Foolder 9

Scope and Contents

Letters to colleagues on books, papers, the war experience, campus life, and the quarterly (NMHR), conferences, memos to staff and students, grades, exams, recommendations, job seeking, correspondents include, Amado Chavez, Sr., Paul Berry; S. Omar Barker, J. F. H. Heide, C. H. Haring, W. A. Keleher, Hoyt C. Graham, George P. Hammond, C.E. Kelsey, Bob Griss, John Tate Lanning, Hester Jones, Consulate of Colombia, friends in Sevilla and at William College.

Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection is divided into two series: Lansing Bloom Personal Papers/AGI Research and the John Gregory Bourke Papers. The Bloom series, which is box 1 of the collection, contains Bloom's private papers and descriptive lists of hundreds of documents pertaining to Northern Mexico, New Mexico and Southwest history from the AGI that Bloom located and copied. The numbers in the lists that he assigned to the documents also appear on the photostats of the documents themselves in...