Correspondence File, 1919-1980

Correspondence of the Secretary of the Board of Trustees with trustees, administrative officers, faculty, publishers and the public concerning meetings; minutes; advisory committees; announcements of fellowships and scholarships; legislative visits; building construction; appointments; sabbatical leaves; resignations; trustees' printing; secretary's qualifications and duties (1937-38, Willard); University press and print shop budgets and operations; editing; Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Studies in Language and Literature, Studies in the Social Sciences and Biological Monographs; University publications, biographies of Andrew S. Draper (1935-36, Horner, Draper) and Livingston Lord (1937-38), Lord, McKinney); University Club and related matters. The series also includes correspondence with the president's office concerning the controversy over the athletic departments attempted dismissal of Robert Zuppke as football coach, an Equal Opportunity Commission (1964), revision of University Statues (1951-72), and consolidation of the Chicago Campuses (1978-80).

Correspondence from the 1925-26 year is missing.