- PENN SCHOOL (ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C.)
- FRANCIS W. PENNELL
- CHRISTIAN E. RūNNE
PENN SCHOOL (ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C.) (Boxes 71-72)
Background: earlier name "Penn Normal, Industrial and Agricultural
School." Wood was asked to join the Board of Trustees in
1908. George Foster Peabody was chairman of the Board of Trustees
when Wood joined the Board.
I. PENN SCHOOL - "Correspondence," 1908-1911. [9
folders in Boxes 71-72]
Notes on contents: letters, clippings, minutes, brochures.
Topics include asking Wood to join the Board, publicity and fund-raising
campaign for Penn School (Wood on Publicity Committee), Wood's
visit to the school, hurricane relief in 1911. Correspondents
include Rossa B. Cooley, Francis R. Cope Jr., Thomas P. Cope,
Lucy Davis, Rev. Henry Wilder Foote, Hollis B. Frissell, Grace
Bigelow House, Alfred Collins Maule and others.
Folders 1-7 (Box 71), folders 8-9 (Box 72).
- Correspondence, 1908-1909 (February).
- Correspondence, 1909 (July - December).
- Correspondence, 1910 (January - September).
- Correspondence, 1910 (October - December).
- Correspondence, 1911 (January - February).
- Correspondence, 1911 (March - April).
- Correspondence, 1911 (May - September).
- Correspondence, 1911 (October).
- Correspondence, 1911 (November - December).
II. PENN SCHOOL - "Special" correspondence, etc.,
1911. [2 folders in Box 72]
Notes on contents: letters, notes, notebooks, lists, pamphlets,
newsletter, financial papers, clippings, printed items, etc.
Letters discuss policy of aid to or paying students for labor
at various industrial schools; also letters discussing co-operative
leagues. Also a notebook of Wood's visit to Penn School, lists
of industrial schools in South and other papers. Includes letters
from Hollis B. Frissell, Lucy Hale Tapley, Oswald Garrison Villard,
Booker T. Washington, Frank G. Woodworth and others.
- Correspondence, 1911.
- Notebook, notes, lists, pamphlets, financial papers, etc.,
ca. 1911.
III. PENN SCHOOL - "St. Helena Credit Society" papers,
1911-1916. [1 folder in Box 72]
Notes on contents: Wood has divided the papers in this folder
as follows: "Correspondence," 1911-1912; "Statements
and memos," 1916; "Rules of St. Helena Credit Society";
"Form of application for membership"; "Application
for loan"; "Notice to borrowers"; "Loan cards."
Correspondence with Rossa B. Cooley and others discusses the set-up
of the credit society.
IV. PENN SCHOOL - "Reports," ca. 1912-1921. [1 folder
in Box 72]
Notes on contents: typed and handwritten drafts of annual report
[for 1912?] to be used in fund-raising campaign, Wood's notes,
auditor's reports for 1919-1921, brochure, annual report for 1921,
some correspondence related to 1912 report from Rossa B. Cooley
.
FRANCIS W. PENNELL (Box 72)
I. FRANCIS W. PENNELL - Correspondence, 1917-1919. [1 folder
in Box 72]
Notes on contents: letters, legal documents related to military
draft and his status as a conscientious objector.
Wood is his attorney. Also correspondence discussing his work
at New York Botanical Garden and possible research in South America.
[Wood label "Francis W. Pennell"]
CHRISTIAN E. RūNNE (Box 73)
I. CHRISTIAN E. RONNE - Correspondence, etc., re: to citizenship,
1916. [1 folder in Box 73]
Notes on contents: letters, Wood's legal notes.
Ronne is employed by American Art Association and Wood contacts
State Dept., etc. for him to determine whether or not he is a
citizen of U.S. [Note: Wood had this folder originally filed as
"New York Colored Mission - Farm List - Day Nursery / Christian
E. Ronne"
