Sheldon Jackson Correspondence 1895-1951/Box 1/Fd. 5

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-3- <br> McCormick. A gentleman with whom Mrs. McCormick consults in making her gifts, informed me that when she commenced with $2,000 to help the College that it was her habit and expectation to keep it up year after year as long as the case would warrant it. You remember that because of reports that reached her of the College students and the Institutes students being in the same classes that the second year she reduced her gifts to $1,000, and then expressed regret that she had promised even the $1,000, which I believe she has not paid even** yet. Now two years and a half have passed nearly and there are $5,000 lost* that we would have had if the Institute and College had been under the same management. The same influences have probably affected other large givers who have simply declined to give anything without stating their reasons. You in Salt Lake have no idea of the connection in the minds of givers here in the East between the College and Institute as separate or connected institutions. With the Institute a part of the College we can get a greater amount of funds, more than sufficient to pay the $4,000 expense that the Institute will entail. <br> I hope the Trustees will have sufficient confidence in the judgment of the three of us in Washington who have the raising of the funds at this end of the line to trust and ratify our judgment in the reception of the transfer. If they fail to stand by us they simply cripple our efforts to get money. <br> Mr. Martin was taken around and shown the property belong- <br><br><br> * handwritten inserts in original typewritten document. <br> ** words crossed out <br><br>