Series III. Frederick J. Manning Papers (Bulk 1915-1950s), 1912 - 1967

This series contain documents pertaining to Frederick Manning’s private and professional life. There are various memorabilia, letters, and documents spanning from his high school and college days to his teaching career at Swarthmore. The letters from his college days at Yale are mostly personal notes to friends, especially close companion Phelps Putnam, about their studies and leisure activities. Other personal memorabilia include records and pictures of music performances and concert programs at Yale, some old Yale exams with notes on them, and an unbound travel journal from his vacation in the Pyrenees in 1925 with his Yale friend Charles R. Walker. There are a few letters from his time as a Swarthmore professor, and some grade reports, but no syllabi or other teaching materials from his teaching career. Other documents of interest pertain to his brief military career in World War I. This collection contains Frederick Manning’s honorable discharge notice from the army, letters regarding the military garrison on the Yale campus, and other letters with his friends Charles R. Walker and H. Phelps Putnam on wartime matters. The other letters are mostly personal affairs addressed to Frederick Manning from a variety of friends, family members and politicians such as Bronson M. Cutting. Most of these letters do not touch on political or social topics. Some of these letters are incomplete, and do not contain the names of the people writing these letters. Another folder contains a copy of Frederick Manning’s will. Among the documents is a copy of the will and testament of Bronson M. Cutting, a Republican senator from the state of New Mexico who died in a plane crash in May 6th, 1935. The precise relationship between him and the Taft-Manning Family is unclear from this collection; there are a few letters from him to both Helen and Frederick Manning in this collection, though it does not shed much light on the subject.