Roger Adams:

An Inventory of the Papers of Roger Adams at the University of Illinois Archives.



Previous: Roger Adams file, 1948-71

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Social Files, 1912-71   Including correspondence, cards, invitations, budgets, and guest books

Box
7Alphabetical Correspondence, 1912-71
Adams, Mrs. and Miss Lucile, 1944, 1947
1944
July-Sept.1947   re: Japan
Adams, Mrs. Lucile
Nov.-Dec. 1948    re: Japan
May 1958,   re: Germany
Aug.-Sept.1962   re: Czechoslovakia
Sept.-Oct. 1962,   re: Argentina & Brazil
July 1963    re: England & Poland
Adams, Roger, 1948, 1963
Adams, Sherman, Oct. 29, 1957
Angeli, Angelo, 1927-28
Asahina, Prof. Y., 1927-71
Barger, George, 1937
Bayer, Prof. Otto, 1950, 1955
Bush, Vannevar, 1946-47, 1959
Carothers, Wallace H.1928-38   see also box 5, 2 folders relating to Carothers
Correspondence with Carothers, his family & John R. Johnson,, 1934 & 1935   re: Du Pont research, articles, Carothers" mental complex and nervous breakdown, family matters, securities transactions, and Adams biographies of Carothers, lists of Carothers' patents
"General Statement of Researches of W. H. Carothers" , Aug. 25, 1934
List of Publications, ca. 1936
G. J. Berchet and W. H. Carothers, "Acetylene Polymers and their Derivatives. XI. Dichloro-2, 3-butadiene-1, 3 and Trichoro-1, 2, 3-butadiene-1, 3" , 1933
U. S. Patent No. 2, 130, 948 for Synthetic Fiber, Sept. 20, 1938
Newspaper clippings, re: patent, Sept 22 & 26, 1938
Conant, James B., 1916-17, 1928, 1933-34, 1946-47, and 1954
Cunningham, H. E., 1930, 1945
D'Ans, Prof. Dr. - Ing. J., 1954-55
Delaby, Prof. R., 1950, 1955
Doriot, Georges F., 1945-46
Editor, Harvard Alumni Bulletin, 1925
Eisenhower, President Dwight D., 1956
Etchegary, Dr. Emilio A., 1962
Fischer, Prof. Hans, 1927, 1936
Freudenberg, Dr. Karl, 1935, 1948, 1951
Grignard, V., 1921, 1927
Helferich, Prof. B., 1927, 1936
Henry, President David D., 1956-60
Ingold, C. K., 1927, 1957
Jackson, C. L., 1912-13, 1918, 1923
Karrer, Prof. P., 1927, 1936, 1949
Kellogg, Morris W., 1946
Kohler, Elmer P., 1916, 1919, 1920, 1927, 1929, 1934
Kuhn, Prof. Richard, 1937, 1950
Lonsdale, Mrs. Kathleen, 1934
Lund, Prof. Hakon, 1948-49, 1955
Moureu, C. S., 1923, 1927
Noyes, Prof. W. A., 1916
Pfieffer, Paul, 1927-28
Pratt, J. Davidson, 1943-45
Pummerer, Prof. Rudolph, 1927-28
Pusey, President Nathan M., 1957
Richards, Theodore W., 1912, 1916
Robinson, Prof. Sir Robert, 1933, 1937, 1944, 1953, 1959
Rotarians, April 18, 1945   Adams describes his World War II activities for National Defense Research Committee
Ruzicka, Prof. L., 1927, 1939-41, 1946-49, 1969
Seshadri, Prof. T. R., 1960
Sidgwick, N. Y., 1945, 1948
Simonsen, Dr. J. L., 1944-45
Sloan, Alfred P., Jr., 1956-57
Stanley, Prof. Wendell M., 1959
Stoddard, President George D., 1947-53
Stoll, Prof. A., 1927, 1949-50, 1955, 1957
Taft, Senator Robert A., 1951
Thorpe, Jocelyn, 1924, 1927
Tiselius, Prof. Arne, 1955, 1959
Verkade, Prof. P. E., 1946
Wibaüt, Prof. J. P., 1947, 1955
Wieland, Henrich, 1927, 1933, 1947
Willstätter, Prof. Richard, 1912-13, 1926-27, 1936
Yokohama, R., 1948
Ziegler, Prof. Karl, 1936-39, 1949
Box
8Valentines and verse, 1917, 1937-63
Poems, 1946-69   by R. Adams. William H. Lycan, William J. Hale, Stan Lovell, Gene Perrin, Neal ________, Charlotte ________, and friends in Dept. of Chemistry, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland (ca. 1947)
Family Budgets, 1924-27
Guest Book, 1931-63   showing name, date, and residence of visitors to the Adams home
Guest Book, 1954-55    showing names and addresses of guests attending a tea honoring Dr. and Mrs. Adams (June 14, 1954) and two parties (1955)
Greeting cards, 1938-39
Christmas cards, 1936-68
Souvenirs, 1943, 1947, 1956, 1964-67   money, programs, certificates
Invitations, 1952-69   from President Harry S.Truman, Presidential Inaugural Committee (1957), D. D. Eisenhower, Dean Rusk, Robert A. Welch Foundation, President L. B. Johnson;   also see invitations, Box 36
Congratulatory Letters: Presidency of American Chemical Society, Dec. 1933 - Jan. 1934
Congratulatory Letters and telegrams: Roger Adams Symposium, June-September, 1954
Adams Symposium, Post-Banquet Program, 1954    26-page transcription and program; disk recordings in Box 9 with tapes
Retirement festivities, 1957    reception, dinner (toastmaster's remarks), and citation for honorary degree.
50th Reunion of Harvard Class of 1909, June 1959
Program and "75 Aromatic Years of Leavitt and Pierce, where I learned to play pool" (Adams).



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