Otto Tremont Bannard papers

This collection consists of papers pertaining to Otto Tremont Bannard, in particular to his world travels and his activities as member of the Yale University Corporation. Included are correspondence, certificates, photographs, and newspaper clippings.

Bannard's outgoing correspondence consists of typed copies of letters written to Thomas W. Farnam and other friends while Bannard was traveling in South America, the Far East, India, and Europe, between 1921 and 1926. His letters discuss local economic conditions and politics and customs, and his own social activities while traveling. There are also a number of letters written from the United States; these contain comments on Yale Corporation business as well as other matters. Bannard's incoming correspondence consists largely of letters of thanks and congratulations from a variety of friends and associates, but also included are letters from the Yale Corporation thanking Bannard for his work as national chairman of the endowment campaign, and letters of appointment as school commissioner in New York City. A few of the letters also deal with a portrait of Robert Johnstone Cook for Yale University. Photographs of Cook and the portrait are included in this collection.

Other materials in the collection include a genealogy of the Bannard family compiled by Bannard, newspaper clippings about him, and two resolutions on the occasion of his death. A copy of the prayer offered at Bannard's funeral by Henry Sloane Coffin is included with the letters to Thomas W. Farnam, which are contained in a bound volume.

The volume of letters to Thomas W. Farnam were donated to Yale University by Carl A. Lohmann in 1948; the other papers were donated in 1942 by A. C. Downing.