Includes draft meeting minutes, in E. W. Blatchford's hand, from the period of the Newberry Library's founding and administration by the executors of the Walter L. Newberry estate (1887 1892, April 23) and official minutes of Trustees of the incorporated Newberry Library beginning April 25, 1892. From 1887 to 1892, minutes of frequent meetings between Newberry executors E. W. Blatchford and W. H. Bradley, and the Librarian, William Frederick Poole, document all facets of the establishment of the Newberry Library. The minutes of the Trustees of the Newberry Library include Trustee committee reports, appointments, resolutions, Librarian's reports, and other special reports and resolutions. Topics include the Library building, staff appointments and salaries, budget and expenditures, collection acquisition (AMA Library, Probasco Library) and organization, and endowment properties.