	Youngblood, B.
M68-259	Part 2 (M68-259): Additions, 1915-1957 Physical Description: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes)  Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1915-1957, of John D. Black, including correspondence and writings on agricultural policy, and farm product prices and parity. Also included are records on university agriculture extension programs, the Food and Agriculture Association of the United Nations (FAO), farm labor studies, and a report on tenancy from 1915.	⇧
Box   1 Folder   1	Agriculture - Yesterday and Tomorrow, undated
Box   1 Folder   2	Farm product prices, 1940-1950
Box   1 Folder   3	Parity material, 1942
Box   1 Folder   4	Federal-state-local relations, 1949, 1954
Box   1 Folder   5	Extension, 1942, , 1947
Box   1 Folder   6-8	Agricultural policy, 1941-1957
Box   2 Folder   1	Agricultural policy, 1941-1957 (continued)
Box   2 Folder   2	Food and Agriculture Association of the United Nations (FAO), 1946-1948
Box   2 Folder   3	Correspondence, 1941-1949
Box   2 Folder   4	Tenancy report, 1915
Box   2 Folder   5	State Council of Defense/Local labor agent/“Employer's Order” cards, undated
Box   2 Folder   6	Public utilities, R.H. Hess, undated
Box   2 Folder   7	Farm labor studies, 1915-1919
M95-087	Part 3 (M95-087): Additions, 1937-1950 Physical Description: 3.5 c.f. (3 record center cartons, 1 archives box, and 1 oversize folder)  Scope and Content Note Additions, 1937-1950, from Black's “Food and Nutrition Files,” created while he was working on a pamphlet for the National Planning Association in 1945, which he later expanded into a published agricultural policy program. The files include unpublished reports from various government agencies and industry leaders, as well as correspondence with colleagues regarding drafts that he sent out for review. Subjects covered include the production, distribution, and regulation of food in the U.S. during wartime and peace, and nutrition research in the areas of dietary standards, vitamin enrichment, and public health. There is an oversize folder that contains World War II-era food stamp posters and USDA nutrition charts. An index for these files, created by Black, is included in the collection. In addition, there is one folder pertaining to New England milk pricing which includes research, drafts of a pamphlet, and the finished pamphlet. Note: Index Numbers refer to the index created by John Black, a copy of which can be found in Box 1 in the folder labeled “INDEX.”	⇧
Index No.   1.	Series: United States Program: Normal
Box/Folder   1/1-7 Index No.   1.0	General Aspects (, 1942-1946)
Box/Folder   1/8 Index No.   1.10	Nutrition Education (, 1942-1945)
Box/Folder   1/9-13 Index No.   1.11	Consumer Activities (, 1939-1947)
Box/Folder   1/14-19 Index No.   1.12	Direct Distribution (, 1941-1948)
Box/Folder   2/1-4 Index No.   1.12	Direct Distribution (, 1941-1948) (continued)
Box/Folder   2/5 Index No.   1.13	Prices and Expenditures (, 1941-1946)
Box/Folder   2/6-9 Index No.   1.14	Consumption Levels (, 1937-1945)
Box/Folder   2/10-15 Index No.   1.2	Distribution Aspects (, 1941-1948)
Box/Folder   2/16 Index No.   1.3	Production Aspects (, 1939-1946)
Box/Folder   3/1-3 Index No.   1.3	Production Aspects (, 1939-1946) (continued)
Box/Folder   3/4 Index No.   1.31	Home Production (, 1942-1944)
Box/Folder   3/5 Index No.   1.32	Farm Family Living (, 1940-1944)
Box/Folder   3/6-7 Index No.   1.4	Nutrition Program (, 1942-1947)
Box/Folder   3/8 Index No.   1.50	Labor Organizations (, 1943-1945)
Box/Folder   3/9-10 Index No.   1.51	Industrial Feeding (, 1943-1945)
Box/Folder   3/11 Index No.   1.6	Professional Groups (, 1942-1946)
Box/Folder   3/12-13 Index No.   1.7	State and Local Programs (, 1938-1947)
Box/Folder   3/14-15 Index No.   1.8	Domestic Food Supply (, 1942-1945)
Index No.   2.	Series: United States Program: Wartime	⇧
Box/Folder   3/16-17 Index No.   2.0	General Aspects (, 1943-1944)
Box/Folder   3/18 Index No.   2.1	Rationing (, 1942-1945)
Box/Folder   3/19 Index No.   2.2	Armed Forces (, 1941-1943)
Index No.   3.	Series: Nutrition	⇧
Box/Folder   3/20 Index No.   3.0	General (, 1942-1950)
Box/Folder   3/21 Index No.   3.1	Nutritive Values ( 1936, , 1944-1948)
Box/Folder   4/1 Index No.   3.2	Dietary Standards (, 1941-1945)
Box/Folder   4/2 Index No.   3.3	Research (, 1941-1947)
Box/Folder   4/3-5 Index No.   3.4	Nutritional Assessment U.S. and the World (, 1942-1947)
Box/Folder   4/6 Index No.   3.5	Nutrition and Public Health (, 1944-1947)
Box/Folder   4/7 Index No.   3.6	Infants and Children (, 1948)
Box/Folder   4/8 Index No.   3.7	Food Enrichment (, 1948)
Box/Folder   4/9 Index No.   N/A	New England Milk Price Committee (, 1948-1949)
Oversize Folder	Posters
	Poster: “Orange and Blue Food Stamps Redeemed Here.”
	Poster: “Blue Stamps Pledge of Honor”
	Small Poster: “Eat Nutritional Food” Food Guide
	Poster: “U.S. Needs Us Strong. Eat Nutritional Food.”
	Large Poster: U.S. Department of Agriculture Nutrition Chart (, 1943) with 7 Food Groups - “...eat some food from each group every day!”

Appendix: Index of Correspondents

The following list is offered as a guide to correspondents. These were noted as the papers were being processed, but no attempt was made to completely index each correspondent and letter.

• Aiken, George D.:  1948, March 5, April 3, December 30, 1954, March 3 & 17

• Allbaugh, Leland G.:  1940s-1950s

• Altmeyer, Arthur J.:  1941, November 18; 1942, May 7, July 16

• Anderson, Clinton P.:  1949, September 15; 1950, March; 1956, February 17 & 29

• Baker, Oliver E.:  1931

• Bean, Louis H.:  1929, January 18; 1937, May 11; 1938, November 28; 1939, July 11

• Benedict, Murray R.:  scattered throughout (1934, August-September, accompanied by an article or paper)

• Benson, Ezra Taft:  1954, June 9

• Black, Albert G.:  scattered throughout

• Blackmore, John:  1950, September 8; 1951, April 5; 1956, April 11; 1957, May 28

• Brannan, Charles F.:  1949, July 12, August 11, November 25

• Brinton, Crane:  1949, January 7

• Bundy, McGeorge:  1953, December 10

• Cassels, John M.:  1935, March 1; 1936, June 13; 1950, October 30

• Davis, Chester C.:  1929, February-April, and scattered

• Davis, I.G.:  1930s, and scattered

• Davis, Joseph S.:  1930-1931, and scattered

• Domke, Martin:  1949, November 28

• Duncan, Otis D.:  1933, May 1; 1953

• Douglas, Paul H.:  See Box 53.

• East, Edward, M.:  1929-1930

• Ebling, Walter F.:  scattered

• Eisenhower, Hilton S.:  1940, October 3; 1941, March 13; 1942, February 27; 1948, January 26

• Ezekiel, Mordecai:  1920s-1950s; dates noted include: 1924, October 27; 1927, September 26; 1929, January 11 accompanied by article or paper, February 21, March 18, April 8; 1935, January 15; 1936, December 16 (to); 1938, July 15; 1946, October; 1949, December 14; 1952, September 9; 1953, December 28; 1954, March 2, October 11 (to); 1956, January 12; 1957, July 31

• Fred, Edwin B.:  1949, March 23

• Galbraith, John Kenneth:  1933-1960; dates noted include: 1933, January 19; 1934, March 31, May 26, May 29, May 31; 1935, July 30, August 8, December 23; 1936, January 30; 1937, April 12, December 29; 1939, October 6, November 4, and 14; 1940, February 27; 1949, July 13; 1950, August (2), September 27; 1956, April 25

• Galpin, Charles J.:  1928, March 27

• Gaus, John M.:  scattered

• Gray, Lewis C.:  1927, and scattered

• Hambidge, Gove:  1950, June 29

• Hardin, Charles M.:  1940s-1950s

• Hendrickson, Roy F.:  1942, July 7

• Hobson, Asher:  1934

• Hollman, Paul G.:  1944, March 13

• Holifield, Chet:  1956, January 23 accompanied by a press release

• Hood, Harvey P.:  1943, September 29; 1955, November 13

• Hoover, Herbert:  See letter of Henry C. Taylor, 1928, January 16; also “A Proposal Presented Informally to the Julius Rosenwald Fund by the Honorable Herbert Hoover” (1928, circa February).

• Hope, Clifford:  1947, October 4 and 11, December 24; 1948, January 3, April 14

• Hubert, Benjamin F.:  1930-1931

• Hyson, Charles D.:  1940s-1950s

• Johnson, Sherman:  scattered

• Kellogg, Charles E.:  scattered, especially 1940s-1950s

• Keyserling, Leon H.:  1956, May 8

• Kiefer, Charles and Maxine:  1940s-1950s

• Kuznets, Simon:  1948, February 20

• Lenroot, Irvine L.:  1925, November 30

• Loomis, Charles P.:  1949, March 14 and 24; 1950, April 13; 1951, July 17

• Lowden, Frank O.:  1930s-1950s

• Lubin, Isador:  1937, January 15 (accompanied by an article or paper)

• McKay, Douglas:  1953, April 10 and 16

• McNulty, James:  1949, May 8, June 6, July 26, September 2

• March, Lucien:  1929-1931

• Mitchell, Clyde:  1946-1950s

• Motheral, Joseph R.:  1947, November 18

• Mudgett, Bruce D.:  1928 accompanied by an article or paper, and scattered

• Nourse, Edwin G.:  1949, May 6

• Patton, James G.:  1949, February-July; 1952, February 27

• Pearl, Raymond:  1929-1931

• Raper, Arthur:  1930, December 3

• Rice, Stuart A.:  1948, June 28

• Ross, Edward A.:  1931, May 13

• Roosevelt, Franklin D.:  1933, January 5 (to)

• Ruml, Beardsley:  1928-1929; 1948, February 5

• Russell, James E.:  1934, January 25

• Saltonstall, Leverett:  1950, September 9

• Sanderson, Dwight:  1926, October 25

• Sanger, Margaret (Mrs. J. Noah H. Slee):  1931, May 16

• Saulnier, Raymond J.:  1948-1949

• Sayre, Charles R.:  1940s-1950s

• Schultz, Theodore W.:  1935, August 5; 1937, January 30

• Schumpeter, Joseph A.:  undated, attached to correspondence of 1950, May

• Silberling, Norman:  1942, February 6

• Slichter, Sumner:  1939, January 12, February 2 and 13; 1956, September 4

• Sparkman, John J.:  1950, August 11

• Spillman, W.J.:  1928, October 15

• Starch, Elmer:  1948, May 25; 1953, May 25

• Stassen, Harold E.:  1954, April 28

• Stine, Oscar C.:  1927-1929 (1928, circa August accompanied by an article or paper)

• Taeuber, Conrad:  1949, March 22, 31; 1952, June 17; 1953, March 26

• Taeusch, Carl F.:  1949, March 3

• Taylor, Carl C.:  scattered

• Taylor, Henry C.:  1927-1960; dates noted include: 1927, November 21; 1928-extensive correspondence for the spring and summer relating to a Social Science Research Council cooperative Project for Alabama; 1929, January 21 and 22; 1930, December 13 and 15; 1944, September 20; 1945, August 13, October 23; 1946, August 13, December 9 (above); 1948, May 3 accompanied by an article or paper, October 25; 1953, July 8; 1960, January 8

• Thye, Edward J.:  1949, May 7

• Tolley, Howard R.:  scattered throughout

• Tschayanov, A. (Director of State Scientific Research Institute of Agricultural Economics in Moscow):  1928, March 8, April 12, undated

• Tugwell, Rexford:  1933, April

• Wallace, Henry A.:  1933, April 13; 1937, April 10; 1939, January 11, February 8, April 21, May 4

• Wallace, Henry C.:  See letter of H.C. Taylor, 1928, January 6

• Warren, G.F.:  1924, December 9; 1927, December 15

• Wendzel, Julius T.:  1937, March 23

• Willits, Joseph H.:  1944, February 16

• Wilson, Milbourn L.:  1930s-1950s (1935, December 21 accompanied by an article or paper)

• Witte, Edwin 1957:  March 6 (letter to, reminiscing about student days together)

• Young, Milton R.:  1948, March 12; 1949, May 4