Taft, Philip - Correspondence, 1977

Corres from MFN to Louis Starr, Director of Oral History Research Office at Columbia University, recommending oral memoirs of Margaret Hooper and Samuel D. Berger [7/18/77], newspaper copies reporting posthumous award of doctor of laws to Philip Taft (with citation enclosed) C&/6/77], copy of letter from President Howard Swearer of Brown to Theresa Taft, wife of Philip Taft, notifying her of honorary degree [5/19/77], minutes of Editorial Board of Labor History, meeting 4/13/77, and discussing, most notably, a memorial Taft issue to be edited by MFN [5/2/77], corres from George Meany, president of AFL-CIO, accepting appointment to the Fund Committee of the Philip Taft Labor History Award [5/2/77], personal memo from MFN detailing efforts to appoint George Meany to the Taft Fund Committee [4/29/77], statement describing Philip Taft Labor History Award [4/19/77], MFN to Gladys Feig, Labor History, outlining proposed tribute to Taft in that journal [4/15/77], Edwin Young, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, agreeing to serve on the Taft Fund Board [4/11/77], memo from MFN to Arthur Devlin, Asst. University Counsel of Cornell, recommending the establishment of the Taft Fund (this proposal became the basis for subsequent drafts of Fund proposals) [3/30/77, memo from James 0. Morris to MFN expressing concerns over proposed Taft project [3/28/77], corres from MFN to Kathleen Imhoff, Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, to Selig Silverman re the desire of the AFL/CIO-ALA Joint Committee on Library Services to manage the Taft Memorial Award (enclosed is MFN's response) [3/25/77], personal memo by MFN detailing Theresa Taft's involvement in proposed Taft Award project [2/17/77], corres from MFN to Jerome Stein, professor at Brown Univ., re early conversations about the establishment of a Taft memorial fund and MFN's recommendations about the fund [2/11/77], corres from Imhoff to Silverman re ALA policy of establishing new awards [1/14/77], personal memo from MFN re proposal for Taft Labor History Award, including plans to ensure tax deductibility by finding an institution to establish the Fund at [1/4/77], corres from Theresa Taft to MFN re a biography written by Phil Taft [?1-2/77], corres from Theresa Taft to MFN re speech made by Phil Taft upon election by Pembroke College as "Favorite Professor" of the Class of '47 [?1-2/77], personal and routine correspondence