Box LB1

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series of records represents the corporate parent of all the Merrill Companies. In the correspondence sub-subseries 1.1.1 Correspondence, folders labeled "General Correspondence" are incoming mail addressed to PDM or corporate management, while "Correspondence" refers to carbon copies of outgoing correspondence. Generally speaking, in the collection, files are in reverse chronological order (Dec. to Jan.) within folders. When PDM changed assistants, carbon copies of outgoing mail were...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series of records represents the corporate parent of all the Merrill Companies. In the correspondence sub-subseries 1.1.1 Correspondence, folders labeled "General Correspondence" are incoming mail addressed to PDM or corporate management, while "Correspondence" refers to carbon copies of outgoing correspondence. Generally speaking, in the collection, files are in reverse chronological order (Dec. to Jan.) within folders. When PDM changed assistants, carbon copies of outgoing mail were...

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Although the Merrill Transport Company is the oldest branch of the Merrill Companies, most of the records in this collection date from the 1960s or later. The documents from the divestiture and sale of MTC are in subseries 5.7.