The following annotations may not conform exactly to those in the folder's "Items", because these represent a bit of editing and reformatting. {1} H. S. Bender to Ernest E. Miller, in India, February 20, 1937: glad to hear Miller would be joining the Goshen faculty--President Yoder [S. C. Yoder--Sanford C. Yoder, Sanford Calvin Yoder] had officially invited Miller, Miller had accepted; “We will not use M. C. Lehman [Martin Clifford Lehman, “Cliff” Lehman] beyond the academic year 1937-1938”; hoped Miller could start in September 1938--if not, would have to go into the market and hire a non-Mennonite [apparently meaning for 1938-1939], but hoped not; Yoder giving Miller details; mention “Dr. Hertzler” [Silas Hertzler] as head of education department; mention Mary Royer, Paul Mininger as teachers, and about teaching Psychology; etc. {2}Ernest E. Miller to Bender (Dhamtari Christian Academy letterhead, he as Principal), April 19, 1937: happy for February 20 letter; it would help Miller select courses at New York University; had informed Yoder why he could not begin in Fall [1937?]; on how he might adjust his schedule; news from his school. {3}Ernest E. Miller to Bender (still from India), September 13, 1937: form letter with attachment, inviting comment on Miller’s plan for his advanced education. {4}Bender to Dr. John Dale Russell of University of Chicago Department of Education, December 10, 1938 [but the “8” pencilled out and “1937” added as correction]: due to his parents’ ill health, Ernest E. Miller wanted to be closer to Indiana than he would be in New York, so upon returning from India he wished to study at Chicago rather than at New York University as planned; on behalf of Miller, asking questions about Miller’s transferring from New York University to University of Chicago, including whether Miller could submit the dissertation he had written for the New York institution; etc. • • • REPLY, John Dale Russell to Bender, December 14, 1937: Miller would need residency at Chicago for three quarters etc. etc. {5}Ernest E. Miller to Bender, April , 1938: was at Masontown, Pennsylvania, with Metzler [probably A. J. Metzler, Abram J. Metzler] Miller had visited at the remnants of old church house where the first Mennonite Sunday School had occurred; citing a precedent of American Colleges obtaining marble blocks from Geneva Switzerland (as explained to Miller by Orie Gerig [O. B. Gerig, Orie B. Gerig), Miller proposed that Goshen might get some stones from that old church building to put into the foundation of the new Memorial Library at Goshen College; mention Mennonite Historical Library. {6}Miller to Bender, October 17, 1938, from New York City: from “Bro. Graber” [C. L. Graber, Christian L. Graber, Chris Graber] had learned Bender’s health was improving--good news; comments on enrollment at Goshen and, after talking with A. E. Kreider [Amos E. Kreider], at Bluffton College; on Mennonite Colleges needing to cooperate--mention “our friend Milo” [Milo Kauffman?]; about courses he would teach; and his study program [at New York University]. {7}Bender to Miller, October 25, 1938: response to various points of Miller’s of October 23; that “Hesston has always felt freer to cooperate with Bethel in the west [sic]--Paul Erb was even on the Bethel College Advisory Board--but “the intensity of feeling in our middle west [sic] church relations is much greater than in the far west [sic]; etc. [interMennonite relations]. • • • REPLY, Miller to Bender, November 7, 1938: appreciation for the October 25 letter; personal report on feelings upon entering the educational program in New York, etc. etc.; had recently spent a weekend “with my cousin, Gaius Baumgartner, at Princeton”, attended a service in the Seminary chapel there and thought of his friends who had had that atmosphere; that S. C. Yoder [Sanford C. Yoder, Sanford Calvin Yoder] might visit him in New York--Miller hoped to be able to have long conversation with Yoder. {8} Ernest E. Miller to Bender, December 22, 1938: responding to an extant letter from Bender, December 15, a personal letter about seeing each other over the holidays; personal and professional details.