Contains Herbert Ives’s correspondence from his time as president of the ANS (1942-1946) and a few letters from after that period. While some of the letters deal with routine issues like committee appointments and council membership, many have to do with noteworthy topics, such as disagreements, particularly between Sydney Noe and Agnes Baldwin Brett, over the jurisdiction of editor vs. the publications committee (e.g., Brett, 1942; Noe, 1942; Bellinger, 1943, 1946); the donation of the Ernest Babelon portrait from Archer Huntington and Adra Newell’s role in the matter (Newell, 1942); building repairs (Huntington, 1943); the debate over the erection of a fence at Audubon Terrace and a discussion of vandalism and a younger generation getting out of hand (Pell, 1944; Damrosh, 1944; Huntington, 1944); the Edward Newell bequest, the publishing of it, and establishing a room to house it (Newell, 1944; West, 1944); a description of the ANS’s methods for documenting coins by photographing them, using the Newell coins as an example (Huntington, 1946); the donation by Huntington of shares of Hammond Lumber Company stock (Dewing, 1945; West, 1946; Mosser, 1947); and perceived difficulties with ANS fellow Luigi Criscuolo (Criscuolo, 1943; Shear, 1943; Bellinger, 1946).