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1930/04/05: C. E. Godshalk to Joy Morton (3.101424)
Date: April 5 1930Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C. E. Godshalk to Joy Morton updating him on events at the Arboretum. Since the soil is finally drying, Berg plowed all day yesterday. They are plowing the May place today. If they get good weather, a lot of planting will be done in the next two weeks. He laid off Valentine for a month without pay due to his drunken sprees. He believes Valentine will do most anything to keep his job. Tromp is busy in the cold frames. Price is getting the cars cleaned and greased for Morton's return. Emil is helping with the floors at the house. Fred Berg went to the hospital yesterday; nothing will be done except to make Berg comfortable until his doctor has recovered from an illness in a few days. Mary Alice and Jimmie are having a great time playing outside. He is enclosing some photos of the last snow storm. Everyone is anxious for Morton's return.
Extent: 3 sheets
1937/05/09: Evelyn M. Rasch to Norma Bryan (3.109149)
Date: May 9 1937Creator: Naser, Evelyn M.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Evelyn M. Rasch to Norma Bryan. She is trying to locate a gold bud vase that was given to The Morton Arboretum 2 years ago by the Garden Club of Illinois.
Extent: 1 sheet
1930/09/18: Willard Clute to The Morton Arboretum (3.94220)
Date: September 18 1930Creator: Clute, Willard N.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Willard Clute, Director of Butler University's botanic garden, to the Morton Arboretum letting them know he has sent specimens of Phlox, P. argillacea, requested by a Mr. S Tromp.
1930/10/28: Willard Clute to The Morton Arboretum (3.94230)
Date: October 28 1930Creator: Clute, Willard N.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Willard Clute, Director of the botanic garden at Butler University, to The Morton Arboretum following up on some Phlox argillacea that he previously sent to the Arboretum care of a Mr. Tromp.
1930/11/04: E. L. Kammerer to Willard H. Clute (3.94233)
Date: November 4 1930Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Document
Description:Letter from E. L. Kammerer to Willard H. Clute of Butler University acknowledging receipt of the Phlox argillacea he had sent. Mr. Kammerer also writes that the gardener, Mr. Tromp, is no longer with the Morton Arboretum, but that he did leave some Heliopsis scabra with instructions to send them to Mr. Clute.
1930/12/30: R. & J. Farquhar Co. to J. S. Tromp (3.94266)
Date: December 30 1930Creator: R. & J. Farquhar Co.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from R. & J. Farquhar Co. to J. S. Tromp letting him know his imported lilies (12 Lilium speciosum rubrum mammoth and 12 Lilium auratum mammoth) have arrived and asking if he would like them shipped now or in the spring.