Marriner S. Eccles personal correspondence, 1941-1942 [01]

Scan of Marriner S. Eccles personal correspondence from August of 1941 through March of 1942. Most letters touched on various private matters not connected with his work as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. Includes an 18-page transcript of a letter from the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to William G. FitzGibbon of Defense Savings staff at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, giving details on the history and principles of the Church as background to expressing objection to the "New Deal" policies of the federal government. Also a news article about the death of Ensign Howard Merrill of Ogden, Utah, at Pearl Harbor.