Charles Augustus Russell papers

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and other printed matter from a number of philanthropic and public service organizations in which Charles Augustus Russell was active constitute these papers. The correspondence deals only with business matters of the various organizations; there are no family or personal letters. Materials other than correspondence, including memoranda written by or to Russell, are filed under the organization concerned.

From 1929 to 1949 Russell was president and treasurer of the Edward W. Hazen Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting the public welfare, especially with regard to young people, education, religion in higher education, and international cultural cooperation. Papers of the Foundation from this period include legal and financial papers, statements of purpose, reports and memoranda. While chairman of the board in 1951, Russell worked with Gerhard W. Ditz on an investigation of employer-employee relations in the coal-mining industry; papers from this project include memoranda, proposals, questionnaires, and Ditz's notes and travel documents. There is also an earlier report on coal mining by Russell (1949). During the same period Russell was a member of the National Social Welfare Assembly and chairman of its National Budget Committee. Memoranda, reports, newsletters, budgets, and other related materials of this organization for coordinating and helping fund national and local social welfare agencies make up about half of the collection. There are, in addition, a few items from several other organizations with which Russell was connected, a small amount of biographical material, and miscellaneous papers not visibly related to the various organizations.