Records of the Trustees of the William F. Jenks Memorial Award

The collection contains correspondence, legal and financial documents, reports, and related material, documenting the work and history of the Trustees of the William F. Jenks Memorial Fund, 1885-1901. Most of this material was assembled, addressed to, or produced by James V. Ingham, secretary of the trustees.

The bulk of the trustees' records are preserved in one bound volume, roughly chronological in order, containing correspondence concerning the establishment and alteration of the Jenks Trust; letters and reports to the trustees from Horace Y. Evans, representing the William F. Jenks Memorial Prize Committee; bills, publishing agreeme11ts, correspondence, and sales statements concerning prizewinning essays; letters from obstetricians and gynecologists, thanking the trustees for sending copies of the published essays; a bank account book; minutes of one 1885 meeting of the trustees; a printed obituary of William F. Jenks; and the trustees' final report to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 1901, containing a history of the trust. There are also six folders of loose items, includjng the original deed creating the Jenks Trust; several letters from John Strahan, first recipient of the Jenks Prize; a check book and financial report; and sample essays by Henry Pierce Cuthbert and Alfred Hand, Jr., from the 1901 competition on Jithemia in children.