Thomas W. Goodspeed Papers

Description



Baptist educator. Secretary, Board of Trustees, University of Chicago, 1890-1913. Registrar, University of Chicago, 1897-1913. University historian, 1916-1927. Contains personal and professional correspondence; manuscripts, including drafts of History of the University of Chicago, 1891-1916, and Goodspeed's autobiography; articles and speeches; and fragments of a diary. Correspondents include Frederick T. Gates, John D. Rockefeller, William Rainey Harper, Augustus Strong, and others. Topics relate to the founding and early years of the University of Chicago.

Rights

Cleared

Alternative Title

Thomas W. Goodspeed Papers

Documents in this collection

REEL0017_0114.jpg

Addams thanks Goodspeed for his article on Charles Hutchinson and apologizes that her article was too personal to send.