The Woodson is home to a very large number of early Rice business office papers, some rescued from the basement of Allen Center and some from heaven only knows where. A while back I found this little note to the Board of Trustees sitting on a book truck waiting to be put back in its folder. I include it here as representative of the mountain of mundane documents that will surely crush me one day, or at least crush my will to go on:
I also include it because it has a couple really cool pictures attached:
A lot of our money came from investments like this one.
Bonus:
One thing leads to another… Do you have any idea where the DONNELLEY and BUNKER Surveys where? Bunker Hill comes to mind.
My sense is that it’s up north, maybe in the Spring area.
The DONNELLEY Field is in Odessa.