FF 2B - 1870 - Applications for positions and letters of recommendation; curator responses to meeting notices; curator oaths; requirements and salaries of other state normal and agriculture colleges; report of a committee regarding opening and closing of streets; meeting minutes (9/2/1870); report of Swallow regarding needs of Agriculture College Farm; selection and appraisal of Agriculture College lands; Farm Superintendent O.A.A. Gardiner regarding plans for Agricultural College Farm; "Course of Study Proposed for the Agriculture and Mechanic College of Missouri"; annual report of departments and lists of students in classes; John W. Sutherland's affidavit as Land Commissioner; meeting minutes (12/20/1870).

FF 2C - 1870 - Speech of President Read to the Board and the Legislature at Jefferson City regarding the need for the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, mentions attendance of women students at chapel exercises.

FF 2D - 1870 - Speech of President Read to the Legislature (1/1870) regarding popular education, the need for library books and the need for an office of superintendent.

FF 2E - 1870 - Speech of President Read to Mechanics Historical Society.

FF 2F - 1870 - Addresses by President Read on teaching as a profession and modern education; the study of language; democracy and government; education of children in the family - incomplete; the temperance cause; language and communication.

FF 2G - 1870 - Addresses by President Read regarding religion and education [incomplete]; commencement speech; Thanksgiving; printed address to the students of Ohio University (7/4/1843).

FF 2H - 1870 - "Printed Baccalaureate 1869" by President Read - handwritten rough copy regarding education and admittance of women to the University.

FF 2I - 1870 - Addresses by President Read: "characteristics of ancient and modern eloquence"; incomplete address delivered as President of the State Teachers Association.

FF 2J - 1870 - "The School Budget. Published Semimonthly Under the direction of the Senior Class of the First Ward Grammar School, Madison, Wisconsin.. Mary Read Editress... April 1861. Vol. 2, No. 4".

FF 2K - 1870 - Mining School Committee: resolutions; county bids and land deed subscription lists for site location, maps of sites; Missouri Democrat (10/11/1870) and other news clippings; "Circular and Organization of Delaware College".

FF 2L - 1870-71 - Mining School Committee: applications for positions and letters of recommendation; Order of Exercises [schedule of courses]; list of students; Report of Director Charles P. Williams regarding operations/opening of the School of Mines and Metallurgy; various printed writings of C.P. Williams; appointment of State Geologist; "Congressional Committee on Agriculture Colleges, Questions and Answers".

FF 3. - 1871 - Meeting Minutes (1/24-25/1871); building and repairs; curator oaths; President Read to State Auditor regarding rebuilding of President's House; President Read to Attorney General of Missouri regarding delinquent revenue appropriations; circular of State Normal School of Warrensburg, Missouri; sale of lands and Commissioner of Lands Sutherland; contracts and proposals for a scientific building; location of School of Mines in Rolla; curators' responses to meeting notices; applications for positions and letters of recommendation; meeting minutes (4/26/1871); salary of the president and faculty; recommendations of the faculty regarding degrees; students place carpet in the chapel.

FF 3A - 1871 - James S. Rollins to the Board of Curators regarding various matters; meeting minutes (6/27/1871); appraisal of College lands; news clippings: "Phelps County Taken In," "State University Commencement of 1871," "Meeting of the Alumni of the State University," "University to be Free"; applications for positions and letters of recommendation; acknowledgements of appointments to the faculty.

FF 3B - 1871 - Report of a committee regarding Agricultural College lands; death of Curator Allen; purchase of new bell and sale of old bell; charges of dishonesty against J.W. Sutherland, Commissioner of Lands; notice to President Read from Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane regarding maintenance and clothing for patient Edward Read; plan for a belfry in the Science Building; proposal for gas works; Curators' responses to meeting notices; Sutherland regarding land sales, leases and the Board's request for a list of lands; copy of the will of Anthony W. Rollins setting up Rollins Aid Fund; letter from W.G. [Pomeroy], attorney for Commissioner Sutherland; "Programme of Studies" showing class schedules and student names; J.H. Overall regarding extending the time of opening the Law Department.

FF 3C - 1871 - Appointment papers for "Beneficiary" or "County Students" from county courts; notes of admittance from President Read for faculty permits, curator appointments, Rollins Aid Fund students.

FF 4 - 1872 - Transmittal letters for land sales and leases; student petition regarding boarding at Hudson House; curators' responses to meeting notices; "An Act for the benefit of the Agriculture and Mechanic College of Missouri and the School of Mines and Metallurgy"; "An Act to amend and an Act entitled An act to locate and dispose of Congressional land grant..." with written notes by J.S. Rollins; contract of Robert Maddox, College Farm Foreman; correspondence regarding Geological Survey; printed "Reply to `Thos. Allen's Protest'" by Cairo and Fulton Railroad Company of Missouri; resolutions regarding geological and mineralogical specimens; faculty for the School of Mines; faculty appointments; lease of rooms in the Public School House in Rolla for classes of the School of Mines; "An act to amend... concerning the State University and seminary fund...'"; letter from E. Schwagerl and news clip regarding the plan of the grounds at St. Louis University; detailing of Major MacMurray to University; list of prizes offered in the Agriculture College to students; Swallow's letter regarding Reading Room Association and Library Association; Swallow's communication to Board regarding Agriculture College and Report of Committee; faculty recommends honorary degree for James B. Eads; Major MacMurray regarding his duties teaching surveying, type/cost of cadet uniforms and arms, landscape of campus/his plan and work done; admittance of women students from Stephens College and Christian Female College to courses; tuition fees for in-state and out-of-state students; meeting minutes (5/8-10/1872); portrait of Edward Bates; insurance on Science Building and other buildings; "Books not to be given out" and library rules.

FF 4A - 1872 - Transmittal of lands sales and leases; Sutherland correspondence regarding land sales, receipts, hire of agents; Report on Drawing by Abert; Report regarding Sociology by Alexander; presentation of Bates portrait; curator oaths; division of the Chair of Ancient Languages and Literature; resignations of Kurtz and Overall; meeting minutes (6/25-28/1872); resolution regarding sales of mineral rights in Phelps County; recommendations for degrees; reduction in the size of President Hudson's portrait to be uniform with President Lathrop's portrait; petition regarding permanent provisions for an Annual Alumni Reunion.

FF 4B - 1872 - meeting minutes (8/27-28/1872) at Rolla; issuance of arms under Act of Congress; notice to counties to appoint scholarship students; MacMurray regarding salary payment; transmittal letters for land sales and leases; acceptance of honorary degrees by J.B. Eads, W.A. Cauthorn and W.H. Lynch; letter from J.V.C. Karnes nominating P. Bliss for head of the Law School; S.S. Laws requesting dimensions of buildings and their measurements penciled in; Bliss' resignation as curator and letters regarding his replacement on the Board and subsequent appointment as law professor; Bliss regarding mailing circulars, set of law programs and teaching methods; resolution regarding employment of agent and mechanic for the University; Committee Report regarding resolutions concerning Report of President Read; Report of the Committee to Appoint Law School Faculty; National Bank shares; "An Appeal to the Liberal-Minded" - appeal for scholarship funds.

FF 4C - 1872 - Sutherland correspondence regarding land sales, leases, and expenses; appointment of G. Bossange as Paris agent to purchase books and models; curator responses to meeting notices; Sutherland's report of activities; resolution all students - except women, freshmen agriculture, law and medicine are required to wear uniforms; committee report regarding establishment of a Medical Department connected to the University, establishment of a Women's College; MacMurray regarding books and equipment bought for Civil and Military Engineering; resolution asking for an appropriations for the erection of Women's College Home; students petition to be excused from a required military course; organization of agriculture colleges; duties of dean; Department of Applied Chemistry's needs; resolution for professors to be allowed to enter children tuition free; Swallow appointed Dean of Agriculture Department; Rolla ex-treasurer to turn over funds to new treasurer; Report of Department of Military Science and Tactics; meeting minutes (12/10-12/1822); resolutions regarding sales of land and decision not to build at Rolla; Report of the Director of the School of Mines; printed list of students and schedule of recitations.

Series Two - Morrill Act Expansion: 1869-1875, (cont.)

FF 1A - 1872 - Applications for positions, letters of recommendation, acceptance of appointments; Catalog of Antioch College Yellow Springs, OH; news clipping; Louisiana State University Session 1871-1872 card, recommendations, circulars from West Newton English and Classical School and Rural High School in Clinton, N.Y.

FF 1B - 1872 - Notice to counties to appoint beneficiary students; census of each county by age population; appointment of students by county courts.

FF 2 - 1873 - Printed circular regarding Morrill bill and its effects; curator oaths; transmittal letters for lands sold and leased; Major MacMurray's resignation; S. Hayes regarding the Hudson Mansion; an act making provisions for permanent endowment of the Agriculture and Mechanical College; cadet arms; resolved faculty to make inventory of University property.

FF 2A - 1873 - Annual Report by President Read; departmental annual report; resolutions regarding Swallow's Report; letter to the editor from Swallow regarding reaction of a Mr. Jungenfeld to his report.

FF 2B - 1873 - Curator oaths; transmittal letters for lands sold and leased; petitions regarding court case State of Missouri vs. Curators of the University - regarding the status of the University as a public institution and not a private corporation - relates to issuance of bonds in Phelps County for the purpose of locating a School of Mines; Sutherland correspondence; application for positions, letters of recommendation, acceptance of appointments; Curators' responses to meeting notices; presentation of portrait of J.S. Rollins; salary changes for faculty at Rolla; resolution regarding the Normal School, bank stock, Hudson Mansion; resolved appointment of committees and of faculty; Treasurer of Rolla to attend annual Board meetings, books shall not be taken from the Library and library hours; recommendations for degrees; meeting minutes (6/24-27/1873); committee report on condition of Schweitzer; changes in streets of Columbia; acceptance of honorary degrees.

FF 2C - 1873 - Report of the Director of the School of Mines; insurance policies for the Normal School, President's House, and Academic Hall; curator oaths; curator responses to meeting notices; appointment of committee to select a new president; acceptance of Rollins portrait; resolution regarding State Entomologist; communication and a news clip regarding the Medical Societies' establishment of a Medical Department at the University; meeting minutes (12/9/1873).

FF 2D - 1873 - Appointment of county beneficiary students; census of persons in correct age span in counties; related materials.

FF 3 - 1874 - Report of President Read; J.S. Rollins' gift of a Henry Clay letter; Farm Committee Report regarding the Swallow Report; proposed use of Hudson Mansion as Women's College Home; free tuition for past graduates; request from General Assembly for information regarding location and expenses of the School of Mines; resignation of Hosmer; land sales and leases; Sutherland's response to charges against him; honorary degrees; recommendations for degrees; printed notices to counties to appointment beneficiary students; meeting minutes (3/31/1874) at Rolla; report regarding cost of furnishing the Hudson Mansion.

FF 3A - 1874 - Financial agent position applications; bids for construction of University Boarding House; petition from students boarding at McClellan boarding club for reduced rent; committee report to fix laboratory fees; S. Hayes regarding need for money for the Library and hiring of assistants; coal bids; responses to meeting notices and printed meeting notice regarding postponement due to no decision handed down on validity of Phelps County Bonds and injuries to President Rollins in train accident; committee report regarding the Report of Land Commissioner; application for positions, letters of recommendation; meeting minutes (6/23/1874); report regarding the examination of medical class; request of Levi L. King to use dining hall of Agriculture Boarding Club for "an entertainment to the colored people".

FF 3B - 1874 - Applications for positions, letters of recommendation; request for books and apparatus for Agriculture and Medicine departments; petition regarding the library system and dissatisfaction; curator oaths; petitions regarding-election of President Read; report committee regarding State Entomologist; appointment of committee to investigate relocation of School of Mines; meeting minutes (12/8-10/1874); gift by J.S. Rollins of "Washington Memorials"; resolved Switzler will write a history of the University; letter and news clip regarding State Grange of California; election of Read and acceptance; honorary degrees; pay for library assistants; Read regarding his past presidency and life.

FF 3C - 1874 - Departmental report and related materials [Mary Read regarding needs of women].

FF 3D - 1874 - Notice to counties regarding beneficiary students and appointments, census of persons in correct age range in counties; Acts regarding "repeal of act entitled `Act to provide for a bureau of geology and mines...'" and an "Act to amend `act to locate and dispose of the congressional land grant...'"; Report of the Director of the School of Mines; committee report regarding power of the Board to change location of the School of Mines.

FF 4 - 1875 - Lists of curators; use of Hudson Mansion as women's house; sale and lease of lands; Sutherland correspondence; past business affairs of University; committee appointed to find a successor to Read; inspection of Rolla property; Report of the Director of the School of Mines; sale of the Rolla Public School Building to the University for use by the School of Mines; meeting minutes (4/13/1875); committee appointed to go to Constitutional Convention; committee appointment to see if university expenses can be reduced; curator oaths; resolved to take an inventory of University property; J.L. Rollins gifts to the University; recommendations for degrees; establishment of Female Infirmary by Dr. Maupin; applications for positions, letters of recommendation; request for former curators to turn over papers and Report to the Board of Curators; petition of Boone County residents protesting the apportionment of the university fund for support of the School of Mines; Geological Survey books.

FF 4A - 1875 - Diploma requests; commencement program (6/24/1875); recommendations for degrees; curators' responses to meeting notices; applications for positions, letters of recommendation; report on possible reduction of university expenses; materials and correspondence from other states and schools regarding salaries paid to faculty and the Boards of Curators.

FF 4B - 1875 - Bliss regarding Law Library; University Literary Society regarding meeting hall; Mary Read resignation and faculty recommendations for honorary degree; Library request for money for periodicals; J.H. Waugh's claim for back salary as former treasurer; curator oaths; gift of Annie Chandler of Thomas Jefferson letter; gifts of J.S. Rollins; report of a committee to select a candidate for president; S.S. Laws accepts the presidency and related correspondence.

FF 4C - 1875 - Department and Boarding Club inventories; departmental reports; reports of committees; printed President Read's Annual Report to Curators.

FF 4D - 1875 - Appointments of county beneficiary students; correspondence regarding problems with census of correct age students.