John Marshall Papers, 1925-(1940-1962)-1980 | Project on the History of Communication Research

DESCRIPTION

The John Marshall Papers include correspondence, reports, speeches, articles, trip diaries, and photograph negatives dating from his last semester at Harvard to condolences to his widow after his death. The bulk of the collection is 1940 to 1962.

The strength of the papers is that they reflect a more personal side to the humanities grant making of the Rockefeller Foundation. Mr. Marshall’s personal correspondence differs greatly from that which was filed in the Rockefeller Foundation project files.

There is a great deal of material which documents the Rockefeller Foundation as a whole during the period in individual’s files, as well as the files identified as specifically Rockefeller Foundation. There is extensive correspondence with individual grantees which does not appear in the official record of the Foundation, (Sisam, Flexner, St. John Perse) and correspondence commenting on specific grants by non-grant related individuals (Kirstein, Makinsky).