Box 44
Scope and Contents
Materials in this series consist of personal/family, presidential/ administrative, and business correspondence. This series is not in alphabetical order. Correspondents may have contents in more than one folder.
Personal/family correspondence spans the period from Hutchins student years (1890s) through his career as a pastor, professor, and college president, and continue through the mid-1950s and consists of family correspondence to and from Robert G. and Harriet J. Hutchins, his parents; his wife, Anna M. Hutchins; sons Robert Maynard and Francis S. Hutchins; and various others. Additional correspondence provides documentation of the network of Hutchins' friends and professional associates. Correspondents include: Seth Low Pierrepont, William H. Danforth, Walter McDougall, Pauline Jeffery, and Hilda Watson.
Presidential/administrative correspondence includes letters from Berea trustees, donors, college faculty and staff, and others. The correspondence reflects Hutchins' administration of the college and work following retirement from the college. Box 47, Folder 4 is Restricted.
Business correspondence (dating predominantly from 1919-1952) relates principally to Hutchins' private affairs; however, a small portion touches on college administration.
An alphabetical list of correspondents by dates is available. Note: Francis S. Hutchins retains copyright on the personal/family and business correspondence in this series; single photocopies may be made for the private use of researchers. Presidential/administrative correspondence is unrestricted except for a single file containing confidential personnel-related matters.
Dates
- created: 1850 - 1977
- Other: Majority of material found within 1900 - 1958
Creator
- From the Collection: Hutchins, William James -- 1871-1958 (Person)
- From the Collection: Hutchins Library (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Records can be accessed through the Reading Room, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College.
Extent
From the Collection: 70.00 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Berea College Special Collections and Archives Repository
Hutchins Library
100 Campus Drive
Berea Kentucky 40404 US
859.985.3262
special_collections@berea.edu