Davison, Mrs. C. A.
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, memoranda, and scrapbooks relating to the administrative duties of Carlton at the Newberry Library. Library correspondence pertains to all aspects of Library business: reference, book ordering, relations with other libraries and institutions, and routine matters. Scrapbooks include "Curiosa," a volume of chronologically arranged amusing and interesting incoming letters, and Library of Congress correspondence regarding catalog cards. Reports to Trustees, 1909-1913, are bound typewritten reports from the Librarian to the Trustees and committees of the Trustees regarding library affairs.
Creator
- From the Sub-Group: Carlton, W. N. C. (William Newnham Chattin), 1873-1943 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The Newberry Library Archives are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Unprocessed records are available by appointment only. Advance notice is necessary, particularly for administrative files, so that files may be screened for personnel records that are removed when records are processed.
Files containing personal or confidential information about individuals (including individual files on members of the Board of Trustees, individual donor files and records reporting the donations of an individual, personnel records, payroll records, and individual accepted fellows files) are closed for 30 years.
Repository Details
Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository
60 West Walton Street
Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
312-255-3512
reference@newberry.org