Correspondence: personal files, 1915 - 1947

The collection consists of clippings and other biographical material, correspondence, and subject files. It is especially strong in official university correspondence, 1924-1935, and personal correspondence from 1920-1946. Notable correspondents associated with DePauw are Albert J. Beveridge (1881), George R. Grose, Marie Gustafson (1926; missionary to China), Frank Hall (1879), Bishop Edwin H. Hughes (LL.D. 1908), Bernard McMahon (1915), L. H. Murlin (1891), G. Bromley Oxnam, Edward and Lucy Rector, Guy M. Walker (1890), Roy O. West (1890), G. L. Brengle (1881), Philip Maxwell (1924), and David Lilienthal (1920). Also included are manuscripts of Mary Louise Johnson Longden.

One scrapbook contains poetry, programs for Gobin Memorial Methodist church, DePauw Centennial banquet, , cards and letters, letters, biographical information on Longden and David Lilienthal, H.B. Longden's retirement announcment, and death announcments for Henry B. Longden, President Lemuel Murlin and Samuel R. Brengle.

In addition, there is a scrapbook with brittle pages. It consists of largely of newspaper and other publications clippings on David Lilienthal (class of 1920), HBL retirement announcements, published photographs of campus buildings, a Longden Christmas card from the Longden home, Broad View Farm, an obituary for Grafton Johnson, an article on the arrival of the U. S. Navy V-5 program and a campus map.