Scope and content

Correspondence mainly concerning the appointment of Stephen A. McCarthy as Director of Cornell University Library in 1946. Other topics covered include the appointment of Giles Shepherd as the Library's Assistant Director, and subsequent actions by the University's Board of Trustees relating to the Library. Correspondents include McCarthy, Cornell University President Edmund E. Day, and Secretary of the Board of Trustees Robert B. Meigs, among others.

Scope and content

The major portion of the collection consists of administrative files of the offices of the president, 1937-1949, and the chancellor, 1949-1950, of Cornell. In addition, three small series in the collection contain Day's correspondence with the Social Science Research Council, 1937-1941; Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association, 1927-1942; and Teaching Film Custodians, Inc., 1936-1942.

Scope and content Correspondence, including acceptances and regrets pertaining to Day's inauguration as Cornell's president; fourteen volumes of appointment books, 1937-1940; speeches and handwritten notes for speeches; printed material; honorary degrees; accounts; 1909-1910; Mrs. Emily Day's household accounts, 1912-1913, 1921-1922; photographs of the Day family; photographs of Edmund Ezra Day, Cornell University faculty members, and others, 1937-1950; and a Dartmouth College philosophy thesis and...