1933/06/20: C. E. Godshalk to Mark Morton (3.99649)
Date: June 20 1933Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C. E. Godshalk to Mark Morton giving him the results of his soil tests. He adds that he only needs a small handful of soil to be tested for future tests.
Extent: 1 sheet
1945/01/16: C. E. Godshalk to Joseph Cudahy and Jean Morton Cudahy (3.99612)
Date: January 16 1945Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C. E. Godshalk to Joseph Cudahy and Jean Morton Cudahy detailing his thoughts on future plans for the Arboretum. He gives a detailed plan on how to handle the traffic on busy Sundays in May and October and for possible future flower shows. He discusses an Arboretum tea room and picnic areas. He talks about building buildings for a nature school covering nature study and horticulture which could also cover agricultural topics in the off season. He suggests tearing down the Home Farm buildings and building one building for tool storage. 4-H shows could also be held at this site. He would like to create demonstration educational exhibits of small country home sites, perhaps funded by Sterling Morton in memory of his father. He suggests building farm buildings on Warrenville Road to demonstrate the running of a modern large farm. Finally, he suggests building an air strip and tearing down and building additional housing. He asks for their comments on his ideas.
Extent: 9 sheets
1921/08/29: Sterling Morton to Joy Morton (3.92145)
Date: August 29 1921Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Sterling Morton to Joy Morton. Suzette had a birthday party with other children in France. He received a referral to a wigmaker, Mr. Curley. Some details about the Morkrum business. They are enjoying their drives outside of Paris. He comments on Marion Gray and other family members.
Extent: 2 sheets
1921/08/18: Joy Morton to Sterling Morton (3.92139)
Date: August 18 1921Creator: Morton, Joy
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Joy Morton to Sterling Morton. He reduced the price on salt and business is doing well. They are hopeful that teletype orders will increase. He comments on the arboretum road, dam and lake. Visitors and family news include J. M. Johnson, Aunt Boatie, Helen Morton, Mark Morton. He mentions the Thompson Lake property as a potential farm for Sterling and Preston.
Extent: 2 sheets
1921/01/15: Sterling Morton to Joy Morton (3.92104)
Date: January 15 1921Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Have heard nothing from Jean or Mr. Garden about the house; since studies are being made, something will develop in future. Morton is looking into the Arnold Arboretum especially through correspondence with Mr. Sargent, the director; Morton advises a visit in spring; the Arnold is easily accessible from Copley Square. Dan says that orders for the salt business are picking up, meaning that the worst period is over. Dan's dog Pepper was stolen, but was recognized while walking in the park by the Peterkins. Not much business except teletype and Western Union who is getting out their annual budget for Morse apparatus for which we are figuring out what we can do. Machines doing well at Equitable; we'll send our machines there to swap with others which we'll change over. American Can circuit continues to give good services; we're also considering banks in New York with a large number of branches. A number of devices has been submitted to us for manufacture; one promising one is an office device for banks and mercantile houses which stamps an endorsement on checks. In our investigations we have found they are getting excellent results; there is the possibility of marketing from 5,000 to 25,000 of these machines. We have delivered several hundred air gauges to agencies; by summer we should turn out several thousand a week. We feel there is a good market for the teletype. The new schedule of 48 hours a week is now effective; employees appreciate that we are not cutting the weekly amount received. Machine trades are very dull in all parts of the country, especially in Detroit with the auto industry. The family are all well.
Arbor Day Celebration brochure (3.86112)
Date: April 22 1939Creator: Nebraska City, Nebraska, Chamber of Commerce
Type: Document
Description:Brochure for the April 21 and 22, 1939 celebration of Arbor Day sponsored by the Nebraska City Chamber of Commerce listing the events occurring during the celebration including tree plantings, exhibits, and concerts. Also included is the program for the Saturday afternoon event at the Overland Theater.
Extent: 4 sheets
1961/03/27: C. E. Godshalk to Mrs. Sterling Morton (3.86103)
Date: March 27 1961Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C. E. Godshalk to Mrs. Sterling Morton stating the stone for Mr. Morton has been ordered and will be ready several days before the memorial service. It is a duplicate of Mrs. Joy Morton and Mr. Mark Morton's stones. Mrs. Zurcher is arranging with Ed Baker for an Episcopal minister. He is glad Mrs. Zurcher accepted the Chairmanship of the Arboretum Trustees. He is sure it will be a pleasure to work with her.
Extent: 1 sheet
1952/04/10: C. E. Godshalk to Edward H. Baker, Jr. (3.86096)
Date: April 10 1952Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C. E. Godshalk to Edward H. Baker, Jr. stating that the stone marker for Mark Morton's grave was set, and it appears to be satisfactory. Baker should pay the Charles G. Blake Company bill.
Extent: 1 sheet
1952/04/08: Edward H. Baker, Jr. to C. E. Godshalk (3.86095)
Date: April 8 1952Creator: Baker Jr., Edward H.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Edward H. Baker, Jr. to C. E. Godshalk asking if the stone marker for Mark Morton's grave has been set and if it appears satisfactory.
Extent: 1 sheet
1941/05/07: Mark Morton to Jean Cudahy (3.85204)
Date: May 7 1941Creator: Morton, Mark
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Mark Morton to Jean Cudahy mentioning that he told Clarence E Godshalk to raise the pay of the farmhands by 10% - 15%.
Extent: 1 sheet
1940/04/30: Clarence E. Godshalk to Jean M. Cudahy (3.85163)
Date: April 30 1940Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Clarence E. Godshalk to Jean M. Cudahy updating her. 1) His surprise and sympathy at Mrs. Morton's sudden passing. Described the household details, her funeral service, legal details. Lengthy descriptions of the status of various individuals, family and employees. 2) Just before her passing, and at Mrs. Morton's request for suggestions that she could fund, Godshalk indicated that Morton Arboretum could use various kinds of meeting space. Some discussion of the future of the residence. 3) Repairs to the houses of Mr. Eickhorst and Mr. Godshalk. 4) Dr. Allen's lectures. Future bird talks by Dr. Boulton. 5) Mr. Kind and Mr. Parmalee think some of the steer should be sent to market.
Extent: 3 sheets
1940/04/11: Clarence E. Godshalk to Jean M. Cudahy (3.85161)
Date: April 11 1940Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Clarence E. Godshalk to Jean M. Cudahy. 1) Sending her photos of the exhibit at the Flower Show. 2) Plans and plantings in the field north of the Administration Building, using some of Mr. Sterling Morton's gift to purchase unusual specimens. 3) Final Evening lecture by Rev. Charles K. Carpenter of Wheaton on Birds. 4) Mrs. Barnet is readying the residence for Mrs. Morton's arrival. 5) Mr. Mark Morton seems in good health and enthusiastic about his farms. Steers sold well. Mr. King and Mr. Parmalee saw them. 6)Repairs on Mr. Eickhorst's house are progressing.
Extent: 2 sheets
1940/07/29: Sterling Morton to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.85065)
Date: July 29 1940Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Sterling Morton to Clarence E. Godshalk mentioning andirons and tapestries that are family property. Also requesting narrow zinc tags to identify which nursery supplied each tree.
Extent: 1 sheet
1940/06/21: Sterling Morton to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.85055)
Date: June 21 1940Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Sterling Morton to Clarence E. Godshalk mentioning that Mark Morton would select pictures he would like from the residence. These would be labeled as property of Morton Arboretum on loan to Mark Morton.
Extent: 1 sheet
1941/06/02: Mark Morton to E. L. Gates (DuPage County Highways) (3.85046)
Date: June 2 1941Creator: Morton, Mark
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Mark Morton to E. L. Gates, Superintendent of Highways for DuPage County. Describes the "salt-ized blacktop gravel" roads installed at Morton Arboretum. Suggests that Gates contact Clarence E. Godshalk for a tour and further details.
Handwritten at the top of the letter is a detailed pricing for each of the 3 layers in this treatment, costing $4000 per mile total.
Extent: 1 sheet
1940/02/20: Clarence E. Godshalk to Marion Gray (3.85022)
Date: February 20 1940Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Clarence E. Godshalk to Marion Gray requesting a list of J. Sterling Morton's records which were sent from Arbor Lodge to Thornhill. Copy books for the years 1868-1874 and after 1880 are missing. He details each person involved in creating the lists and transferring them.
Extent: 1 sheet
1939/08/17: Clarence E. Godshalk to Mark Morton (3.85018)
Date: August 17 1939Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Clarence E. Godshalk to Mark Morton stating that he couldn't find J. Sterling Morton's diaries for the years requested. Also there were no J. Sterling Morton letters from 1869-1871. He also mentioned that he got a 3rd place ribbon at the State Fair for his senior yearling boar.
Extent: 1 sheet
1939/07/25: N. C. Abbott to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.85013)
Date: July 25 1939Creator: Abbott, N. C.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from N.C. Abbott to Clarence E. Godshalk thanking him for his recent hospitality. Mrs. McNeel, wife and assistant to Grant McNeel, Superintendent at Arbor Lodge reported on a wind storm and power outage. abbott sees two major research studies from the documents now at Morton Arboretum: 1) James C. Olson's work on J. Sterling Morton's impact on the building of Nebraska. 2) A study of the Morton brothers - Joy, Paul, Mark and Carl - and their relationship with each other and their father.
Extent: 2 sheets
1939/07/18: W. Y. Dow to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.85012)
Date: July 18 1939Creator: Dow, W. Y.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from W. Y. Dow to Clarence E. Godshalk advising him that if employees help N. C. Abbott, that might cancel the tax-free status of Morton Arboretum. To prevent this, a bill for the nominal cost of employees assistance should be sent to Mark Morton.
Extent: 1 sheet
1939/02/04: C. S. Boucher to Sterling Morton (3.85011)
Date: February 4 1939Creator: Boucher, C. S.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C. S. Boucher, Chancellor, University of Nebraska to Sterling Morton, thanking him and Mark Morton for funding a 3 year fellowship for the study of "The Work of J. Sterling Morton in the Founding of Nebraska." Professor J. L Sellers and Dean C. H Oldfather will select the student.
Extent: 1 sheet
1939/02/03: L. E. Gunderson to Sterling Morton (3.85010)
Date: February 3 1939Type: Document
Description:Letter from L. E. Gunderson, Board of Regents, University of Nebraska, to Sterling Morton, advising him the the Board of Regents approved the acceptance of the gift of Mark Morton to create a fellowship for the study of "The Work of J. Sterling Morton in the Founding of Nebraska." Receipt for $2250 was enclosed.
Extent: 1 sheet
1939/02/03: J. L. Sellers to Mark Morton (3.85009)
Date: February 3 1939Creator: Sellers, J. L.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from J. L. Sellers to Mark Morton thanking him for funding the fellowship which will support a young historian in the study of "The Work of J. Sterling Morton in the Founding of Nebraska."
Also, a handwritten note from Mark Morton to Clarence E. Godshalk, 02/07/1939, alerting him that the Fellow will be coming in September.
Extent: 1 sheet
1944/05/09: Resolution Regarding the Morton Family Cemetery (3.85002)
Date: May 9 1944Type: Document
Description:Resolution on the 10th anniversary of Joy Morton's death, the cemetery will be for the burial of Joy Morton, Margaret Gray Morton, Mark Morton, Sterling Morton and members of Sterling Morton's family. Trustees will fund the maintenance.
Extent: 1 sheet
1940/11/27: S. V. Hettinger (Morton Sand & Gravel Company) to Downers Grove Golf Club (3.84997)
Date: November 27 1940Creator: Hettinger, Sid V.
Type: Document
Description:Copy of letter from S. V. Hettinger (Morton Sand & Gravel Company) to the Downers Grove Golf Club (James Slepicka, Manager) stating that the Yackley Sand & Gravel Company has not paid them for the golf club's gravel delivery, and they will not give a waiver on it until it is paid.
Extent: 1 sheet
1940/11/22: Downers Grove Golf Club to Morton Sand & Gravel Company (3.84996)
Date: November 22 1940Creator: Downers Grove Golf Club
Type: Document
Description:Copy of letter from Downers Grove Golf Club to Morton Sand & Gravel Company stating they had paid the Yackley Sand & Gravel Company for the delivery. On August 10, 1940, the writer showed the Morton Sand & Gravel Company's letter asking for payment to [Yackley], and he said he sent the money via post office money order. The writer asked for a waiver of lien, and [Yackley] said he would get one the first time he goes to Chicago. The writer asks if Morton was paid for the gravel and if so to send the waiver of lien to him.
Extent: 1 sheet
1940/11/27: Mark Morton to C. E. Godshalk (3.84995)
Date: November 27 1940Creator: Morton, Mark
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Mark Morton to C. E. Godshalk acknowledging receipt of Godshalk's letter of November 25 about the Yackley Sand & Gravel Company's account with the Morton Sand & Gravel Company. He attaches a copy of a letter received from the Downers Grove Golf Club and also states they have written to the golf club (copy attached). Neither copy is included in the record.
Extent: 1 sheet
1940/11/15: Mark Morton to W. H. Yackley (3.84994)
Date: November 15 1940Creator: Morton, Mark
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Mark Morton to W. H. Yackley stating he wrote Yackley on October 17 asking for $54.66 in payment for an order of gravel delivered to him and also stating Yackley has paid no attention to payments due on the loan on a piece of his machinery. On Monday, November 18, Morton will turn the matter over to his attorneys for foreclosure. Written in pencil on letter: "Clarence/Am [?] going after Lien to a [finish]/Mark."
Extent: 1 sheet
1940/11/15: Mark Morton to C. E. Godshalk (3.84993)
Date: November 15 1940Creator: Morton, Mark
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Mark Morton to C. E. Godshalk asking him to have the strip of land north from Fischer's to the Arboretum surveyed, described, and deeded properly to the Arboretum. Written in pencil on the letter: "Write Mr. Morton contractors name/82 Birthday."
Extent: 1 sheet
1940/11/25: C. E. Godshalk to Mark Morton (3.84992)
Date: November 25 1940Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C. E. Godshalk to Mark Morton informing him that the gravel purchased from him was not used on a house near the Arboretum as Godshalk had thought but at the Belmont Golf Course, purchased by Jim Slepicka. Slepicka said he paid Mr. Yackley, although Morton said Yackley has not yet paid him. He gives Slepicka's contact information.
Extent: 1 sheet
1940/11/07: C. E. Godshalk to Mark Morton (3.84991)
Date: November 7 1940Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C. E. Godshalk to Mark Morton informing him that Mr. Yackley traded in a machine on which Morton had a mortgage for a new small fast operating shovel. Yackley stated he plans to pay off the mortgage within the next week or so. Godshalk advises Morton to take action if Yackley doesn't see him this week as he had no right to trade off the shovel. He thanks Morton for the book "History and Handbook of Hereford Cattle and Hereford Bull Index." He offers further assistance on the Yackley deal if Morton needs it.
Extent: 1 sheet
1940/11//06: Mark Morton to Clarence Godshalk and Mark Morton to Walker Publication (3.84990)
Date: November 6 1940Creator: Morton, Mark
Type: Document
Description:2 letters - 1) Mark Morton to Clarence Godshalk identifying picture as Morton Salt Company's employee picnic taken in 1916 by R. K. Warren.
2) Letter to Walker Publications enclosing a check for $7.00 for copies of "Hereford Cattle and Hereford Bull Index" to be sent to Axel Gordon and Clarence Godshalk.
Extent: 3 pages
1940/11/01: Clarence Godshalk to Mark Morton (3.84989)
Date: November 1 1940Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Clarence Godshalk to Mark Morton letting him know that he is trying to get more information on W. H. Yackley and then can form an opinion on what to do.
Extent: 1 page
1940/10/17: Mark Morton to W. H. Yackley (3.84988)
Date: October 17 1940Creator: Morton, Mark
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Mark Morton to W. H. Yackley concerning the trade of a shovel that is chattel mortgage for a new one. The account balance is $1250 which has had no payments. There is also a $54.66 balance to Morton Sand and Gravel. Foreclosure action may start. (With handwritten note to Clarence Godshalk asking his advice on this matter.)
Extent: 1 page
1940/09/27: Mark Morton to Clarence Godshalk (3.84987)
Date: September 27 1940Creator: Morton, Mark
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Mark Morton to Clarence Godshalk regarding 2 loads of black dirt that came to the house from someone at 8200 North Ave. Mrs. Pirroutte did not order it and refused it. Did you order it for the Arboretum?
Extent: 1 page
1940/09/13: Mark Morton to Clarence Godshalk (3.84986)
Date: September 13 1940Creator: Morton, Mark
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Mark Morton to Clarence Godshalk letting him know that the duplicate of the picture taken at the Arbor Lodge in August 1904 is finished and being sent to N.C. Abbott in Nebraska City to be hung in the Mark Morton Room. He has the original.
Extent: 1 page
1940/07/25: Mark Morton to Clarence Godshalk (3.84985)
Date: July 25 1940Creator: Morton, Mark
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Mark Morton to Clarence Godshalk letting him know that he or Sterling should review the letters in the file box before it goes to the historians.
Extent: 1 page