This series contains substantial correspondence regarding publications, lectures, addresses, invitations to speak, correspondence with certain institutions and individuals, and other professional and personal correspondence. The bulk of correspondence is from the period of McGiffert's presidency at Union Theological Seminary (1917-1926). Some of the publications included in that grouping of correspondence (Folders 1-7) are: "God of the Early Christians," Martin Luther, the Man and His Work, and The Rise of Modern Religious Ideas. Some of the publishers included in that grouping of correspondence (Folders 8-15) are: The American Journal of Theology, The Christian Work, The Macmillan Company, and Charles Scribner's Sons. The correspondence in Box 5, folder 12 is related to McGiffert's summer property in West Falmouth, Massachusetts, as well as a boat and car used there. The correspondence in Box 5, Folder 13 relates to financial matters both personal, such as payment of income tax and investments, and UTS-related, such as payment for a new chapel window and messages seeking to improve telephone service for the president. The correspondence in Box 6, Folder 1 is connected to the McGiffert family and includes writings from family members such as Rev. Dwight F. Mowery, one of McGiffert's sons-in-law, and James H. McGiffert, a cousin of McGiffert and an attorney at the National City Bank in Cleveland, Ohio.
This series is arranged by type of correspondence.
Box 1 Folder 1-7
Publications, 1915 -- 1926
Box 1 Folder 8-15
Publishers, 1915 -- 1926
Box 1 Folder 16-18
Lectures, 1916 -- 1925
Box 1 Folder 19
Addresses, 1916 -- 1923
Box 2 Folder 1-2
Invitations to speak -- Churches/Religious Groups, 1915 -- 1926
Box 2 Folder 3-4
Invitations to speak -- Educational Institutions, 1915 -- 1926
Box 2 Folder 5
Invitations to speak -- Organizations, 1915 -- 1926
Box 2 Folder 6
Invitations to committee membership, 1915 -- 1926
Box 2 Folder 7-11
Institutions, 1916 -- 1926
Box 3 Folder 1
Institutions, 1916 -- 1926
Box 3 Folder 2
List of Individuals, 1913 -- 1926
Box 3 Folder 3-19
Individuals A-L, 1913 -- 1926
Box 4 Folder 1-12
Individuals M-Z, unidentified, 1913 -- 1926
Box 4 Folder 13
List of correspondents, 1913 -- 1926
Box 4 Folder 14-17
Election to UTS presidency A-Y, 1917 -- 1918
Box 4 Folder 18-19
Inauguration A-W, 1918
Box 4 Folder 20
Honors, 1916 -- 1922
Box 5 Folder 1-8
Organizational memberships A-W, circa 1916 -- 1922
Box 5 Folder 9
List of correspondents, circa 1916 -- 1922
Box 5 Folder 10
Class reunions, 1915 -- 1926
Box 5 Folder 11
Travel, 1920 -- 1926
Box 5 Folder 12
West Falmouth, 1916 -- 1926
Box 5 Folder 13
Financial, 1916 -- 1926
Box 5 Folder 14
McGiffert Family, 1919 -- 1924
Box 5 Folder 15
Memorial and obituary materials, including photographs, circa 1919 -- 1924