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Pine Mountain Settlement School
\nSeries 05: GOVERNANCE – Board of Trustees<\/h5>\n

\u00a0DARWIN D. MARTIN 1930 CORRESPONDENCE\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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TAGS:\u00a0<\/strong>Darwin D. Martin 1930 Correspondence ; PMSS Board of Trustees ; Katherine Pettit ; Angela Melville ; disarmament ; National Council for Prevention of War ; Bodie Anderson’s bill ; The White House ; Mary Rockwell Hook ; William Creech Memorial Fountain ; Hubert Hadley ; Bill Creech ; Columbus Creech ; mineral rights ; Celia C. (Cathcart) Holton ; Frank Lloyd Wright ; Margaret Motter ; Miss Hench ; Mrs. Emma Baker Kennedy ; reservoir ; deeds ;<\/p>\n

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\u00a0DARWIN D. MARTIN 1930 CORRESPONDENCE provides images, contents and transcriptions of 1930 letters to and from Darwin D. Martin, a member of the Board of Trustees at Pine Mountain Settlement School, 1920-1933, and a generous contributor to and consultant for the School. He was an executive of the Larkin Co. in Buffalo, New York.<\/span><\/p>\n

CONTENTS: Darwin D. Martin 1930 Correspondence<\/strong><\/h3>\n

1930-01-08
\nP1050695 – typewritten original
\n<\/strong>Mr. Darwin D. Martin<\/a> comments to Miss Pettit<\/a>\u00a0regarding USDA’s information about producing seed potatoes. He suggests a less complicated publication that Mr. Browning and the students should use.<\/p>\n

1930-02-24<\/strong>
\nP1050696 – typewritten carbon copy
\n<\/strong>Unsigned copy of letter to Mr. Martin [probably from Angela Melville<\/a>] asks for his agreement that PMSS should go on record concerning disarmament, as proposed by the National Council for Prevention of War. Asks if Mrs. Martin will be responsible for Bodie Anderson’s bill.<\/p>\n

1930-03-05<\/strong>
\nP1050697 – typewritten original
\n<\/strong>A letter to “Gentlemen” from Lawrence Richey, Secretary to the President, The White House in Washington, acknowledges receipt of the March 5th telegram and states that a London delegation is currently in difficult negotiations.<\/p>\n

1930-03-07<\/strong>
\nP1050698- typewritten original
\n<\/strong>Mr. Martin’s secretary, Vera C. Skinner, informs Angela Melville that Mr. Martin wired a night letter to the President, stating the School urges that disarmament is the foremost consideration of the US delegation to the Naval Conference. She encloses letter from\u00a0Mr. Donald E. Cole of Polk, Pa., for Melville\u00a0to answer;\u00a0Mrs. Martin sent check for Bodie Anderson.<\/p>\n

1930-04-02<\/strong>
\nP1050685
\n<\/strong>“KP” asks Mrs. Mary Rockwell Hook <\/a>for her suggested changes to the William Creech Memorial Fountain;<\/a> teachers’ suggestions; welcomes her upcoming visit.<\/p>\n

1930-04-09<\/strong>
\nP1050699 – typewritten carbon copy
\n<\/strong>Unsigned copy of letter [probably from Angela Melville] to Mr. Martin requests name bands for a list of 27 trees on the Pine Mt. grounds. Asks if they can be delivered before May Day so that the Botany Class can put them to use, with the hope that 20 trees can be marked each year.<\/p>\n

1930-04-21<\/strong>
\nP1050700 – typewritten carbon copy
\n<\/strong>The writer of this unsigned copy of letter [probably from Angela Melville] to Mr. Martin states that she and Miss Pettit discussed his suggestions concerning the announcement of Mr. Hubert Hadley<\/a>‘s appointment to the School and have accepted one of them. The writer thanks Mr. Martin for the tree markers and is passing his letter to Mr. Argetsinger to review the Latin names.<\/p>\n

1930-04-26, 2 pages<\/strong>
\nP1050701 – typewritten carbon copy
\n<\/strong>The writer of this unsigned copy of letter [probably from Angela Melville] to Mr. Martin returns Mr. Cooke’s letter to him and asks advice on whether to keep his name as a donor. She reports that the Deisel foundations are in and describes the next steps, the need for new batteries, and future uses for the old Delco engines.\u00a0Responses to the “Letter” are slow; Bill Creech, stone mason, will repair the reservoir; accompanied Columbus Creech<\/a> on survey of mountain about mineral rights the school is getting; asks for address for Miss Janet Danforth.<\/p>\n

1930-04-26<\/strong>
\nP1050703 – typewritten original
\n<\/strong>Mr. Martin sends copper tags for the trees to Miss Melville.<\/p>\n

1930-05-03<\/strong>
\nP1050704 – typewritten original
\n<\/strong>Mr. Martin sends to Miss Melville a mailing list of “well disposed northern people” and suggests\u00a0sending them the April letter.<\/span><\/p>\n

1930-05-04<\/strong>
\nP1050686
\n<\/strong>Celia C. (Cathcart) Holton<\/a> to Pettit: Martin suggests a monthly report from Hadley; Holton’s communication with Martin, Frank Lloyd Wright and Mary Rockwell Hook involving re-designing the fountain; Westminster Choir.<\/p>\n

1930-05-06\u00a0<\/strong>
\nP1050684
\n<\/strong>Martin to Pettit (cc: Holton, Wright): Holton feels that the fountain should be changed while Pettit is still at PMSS. F.L.Wright’s involvement would be too expensive. A stone mason could re-arrange stones so that the offensive features are no longer present.<\/p>\n

P1050687<\/strong> [duplicate of P1050684]<\/p>\n

1930-05-10<\/strong>
\nP1050688
\n<\/strong>Pettit to Martin, agreeing to leave the fountain changes to Miss Margaret Motter<\/a> and Mr. Hubert Hadley.<\/p>\n

1930-05-19<\/strong>
\nP1050689
\n<\/strong>Martin to Pettit about his visit with Frank Lloyd Wright. Asked for fountain dimensions and photos.<\/p>\n

1930-05-26<\/strong>
\nP1050690
\n<\/strong>Martin to Pettit, agreeing that Mr. Hadley can send him photos of the fountain.<\/p>\n

1930-09-15<\/strong>
\nP1050705 – typewritten original
\n<\/strong>In Mr. Martin’s letter to Mr. Hadley, PMSS Director, he encloses a clipping from Miss Hench<\/a> that details the will of Mrs. Emma Baker Kennedy<\/strong> in NYC, who willed $5,000 to PMSS. He provides the name of the law firm for the executor and other information. He wonders whether bequests could be reported in Pine Mt. Notes <\/em>and will bring it up at the next board meeting.<\/p>\n

1930-11-03<\/strong>
\nP1050706 – typewritten original
\n<\/strong>Mr. Martin suggests to Mr. Hadley that the state engineer’s office should be consulted if there is still trouble with the reservoir. However, he hopes Henry Creech<\/a>, Columbus<\/a>, and other locals can solve it. He asks for the number of children who have gone home in this school year.<\/p>\n

1930-10-15<\/strong>
\nP1050691 – typewritten carbon copy
\n<\/strong>Hubert Hadley, PMSS Director, writes Mr. Martin that he is not officially authorized to sign papers for the school and sending some of them to Martin to sign and forward to the De Forest Brothers.<\/p>\n

1930-12-22<\/strong>
\nP1050692 – typewritten\u00a0carbon copy
\n<\/strong>Mr. Hadley, PMSS Director, asks Mr. Martin the location of the deeds to the lands at Medical Center, Big Laurel<\/a> and Line Fork<\/a>. He also asks for information about the Stapletons’ <\/a>contributions to Line Fork. Refers to a Mountain Life & Work<\/em> article; asks for the average period of time that Pine Mt. holds its pupils.<\/p>\n

1930-12-31<\/strong>
\nP1050693 – typewritten original
\n<\/strong>Mr. Martin informs Mr. Hadley that PMSS office paid two-thirds of December salaries by checks without accompanying explanation. He asks for a copy of the explanation which he assumes will be sent when the remainder is paid. He thanks Mr. Hadley for the copy of the deed to the Line Fork Settlement; asks about the deed to the Medical Settlement. He cites a clause in the deed about which there is apprehension.<\/p>\n

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TRANSCRIPTIONS: 1930 Darwin D. Martin Correspondence<\/strong><\/h3>\n

TRANSCRIPTION: image # <\/strong>P1050694<\/strong> – Photo showing two folders with these titles:<\/p>\n

BOX 2 – Folder 15 Board Correspondence, Darwin Martin<\/a>, 1930
\nBOX 2 – Folder 16 Board Correspondence, Phillip Roettinger<\/a>, 1930<\/p>\n

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1930-01-08
\nTRANSCRIPTION: image # P1050695 – typewritten original<\/strong><\/p>\n

[letterhead] DARWIN D. MARTIN
\nMARINE TRUST BUILDING
\nBUFFALO, N.Y.<\/p>\n

Miss Katherine Pettit<\/a>
\nPine Mountain Settlement School
\nPine Mountain, Ky.<\/p>\n

January 8, 1930<\/p>\n

Dear Miss Pettit:
\nI have just read U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farmers’ Bulletin<\/em> #1332, free\u00a0[“free” is in handwritten parentheses], and am awed by the knowledge and care\u00a0needed to produce potatoes. I wonder if I did not send you years ago Grubb’s “The\u00a0Potato”? This eighteen-page pamphlet is more valuable and practical. I hope Mr.\u00a0Browning or his successor will get it and that the class in agriculture at Pine\u00a0Mountain will learn to raise seed potatoes according to its teaching. You will\u00a0undoubtedly read it yourself either at school or in Florida, where I am pleased to\u00a0hear you may spend a couple of months.<\/p>\n

I am told that Clearwater is the<\/span>\u00a0place to go — never have been there.\u00a0When Pine Mountain produces “reliably certified seed potatoes” it will have\u00a0“arrived”, equally with Kentucky Agricultural College — and why not?<\/p>\n

I will pay for ten bushels of “reliable certified seed potatoes” if the school will plant\u00a0them following literally the bulletin, from tuber-indexing, cutting, through planting,\u00a0observing, roguing, harvesting, sacking, storing, disinfecting and again planting,\u00a0when you should have enough for the school requirements and for seed the second\u00a0year?<\/p>\n

For the third year and thereafter you should be able to bless the community with\u00a0good seed.<\/p>\n

Very truly yours,
\n[signed] Darwin D. Martin<\/p>\n

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1930-02-24
\nTRANSCRIPTION: image # P1050696 – typewritten carbon copy<\/strong><\/p>\n

February 24, 1930.<\/p>\n

My dear Mr. Martin:
\nWill you be good enough to read the enclosed material from the National Council\u00a0for Prevention of War and if you agree with me that we would be proud to have Pine\u00a0Mountain go on record in this matter, will you send off to the President a telegram\u00a0about as follows:<\/p>\n

As a school training the next generation we respectfully urge that\u00a0Disarmament for the future peace of the world be the foremost consideration of our\u00a0delegation to the Nav[a]l Conference.<\/em><\/p>\n

Pine Mountain Settlement School.<\/em><\/p>\n

I consult you since I am not to be here after this year and I do not wish to do\u00a0anything that might [a]ffect the school adversely from the point of view of those who\u00a0will be responsible for its financing. Personally I should be proud and happy to have\u00a0Pine Mountain on record in this matter, and my teachers are of that mind.<\/p>\n

Did I understand you to say when you were here that Mrs. Martin wanted to be\u00a0responsible for Bodie Anderson’s bill? If I am wrong about this just let me know.\u00a0Bodie needs $30.05 [crossed out by hand and replaced with 18.05] to pay her
\nthrough the year.<\/p>\n

Yours sincerely,
\n[unsigned]<\/p>\n

Mr. D.D. Martin,
\nFt. Sumter Hotel,
\nCharleston, S.C.<\/p>\n

AM\/B<\/p>\n

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1930-03-05
\nTRANSCRIPTION: image # P1050697 – typewritten original<\/strong><\/p>\n

[letterhead] THE WHITE HOUSE
\nWASHINGTON<\/p>\n

March 5, 1930.<\/p>\n

Gentlemen:<\/p>\n

Your telegram of March fifth has been received.<\/p>\n

The President feels that our delegation in London is making every possible effort to\u00a0accomplish the objectives of the American people, and that they are in the midst of
\ndifficult negotiations in which they must be supported.<\/p>\n

Sincerely yours,<\/p>\n

[signed] Lawrence Richey
\nLAWRENCE RICHEY
\nSecretary to the President.<\/p>\n

Pine Mountain Settlement School,
\nPine Mountain, Kentucky.<\/p>\n

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1930-03-07
\nTRANSCRIPTION: image # P1050698- typewritten original<\/strong><\/p>\n

March 7, 1930<\/p>\n

Miss Angela Melville<\/a>
\nPine Mountain Settlement School, Inc.
\nPine Mountain, Ky.<\/p>\n

Dear Miss Melville:
\nIn Mr. Martin’s letter of March 5th he asks me to inform you that on March 4th he\u00a0wired a night letter to the President, on receipt at Norfolk of your letter of 2\/28. The\u00a0wire is as follows:<\/p>\n

On this first anniversary of your first term as President of our nation will you permit\u00a0us as a school training the next generation respectfully to urge that Disarmament for\u00a0the future peace of the world be the foremost consideration of our delegation to the\u00a0Naval Conference.<\/em><\/p>\n

Pine Mountain Settlement School<\/em>
\nPine Mountain, Kentucky<\/em><\/p>\n

I am enclosing a letter from Mr. Donald E. Cole of Polk, Pa. Mr. Martin would like\u00a0you to answer it as he has had no notice of acceptance by Mr. Hadley of contract.<\/p>\n

Herewith Mrs. Martin’s check, $13.05 for Bodie Anderson. [handwritten notation:\u00a0“entered”]<\/p>\n

Mr. Martin’s present address is:
\nHotel Chamberlin-Vanderbilt
\nFortress Monroe, Va.<\/p>\n

Very truly yours,
\n[signed] Vera C. Skinner
\nSecy. to D.D. Martin<\/p>\n

\n

\u00a01930-04-09
\nTRANSCRIPTION: image # P1050699 – typewritten carbon copy<\/strong><\/p>\n

April 9, 1930.<\/p>\n

My dear Mr. Martin:
\nAt last we have a list of twenty-seven trees on our grounds for which I am asking\u00a0you for name bands. I believe the proper method is to put the Latin name first in\u00a0large type and underneath in parenthes[e]s in smaller type the popular name. Do\u00a0you think you could possibly get them here by the end of this month at latest so that\u00a0the Botany class could tag the trees before May Day which comes on the 3rd day of\u00a0May this year? I thought that day the Botany Class could invite any one they wanted\u00a0to among the school group or the neighbors to go around with them and visit the\u00a0trees that were marked.<\/p>\n

My feeling is that if each year the Botany Class marks twenty trees and we get all\u00a0the species on the campus marked, it would be a wonderful piece of work and\u00a0most educative for those to come after.<\/p>\n

Thanking you so much for again doing something lovely for Pine Mountain, I am<\/p>\n

Sincerely yours,
\n[unsigned]<\/p>\n

Mr. D. D. Martin,
\nMarine Trust Bldg.,
\nBuffalo, N.Y.<\/p>\n

[?]\/B<\/p>\n

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TRANSCRIPTION: image #\u00a0P1050685<\/strong><\/p>\n

April 2, 1930.<\/p>\n

My dear Mrs. [Mary Rockwell] Hook<\/a>:
\nYou have not forgotten the fountain<\/strong>, have you, and the part you were going to play in\u00a0the reconstruction or the change that you and Mr. Martin suggested. Miss [Margaret] Motter<\/a>,\u00a0the principal of our school, and some of the other teachers have been so anxious to\u00a0have this change made, and every time they speak to me about it, I have to tell\u00a0them of you and your interest and that you were going to tell me just how to do it.\u00a0Miss Motter suggests that all the top be taken off down to the tablet and then with\u00a0much planting that it may be all right. Some of the things we have planted are\u00a0growing very nicely. Will you tell us just what you would like to have done about it\u00a0and then Miss Motter or Mr. [Hubert] Hadley<\/a> will have it done after I am gone.<\/p>\n

I am so glad you think of coming this spring. Open House<\/a> was looking lovely this\u00a0morning when I went up there to take the Hadleys who are to spend a fortnight\u00a0there. You know how Miss [Ruth B.] Gaines<\/a>\u2018 finishing touches adds to anything and they were\u00a0all there all over the place. Be sure and get here in time for the Pageant and May\u00a0<\/strong>Day.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yours sincerely,
\n[unsigned]<\/p>\n

Mrs. Ingram Hook,
\n5012 Summit St.,
\nKansas City, Mo.
\nKP\/B<\/p>\n

\n

1930-04-21
\nTRANSCRIPTION: image # P1050700 – typewritten carbon copy<\/strong><\/p>\n

April 21, 1930<\/p>\n

My dear Mr. Martin:
\nI have taken up with Miss Pettit<\/a> the suggested changes which you make in The\u00a0announcement of Mr. Hadley’s appointment to the school. We both think that your\u00a0suggestion in the second paragraph is good, but Miss Pettit does not wish any
\nchange made in the statement made about her own work here. I agree with her in\u00a0this decision. Thank you for being so reasonable about accepting our suggestions.<\/p>\n

I got your lovely long letter last night and someday I am going to answer it. Just now\u00a0we are terribly busy. I do, however, wi[s]h to thank you for the trouble you are taking\u00a0to send the markers for the trees. It will be quite a nice arbor day celebration to\u00a0have the science class mark these trees. I am passing your letter on to Mr.\u00a0Argetsinger for the benefit of his Latin! Do forgive me for not giving you more time. I\u00a0did ask for the names weeks before you got them, but it was difficult to dig them out\u00a0as everyone is really very busy. If we do not get them in time this year don’t worry\u00a0about it. They can always be put on. The next time you come you must make a tour\u00a0of inspection and see them.<\/p>\n

Always sincerely yours,
\n[unsigned]<\/p>\n

Mr. Darwin D. Martin
\nMarine Trust Building
\n[handwritten] Buffalo, N.Y.
\n[handwritten] AM:BC<\/p>\n

\n

1930-04-26<\/strong>
\nTRANSCRIPTION: image # <\/strong>P1050701 – typewritten carbon copy<\/strong><\/p>\n

[page 1 of 2]<\/strong><\/p>\n

April 26, 1930<\/p>\n

My dear Mr. Martin:
\nI return herein the letter which Mr. Cooke wrote you. I have looked him up and find\u00a0that he gave $50.00 in 1916 through Mr. Barcale. Do you think we ought to take him\u00a0off? I find that Mrs. Cooke is on the list and she gave $25.00 in 1928, so that\u00a0apparently she is interested and we could keep her on. I think it was very nice,\u00a0however, of Mr. Cooke to trouble to write you to explain why he has never given\u00a0since his first gift.<\/p>\n

You will be glad to know that the Diesel foundations are in and Mr. Whitaker says\u00a0they will last twenty thousand years. Of course, I am not really interested after the first\u00a0one thousand! Then as soon as they are hard enough, in about a fortnight, we shall\u00a0put the engine and generator on and have the engineer come over from Benham to\u00a0hook us up. Mr. Hadley thinks we need a new set of batteries, and I am today\u00a0writing to the Fairbanks, Morse people about this. Mr. Whitaker recommends\u00a0Edison batteries. Mr. Hadley felt the old batteries were so far gone they would not\u00a0last any time. They will be splendid for a physics class in the years to come and so\u00a0will the old Delco. The better of the Delco engines we will keep set up for\u00a0emergencies. I am not worried about getting the building done. I shall put a\u00a0temporary shelter over the engine and the building can go up in the summer. We\u00a0shall, however, put in the cement floor.<\/p>\n

After about ten days of almost summer weather and a most perfect Easter day it is\u00a0quite cold again (dogwood winter) with heavy frosts at night. We greatly fear all the\u00a0fruit is gone and the blossoms look very sad today. I shan’t say one word if it gets to\u00a0be ninety degrees today.<\/p>\n

Returns from the Letter are extraordinarily slow, but I am not despairing. I think we\u00a0shall average up pretty well in the long run.<\/p>\n

No, I haven’t forgotten the reservoir. Bill Creech is the only stone mason in view as\u00a0the Pole did not turn up. Apparently he was afraid of the mountain. Bill Creech has\u00a0promised me to come later and we will empty the reservoir and clean it out and fill\u00a0the small holes if it ever rains, but we dare not empty it now. We have had no rain\u00a0for three weeks and the dust is thick.<\/p>\n

TRANSCRIPTION: image # P1050702<\/strong>
\n[page 2 of 2]<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have had the best time this week — even if I realize my age in my back — going with Columbus Creech surveying the mountain about the mineral rights we are getting, and yesterday going to the Wilder farm to see what he is getting off that. It is all done now but the drawing up of the deed and the making of the map.<\/p>\n

Do you know anything about Miss Janet Danforth? The envelope enclosed shows that her letter came back to us. If you have another address we shall send her Letter on to her.<\/p>\n

Yours Sincerely yours,
\n[unsigned]<\/p>\n

Mr. Darwin D. Martin
\nMarine Trust Building
\nBuffalo, New York<\/p>\n

AM:RC<\/p>\n

\n

1930-04-26
\nTRANSCRIPTION: image # P1050703 – typewritten original<\/strong><\/p>\n

[letterhead] DARWIN D. MARTIN
\nMARINE TRUST BUILDING
\nBUFFALO, N.Y.<\/p>\n

April 26, 1930<\/p>\n

Miss Angela Melville
\nPine Mountain Settlement School, Inc.
\nPine Mountain, Ky.<\/p>\n

Dear Miss Melville:
\nIn this mail we send tags for the trees. They are of copper and so are weatherproof. They are not my choice, but the best I could do on so short notice. If the school doesn’t like them I will undertake to replace them when I find the ideal name plates.<\/p>\n

Very truly yours,
\n[signed] Darwin D. Martin<\/p>\n

\n

1930-05-03
\nTRANSCRIPTION: image # P1050704 – typewritten original<\/strong><\/p>\n

[letterhead] DARWIN D. MARTIN
\nMARINE TRUST BUILDING
\nBUFFALO, N.Y.<\/p>\n

May 3, 1930<\/p>\n

Miss Angela Melville
\nPine Mountain Settlement School
\nPine Mountain, Ky.<\/p>\n

Dear Miss Melville:
\nHere is a list of well disposed northern people, southern-colored-school-minded. Quite likely you have some of the names on your mailing list. I suggest sending to the new names your April letter.<\/p>\n

Very truly yours,
\n[signed] Darwin D. Martin<\/p>\n

\n

TRANSCRIPTION: image # P1050686<\/strong><\/p>\n

[letterhead] FARM LOANS<\/p>\n

MANAGER
\nTHE CATHCART-HOLTON FARMS<\/p>\n

C.A. HOLTON
\n125 EAST FIRST STREET
\nLONDON, OHIO<\/p>\n

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT\u00a0<\/strong>
\nMay 4, 1930.<\/p>\n

Miss Katherine Pettit,
\nPine Mountain,
\nKentucky.<\/p>\n

Dear Miss Pettit:
\nA letter from Mr. Martin says he thinks a monthly report from Mr. Hadley would be\u00a0highly proper for at least all Trustees. For the Advisory Board too if the Trustees\u00a0think so. Personally, I think it may just as well be limited to the Trustees. I asked him\u00a0whether he would be willing to have such a report sent out from his office, and, as\u00a0he does not reply to that question, I think it should be taken care of at the school\u00a0office.<\/p>\n

I told him I had written Mary Hook at least three times during the last two years\u00a0about the fountain<\/strong>. I think she wants something to be done about it, but does not\u00a0want the responsibility of doing it. I told Mr. Martin I was willing to assume the\u00a0authority, \u2013 was he?\u00a0\u2013 of directing you and Miss Melville to make whatever changes\u00a0in the fountain you saw fit. To that, he says, “Frank Lloyd Wright<\/strong> will pass through\u00a0Buffalo very soon, en route to or from Princeton University, where he will deliver a\u00a0course of lectures on Art, Archaeology and Architecture. This should qualify him to\u00a0design a fountain. I will ask him to do so and believe he will though his muse does\u00a0not respon[d] \u201coff the bat.'” Today I am writing him that I feel it is not necessary to go\u00a0to the bother and expense of asking Mr. Wright to design a fountain, as the one we\u00a0have can easily be changed sufficiently so as not to be objectionable, by removing\u00a0the stones which horribly resemble a countenance and substituting others which will\u00a0simply allow the passage of the water; that you are eager to have the work done\u00a0before you leave, as Mr. Hadley will be busy with many things and may not get\u00a0around to such a detail as this for months. I shall ask Mr. Martin to write you directly.\u00a0This business of relaying questions and answers through me is a cumbersome\u00a0method which requires much time. It is not always possible for me to write the\u00a0letters immediately, much as I should like to.<\/p>\n

How long do you plan to be at Pine Mountain, Miss Pettit? Mr. Hadley still plans to\u00a0come June first, does he? I hope you can stay long enough to help him get settled.<\/p>\n

We are all quite well. I have been very busy house cleaning and shall finish this\u00a0week. Last night I lifted my mind from the hum drum of too much domesticity by\u00a0going to Springfield to hear the Westminster Choir, an organization of forty-five men\u00a0and women who sing A Capella and without notes; their programs are always\u00a0sacred and very classical, going back to Palestrina, who was practically the father\u00a0of modern church music, living in the sixteenth century. Such music as that group\u00a0does make! It is like a human organ upon which the director plays at will.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t you like Miss Robert\u2019s \u201cThe Great Meadow\u201d?<\/p>\n

Hoping that things are going well for you, I am,<\/p>\n

Sincerely yours,
\n[signed] Celia C. [Cathcart] Holton<\/p>\n

\n

TRANSCRIPTION: image # P1050684<\/strong><\/p>\n

[letterhead] DARWIN D. MARTIN
\nMARINE TRUST BUILDING
\nBUFFALO, N.Y.<\/p>\n

May 6, 1930<\/p>\n

Miss Katherine Pettit<\/a>
\nPine Mountain Settlement School, Inc.
\nPine Mountain, Ky.<\/p>\n

Dear Miss Pettit:
\nIn a letter from Mrs. Holton\u00a0[Celia Cathcart Holton<\/a>]\u00a0dated May 4th, she impresses upon me the propriety of\u00a0changing the William Creech Memorial Fountain<\/strong> while you are still at Pine\u00a0Mountain. I had not thought of the matter in that light. I had told her I would ask Frank\u00a0Lloyd Wright to design the fountain but Mrs. Holton thinks the expense would be\u00a0considerable. It is not my idea, I think it would not be Mr. Wright\u2019s, to do anything
\nelaborate or too dressy. We would, however, have the benefit of Mr. Wright\u2019s artistry in lines.<\/p>\n

To be sure the present offensive features of the fountain can be eliminated by any\u00a0stone mason, removing some stones, and if necessary, putting in some others to\u00a0merely make the fountain commonplace. I would approve doing this which will\u00a0remove all cause for urgency, and when we get a design that the Board all approve,\u00a0the further work can be done at a more convenient season.<\/p>\n

Very truly yours,
\n[signed] Darwin D. Martin<\/p>\n

Copies to: Mrs. C.A. Holton
\nFrank Lloyd Wright<\/p>\n

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May 10, 1930<\/p>\n

My dear Mr. Martin:
\nThank you for your letter. I do not feel that it is necessary for me to do anything about the fountain<\/strong> before I go. I can just leave it to Miss Motter and Mr. Hadley. Miss Motter is very much interested in getting it fixed and all that is necessary is to move the top part, and cover it with vines.<\/p>\n

Faithfully yours,
\n[unsigned; Katherine Pettit]<\/p>\n

Mr. Darwin D. Martin
\nMarine Trust Building
\nBuffalo, New York
\nKP:RC<\/p>\n

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DARWIN D. MARTIN
\nMARINE TRUST BUILDING
\nBUFFALO, N.Y.<\/p>\n

May 19, 1930<\/p>\n

Miss Katherine Pettit
\nPine Mountain Settlement School, Inc.
\nPine Mountain, Ky.<\/p>\n

Dear Miss Pettit:
\nFrank Lloyd Wright<\/strong> spent Sunday with me. Will you send me the ground dimensions occupied by the William Creech Memorial Foundation<\/strong> as a guide to what can be done for a similar space? Will you send also fore and aft and right and left close-up photos of it as is and also a close-up photo of the exterior wall of the Chapel<\/a>, showing the texture of that stone with a view to perhaps substituting it in the fountain?<\/p>\n

I am sending Mr. Wright a copy of Miss Melville\u2019s good letter on May Day<\/strong> to inspire him with atmosphere. As she kept no copy of it, I enclose one.<\/p>\n

Very truly yours,
\n[signed] Darwin D. Martin<\/p>\n

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[letterhead] DARWIN D. MARTIN
\nMARINE TRUST BUILDING
\nBUFFALO, N.Y.<\/p>\n

May 26, 1930<\/p>\n

Miss Katherine Pettit
\nPine Mountain Settlement School, Inc.<\/p>\n

Dear Miss Pettit:
\nAnswering your post-card of May 23rd. Certainly Mr. Hadley will carry on at all points where you leave off, so it will be perfectly in order for you to refer to him my request for photos. Mr. Wright, you know, will not move fast.<\/p>\n

I hope before many weeks you will pay the school a visit and see how things are progressing. Miss Melville, of course, will not be available, nor will Mrs. Holton for the coming year.<\/p>\n

Very truly yours,
\n[signed] Darwin D. Martin<\/p>\n

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1930-09-15
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[letterhead] DARWIN D. MARTIN
\nMARINE TRUST BUILDING
\nBUFFALO, N.Y.<\/p>\n

September 15, 1930<\/p>\n

Mr. Hubert Hadley<\/a>, Director
\nPine Mountain Settlement School, Inc.
\nPine Mountain, Kentucky<\/p>\n

Dear Mr. Hadley:
\nMiss Hench<\/a> sends me an undated newspaper clipping from a New York newspaper (not named in the clipping) giving the details of the Will of Mrs. Emma Baker Kennedy of 400 Park Avenue, New York, who died July 23, 1930, in her 97th year. Among the many bequests in the will is $5,000 to Pine Mountain Settlement School.<\/p>\n

As a matter of record I state here that the counsel for the executors is the law firm of Rushmore, Bisbee and Stern, 20 Pine Street, New York City. The will was executed November 25, 1924, with three codicils. The executors are Stephen Baker and F. Leonard Kellogg. You will need to delete Mrs. Kennedy’s name from your mailing list.<\/p>\n

I wonder if it’s wise to report bequests in Pine Mountain Notes? It cuts both ways. It may inspire bequests and it may convey the impression that the school is being sufficiently provided for by others. I think I would refer the question at the next meeting of the Board; meanwhile holding such announcements to abeyance.<\/p>\n

Very truly yours,
\n[signed] D. D. Martin<\/p>\n

Copy to: Miss Hench.<\/p>\n

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1930-11-03
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[letterhead] DARWIN D. MARTIN
\nMARINE TRUST BUILDING
\nBUFFALO, N.Y.<\/p>\n

November 3, 1930<\/p>\n

Mr. Hubert Hadley, Director
\nPine Mountain Settlement School, Inc.
\nPine Mountain, Ky.<\/p>\n

Dear Mr. Hadley:
\nIf you haven’t yet located the trouble with the reservoir<\/a> I suggest that you ask the State Engineer’s office to promptly send you a man to reconnoiter. I hope, however, that you have called in Henry Creech and Columbus<\/a> and the mountain wits have solved the dilemma.<\/p>\n

I pray that it will not be necessary to temporarily disband the school. By the way, how many children have gone home in this school year? If several I would like the report by weeks.<\/p>\n

Very truly yours,
\n[signed] Darwin D. Martin<\/p>\n

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1930-10-15
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[letterhead] HUBERT HADLEY, DIRECTOR
\nPINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL, INC.
\nPINE MOUNTAIN, HARLAN COUNTY
\nKENTUCKY<\/p>\n

PRESIDENT OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES
\nDARWIN W. MARTIN
\nMARINE TRUST BLDG., BUFFALO, N.Y.<\/p>\n

TREASURER
\nC.N. MANNING<\/a>
\nSECURITY TRUST CO., LEXINGTON, KY<\/p>\n

Mr. D. D. Martin
\nMarine Trust Bldg
\nBuffalo, N.Y.<\/p>\n

10\/15\/30<\/p>\n

Dear Mr. Martin:
\nI believe it was never officially decided that I\u00a0was to sign papers for the school. I am sending you some papers which should be signed and forwarded to the De Forest Brothers.<\/p>\n

Please return to us their letter of Oct. 1st.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,
\n[unsigned]
\nHadley<\/p>\n

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1930-12-22
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[letterhead] DARWIN D. MARTIN
\nMARINE TRUST BUILDING
\nBUFFALO, N.Y.<\/p>\n

December 22, 1930<\/p>\n

Mr. H. H. Hadley, Director
\nPine Mountain Settlement School, Inc.
\nPine Mountain, Ky.<\/p>\n

Dear Mr. Hadley,
\nHas the school office on file the deeds to the lands at Medical Center, Big Laurel<\/a>\u00a0and to Line Fork<\/a>? I do not want them sent me but want to locate them definitely.\u00a0Miss Pettit<\/a> thinks they are in the office but that perhaps Miss Wells<\/a> will know best,\u00a0so I am sending her a copy of this letter.<\/p>\n

How much, from what date, are the Stapleton<\/a>s contributing to the support of Line\u00a0Fork to the school office?<\/p>\n

Have you read in October 1927 Mountain Life & Work<\/em>, “Pupils Who Drop Out” by\u00a0Dr. Warren H. Wilson? [handwritten notation: “No”]<\/p>\n

Can you give me the average period of time through which Pine Mt. holds its\u00a0pupils?<\/p>\n

Very truly yours,
\n[signed] D. D. Martin<\/p>\n

Copy to Miss Wells.<\/p>\n

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1930-12-31
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[letterhead] DARWIN D. MARTIN
\nMARINE TRUST BUILDING
\nBUFFALO, N.Y.<\/p>\n

December 31, 1930<\/p>\n

Mr. H.H. Hadley, Director
\nPine Mountain Settlement school, Inc.
\nPine Mountain, Ky.<\/p>\n

Dear Mr. Hadley:
\nWord has come to me that of the December salaries, two-thirds were paid by your\u00a0office by checks without accompanying explanation. Will you kindly send me a copy\u00a0of the explanation which you no doubt intend to make stating when the remainder
\nwill be paid?<\/p>\n

Thank you for copy received today from your office of deed to the Line Fork\u00a0Settlement. Believe it or not, your envelope is postmarked December 30th, 6 a.m.\u00a0and was received in my office December 31st, 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

I assume that you have not the deed to the Medical Settlement<\/a>.\u00a0[Big Laurel ? or Line Fork ?] [Handwritten arrow\u00a0indicates this sentence should be moved to the end of the letter, before the last\u00a0sentence.]<\/p>\n

I observe in the deed the clause of which we were apprehensive, viz.<\/p>\n

The above tract of land is donated to the second party for school and\u00a0settlement purposes and whenever it shall cease to be used for such purposes it\u00a0shall at once revert to the first party.<\/em><\/p>\n

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same unto the party of the second part its\u00a0successors and assigns for school and settlement purposes, forever with\u00a0covenants of Special Warranty of <\/em>title.<\/em><\/p>\n

Very truly yours,
\n[signed] Darwin D. Martin<\/p>\n

Copy to: Mr. C.N. Manning<\/p>\n

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GALLERY: Darwin D. Martin 1930 Correspondence<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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