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Box 2

 Container

Contains 11 Results:

Chicago Tribune circulation

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Notes and memos regarding Chicago Tribune circulation, including McCormick memo of 2 February 1955 ordering "a series of awards" when circulation reached a million. Notes on conversations with McCormick in Florida during December 1953 (Q & O Transportation Company, McCormick Foundation, Canadian bonuses) and January 1954 (economies, comic strips, appointments)

Dates: 1947 - 1966
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / X-29, Tribune Company. J. Howard Wood (1901-1988) papers - I / Correspondence with or involving Colonel and Mrs. R.R. McCormick

McCormick's Washington residences, 1954 - 1955

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Correspondence with Mrs. McCormick, Philip Graham, and lawyers regarding the McCormicks' occupancy of the house at 2929 Benton Place bought by the Washington Post when it acquired the Times-Herald, and the lease of an apartment at 2339 Massachusetts Avenue

Dates: 1954 - 1955
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / X-29, Tribune Company. J. Howard Wood (1901-1988) papers - I / Correspondence with or involving Colonel and Mrs. R.R. McCormick

McCormick's trips, 1947 - 1955

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Itineraries and other material regarding trips in 1947 (Orient), 1948 (Europe), 1949 (South America), 1950 (Europe, Egypt, southwest Asia; letter about Aramco from Starr Rodgers, chairman of Texaco), 1951 (Caribbean), 1952 (Africa), and 1953 (Europe). P, passenger lists of domestic trips in 1954-1955. Log of the B-17 during part of the 1950 trip (Howard West, captain). Correspondence regarding the plane's carnet

Dates: 1947 - 1955
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / X-29, Tribune Company. J. Howard Wood (1901-1988) papers - I / Correspondence with or involving Colonel and Mrs. R.R. McCormick

Mrs. McCormick's request for investment advice, 1945, 1953

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, notes, memoranda and other materials concerning the Chicago Tribune, the travels, death and estate of Colonel Robert R. McCormick, and related subjects

Dates: 1945, 1953
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / X-29, Tribune Company. J. Howard Wood (1901-1988) papers - I / Correspondence with or involving Colonel and Mrs. R.R. McCormick

Frank Hughes' memo regarding his progress on a biography of McCormick, 1966-02-17

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Correspondence, notes, memoranda and other materials concerning the Chicago Tribune, the travels, death and estate of Colonel Robert R. McCormick, and related subjects

Dates: 1966-02-17
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / X-29, Tribune Company. J. Howard Wood (1901-1988) papers - I / Correspondence with or involving Colonel and Mrs. R.R. McCormick

Copyright to the "Ulysses S. Grant" biography, 1950

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Correspondence leading to the assignment by Appleton-Century-Crofts to R.R. McCormick of the copyright to the "Ulysses S. Grant" biograpahy published in 1934

Dates: 1950
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / X-29, Tribune Company. J. Howard Wood (1901-1988) papers - I / Correspondence with or involving Colonel and Mrs. R.R. McCormick

McCormick paintings and busts

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Correspondence regarding the making of a copy of the portrait of Robert S. McCormick for Cantigny to replace the original willed to the embassy in Paris; about the dedication of the Wheeler Williams statue in Baie Comeau in 1956 and the creation of a new and more contemporary bust; with Albin Polasek about his 1944 bust. Many letters from Eleanor Jewett Lundberg

Dates: 1947 - 1966
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / X-29, Tribune Company. J. Howard Wood (1901-1988) papers - I / Correspondence with or involving Colonel and Mrs. R.R. McCormick

McCormick death: correspondence

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Letters of condolence to Howard Wood and Don Maxwell

Dates: 1947 - 1966
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / X-29, Tribune Company. J. Howard Wood (1901-1988) papers - I / Correspondence with or involving Colonel and Mrs. R.R. McCormick

McCormick death: clippings and other materials

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Clippings and copies of the Little Trib and News-Pix. Memos regarding the funderal. Dedication of monument, August 19, 1957. United Charities resolution. Letter from Gen. R.E. Wood regarding boys Club memorial. Pamphlet "In tribute to Col. Robert R. McCormick"

Dates: 1947 - 1966
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / X-29, Tribune Company. J. Howard Wood (1901-1988) papers - I / Correspondence with or involving Colonel and Mrs. R.R. McCormick

Cantigny, 1956 - 1964

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Correspondence regarding the DuPage County sheriff's hope for a drag strip (1956), proposed Winfield Park District (1964), and transfer to DuPage County Forest Preserve District (1963)

Dates: 1956 - 1964
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / X-29, Tribune Company. J. Howard Wood (1901-1988) papers - I / Correspondence with or involving Colonel and Mrs. R.R. McCormick

McCormick will and executors

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents

Memos regarding meetings; correspondence with David C. Mearns of the Library of Congress regarding Col. McCormick's promise in 1954 to give the Medill letters to the library

Dates: 1947 - 1966
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / X-29, Tribune Company. J. Howard Wood (1901-1988) papers - I / Correspondence with or involving Colonel and Mrs. R.R. McCormick