Manuscript about financial needs of Harvard, 1956.

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Manuscript about financial needs of Harvard, 1956.

Consists of a manuscript by Nathan Marsh Pusey titled: Financial Needs of Harvard College. With pencilled comments by Thomas Stillwell Lamont. [1956] Included in an archival category entitled Chronological miscellany, which consists of materials relating to or created by the Corporation, organized by date.

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Harvard University Archives.

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