The arrangement of this collection reflects an intellectual order of Peterson’s activities as President. The physical order and numbering of items is second to the intellectual ordering of this collection. Within each series, files are ordered alphabetically and chronologically.



This collection is arranged into 13 series and some sub and sub-sub series.

I Assorted Correspondence and Office Files: Includes correspondence in chronological and alphabetical order and has the three subseries, Correspondence Study, Alumni correspondence, and Secretary correspondence.

II. University Affairs: Includes materials related to the function of the university. The four sub-series in this series are Registration and registrar, Student Affairs, Commencement, and Circular Letters.

III. National Summer School: Launched in 1924, the NSS materials contains correspondence with educators, teachers and practitioners in the U.S.

IV. Agricultural Experiment Station: Founded with the University in 1888, the Experiment Station functioned as the research arm of the College. Included in this series is correspondence with directors, reports and council and committees.

V. Articles and Speeches: Includes speeches given and collected by E.G. Peterson.

VI. Outside Associations and Organizations

VII. University Councils, Committees, and boards: Includes the Board of Trustees.

VIII. Budget: Includes the correspondence and reports of Secretary/Treasurer John L. Coburn (1916-1922), and Russell E. Bernston (1922-1945.) Coburn and Bernston served dual positions as both Secretary to the Board of Trustees and as Treasurer.

IX. Extension Services: The Extension Service was founded in 1914, and served as a means of propagating College research for the benefit of Utah's population. Peterson served as the first Director of Extension, prior to his appointment as President. This series Includes correspondence with the directors of the Extension service.

X. Faculty and Departments: Contains correspondence with staff and departments, including the Athletics and the Military Science and Tactics departments.

XI. Government Agencies: Includes both federal and state agencies and personnel.

XII. Railroads

XIII. World I and II: Includes detailed information on the College's experience during World War I and World War II. While some of the chronological correspondence in Series I contains throughout the collection also addresses these experiences, this series is specific to the topic.

The original order, or the physical arrangement, of the collection is thought to be the original filing order of E.G.’s Secretary Vera Carlson. The original filing order is retained through the box and folder numbers of this collection.

Box numbers 72-73, 79-81, and 156 were skipped.