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

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Department of the Interior, <br> Bureau of Education, <br> Alaska Division, <br> Washington, D.C., January 23, 1901. <br><br> Rev. George Bailey, <br> #838 Ridge Avenue, <br> Allegheny, Pennsylvania. <br><br> My dear Mr. Bailey: <br> Yours of January 18th was awaiting my return to Washington. I feel as you do, that Mrs. Thaw's proposition to donate $10,000.00 is the commencement of her liberality towards the College. Whenever she commences a benevolence she is very apt to keep up her interest from year to year. I think there will be no trouble to meet her wishes in most of her suggestions, at least as one trustee I am willing to have the control of the College changed from the Presbytery to the Synod, as it will enlarge our constituency, and increase the number of those who will take a special interest in it. <br> I am also willing to have the first building called "Main" or "Executive" Building. With regard to building the first building, I think Mrs. Thaw looks at it now differently from what she did when you met her. She was not aware that we could not get a deed to the campus until we had erected a building and she does not seem to have comprehended the fact that the Board of Home Missions had agreed to turn over the Collegiate Institute without the payment of any money other than the pledge of the trustees to raise the running expenses of the <br><br>