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Series II: Manuscripts and documents, 1881-1945, undated

Frederick L. Hoffman Papers, 1881-1989

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Series I: Correspondence, circa 1884-1946, undated

Much of Hoffman's correspondence is composed of letters to three consecutive presidents of the Prudential Insurance Company reporting on his professional activities, which date from 1892 through 1926. Other correspondents include Hoffman's colleagues in public health and industrial safety research, as well as several other prominent eugenicists. Three boxes of correspondence with his wife, Ella Hay Hoffman, and a folder of letters from his mother are also included in this series. Additional correspondence belonging to Ella Hay Hoffman and other family members is located in Series IV.

Subseries I.1: Cataloged correspondence


Box 1 Auslander, Joseph

Box 1 Bradford, Gamaliel

Box 1 Creel, George

Box 1 Duffield, Edward D.

Box 1 Du Pont, Irénée

Box 1 Fels, Samuel S.

Box 1 Green, William

Box 1 Kaempffert, Waldemar B.

Box 1 Low, Benjamin R. C.

Box 1 Oliver, Sir Thomas

Box 1 Rockefeller, Nelson A.

Gift of Ella H. Rigney, 1984.

Box 1 Taft, William Howard

Box 1 Tarbell, Ida Minerva

Subseries I.2: Arranged correspondence, circa 1884-1946, undated

Box 1 Allen, Henry B.


Box 28 Armstrong, Frances Morgan, 1894-1906, 2 folders

Box 28 Armstrong, Samuel Chapman and General William N. Armstrong, 1892-1894


Box 27 Carruthers, Henry, circa 1894-1946

Box 27 Debevoise, Thomas M., 1913-1914, 1920

Box 27 Dryden, John F., circa 1894-1946


Box 1 Erskine, L.


Box 27 Fells, Samuel, circa 1894-1946


Box 1 Hartwell, John A.


Box 31 Haekel, Ernst


Box 33 Frederick L. Hoffman letter, 1885 December 7


Box 1 Jones, Harold W.


Box 27 Lane, Sir Arthubut, circa 1894-1946


Box 1 [MacKenzie, J. R. P.?]

Box 1 Matas, Rudolph


Box 27 Matas, Rudolph, circa 1894-1946


Box 1 Meeker, George H.


Box 27 Oliver, Sir Thomas

Box 27 Speyer, James


Box 2 Bound volume of letters to the President, Mr. John F. Dryden, of the Prudential Life Insurance Company of America (Newark, New Jersey) from Frederick L. Hoffman, 1904-1910, 93 items

Topics include: Federal supervision of insurance, Government insurance, Hearings at Albany, N.Y., Insurance Legislation, Industrial Mortality for 1910

Box 2 Letters to President, Mr. John P. Dryden, of the Prudential from Frederick L. Hoffman, 1906, 60 items

General topics.

Box 2 Letters to Dr. Leslie D. Ward, Vice-President of the Prudential from Frederick L. Hoffman, 1907, 61 items

Topics include: Textile investigations; Western Trip - Mining Investigation.


Box 3 Letters to the President, Mr. John P. Dryden, of the Prudential from Frederick L. Hoffman, 1908-1909, 2 Volumes

Topics include: Annual Report, European Trip, Continued insurance investigation, 6th International Actuarial Congress. Includes a copy.

Box 3 Letters to the President, Mr. John P. Dryden, of the Prudential from Frederick L. Hoffman, 1910, 57 items

Topics include: Southern mortality study, Recommendations.

Box 3 Letters to the Vice-president, Mr. John A. Gore, of the Prudential from Frederick L. Hoffman, 1911-1912, 43 items

General topics.


Box 4 Letters to the President, Mr. Forest F. Dryden, of the Prudential from Frederick L. Hoffman, circa 1911-1912, 67 items

Topics include: European study of insurance, Industrial insurance,Socialist labor party, 7th International Actuarial Congress, Summary of results of investigation. Includes a copy.

Box 4 Letters to the President, Mr. Forest F. Dryden, of the Prudential fron Frederick L. Hoffman, circa 1911-1912, 101 items

Topics include: Annual report, Evolution in industrial policy, First American conference on social insurance, Committee to study the liquor problem.


Box 5 Letters to the Presidents of the Prudential, Mr. John P. Dryden and Mr. Forest F. Dryden from Frederick L. Hoffman, 1911-1912, 93 items

Topics include: European Insurance Study, National Insurance Act, English trade unions.


Box 4 Letters to the President, Mr. Forest F. Dryden, of the Prudential from Frederick L. Hoffman, 1913, 14 items

Topics include: Western Trip.


Box 5 Letters to the Vice-President, Mr. John K. Gore, of the Prudential from Frederick L. Hoffman, 1913-1916, 51 items

Topics include: Social Insurance, National Insurance Act.

Box 5 Letters to the President, Mr. Forest F. Dryden, of the Prudential from Frederick L. Hoffman, 1914, 64 items

Topics include: Federal supervision of insurance.

Box 5 Letters to the President, Mr. Forest F. Dryden, of the Prudential from Frederick L. Hoffman, 1915

Topics include: Second Western trip, mining investigations.


Box 6 Letters to the President, Mr. Forest F. Dryden, of the Prudential from Frederick L. Hoffman, 1915, 48 items

Topics include: Menace of Cancer, Publishes "Mortality of Cancer Throughout the World," Study begins for leprosy control.

Box 6 Letters to the President, Mr. Forest F. Dryden, of the Prudential from Frederick L. Hoffman, 1915, 38 items

Topics include: Trip to Hawaii - Investigation of health conditions, Conclusions and recommendations in regard to insurance.

Box 6 Incomplete duplicate of letters to Forest F. Dryden on second Western trip and mining investigations., 1915

Box 6 Tropical Mortality Investigation by Frederick L. Hoffman, 1916, 2 Volumes


Box 7 Letters to the President, Mr. Forest F. Dryden, of the Prudential from Frederick L. Hoffman, 1916

Box 7 Letters to the President, Mr. Forest F. Dryden, of the Prudential from Frederick L. Hoffman, 1917

Topics include: [illegible] insurance, Council of National Defense, Malaria Investigation, Canadian trip.

Box 7 Letters to the President, Mr. Forest F. Dryden, of the Prudential from Frederick L. Hoffman, 1918, 92 items

Topics include: Compulsory health insurance, nationalization of Life Insurance, Southern Trip, Third Western Trip.

Box 7 Letters to the President, Mr. Forest F. Dryden, of the Prudential from Frederick L. Hoffman, 1919, 3 Volumes

Topics include: European study of war insurance.


Box 8 Letters to the President, Mr. Forest F. Dryden, of the Prudential from Frederick L. Hoffman: European Trip, 1919, 3 Volumes

Topics include: European study of war insurance, failure of German compulsory health insurance. Volumes A-C.


Box 9 Letters to the President, Mr. Forest F. Dryden, of the Prudential from Frederick L. Hoffman: European Trip, 1919, 2 Volumes

Volume D. 2 copies.

Box 9 Letters to the President, Mr. Forest F. Dryden, of the Prudential from Frederick L. Hoffman, 1920, 121 items

Topics include: Effect of war insurance.

Box 9 Letters to the President, Mr. Forest F. Dryden, of the Prudential from Frederick L. Hoffman: South American Trip, 1920

Topics include: Mulford Expedition. Volume 1 of 4.


Box 10 Letters to the President, Mr. Forest F. Dryden, of the Prudential from Frederick L. Hoffman: South American Trip, 1920, 3 Volumes

Topics include: Mulford Expedition. Volumes 2-4 of 4.


Box 18 Letters to the President, Mr. Edward D. Duffield, of the Prudential from Frederick L. Hoffman, 1926

Topics include: Tropical disease study in Mexico.


Box 28 Incoming professional correspondence, 1891-1898, 2 folders

Box 28 Incoming general correspondence, 1900-1929


Box 24 Frederick L. Hoffman and Ella Hay Hoffman correspondence, 1888-1890

Some letters to the children are included.

There are a number missing or in part for certain years; they were apparently lost before shipping to the donor, Ella Hoffman Rigney.


Box 25 Frederick L. Hoffman and Ella Hay Hoffman correspondence, 1891-1894

Some letters to the children are included.

There are a number missing or in part for certain years; they were apparently lost before shipping to the donor, Ella Hoffman Rigney.


Box 26 Frederick L. Hoffman and Ella Hay Hoffman correspondence, 1895-1906

Some letters to the children are included.

There are a number missing or in part for certain years; they were apparently lost before shipping to the donor, Ella Hoffman Rigney.


Box 28 Letters to Sadie in Waltham, Massachusetts, 1889, 1895

Box 28 Frederick L. Hoffman correspondence, 1891-1945, 2 folders


Box 23 Letters from mother, etc., undated

With English translations.


Box 28 German language correspondence, circa 1890s


Box 27 Letters from the Unseen Friends in first early years in this country, circa 1884-1892, 10 folders