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Management
The subseries of documents relating to the management of the buildings focuses on the Lawyers' Club and law school reorganization. The Lawyers' Club papers include general correspondence about its management, organization, and genesis, as well as the correspondence of Professor Grismore, first secretary of the Lawyers' Club, documenting it as an organization within the law school. The subseries also includes the correspondence of John T. Creighton, William W. Cook's attorney, member of the Lawyers' Club Board of Governors. He frequently served as a liaison for Cook in the management of the gift to the law school and the Lawyers' Club. There is also correspondence and reports that relate to a proposed reorganization of the law school as a result of Mr. Cook's gift to the school.
William W. Cook
The William W. Cook series of documents contains some personal papers of William W. Cook and papers which relate to his gift to the law school, outside of the construction of the law quadrangle. This subseries includes correspondence and copies of his publications, personal correspondence, the litigation surrounding his estate and his bequest to the university, and financial arrangements concerning additional gifts to the university.