Annotated Manuscripts consists primarily of various drafts and revisions of the chapters comprising the 565-page 1950 manuscript; there are also drafts of ten additional chapters, a forward, and an appendix, which Nelson apparently completed after 1950. These materials are organized by chapter: the first twenty-three files consistent with the organizational scheme of the 1950 manuscript, the remainder in accordance with an expanded, projected table of contents found with the Nelson manuscript. There are also photocopies of the 1986 Nelson-Koelsch manuscript and of the 1950 Nelson manuscript. Koelsch appended to the 1986 manuscript a list of footnote references, as well as a considerable amount of "supplemental material"--several appendix chapters, excerpts from the diaries of Hudson D. Walker, a dateline or chronological list of events in the life of T. B. Walker, an index of names appearing in the 1986 manuscript and appendix, and a bibliography.

Working Papers consist of various materials used, collected, and generated by Clara Nelson in the course of her work on the biography. This series includes working outlines related to the manuscript or to parts of it, and biographical information about T. B. Walker, his wife Harriet G. Walker, and members of the Walker family. A group of research materials includes general background information (notes, relevant manuscript pages, and miscellaneous reference materials); notes and information organized by chapter; references grouped by Roman numeral in accordance with one (or more) of the various working outlines; subject files; newspaper clippings; and miscellaneous reference items.

There are 2.5 boxes (ca. 1 cu. ft.) of stenotype tapes, evidently produced by Nelson on a court reporter's stenograph machine. These seem to consist primarily of notes taken from Walker manuscript materials and from other written sources; some are probably notes from oral history interviews. It is possible that some of these tapes may duplicate information found elsewhere in the collection in its original format. The tapes have not been deciphered. They were retained on the chance that a person familiar with 1940s stenographic equipment may be able to decipher them.

The tapes were received in apparently random order. They had been cut into sections (apparently by Nelson), folded, and most of them labeled. These sections have been placed in bond folders, and the bond folders placed in file folders. There are also two stenograph instructional/practice books, which have been filed with the tapes.

The Working Papers also include 8 inches (11 folders) of project-related correspondence, the bulk of which consists of letters written by Nelson to Mrs. McCannel, from the start of the project until Nelson's death. These letters chronicle Nelson's progress (and lack of same) on A Lifetime Burning over the thirty-one-year period during which she worked on the manuscript. A considerable amount of Nelson-McCannel correspondence (ca. 1948-ca. 1964) is missing.

The early letters document Nelson's enthusiastic start on the biography and her productive first years. She describes various research expeditions, including trips to northern Minnesota, to California, to Missouri, and to Ohio. A number of letters relate problems and obstacles that Nelson encountered in her work. Later letters demonstrate that she was becoming increasingly bogged down in her work, and eventually almost obsessed by it. Nelson also complains frequently of poor working conditions and of her precarious financial situation. In letters from the late 1960s and early 1970s, particularly in the months leading up to her death, Nelson apparently came to realize that she would never complete the project.

There is correspondence with people from whom Nelson was soliciting information and with whom she discussed her work. Correspondents include historians, small-town newspaper editors and publishers, acquaintances and retired employees of the Walkers, Minneapolis school officials, staff members at the Minneapolis newspapers, and officials of the Minnesota Historical Society and the University of Minnesota Graduate School. There is correspondence with University (of Minnesota) Press editors Helen Clapesattle and Jeanne Sinnen; Dr. Ralph Casey of the university's School of Journalism; conservationist Ernest C. Oberholtzer; and with Archie D. Walker, Fletcher L. Walker, and Hudson D. Walker.

The final series, Note Card Files, consists of twelve files of typewritten note cards containing information relative to virtually every chapter (written and unwritten) of the Nelson manuscript; they are not organized in any discernible fashion. The cards have been left in the order in which they were received by MHS. The Box Contents List (following) indicates topics that are most prominently featured in each file, although these lists are by no means exhaustive.

There was included within Nelson's files about one cubic foot of original Walker documents and other manuscript materials, which Nelson apparently pulled from their original locations, adding numbers and other annotations. These have been refiled in their proper places throughout the T. B. Walker and family papers; Nelson's annotations were not erased. An additional one-half cubic foot of material, including photographs depicting California lumbering and milling operations and milling facilities, published guides to T. B. Walker's art collection, and printed materials relating to Minneapolis' Walker Art Center, has been removed for inclusion in other sections of the Walker Papers or within other Walker-related collections.

It should be noted that around 1926-1927 Roy L. Smith was working on a biography of T. B. Walker, which apparently was never completed. Papers related to his work are filed in T. B. Walker Papers.

The letterpress books are concerned primarily with the early operations of the Red River Lumber Company (RRLC) in northwestern Minnesota, as well as with land and timber purchases and various other activities, prior to the commencement of company operations in northern California. There are also letters pertaining to the Walker & Akeley partnership, as well as letters of the Hennepin Paper Company, the Minneapolis Central City Market Company, and other Walker business organizations. All are intermingled in a single chronological series of volumes.

The early letters (1886-ca. 1905) document routine RRLC milling operations at Crookston and Grand Forks, as directed by Walker from Minneapolis; logging operations in northwestern Minnesota; and routine company business and finances. There are letters concerning Walker's interest in politics; his lobbying of elected representatives in St. Paul and in Washington, D. C.; and his observations on the economy and his concerns about contemporary economic and market conditions. Later letters (ca. 1905-ca.1912) document the period when the Walkers were winding down their Minnesota operations (which were by then centered in Akeley) and were engaged in the quiet acquisition of timber and land in northern California. The most recent volumes (ca. 1912-1917) deal increasingly with matters other than the lumber business, including Walker's interest in art, his growing art collection and gallery, his political views, and his fear of labor organization and "socialism". There are also letters documenting Walker's efforts to organize an exhibit for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915) and letters offering his continued comments and recommendations to his sons on their conduct of the lumber business.

The bulk of the letters were written at Minneapolis, with the exception of one volume (January -April 1905) written at a San Francisco hotel, by T. B. Walker in his capacity as president of the RRLC. There are also other authors, including Walker's sons Gilbert, Clinton, Willis, Fletcher, and Archie; RRLC bookkeepers/accountants John S. Grist and Charles W. Bennett; land man Louis R. Gorham; attorney Ellsworth G. Scammon; logging superintendent Frank J. Kline; and [bookkeeper?] Henry G. Sherwood. Some letters are signed by Walker's business partner Healy C. Akeley; by Reuben H. Adams as market master (Minneapolis Central City Market Company), art gallery curator, and RRLC accountant; and by Walker's secretary, Emma L. Kotz, and his stenographers, Josephine Turney and Leonora Welo.

Recipients of letters include Walker's sons, particularly Clinton; his half-brother, Oliver W. Barnes; Frank J. Kline; RRLC secretaries Watson S. Taylor and Charles B. March; Chester L. Hovey (San Francisco), Walker's chief land man in California; land men H. D. Burroughs (Susanville, California) and Carl R. Briggs (Redding, California); and timber cruiser Richard H. Hovey. There are also letters to attorney A. E. Bolton (San Francisco); to Walker's business partner Dr. J. E. Andrus (Yonkers, New York); and to various politicians and elected representatives from Minnesota and California.

Consists of general correspondence, and Walker's correspondence with his sons Archie, Fletcher, Willis, Clinton, and Gilbert. It appears that large blocks of correspondence are missing, and that this series is but an assembly of surviving miscellany.

The general correspondence (1870-1927) consists mostly of letters received by T. B. Walker, and largely concerns routine logging and lumber business matters, especially in Minnesota. It includes information about log drives on the Red River; arrangements with Red Lake Indians, the United States Indian Service, and others in advance of T. B.'s cutting reservation timber and floating the logs to his mill at Crookston; T. B.'s acquisition of California timber land (ca. 1910); and general Butler & Walker and Camp & Walker business matters. There are administrative reports from Walker's assistant Frank J. Kline. There is information concerning Minneapolis Esterly Harvester Company affairs (see Business Subject Files, below) and the Minneapolis Land and Investment Company.

Other correspondents include W. & L. E. Gurley (manufacturers of surveyors' instruments, Troy, New York); Cushman K. Davis (St. Paul); T. B.'s brother-in-law Andrew B. Robbins; his brothers O. W. Barnes and Platt B. Walker; E. W. Jarvis of the Winnipeg Lumber Company; E. C. Whitney; E. W. Backus; Edgar P. Putnam (Jamestown, New York); Trafford N. Jayne (Minneapolis attorney); John E. Andrus (Yonkers, New York); W. L. Mackenzie King (Ottawa); E. G. Scammon; Walter J. Bartnett (New York City); Reuben H. Adams; and officials of the Long-Bell Lumber Company (Kansas City, Missouri). There is also correspondence with bankers and financiers, including Fogg Brothers & Company (Boston), S. S. Thorpe of Thorpe Brothers (Minneapolis), the Empire Trust Company (New York City), and various Minnesota banks.

Correspondence with Archie Walker (1900-1928) consists primarily of letters exchanged between T. B. and his son at Minneapolis while T.B. was in New York or San Francisco; other letters were written while Archie was away. There is very little for 1900-1915. In addition to routine business and financial matters, they discuss Walker iron mining matters in northern Minnesota; the "Dan Patch Line" (Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern Railway Company); development activities at St. Louis Park; T. B.'s art collection and gallery; T. B.'s lawsuit against the heirs of H. C. Akeley; and demolition of T.B.'s 803 Hennepin Avenue mansion and construction on the site of the Walker (or "Homestead") building complex and the State Theatre. There are also letters concerning a trip to Alaska that Archie and Clinton took in 1900 with their uncle, Oliver W. Barnes, to investigate copper mining possibilities.

T. B.'s correspondence (1899-1928) with Fletcher Walker, who actually lived at Akeley, and later at Westwood, is concerned with business conditions and strategies, as well as with mill construction and operations. Early letters (1899-1900) describe mill operations at Akeley during the Walkers' first years manufacturing lumber there. There are letters (1905-1911) about T. B.'s northern Minnesota mining interests, particularly in Itasca County. A number of letters document the search for a site in northeastern California at which to build the town of Westwood, as well as railroad construction in the region by both the Southern Pacific and the Western Pacific lines. There are narrative reports from Fletcher concerning Westwood and milling operations there. Fletcher frequently discusses milling equipment and machinery, technical concerns that were of particular interest to him.

Correspondence with Willis Walker (1899-1927), initially living at Minneapolis but by 1916 at San Francisco, is largely devoted to routine business matters, including financial, logging, and Minnesota land concerns. There is material pertaining to the Walker & Akeley partnership; the Walker-Akeley lawsuit (1915-1924); a proposed RRLC sale of timber to the McCloud River Lumber Company (ca. 1920); T. B.'s loan of art works to the city of San Francisco for exhibition there (ca. 1924); construction of T. B.'s gallery building on Lowry Hill in Minneapolis in the 1920s; and a testimonial dinner given in T. B.'s honor in Minneapolis in 1924.

T. B.'s correspondence with Clinton Walker (1891-1919), who apparently by 1907 lived at Piedmont (near Oakland), California, is concerned with such matters as timber estimating, land acquisition, and railroad surveys, including a rail line project (never undertaken) to be backed by N. D. Rideout of the Mercantile Trust Company of San Francisco. There is documentation of Clinton's disagreement with his father and brothers over the selection of the Mountain Meadows site for construction of the new company town and lumber mill of Westwood. There are also letters documenting the 1900 Alaska trip, as well as later letters discussing art matters, particularly T. B.'s gift of several paintings from his art collection to Clinton and his siblings. Evident in many of the letters is the persistent conflict between Clinton and the rest of the family over all sorts of issues.

Correspondence with Gilbert Walker (1878-1928), who resided in Minneapolis, consists primarily of Gilbert's letters to T. B. while T. B. was in New York or San Francisco. There is information about RRLC milling operations at Crookston, Grand Forks, and Akeley; Walker & Akeley (W & A) partnership matters; RRLC and W & A finances; business dealings with E. W. Backus; and the Minneapolis Esterly Harvester Company, the Thompson Wagon Company, and the Minneapolis Jarless Spring Carriage Company, all St. Louis Park businesses that the Walker interests controlled. Also included is a narrative commentary about Westwood written by T. B. while on a trip there in 1917. Other letters from T. B. describe the progression of Harriet's last illness in 1917. There is information about T. B.'s contributions to the Hennepin Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church.

T. B.'s gradually deteriorating physical and mental condition, particularly after 1926, is apparent in his handwritten letters to his sons. Increasingly, even personal letters were written on his behalf by his private secretaries, Norman MacLean and Clinton D. Avery. T. B. complained in his letters of being increasingly worried, unable to sleep, and other symptoms of declining health.

These consist primarily of material pertaining to T. B. Walker's lumber business, particularly to his involvement in the Red River Lumber Company. There is some documentation of Butler, Mills & Walker and Camp & Walker partnership affairs (most information about the Walker & Akeley partnership will be found in the Walker & Akeley Partnership Records). Documentation of Walker's mining investments is found in Personal Subject Files (below).

Some files relate to other of T. B.'s business ventures and activities, including the Crookston Boom & Water Power Company, the Flour City National Bank, Minneapolis, (of which he was president, 1887-1894), and the Northwestern Elevator Company (in which T. B. was interested with A. B. Robbins).

Litigation files focus particularly on the "Beltrami County tax suit" (1900-1901), a lawsuit brought by the State of Minnesota against Walker, the Red River Lumber Company, and the Walker & Akeley partnership for payment of back taxes on their lands; T. B. thought the assessments excessive and had refused to pay the 1898 taxes. Correspondents in this file include John R. Van Derlip, a Minneapolis attorney representing the defendants; Henry R. Farnam, a Minneapolis attorney also consulted by T. B. in connection with this legal action; W. F. Street, Beltrami County attorney; and Robert C. Dunn, Minnesota state auditor.

Logging papers contain information about logging operations and activities in which T. B. appears to have been concerned as an individual; "logging papers" also are found as series in the Red River Lumber Company Records and the Walker & Akeley Partnership Records.

Several files relate to the Minneapolis Esterly Harvester Company, a St. Louis Park-based manufacturer of agricultural machinery. T. B. had loaned $152,200 to the owners of the business shortly before it became insolvent as a result of the Panic of 1893. When the owners were unable to repay the loan, T. B. gained control of the company. These files include photocopies of selected documents from the Ell Torrance papers at the Minnesota Historical Society. Torrance, an attorney, represented A. M. Allen, assignee of the company, in a legal action brought against T. B. Walker, F. J. Kline, and Gilbert M. and Willis J. Walker in 1903 to further settle ownership of its assets.

This series consists of a unit of general correspondence, letters exchanged with various family members, letters written by T. B. to Harriet, expressions of sympathy received at the time of Harriet's death (1917), birthday greetings, and a file of personal business correspondence and miscellaneous papers.

General correspondents include T. B.'s uncle, Moses Barlow (Xenia, Ohio); Edgar P. Putnam (Jamestown, N.Y.); Walter J. Bartnett, vice president and general counsel, Western Pacific Railway Company (San Francisco); Hilda (Mrs. William L.) Waters (Long Island, N.Y.); W. L. Mackenzie King (Ottawa); Charles M. Loring, Grace M. Longfellow, Ida E. Kent, Laura B. Johnston, and Ell Torrance, all of Minneapolis; E. W. Backus; and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (New York City). There is also correspondence with employees and former employees Emma L. Kotz, Louis R. Gorham, Norman MacLean, and William Johnson.

The general correspondence includes condolences at the deaths of T. B.'s son Leon (1887) and his daughter Harriet (1904); a crank letter from "Eu Loose"; comments and praise from visitors to the art gallery; and thank-yous from various persons for handouts and loans, including Jacob Y. Troup and Harlow Gale. There is a letter from F. Weyerhaeuser, president of the Chippewa Falls Logging Company (Wisconsin), declining an invitation from T.B. to make Minneapolis his home (1889); letters exchanged with Charlotte Reeve Conover (Dayton, Ohio), a cousin, in which Walker explains his financial assistance to his relatives, the "Xenia Barlows" (1918); several of T. B.'s Christmas card mailing lists from the 1920s; and a request by T. B. to Chester L. Hovey (San Francisco) to procure brandy for him (1918).

Correspondence with family members includes a typewritten transcript of an 1859 letter from T. B. to his grandmother; a photocopy of a letter from T. B.'s father-in-law, Fletcher Hulet (1877); and letters from sons Fletcher and Willis as young children. Other correspondents include brother-in-law Marshal F. Hulet; Moses Barlow; Platt B. Walker II and Oliver W. Barnes; sister Adelaide J. Robbins; John and sister-in-law Clara S. Wheeler; cousin Charlotte Johnston; Archie and Gilbert Walker; cousin "Pet" Sabin (Xenia); daughter Julia; daughters-in-law Alma (Mrs. Willis) and Della (Mrs. Clinton) Walker; and various nieces, nephews, and grandchildren. Letters from T. B. to some of the children describe their mother's last, fatal illness, which apparently began with a "paralytic stroke." A letter written by Clinton D. Avery, T. B.'s personal secretary, to one of the sons describes a delightful and active day on the town which Avery and T. B. spent together in 1927, portraying T. B. as still very active, energetic, and spry.

T. B.'s letters to Harriet originated primarily at the Hotel Seville (New York City), the New Willard (Washington, D.C.), and the Hotel St. Francis (San Francisco), when he was away on business trips. Most are written in longhand, and are rather difficult to read. The researcher should consult the Harriet G. Walker section for the other half of this correspondence.

Personal business correspondence and miscellaneous papers include such items as invitations to all sorts of meetings and social events; railway passes; membership appeals from a variety of organizations; solicitations from automobile dealers (including the Studebaker Corporation of America and the D. A. Odell Motor Car Company, a dealer for Pierce-Arrow cars); magazine and book subscription offers; and similar items. There is material relating to an apparent appeal from Walker to the Governor of Minnesota for clemency in the Granville Spaulding murder case (1890); an invitation to visit Xenia from the Xenia Chamber of Commerce (ca. 1920); an invitation to a dinner in honor of Herbert Hoover (ca. 1920); a "Rockefeller Day" program (1920); an invitation to a Publicity Club of Minneapolis reunion dinner (1926); an invitation and ticket to an address given at Walker's Shubert Theatre (Minneapolis) by Hoover as Secretary of Commerce to delegates of the United States League of Building and Loan Associations (1926); an invitation to a meeting of the Manufacturers' Association of Minneapolis, Inc. (1926); and a diploma for an honorary doctorate awarded to T. B. by Hamline University (1926). Other correspondents include U.S. Senator Dwight M. Sabin; the Automobile Club of Minneapolis; and Theodore Wirth, superintendent of the Minneapolis Board of Park Commissioners.

These consist primarily of personal business-related material, including T. B.'s mining investments; files related to his involvement in business, church, civic, political, professional, and other organizations; biographical information; family correspondence, writings, memorabilia, and genealogical data; information on family property and finances; and copies of T. B.'s writings and speeches on a myriad of subjects. This material documents matters separate from T. B.'s lumber-related business activities.

There is a file (primarily 1915-1927) on Baldwin-Wallace College, which both T. B. and Harriet had attended under its prior name, Baldwin University. The college conferred an honorary degree on T. B. in 1916. The file includes a number of requests for sizable donations to the institution, particularly in connection with its efforts to establish an endowment. There are several invitations to T. B. to visit the college. The file includes a Baldwin University course catalog (1862-1863) and typewritten copies of T. B.'s academic transcripts (1858-1861). The latter apparently were made by or for Roy L. Smith of Minneapolis, a Methodist minister and publicist hired around 1926-1927 to prepare an authorized biography. Correspondents include Smith and Baldwin-Wallace presidents Arthur Louis Breslich and Albert B. Storms.

Biographical information includes numerous short biographical sketches, primarily in pamphlet form, some autobiographical materials, and portions of Smith's working papers and biography manuscript. While Smith's biography apparently was never published, Clara Nelson appears to have drawn upon some of his work in the course of preparing her own biography of Walker.

A file on churches primarily contains material relating to T. B.'s involvement in and financial support of the Methodist Church in Minnesota; the files document Minnesota Methodism's regular requests for financial contributions as well. There are requests for funds from Methodist congregations in Minneapolis and elsewhere; from the Minneapolis District of the Methodist Episcopal Church for parishes, city missions, and church extension work; from seminaries and colleges, particularly Hamline University; and for foreign missions. There is also data on various Methodist parishes, compiled in connection with the Centenary Survey for the Minneapolis District, and information about the Methodist Union of Minneapolis and its predecessor organizations. Correspondents include Hamline presidents George H. Bridgman and Samuel Fletcher Kerfoot, Bishop Charles Edward Locke, and Minneapolis District superintendents Reese Bowman Kester, M. P. Burns, T. W. Stout, and William C. Hodgson.

Papers relating to the Hennepin Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church (1891-1927) include information about church functions, programs, and services; T. B.'s financial contributions; church fundraising, including for the Centenary Fund (T. B. was a member of its Centenary Council); various church building proposals and projects, and the dedication of the building at Groveland and Lyndale Avenues (1916); some congregational publications; and some informtion about the art gallery at the church. Correspondents include pastors Andrew Gillies, S. D. Hutsinpiller, Fayette L. Thompson, Gilbert Stansell, Charles Wesley Burns, Lucius Hatfield Bugbee, and Lewis Leroy Dunnington. There is also correspondence with W. J. Dean, president of the congregation's board of trustees (1907), and with James Wyman, chairman of the building committee (ca. 1907).

A file on the Minneapolis Council of Churches includes council newsletters, a historical sketch, and letters from R. B. Blyth, executive secretary, and A. F. Benson, president.

Forestry and conservation files include correspondence relating to state (California) and federal legislation affecting the taxation of timberlands, and to Walker's advocacy of changing the tax basis from that of annual taxation on standing timber to that of a stumpage tax on logs cut. T. B. maintained that annual taxation of standing timber would inevitably lead to rapid destruction of the forests without reforestation to provide for the future; this was the key to his forestry and conservation ideas. There are copies of bills; lengthy letters to various persons, including Gifford Pinchot, in which T. B. outlines his views on forestry and conservation; articles by others, including two tracts by E. G. Scammon on forest ownership, taxation, and conservation (1914, 1915); and miscellaneous reports. There is also some discussion about fire protection.

Correspondents include C. C. Andrews, Minnesota forestry commissioner (1903); Henry S. Graves, Gifford Pinchot, and other officials of the American Forestry Association and the U.S. Forest Service; the National Conservation Congress; the California Forest Protective Association; the Minnesota State Forestry Association; the California White and Sugar Pine Manufacturers Association; and the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory (Madison, Wisconsin).

The files relating to labor document Walker's concern about labor organization and trade unionism, and his support of pro-capital causes and organizations. There are articles concerning the open vs. the closed shop, and correspondence with the Minnesota Union Advocate (St. Paul), the Minnesota Labor Press Bureau (Minneapolis), the Labor Digest and its editor E. E. Stevens, and the Northwestern Appeal (Minneapolis). The files also include a copy of a form letter signed by the Republican governor of Minnesota, J. A. A. Burnquist, indicating support for labor's right to organize and arbitrate; and a promotional item from the Minneapolis office of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). There is some correspondence, as well as mimeographed reports on radical activities in Minnesota, from the Northern Information Bureau.

A file on the Citizens Alliance of Minneapolis includes copies of its Citizens Alliance Bulletin and Special Weekly Bulletin. Correspondence, circular letters, and miscellaneous papers contain information about Alliance meetings, solicitations for financial support, and evidence of Walker's financial contributions. There are comments (1920) by O. P. Briggs, Alliance president, on its editorial policy and T. B.'s support of both capital and labor-related publications, including the Minnesota Labor Press Bureau, Labor Digest, State Federation of Labor, Northwest Warriors Magazine, Northwestern Appeal, Minnesota Union Advocate, Heart of America, News Letter of Minneapolis and Peoples Franchise Bureau, Northeast Argus, The Irish Standard, Svenska Folkets Tidning, Loyal American News, and The American Committee. There is also some information about the formation of the Citizens Alliance of St. Paul (1920). Correspondents include Alliance secretary George K. Belden and presidents O. B. Kinnard and O. P. Briggs.

Files pertaining to Walker's mining investments have been divided into six geographical groups: Alaska, Arizona, California, Minnesota, Nevada, and West Virginia. The greatest portion of these files relates to T. B.'s investments on Minnesota's iron ranges, including the Walker-Hill Mine and other properties owned jointly with the Great Northern Railway (through its Great Northern Iron Ore Properties). There is correspondence with J. H. Gruber, secretary, and Walter J. Hill, trustee, of Great Norethern Iron Ore Properties, as well as statements of salary and expenses submitted by, and correspondence with, D. R. Carr (apparently the same individual who cruised timber for the Walker interests), who oversaw operations on their joint lands in the Coleraine, Minnesota area. Deeds and agreements document T. B.'s Minnesota real estate sales to the Fillmore, Arthur, Harrison, Lorain, Polk, and Jackson iron mining companies (all evidently subsidiaries of or related to the Great Northern), and to the Oliver Iron Mining Company. The Walker interests also retained mineral rights to thousands of acres of cutover land in northern Minnesota.

Papers relating to mining activities in Alaska include letters concerning the 1900 trip that Clinton and Archie Walker took with Oliver W. Barnes to investigate copper mining possibilities. There is information about the Hidden Treasure Copper Mine claim on Glacier Island, Prince William Sound (in which T. B. bought a half interest), as well as information concerning the Chittyna Exploration Company (in which T. B. was a stockholder).

There are a number of files on various business, civic, and other organizations in which T. B. was involved to a greater or lesser extent, including the Minneapolis Public Library, the Minnesota Academy of Science, and the Minneapolis Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA).

T. B. was president of the Library Board of the City of Minneapolis from its incorporation in 1885 until his death in 1928. The files relating to the Minneapolis Public Library contain news clippings, administrative reports, bylaws, and minutes of board meetings. A file of correspondence and miscellaneous papers includes requests for employment in the library; historical sketches outlining T. B.'s involvement with the library and with the earlier athenaeum; a 1912 tract (apparently not written by T. B.) entitled "The Minneapolis Public Library/The Minneapolis Central City Market"; a narrative by T. B. entitled "The Library as a Public Institution" (ca.1911); and "The Day's Work in the Library" (ca. 1910?), a compilation of essays by staff members relating their experiences at work on a supposedly typical day. There is information about library funding and finances and the establishment of branch libraries; letters on a variety of subjects written to Walker as president of the library board, and considerable correspondence with Gratia Countryman, librarian from 1904 to 1936.

T. B.'s file on the Minnesota Academy of Science spans 44 years (1883-1927); Walker was its president for several of these years. This file includes narratives reviewing the history of this organization and describing its collections; copies of its charter, constitution, and bylaws; an article by Harlow Gale entitled "An Octogenetic Musical Development," as well as tracts by other authors; Academy bulletins; a memorial book for Newton Horace Winchell (1914); and notices of upcoming meetings, with their program titles. Correspondents include Frederick J. Wulling, Harlow Gale, O. W. Oestlund, Edward C. Gale, Charles P. Berkey, and A. D. Roe (all of the academy); M. L. Burton and C. W. Hall of the University of Minnesota; and Minneapolis taxidermist Henry W. Howling.

Walker was involved in the YMCA at both the local (Minneapolis) level and as a member of its International Committee, based in New York City. Local files include discussion about the construction of a new building in downtown Minneapolis (1916); requests and acknowledgments to T. B. for financial contributions; and annual reports of boys' work and of the Minneapolis YMCA general secretary (both 1920). There are also general secretary's annual reports (1923-1924 and 1924-1925). There are various financial reports, and information about the YMCA's efforts to develop an endowment (ca. 1920). Correspondents include E. J. Couper, W. J. Dean, H. P. Goddard, S. Wirt Wiley, J. S. Porteous, John R. Van Derlip, Trafford N. Jayne, and Frank O. Koehler.

Walker was elected to the YMCA International Committee in 1899. His files include information and reports about its work and finances; minutes of its monthly meetings (1909-1924); an account of YMCA personnel being expelled from the USSR by the Soviet government; and a report of the Commission on Colored Work (1920). There are many form letters. Correspondents include Lucien C. Warner; Richard C. Morse, John R. Mott, and Alfred E. Marling (all New York City); C. S. Ward and A. G. Knebel (both Chicago); and various other committee officials.

Miscellaneous California-based organizations represented in the files include the American Patriotic League (Los Angeles), and the Commonwealth Club of California, the California Promotion Committee, and the California Water and Forest Association (all San Francisco). Other miscellaneous groups include the "Minnesota" Pacific Expedition (ca. 1924), the American Academy of Political and Social Science (Philadelphia), the Aero Club of Minneapolis, the Minneapolis Business Men's Association, and the American Committee of Minneapolis.

T. B. was a member of the Minnesota Panama Pacific Commission, which had charge of arranging for a Minnesota exhibit at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, which was held at San Francisco in 1915. He saw Minnesota's participation in the exposition as a means of promoting tourism in the state, an extension of the "See America First" movement (of which T. B. was one of four commissioners). The files document disagreements with an unofficial volunteer committee over what the state's exhibit would be (it was eventually decided to construct a model farmstead), including a report on the controversy by T. T. Wilson. They also include financial reports, information about other states' exhibits, copies of relevant Minnesota legislative bills, and some exposition-related informational publications. Correspondents include Minnesota governors Winfield S. Hammond and Adolph O. Eberhart and/or members of their staffs; F. K. Sullivan; C. W. Field; D. M. Neill (Red Wing); Curtis L. Mosher (Minneapolis); and C. C. Moore.

The philanthropy files include requests for donations from organizations throughout the United States, some of which are the California Relief Committee of Minneapolis, in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake; the General Relief Committee, Inc. (New York City), which promised food for starving Russians; the Citizens Committee of Workingmen's Home (Minneapolis), of which Walker was chairman; the Union City Mission (Minneapolis); Shattuck School (Faribault, Minnesota); the Minnesota College (Minneapolis); the American Bible Society (New York City); the American Committee for Helping Italian Blind (New York City); the Minnesota Committee for Relief of German Children (Minneapolis); Carleton College (Northfield, Minnesota); the Women's Co-Operative Alliance (Minneapolis); and the American College of Surgeons (Chicago).

Papers relating to politics document T.B.'s interest in local, state, and national issues of the day. He was an ardent Republican, a bitter opponent of free coinage of silver, an advocate of a protective tariff on lumber and of tax reform, particularly in regard to taxation of standing timber, an advocate of temperance, and an opponent of socialism. Walker followed Minnesota and California politics carefully as well, and his Minneapolis boosterism is amply documented.

Material pertaining to national issues includes information about tax and revenue legislation; the "Chinese Question" (1894); T. B.'s support of William McKinley's 1896 candidacy against William Jennings Bryan for President of the United States; the "Prohibition Enforcement Act" (1919); a treaty with England relating to the Panama Canal (1900); and the Forest Reserve Act (1900). There is a guest's ticket to the 1892 Republican National Convention, which was held in Minneapolis, and numerous requests for financial contributions to various political campaigns. A large part of this material consists of Walker's correspondence with legislators, including senators Cushman K. Davis, Knute Nelson, and Frank B. Kellogg, and representatives Loren Fletcher and Frank M. Nye. There is correspondence with chairman Will H. Hayes and other officials of the Republican National Committee; with the National Republican Congressional Committee; and with Eugene G. Hay of the Board of United States General Appraisers (New York City). There are copies of T.B.'s letters to the editor of various newspapers, and a letter from E. C. Pratt of the Red Wing Journal, urging Walker to run for the U.S. Senate. The correspondence consists primarily of T. B.'s commentary on legislation and proposed legislation, on candidates and elections, and on Republican Party politics.

T. B.'s views on currency reform are amply reflected in his correspondence with Knute Nelson and other legislators; with U.S. Representative John E. Andrus (New York), Walker's business partner; and with officials of the Monetary Convention (Indianapolis), including H. H. Hanna. There is also a published tract by Platt B. Walker entitled "Pending Currency Legislation."

Tariff-related materials include correspondence with officials of the American Protective Tariff League (New York City); "The Relation of the Tariff to the Public Welfare," a 1916 tract by T. B. Walker; and "Tariff Reduction Always Brings Hard Times," a published extract from a speech of U.S. Representative James T. McCleary of Minnesota (1906).

Minneapolis issues include the construction of a municipal auditorium; city charter matters; municipal union with St. Paul (1889-1894); the city water supply, including an unattributed 1905 tract entitled "The Question of Pure Water for Minneapolis"; the construction of a new main post office building; activities of the park board; the Minneapolis Citizenship Convention (1924); and [John D.] Rockefeller [Jr.] Day (1920). There are bulletins issued by the Voters Information Club (1921-1922), and a letter from James J. Hill questioning T. B.'s opposition to a plan by St. Paul's Summit Avenue Improvement Association to upgrade Summit Avenue.

Walker's writings and speeches, as well as a few by other individuals, have been brought together and arranged alphabetically by topic. They consist of published tracts; articles prepared for and clipped from the pages of such periodicals as "Sunset," "Western Afield," "Fair Play," "The Labor World," and "Ariel"; letters to the editors of newspapers; texts and notes for speeches; and annotated drafts and fragments of all of the above. The bulk of these are concerned with economic, business, political, religious, and forestry/conservation themes.

Included here also are testimonials and eulogies concerning S. A. Harris, "Mr." Weyerhaeuser, Prof. [Horace] Winchell, and James J. Hill.

Material relating to the estate of T. B. Walker includes a copy (#65) of a petition by Archie D. Walker, one of the executors, in Hennepin County probate court (1929). Appended to the petition is a list (with descriptions) of parcels of northern Minnesota real estate conveyed by T. B. before his death to the Red River Lumber Company. Since most of this land was tax-delinquent, deeds were not recorded. Archie's petition asked for a court order permitting the executors to execute quit-claim deeds to these parcels to the RRLC or its designees. An order attached to the petition grants this authority.

Estate-related materials also include a folder of "distribution working papers," including carbon copies of Archie's letters to his siblings and financial statements related to both the T. B. Walker and the Harriet G. Walker estates. In some letters, Archie proposes that the estates be liquidated and their assets put into the Pacific Investment Company. There is information about some Minnesota Western Railroad Company bonds, which evidently became estate assets, and some other miscellany.

Materials related to Walker's art collection and to the building and management of his art gallery date from about 1860 until the time of his death (1928). Although some miscellany is as late as 1987, most recent information about the collection, the gallery, and the Walker Art Center is found in other collections (see Introduction).

These files include lists and inventories of T.B.'s art collection; some information about specific artists and art works; a nearly complete set of published gallery and collection catalogs; clippings; correspondence files; photographs of paintings, sculptures, jades, and other items included in the collection; miscellaneous purchase receipts; gallery visitors registers (1903-1910); and some corporate records for the Walker Galleries, Inc. (1919-1934).

There is a file of accolades, some of which were subsequently used in gallery publicity, by visitors from Canada, Europe, and throughout the United States. These include letters from artists, professors, art critics, school children, and the general public, among them Eugene Neuhaus of the University of California, W. F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill"), G. W. Little ("Pawnee Bill"), and Harry Houdini.

The files contain information about and/or correspondence with various artists, including Virginie Demont Breton (Paris?); Henry J. Brewer (San Francisco); Albert Bierstadt (New York); H. Lewis (Dusseldorf); Arthur Parton (Yonkers, New York); William Patterson (Chicago); Carl W. Rawson (Beaver Bay, Minnesota); Freeman Thorpe (at Minneapolis); Hans Dahl (Dusseldorf); J. L. Bedding (Amsterdam); and Paul Fjelde. Much of this material relates to the commissioning and purchase of art works. There is correspondence with Henry H. Cross (Chicago), who painted a series of portraits of American Indians that was included in the Walker collection, accompanied by biographical sketches of many of the Indians portrayed and of Cross himself. There are letters from W. F. Cody to Cross and to Reuben H. Adams, and to Walker from G. W. Little; there is also correspondence with Cross's executor, James H. Cross.

Clippings relate to such topics as T. B.'s purchase of art; the Cross Indian portraits; the Walker jade collection; T. B.'s art on exhibit at the Hennepin Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church; and accolades on his collections. A considerable number document the controversy surrounding T.B.'s gift of the collection to the City of Minneapolis (1918), the city's eventual return of the collection (1924), and his construction of his own new gallery building on Lowry Hill in Minneapolis (1926). Some clippings relate to the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, to the Museum of the Academy of Science, and to Aazeez Khayat, "Armenian explorer."

Gallery and collection-related correspondence includes requests from persons and groups to visit the gallery, and thank-yous from visitors; correspondence with individuals offering art, antiques, and curios for sale; and appeals for T. B. to donate paintings to schools, churches, and other groups and organizations. There is also information about the collection at the Hennepin Avenue Church; about Henry H. Cross and his death; and about an exhibition of some of T. B.'s art objects at the 1926 Minnesota State Fair.

Later letters (1918-1927) are primarily concerned with the disposition of Walker's art collection. Many relate to T. B.'s donation of the collection to the City of Minneapolis, and to the ensuing controversy. There are letters from Frederick J. Wulling (1924) and Lotus D. Coffman (1923), both of the University of Minnesota, urging Walker to donate his collection to the university and advocating the construction of a new gallery building on campus. There is considerable correspondence with San Francisco banker Herbert Fleishhacker, including offers to construct a gallery there. Other correspondence with Fleishhacker and with San Francisco mayor Joseph Rolph relates to a mid-1920s exhibition of items from T. B.'s collection at the Palace of the Legion of Honor (see flat-filed items for blueprint drawings relating to the Legion of Honor). Finally, there is correspondence relating to Walker's construction of his gallery building on Lowry Hill, particularly with L. L. Long of the architectural and engineering firm of Long & Thorshov (Minneapolis).

Other correspondents include the Federated Council of Art Education (Baltimore); the American Federation of Arts (Washington, D.C.); Paul Fjelde; William Watts Folwell (Minneapolis); the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts; and Mrs. Corneila B. Sage Quinton (San Francisco). Walker wrote some of the outgoing letters himself, but most were written by Clinton D. Avery, Magnus J. Jensen, Reuben H. Adams, and Archie and Hudson Walker.

The gallery and art collection files also include an evaluation of the collection by Professor Eugene Neuhaus, of the Department of Drawing and Art at the University of California. There are photographs of individual works, and photographs (interior and exterior) of T. B.'s various gallery buildings. There is also a separate file on the San Francisco loan.

A file of photographs contains portraits of T. B., alone and with his wife Harriet; photographs of their children and grandchildren; and photographs of various relatives and related families. There are also photographs of the Camp & Walker lumber mill, of the houses at 803 Hennepin and #2 Groveland Terrace, of what is probably the cornerstone laying at the Hennepin Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church (1914), and of Walker in attendance at various meetings and conventions.

These document T. B. Walker's personal interest in the lumbering and property management businesses, including miscellaneous and check journals, cash books, general and rent ledgers, miscellaneous account books, and other financial miscellany. Journal sheets and a general ledger dating from the first years of the T. B. Walker Foundation, Inc. (1925-1941) are also included. See Barlow Realty Company Records and California Lands Records for information about Walker's real estate holdings and transactions in Minnesota and California.

A number of maps, architectural drawings, broadsides, etc. have been removed from the foldered files, unfolded, and flat-filed in map folders. Included are maps of mining areas in Alaska, Arizona, Minnesota, and Nevada and of oil-drilling areas in California; diagrams and architectural drawings of galleries and other exhibit spaces in San Francisco and in Walker's Minneapolis galleries; plans of a proposed residence for T. B. Walker (1923); blueprints of a proposed building for the Hennepin Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church (ca. 1909?); and biographical and promotional miscellany.

The correspondence with T. B. Walker consists primarily of typewritten letters by Harriet to her husband while he was away from home. Harriet comments on her activities and on those of their children, on news of the Minneapolis society, on her health, and on the weather; she frequently complains to her husband that he has been gone too long, and urges him to take better care of himself while away. T. B. Walker, in his letters to Harriet, typically describes some of the business and social activities, comments on his health, and advises his wife to safeguard her own. There is also correspondence between Harriet and her children (especially Archie) and her grandchildren, particularly on those occasions when she accompanied T. B. Walker to New York City or to San Francisco. These letters provide some details about the couple's activities during their absences from Minneapolis. Harriet does not, as a rule, discuss business matters in ther letters.

Harriet also corresponded with various relatives, including her father Fletcher, her brother Marshal and his wife Clara (fl. 1903-fl. 1919), and her sister Clara S. Wheeler. There is a file of letters of Carrie Hunt (1862-1869), who may have been another wife of Marshal Hulet. Other files contain personal corresondence with non-family members, especially condolences on the January 1904 death of her dauther, Harriet Walker Holmen.

152.K.1.10F 1 Correspondence with T. B. Walker, undated and 1895-1915. Correspondence with Archie D. Walker, 1900-1916. Letters to children and grandchildren, undated and 1883-1917. Carrie Hunt's letters, etc., 1862-1869. Personal correspondence, undated and 1877-1916. Family letters and miscellaneous papers, 1867-1929. 2 folders. Subject Files 152.K.1.11B 2 Account book (unidentified), 1900-1901. Address book with miscellaneous notes and accounts, 1887-1893. Appointment book, 1893. Autograph book, 1893-1865. Business correspondence and miscellaneous papers, undated and 1875-1922. Bethany Home.

The files relating to Harriet's involvement in the Bethany Home provide some glimpses into the mission, purpose, and work of that institution. There are letters to Harriet, and to other officers and staff members, from women seeking admission to the home, from persons wishing to have someone else admitted, from family members and others inquiring about some individual mothers and their children, from persons seeking to hire Bethany residents as domestic help, from persons seeking to adopt babies, and from former residents. Serveral items document the misfortunes of one young woman, Edna Margnade, who spent some time at the home. Bethany Home annual reports are shoused in the MHS Reference Library.

A group of journal sheets, cash books, and ledgers relate primarily to rents collected on certain Minneapolis and St. Paul properties that were kept in Harriet's name, particularly the Hulet Block, a store and office building located at Hennepin Avenue and 7th Street in Minneapolis. The volumes document some other financial transactions as well, including the sale of houses and/or lots in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Akeley, and St. Louis Park, and sales of cutover lands in northern Minnesota. There is information about loans to various individuals; monies loaned or given to Marshal F. Hulet, Clara S. Wheeler, and others; expenditures for the upkeep of Harriet's rental properties; salaries paid out of Harriet G. Walker's funds; and periodic infusions of money from the Red River Lumber Company.

The subject files include information about the Bethany Home (see Harriet G. Walker papers for more extensive information); the Minneapolis Jarless Spring Carriage Co., St. Louis Park, of which Gilbert was president in ca. 1893-ca. 1895; the Thompson Wagon Co., St. Louis Park, of which Gilbert was president ca. 1895. Several miscellaneous files relate to Gilbert's other business interests and to his estate.

These consist of general journals, rent cash books, and a general ledger, relating largely to rents received and the upkeep and maintenance of various Minneapolis residential and commercial properties owned by Gilbert. There is also documentation of such personal financial matters as Gilbert's RRLC dividends; salaries received from the Hennepin Paper Company; and his philanthropic contributions to such organizations as the Bethany Home Association, Hamline University, and the Camp Fire Girls.

The Susan Rogers Walker papers inlcude subject files, financial statements and records, some personal correspondence, and some papers relating to her estate. After Gilbert's death, Archie Walker handled Susan's business affairs, and many of these files, accordingly, emanated from his office.

There is information about the Brass Building, the Film Building, and the Music Building, all Minneapolis properties which Susan apparently owned. Fiels concerning the First National Bank of Minneapolis (1949-1952) provide information about several speical agencies and trusts which Susan established naming Martha Rogers Shuman, Jesse W. Shuman, John Rogers Shuman, and Mary Shuman Okie as beneficiaries. There is also a small personal correspondence file, correspondents including Harriet G. and Archie Walker and Clara Wheeler.

Files on the administration of Susan's estate (1951-1959) include estate tax returns and information about the estate's income tax problems; information about bequests made in Susan's will; probate court accounts and documents; and various miscellaneous financial statements. Jesse W. Shuman, Archie D. Walker, and the Northwestern National Bank of Minneapolis served as co-executors. There is a service agreement between Shasta Forests Company (SHAFCO) and Archie D. Walker and Jesse W. Shuman (1954); statements of estate-related trusts and the Archie D. Walker and Jesse W. Shuman Agency; and a considerable amount of correspondence with Minneapolis attorney Josiah E. Brill and with Northwestern National Bank trust officials. Other correspondents include Archie, Brooks, and Theodore Walker; Jesse W. and John Rogers Shuman; Dana C. Smith; California and Minnesota tax officials; R. A. Colgan, Jr., of SHAFCO; and Allen L. Chickering , Jr., of Chickering & Gregory San Francisco attorneys.

The Fred Holman materials include a file of correspondence with St. Paul attorney S. C. Biggs, a member of the First M. E. Church, St. Paul (one of Holman's former parishes), in which Biggs complains of allegedly slanderous remarks made about him by Holman to others in the congregation. There are also newspaper clippings; a journal kept by Holman on an 1890 tour of the Holy Land; and two portraits of Holman. There is a file of personal letters, primarily to T. B. and Harriet G. Walker (addressed as "Mater," "Mori," "Mrs. Ma"), describing the couple's Southwestern travels. In these letters Holman complains of rheumatism, "sensitive" lungs, acute indigestion, and chronic coughing. There is also some discussion about Hennepin Avenue Church politics after Holman's departure.

A file of Holman's political writings includes the tracts "The Present Crisis" (1896) and "The Christian and His Ballot." Holman was a Republican, and a staunch opponent of William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 presidential election. A file of sermons and religious writings includes a series of Holman's "Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity," a tract on Christian Science; a copy of a sermon given at Salt Lake City; typewritten prayers; and fragments of texts and unidentified manuscripts with religious themes.

This series consists of several folders of correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to some of Willis' business activities and investments, and to the excution of his estate. As is the case with the business correspondence, these are Minneapolis office files.

There is a file containing correspondence, memoranda, estimates, invoices, and a floor framing plan regarding an apartment building which Willis proposed to build at 1801-15 Lyndale Avenue, Minneapolis. Construction was apparently begun but soon halted. A file of correspondence, invoices, and "memoranda of scale," reports documentes an apparently routine northern Minnesota logging operation carried out by the Olson Bros. (logging contractors). Other files concern miscellaneous corporate and property interests; there is also some personal correspondence and family photographs.

A file of corespondence and miscellaneous papers relates to the execution of the Willis J. Walker estates. This file was kept by Archie D. Walker, and consists largely of his correspondence with Chester E. Priest, manager of the estate; Alma Brooks Walker as executrix; Leon B. Walker; and William Beatty Writght and Verne-Marie Freeman, San Francisco attorneys. The file contains information about Alma and Leon's involvement in T. B. Walker Foundation affairs, including the foundation's legal action against Kenneth R. Walker (ca. 1948); art gallery materials; the Willis Walker Family Agencies; the Four Walkers; and the Canby Railroad Company.

There is a file of miscellaneous correspondence (1904-1923) of Alma B. Walker, some relating to bookkeeping and accounting matters, others to one or more cottages at Lake Minnetonka owned by the Willis Walkers and/or by Alma's mother. In some of the letters, Alma discusses such subjects as linen, china, rugs, and domestic help; other letters report activities of various family members. There is also a copy of Alma's obituary (1981). Another folder contains three of Leon B. Walker's personal letters (1904-1915), two of which (typewritten transcripts) were written when he was a young child.

The personal correspondence consists primarily of letters exchanged between Clinton and various family members, and is concerned with family matters, RRLC affairs, Clinton's inventing work and inventions, and some of his other personal interests and activities. The series was assembled by the cataloger from unorganized miscellany. Items within each folder are in chronological order.

The series consists primarily of letters exchanged between Clinton (also addressed as "Culley," "Cid," and "Cap") and his father T. B. Walker (sometimes referred to as "The Chief"); his mother Harriet G. Walker; his brother Archie (addressed also as "Waddie" and "Keg"); and his sister Julia Walker Smith. There is also correspondence with his wife Della, his daughter Harriet, and his son Brooks. Some letters are exchanged between Clinton and Willette Allen, an aspiring ballet dancer and apparently a relative or family friend (she usually addresses Clinton as "Daddy Long Legs").

The bulk of personal correspondence concerns family matters, including Archie's engagement (1906) to Bertha Hudson; the birth of Archie and Bertha's son Hudson; and the birth of Clinton's grandson, Brooks Jr. Clinton's mother comments about various relatives, and T. B. reports on her failing condition a few days prior to her January 1917 death. Interspersed at various places are candid observations about the aging T. B., including comments about his deteriorating state of mind, his preoccupation with the construction of his new art gallery building adjacent to his Lowry Hill mansion, and his fretting about his fortune and continual rewriting of his will. A letter from Clinton D. Avery, T. B.'s personal secretary, outlines The Chief's typical daily routine in 1925.

Some letters touch on RRLC matters, particularly the interrelationship between company and family finances, and on Clinton's 1913 decision to leave the company. Other letters concern Clinton's inventions; his attempt to join the U.S. Army (1917); and his investment in motion picture making (1928).

This series includes correspondence, legal documents, and miscellaneous papers relating to some of Clinton's business, professional, and personal interests and activities. Only a few of these files concern the RRLC. They were assembled by the cataloger out of disorganized miscellany; an attempt was made to replicate so far as possible the original subject groupings.

Subjects represented include Clinton's business dealings with the Great Western Power Company, among them the sale of real estate parcels to the company (see also Clinton's general correspondence files, 1913-1917); Clinton's work as an inventor, and some of his inventions; including a piston, "crank shaft for V-type engines," "poppet valve structure," and "pneumatic starting mechanism for automobiles"; Clinton's personal real estate investments, including correspondence, maps, legal documents, statements, and miscellaneous papers; his involvement in RRLC affairs, primarily financial and real estate matters; and litigation surrounding the manufacture of the disputed pneumatic starter by the Stewart-Warner Speedometar Corp. (legal documents, correspondence, and miscellaneous papers). The latter includes documents related to a lawsuit by Clinton against Edward J. Pennypacker.

The series also includes a file of personal memorabilia such as an athletic club membership certificate, personal medical data, and newspaper clippings, and a file of documents relative to the Hennepin Lumber Company

At the end of the series is a file of information concerning the Clinton L. Walker estate (1947). It includes letters which Archie D. Walker and Justin V. Smith exchanged with San Francisco attorney Allen L. Chickering, Jr., regarding the disposition of stock originally held by Clinton in various Walker businesses; there is also a decree of final distribution. This file was kept by Archie, in Minneapolis.

The "General File" consists of three alphabetical groupings of subject files, most of which reflect Archie D. Walker's personal interests and business affairs and those of his immediate family. Many of the materials relate to RRLC business and legal affairs, particularly the Josiah E. Brill files and Archie's letters to company directors. There is also information about some of the other Walker business organizations, including the Eighth Street Development Company, the Barlow Realty Company, and the Walker-Pence Company.

The papers concern such diverse topics as the education of Archie's children; hunting and fishing trips; the ordering of replacement bulbs for a movie projector; the origins of the Paul Bunyan character as an advertising device; and Archie's rock polishing hobby. There are also responses to social invitations, and personal letters to friends, business associates, and the children. Much of the material concerns Archie's personal investments and those of his wife and children. There is correspondence with several attorneys, including Brill and Archie's nephew Dana C. Smith, concerning family and business tax matters and various legal questions.

The Brill files contain a considerable amount of information regarding the 1944 sale of the Westwood plant and townsite to the Fruit Growers Supply Company and the liquidation of the RRLC. There is also information about several non-Walker companies of which Archie was a director and/or stockholder, including the Gulf Oil Corporation; General Securities, Inc., Minneapolis; Standard Oil Company; and Gamble-Skogmo, Inc., Minneapolis. Other letters document his activities as a trustee of Hennepin Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, and as a member of the Minneapolis Public Library board of directors.

Two of the alphabetical groupings (A-W, 1936-1940 and A-W, 1936-1954) represent original runs of files; there is some overlapping of dates. The third grouping, constituting titled folders covering the years 1937-1957, consists of miscellaneous items assembled by the cataloger. Most documents are stamped "General File."

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to a variety of Archie D. Walker's non-RRLC business and personal interests and activities. The bulk of the material dates from 1940-1955; very few items date from before 1920. This series was assembled by the cataloger.

A handful of subjects are represented in a significant way, including family agency affairs (particularly Agency 6, which files contain information about the controversy between the T. B. Walker Foundation and Kenneth R. Walker); Gamble-Skogmo, Inc., of which Archie was a director, ca.1948-ca.1958; Hennepin Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church; the Hennepin Paper Company (including a 189-page statement of the valuation of company buildings and equipment at a Little Falls, Minnesota plant, 1933); Northome Private Roads Association (including articles of incorporation); the State Theatre Heating Company (including articles of incorporation, correspondence, and financial reports); and Archie D. Walker Trust No. 2 (primarily related to management of certain Minneapolis properties).

There are files relating to individual family members and their financial affairs, and to various other Walker companies and organizations, including the Foote Lumber and Coal Company, the Hennepin Holding Company, the Kicherer Motor Company, the Lincoln National Bank, the Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway Company, the Northeastern Railroad Company, Northwestern Hospital, the Superior Land Company, the Waland Lumber Company, Walker Methodist Home, and the Walker-Pence Company.

Also present is Oliver W. Barnes' diary and some accounts from the trip to Alaska that he and Archie took in 1900. A 1920 photo album includes photographs of the family's urban Minneapolis properties, scenes along several California rivers and waterfalls, and some California timber and forest scenes.