Guide to the Papers of Francis Amasa Walker MC.0298

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1 Guide to the Papers of Francis Amasa Walker MC.02 This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit March, 20 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute Archives and Special Collections MIT Libraries Building N- Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts,

2 Table of Contents Summary Information... Biography... Scope and Contents of the Collection... Administrative Information... Related Materials... Controlled Access Headings... Bibliography... Collection Inventory... - Page 2 -

3 Summary Information Repository Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute Archives and Special Collections Creator Walker, Francis Amasa, 0- Title Francis Amasa Walker papers Date [inclusive] 2- Extent. cubic feet ( manuscript boxes, half manuscript box, 2 flat storage boxes, volumes, each in enclosure) Location Materials are stored off-site. Advance notice is required for use. Language English Abstract Francis Amasa Walker (0-) was the third president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, -. This collection consists of correspondence, speeches, and writings by Walker, most of which he wrote while president of MIT. His speeches and writings focus on labor and capital, especially the silver standard, technical education, the student workload at MIT, and accounts of the Civil War. Scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings about Walker, several published letters he wrote, and telegrams he received. Also includes a printed version of the Census of 0, interleaved with manuscript pages where the printed version is incomplete, and a printed volume of the Atlas of Massachusetts. Citation - Page -

4 Francis Amasa Walker Papers, MC 2, box X. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institute Archives and Special Collections, Cambridge, Massachusetts. - Page -

5 Biography Francis Amasa Walker, 0-, BA 0, Amherst College, was the third president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Walker became MIT president November 0, ; he died in office on January,. Francis Walker was an economist, lecturer, educator, and historian. Among the positions that he held were that of Superintendent of the Bureau of the Census. He was superintendent of the United States Ninth Census, 0-2, and the United States Tenth Census, -. From to Walker was also professor of political economy and history in the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. During the Civil War he served with the Union Army from to and was discharged with the rank of brevet brigadier general. From to he served as a Commissioner to the U.S. Geological Survery for a topicalgraphical survery of Massachusetts which resulted in the publication of the Atlas of Massachusetts. He served in many other civic roles including as a member of the Massachusetts State Board of Education and the state hospital board, and as commissioner to the World's Columbian Exposition. Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, and writings by Walker, most of which concern his presidency at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from to. His speeches and writings focus on economics topics of labor, capital, and especially the silver standard. Other topics are technical education, the student workload at MIT, and notes on his experiences during the Civil War and his thoughts on New England and the South after the war. Materials consist of original manuscripts and typescripts of Walker's writings and speeches. There are also many published memoirs about Walker and his endeavors written by others. Scrapbooks contain newspaper clippings about Walker, several published letters he wrote, and telegrams he received. The collection also includes a printed version of the Census of 0, interleaved with manuscript pages where the printed version is incomplete, and a published volume of the Atlas of Massachusetts. Administrative Information Publication Information - Page -

6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute Archives and Special Collections Revision Description 20 Access note The collection is open for research. Intellectual Property Rights Access to collections in the Institute Archives and Special Collections is not authorization to publish. Separate written application for permission to publish must be made to the Institute Archives. Related Materials Related Materials in the Institute Archives and Special Collections MIT Founders Collection (includes books of Francis A. Walker's personal collection gifted to the MIT Libraries). The books are housed in the Institute Archives & Special Collections. Titles can be searched in Barton, the MIT Libraries catalog. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Office of the President Records, -0 (AC ). Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Francis A. Walker Memorial Service Committee Records (AC ). Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Walker Memorial Gymnasium Committee Ledgers and Subscription List (AC ). Controlled Access Headings Corporate Name(s) United States. Census Office. - Page -

7 Personal Name(s) Walker, Francis Amasa, 0- Subject(s) Economics--Study and teaching. Education--United States. Geology --Massachusetts. Massachusetts Institute of Technology--History. Presidents. Bibliography Munroe, James P. A Life of Francis Amasa Walker. New York: Holt and Company, 2. Pages 20- are a "Bibliography of the writings and reported addresses of Francis A. Walker." MIT Institute Archives and Special Collections. "History of the Office of the MIT President." Atlas of Massachusetts / from topographical surveys made in co-operation by the United States Geological Survey and the Commissioners of the Commonwealth, -. item/000 - Page -

8 Collection Inventory Correspondence 2- Correspondence -2 Correspondence Correspondence Correspondence Correspondence Correspondence January-April Correspondence May-December Correspondence Correspondence Correspondence 0 Correspondence Correspondence 2 Correspondence Correspondence Correspondence Correspondence - Extracts from letters of alumni regarding their workload at MIT - Harvard Committee Box Page -

9 Log of Letters 2 May 0 to December 2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology correspondence and memoranda - Billings, John S., "Biographical Memoir of Francis Amasa Walker" 02 Bimetallic League, On the Death of Francis Amasa Walker Boston University Trustees, Statement on the Death of Francis Amasa Walker Haynes, Henry W., "Memorial of General Francis Amasa Walker," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society Lowell, Francis C., "Memoir of Francis A. Walker, LL.D." 00 Memoir of Hon. Amasa Walker, LL.D." Memorial Volume Memorials, general Tyler, H. W. "The Educational Work of Francis A. Walker," Educational Review Wright, Carroll D., "Francis Amasa Walker," Quarterly Publications of the American Statistical Association Yale Review, Memorial for Francis Amasa Walker Bibliography, on index cards "Bibliography of the Writings and Reported Addresses of Francis A. Walker," Quarterly Publications of the American Statistical Association "The Arithmetical Process of the National Growth" undated "Methods of Study" undated On His Experiences in the Civil War and in New England After the War undated "Savings Banks" undated The Nature and Uses of Money and Mixed Currency with a History of the Wickaboag Bank Page -

10 "Mr. Grote's Theory of Democracy," Bibliotheca Sacra "The National Debt" "American Industry in the Census," "What to Do with the Surplus," "Our Population in 00," "Mr. Bellamy and the New Nationalist Party," "The Eight-Hour Law Agitation" Atlantic Monthly -0 The Science of Wealth 2 "The Wage Fund Theory," North American Review "Interview of the Select Committees - to Make Provisions for Taking the 0th Census," Senate Miscellaneous Document 2 "The Monetary Conferences of and, and the Future of Silver." Princeton Review "The Monetary Conferences of and, and the Future of Silver," American Agriculture," American Manufactures," "The Principles of Taxation," "The Knights of Labor," Princeton Review - "Henry George's Social Fallacies," North American Review "Shall Silver Be Demonetized?" North American Review "Accounts of Richard Joseph," letter from the Secretary of the Interior, House Executive Document 2 "Arithmetic in Primary and Grammar Schools" "Arithmetic in the Schools: Reply to Supervisor Peterson in the Boston School Board" "A Plea for Industrial Education in the Public School" "Socialism," "What Shall We Tell the Working Classes?" Scribener's Magazine "The Place Manual Training Should Occupy in a System of Public Schools," Addresses and Proceedings of the National Educational Association - Page 0 -

11 "The Socialists," "America's Fourth Centenary," "Democracy and Wealth," "The United States Census," "The Great Count of 0," "The Census and the Colored Race," "Immigration and Degradation," The Forum - "Bases of Taxation," Political Science Quarterly Address before the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association "A Reply to Mr. McVane: on the Source of Business Profits," Quarterly Journal of Economics "The Eleventh Census of the United States," Quarterly Journal of Economics "Efforts of the Manual Laboring Classes to Better Their Condition," "Recent Progress of Political Economy in the United States," "The Tide of Economic Thought," addresses to the American Economic Association, 0 Eulogy for Philip Sheridan, in A Memorial of Philip Henry Sheridan from the City of Boston "The Laborer and His Employer" On the Effects of the Civil War on the South circa 0 Address to the Society of the Army of the Potomac 0 "The Changes of the Year," Technology Quarterly 0 "The Eight-Hour Law Agitation," Atlantic Monthly 0 "Mr. Bellamy and the Nationalist Party" 0 "Eulogy for Charles Devens," Boston Journal "Hancocks in the War of Rebellion" "Major General Charles Devens" "The Place of Scientific and Technical Schools in American Education," Technology Quarterly Report of the Trustees of the Massachusetts Hospital for Dipsomaniacs and Inebriates - Page -

12 "Report on Congressional Apportionment," Senate Report #2 Cree, T. S. "A Criticism of the Theory of Trades' Unions" "The Place of Scientific and Technical Schools in American Education," Technology Quarterly "Growth and Distribution of Population in the United States," Chautauguan 2 "Immigration," Yale Review 2 Address at the Dedication of the Engineering Building at Pennsylvania State College "College Athletics," Technology Quarterly "Scientific and Technical Schools," Pennsylvania School Journal "The Technical Schools and the University," Atlantic Monthly "Value of Money," address to the American Economic Association "College Athletics," Technology Quarterly "Bimetallism," address to the Boot and Shoe Club Address before the New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools Address on State House Reconstruction "International Bimetallism," address to the Liberal Club of Buffalo, N.Y. "The Relation of Manual Training to Certain Mental Defects," Journal of Proceedings of American Institute of Public Instruction "Restriction of Immigration," address to the Manufacturers' Club of Philadelphia "Bimetallism," address to the Springfield Board of Trade "The Growth of American Nationality," The Forum Address on Restriction of Immigration "Address by General Francis A. Walker," The Bimetallist - Page 2 -

13 "International Bimetallism: A Rejoinder," Yale Review "Technical Education" "Bimetallism in the United States," The Bimetallist "A criticism of the Right Honorable G. J. Shaw-Lefevre," The Bimetallist "Relation of Changes in the Volume of the Currency to Prosperity," Economic Studies "International Bimetallism," address to the Schoolmasters' Club of Massachusetts Teller, Henry M., "Revenue Not the Remedy," (Walker letter as an appendix) "The Monetary Situation," The Bimetallist "General Gibbon in the Second Corps" "Synopsis of Course of Lowell Lectures for " "Remarks of President Lowell at Washington," Quarterly Publications of the American Statistical Association "Discussion of Education Topics by President Francis A. Walker, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with some account of his life" "U.S. Centennial Commission, Report on Awards" Boston City Council Resolution in Thanks for Walker's Eulogy of General Philip H. Sheridan Weber, A. F., "Economists of Today," The New England Magazine Memorial Scrapbook Scrapbook I - Scrapbook II - Scrapbook III - Scrapbook IV Page -

14 Ninth U.S. Census 0, vol., Population and Social Statistics Ninth U.S. Census, vol. 2, Vital Statistics Ninth U.S. Census 0, vol., Statistics of the Wealth and Industry of the United States Atlas of Massachusetts from topographical surveys made in co-ooperation by the United States Geological Survey and the Commissioners of the Commonweatlh, -. U.S. Geologiocal Survey, J.W. Powell, Director; Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Francis A. Walker, Henry F. Whiting, N.S. Shaler, Commissioners. Boston: The Commission, Page -