JBS, during a whooping cough epidemic, wrote to his wife Florence who was visiting in Lakewood NJ:
...This forenoon I spent an hour or more playing with Lawton, Bradford and with Bessie's older children.1
JBS, during a whooping cough epidemic, wrote to his wife Florence who was visiting in Lakewood NJ:
...This forenoon I spent an hour or more playing with Lawton, Bradford and with Bessie's older children.1
Mount Holyoke College has a collection of material concerning Roswell Ham:
Description of Records: Personal and professional documents concerning Roswell G. Ham include correspondence from 1937-1981; articles, addresses and speeches dated 1937-1957; biographical material consisting of news clippings (particularly of his eldest son, Roswell G. Ham, Jr.); inauguration programs, etc.; extensive documentation of the Presidential controversy (1936-1937) comprising letters, news releases, clippings, articles, petitions from alumnae to the President of the Trustees Alva Morrison, questionnaires, etc; obituaries, tributes and memorials; photographs; and card files of Ham's correspondence. Included is an FBI folder on Ham's sponsorship of the American Spanish Aid Committee, American Rescue Ship Missions, etc. Ham's correspondence mainly deals with invitations to Commencement speakers and includes correspondence with alumnae and letters granting honorary Mount Holyoke degrees. Material concerning the Presidential controversy includes letters to Ham, among them correspondence from alumnae who opposed or supported his appointment.
Cite as: Office of the President, Roswell Gray Ham Records, Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections, South Hadley, MA.1