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1044/01: Jean M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.84567)
Date: January 1941Creator: Cudahy, Jean Morton
Type: Document
Description:Jean Morton Cudahy updating Clarence Godshalk on their garden and travels.
Extent: 4 sheets
1921/03/08: Sterling Morton to Joy Morton (3.92114)
Date: March 8 1921Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Sterling Morton to Joy Morton updating him. 1) Mr. Garden is making more measurements at the farm. 2) Sterling is checking various nurseries for spruce trees. 3) Carolyn has no signs of malignancy. They will stay home and not travel. 4) The Teletype business could expand to England, France and Belgium with patent approval. He is sending equipment to Donald Murray and others in Europe. 5) Production is up on aerogages.
Extent: 3 sheets
1922/01/26: Sterling Morton to Joy Morton (3.92156)
Date: January 26 1922Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Sterling Morton to Joy Morton. He updates his father on equipment at the Morrison Hotel, Check Endorsers, and teletype machines. Joe Cudahy purchased the MacVeagh House and will convert it to 15 room apartments, with tenants to include Laurence Armour and John G. Shedd. The Delano House was sold to a Swedish Lutheran Society. He suggests John Root of Holabird & Roche as the architect for arboretum work. The buildings should be permanent, not wood frame. He and Mr. Simonds will meet with Root.
Extent: 3 sheets
1922/02/28: Sterling Morton to Joy Morton (3.92158)
Date: February 28 1922Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Letter fro Sterling Morton to Joy Morton. Wood dealers agree with Wirt Morton that July is the month to sell wood. Details of teletype sales and manufacture, Western Electric, Kleinschmidt, Morkrum Company and others involved in that business. In a discussion with Jean, she shared her opinions on the arboretum and library plans.
Extent: 3 sheets
1922/03/30: Sterling Morton to Joy Morton (3.92161)
Date: March 30 1922Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Sterling Morton to Joy Morton. He met with Simonds at the Arboretum. He's very pleased with the progress on grading and dredging. Especially pleased with the layout of roads, which will develop the property to the fullest. Trees have arrived, but they cannot be planted until the ground is drier. He is interviewing for Butler and Chauffeur. Hans and his wife from last year have returned. He suggests that Joy ask Joe for some tame horses to enhance the property and please Suzette. Teletype sales issues with Howard, Carr and AT&T.
Extent: 2 sheets
1931/05/01: Joseph Cudahy to Clarence Godshalk (3.84681)
Date: May 1 1931Creator: Cudahy, Joseph M.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Joseph Cudahy to Clarence Godshalk about condition of evergreens and locations of their planting.
Extent: 1 page
1935/03/01: Joseph Cudahy to Clarence Godshalk (3.84684)
Date: March 1 1935Creator: Cudahy, Joseph M.
Type: Document
Description:Brief letter from Joseph Cudahy to Clarence Godshalk about farming issues.
Extent: 2 pages
1936/12/17 Joseph M. Cudahy to C.E. Godshalk (3.108832)
Date: December 17 1936Creator: Cudahy, Joseph M.
Type: Document
Description:Letter stating that Mrs. Cudahy can not tell from her check book what the check she wrote for $103.36 is for. Check of January 27th.
Extent: 1 page
1937/ 06/24: Joseph Cudahy to Clarence Godshalk (3.84687)
Date: June 24 1937Creator: Cudahy, Joseph M.
Type: Document
Description:Telegram to Clarence Godshalk from Joseph Cudahy confirming telephone message. Trustees decided there will be no charge for Arboretum bus.
Extent: 1 page
1937/11/19: Sterling Morton to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.85005)
Date: November 19 1937Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:On "Estate of Joy Morton" letterhead, a letter from Sterling Morton to Clarence E. Godshalk, after consultation with Joseph M. Cudahy, detailing the allocation of various expenses, either to the Trustees or to "the life tenant" (Margaret Gray Morton).
Extent: 2 sheets
1938/03/30: Joseph Cudahy to Clarence Godhalk (3.84689)
Date: March 30 1938Creator: Cudahy, Joseph M.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Joseph Cudahy to Clarence Godshalk regarding cancellation of feeders for Thompson Lake due to low profitability. Wants 50 trees that are six feet high to plant in a nursery to be used later for transplanting.
Extent: 2 pages
1938/05/04: Joseph Cudahy to Clarence Godshalk (3.84690)
Date: May 4 1938Creator: Cudahy, Joseph M.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Joseph Cudahy to Clarence Godshalk regarding lost bid on cattle and standing order for future bids.
Extent: 1 page
1938/05/04: Joseph Cudahy to Clarence Godshalk (3.84691)
Date: May 4 1938Creator: Cudahy, Joseph M.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Joseph Cudahy to Clarence Godshalk with information about visit from Mr. and Mrs. William McCormick Blair to the Arboretum.
Extent: 1 page
1938/06/27: Joseph Cudahy to Clarence Godshalk (3.84693)
Date: June 27 1938Creator: Cudahy, Joseph M.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Joseph Cudahy to Clarence Godshalk about road work at the Arboretum. Mr. King will spend time there helping with road building and becoming familiar with with work.
Extent: 1 page
1940/06/04: Joseph M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.83876)
Date: June 4 1940Creator: Cudahy, Joseph M.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Joseph M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk directing the financial and operational changes to be made because Mrs. Morton no longer resides at Thornhill. Mrs. Barnett will be leaving. Telephone, gas and electricity should be billed to Joy Morton's Estate.
Extent: 1 sheet
1940: Jean M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.85154)
Date: 1940Creator: Cudahy, Jean Morton
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jean M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk: 1) "important question of policy involved in Miss Keller's request for the course for teachers." Mrs. Watts should be involved. 2) Fairchild Gardens has invited her to serve on their Board. She has accepted. 3) Dr. Allen of Cornell will give a lecture.
Extent: 8 sheets
1941/02/11: Clarence E. Godshalk to Joseph M. Cudahy (3.83900)
Date: February 11 1941Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Clarence E. Godshalk to Joseph M. Cudahy asking for direction on the request from Mrs. Cudahy's Lake Forest Garden Club for advice on their elm trees. He's concerned that may set a precedent for other clubs. Also enclosed an ad for a collection of mounted birds.
Extent: 2 sheets
1941/10/16: Holabird & Root to Joseph M. Cudahy (3.83934)
Date: October 16 1941Creator: Holabird & Root
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Holabird & Root, Architects, to Joseph M. Cudahy informing him the the enclosed certificate for $125 to Western Architectural Iron Co., was a final payment for furnishing and installing a steel trellis on the Administration Building.
Extent: 1 sheet
1943/05/24: Joseph M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.84556)
Date: May 24 1943Creator: Cudahy, Joseph M.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Joseph M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk requesting a statement of the acreage amounts of land that will go to the Arboretum according to Mr. Morton's will.
Extent: 1 sheet
1943/07/30: Clarence E. Godshalk to Joseph M. Cudahy (3.84558)
Date: July 30 1943Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Clarence E. Godshalk to Joseph M. Cudahy, enclosing figures for contemplation. He thinks that the Arboretum Corporation should take over all of the farms, including the Schroeder farm, and the dairy business.
Extent: 1 sheet
1943/12/09: E. Lowell Kammerer to Clarence E. Godshalk and all at the Arboretum (3.109085)
Date: December 9 1943Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Lowell Kammerer to Clarence E. Godshalk "and all at the Arboretum." He discusses his experiences during the war.
Extent: 3 sheets
1943/12: Jean M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.84566)
Date: December 1943Creator: Cudahy, Jean Morton
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jean M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk, thanking him for sending the live Christmas tree. Mr. Cudahy's health is improving. Thanking him for the list of presents from the Kammerers.
Extent: 4 sheets
1944/01/14: Jean M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.84574)
Date: January 14 1944Creator: Cudahy, Jean Morton
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jean M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk thanking him for sending her the book "This Green World". She received a letter from Donald Wyman which was very complimentary about the Bulletin and Mrs. Watts's educational programs for the layman. She will send condolences to Mrs. Rogers after Mr. Roger's death. She reports of Uncle Mark's and Mr. Cudahy's improving health.
Extent: 4 sheets
1944/01/27: Jean M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk. (3.84573)
Date: January 27 1944Creator: Cudahy, Jean Morton
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jean M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk. She shares the decision that Morton Arboretum's mission does not support the research project proposed by The Delphinium Society. After the estate is settled, the will review a commitment to the University College of Pharmacy. She noticed 63 planes in an hour were headed overseas.
Extent: 6 sheets
1944/01: Jean M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.84564)
Date: January 1944Creator: Cudahy, Jean Morton
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jean M. Cudahy requesting he send Bulletin subscriptions to Louis Bromfield and Mark Honeywell. She enclosed a letter from Mr. Wyman, requesting that he read it to Mark Morton the next time they meet. She is working on a display with plants from Mr. Fairchild. She met Dr. Merrill who is working on a pamphlet of trees of the South Pacific for navy personnel.
Extent: 4 sheets
1944/02/08: E. Lowell Kammerer to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.109086)
Date: February 8 1944Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Lowell Kammerer to Clarence E. Godshalk updating him on his status in training and discussing other personal matters.
Extent: 5 sheets
1944/02/17: Joseph M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.84576)
Date: February 17 1944Creator: Cudahy, Joseph M.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Joseph M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk discussing the profitability and strategies in swine breeding. He discusses Mr. Dow's letter which shows profit amounts. He infers that Sterling Morton's profits are included.
Extent: 1 sheet
1944/03/12: E. Lowell Kammerer to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.109087)
Date: March 12 1944Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Lowell Kammerer to Clarence E. Godshalk updating him on his status in training and discussing other personal matters.
Extent: 5 sheets
1944/03/23: Jean M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.84580)
Date: March 23 1944Creator: Cudahy, Jean Morton
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jean M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk asking him to add Mr. Frank B. Noyes to the list of recipients of The Bulletin. Noyes knew her father and grandfather. He was president of the Washington Evening Star and a founder of the Associated Press. Mrs. Cudahy is also updating him on their return plans and Mr. Cudahy's health.
Extent: 2 sheets
1944/04/06: Joseph M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.84582)
Date: April 6 1944Creator: Cudahy, Joseph M.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Joseph M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk approving the plan of flexibly rotating between hogs and steer on the farm. Further discussion when they meet in person.
Extent: 1 sheet
1944/04/11: Jean M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.84583)
Date: April 11 1944Creator: Cudahy, Jean Morton
Type: Document
Description:Letters from Jean M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk. She suggest that birds be used in displays at Thornhill. Positive comments on Mrs. Watt's bulletin additions and her classes. She mentions gasoline shortages to get to the Arboretum. She is again President of the Garden Club of Palm Beach. Many comments on Mr. Cudahy's health. She mentions the deaths of 2 acquaintances. She includes a poem "Autumn" by J. Evans Anderson.
Extent: 10 sheets
1944/07/23: E. Lowell Kammerer to Clarence E. Godshalk "and all at the Arboretum" (3.109088)
Date: July 23 1944Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Document
Description:Letter from E. L. Kammerer to Clarence E. Godshalk and all at the Arboretum updating them on his status in training and other personal matters.
Extent: 5 sheets
1944/08/25: Joseph M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.84592)
Date: August 25 1944Creator: Cudahy, Joseph M.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Joseph M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk, sharing his correspondence with Raymond M. Ashcraft about suggested treatment for the beetle sample he sent. Also a newspaper clipping sent by Ashcraft suggesting that starlings seem to rid basswood trees of the beetles.
Extent: 4 sheets
1944/11/18: Jean M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.84598)
Date: November 18 1944Creator: Cudahy, Jean Morton
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jean M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk asking him to send her 2 Christmas trees when he cuts them for the season. Send them to her Florida residence. She will take one to the hospital at the air station at Morrison Field. She is sending 2 tickets for the Friends of the Land Luncheon for Godshalk and Mrs. Watts. Mr. Cudahy will sit with them.
Extent: 2 sheets
1944/11/20: Jean M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.85472)
Date: November 20 1944Creator: Cudahy, Jean Morton
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jean M. Cudahy to Clarence E. Godshalk, requesting the data that she will need for the upcoming trustees meeting. She enclosed tickets for him and Mrs. Watts to the Friends of the Land meeting. She asked him to bring in a large bunch of oak leaves for the speakers table at the meeting. Joseph M. Cudahy is under doctors orders to rest for a month before they head to Palm Beach for the winter.
Extent: 3 sheets
1945/01/16: C. E. Godshalk to Joseph Cudahy and Jean Morton Cudahy (3.99611)
Date: January 16 1945Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C. E. Godshalk to Joseph and Jean Morton Cudahy saying he has been doing the bookkeeping, with Miss Rasch doing any typing involved. He is happy he learned the new bookkeeping system before he passes it over to anyone else. He is hesitant to let Jones do the bookkeeping in addition to his janitorial duties because Jones is slow, can't type, and there are many interruptions during the day which would cause people to have to look for Jones. He proposes Miss Rasch handle the bookkeeping, turning over her work on the bulletin subscriptions to Mrs. Jones. If Jones has extra time, Godshalk suggests he work on labels or in the herbarium, work he could do as time permits. He also updates them on Mrs. Jones health issues.
Extent: 2 sheets