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Box 1

 Container

Contains 5 Results:

Confidential file on Robert R. McCormick's "Sawyer letter" of 1942, 1942 - 1943

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

S.E. Thomason letter forwarding copies of correspondence between Sawyer and Richard J. Finnegan, editor of the Times. Ellis memo to Kirkland (April 1, 1942); J.B. Martineau memo (September 9, 1943) re: unpublished article on McCormick by Roger Butterworth

Dates: 1942 - 1943
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / XI-317, <span class="italic emph">Chicago Tribune</span>. Kirkland &amp; Ellis Files (II)

Part 1

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

McCormick's letter (January 29, 1921) authorizing lawsuit. Subsequent correspondence through 1931 including Corporation Counsel Samuel A. Ettelsen re: defendants Thompson, George F. Harding, Gregory VanMeter, as well as estate of Edward C. Waller, Jr.

Dates: 1921 - 1931
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / XI-317, <span class="italic emph">Chicago Tribune</span>. Kirkland &amp; Ellis Files (II) / Tribune vs. William Hale Thompson et al.

Part 2

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Copies of trust agreements and indentures involving real estate owned by Thompson, Harding and VanMeter

Dates: 1921 - 1931
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / XI-317, <span class="italic emph">Chicago Tribune</span>. Kirkland &amp; Ellis Files (II) / Tribune vs. William Hale Thompson et al.

Miscellaneous materials, 1919 - 1924

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents Draft of agreement (January 16, 1924) between Robert R. McCormick and J.M. Patterson regarding control of the Tribune Company. Copy of a blind trust agreement with Union Trust Co. covering Patterson's land in northern Cook County (January 29, 1924). Transfer of stock from Elinor Medill Patterson to Eleanor Patterson Gisycka, 1924. Letter from Thomas Brown to J. M. Patterson. Also miscellaneous papers regarding Tribune subsidiaries: Madison & Dearborn Building Corp. (McVicker lease of...
Dates: 1919 - 1924
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / XI-317, <span class="italic emph">Chicago Tribune</span>. Kirkland &amp; Ellis Files (II)

Ontario Paper Company, 1921 - 1925

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Correspondence among R.R. McCormick, S.E. Thomason, D.M. Deininger, and M.C. Martin of the law firm about timber rights and dam construction

Dates: 1921 - 1925
Found in: Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections / XI-317, <span class="italic emph">Chicago Tribune</span>. Kirkland &amp; Ellis Files (II)