Box 1-8: Chiefly correspondence between the Bureau of Public Administration and local, state and federal organizations; private organizations; civic, statewide and regional committees and councils; legislators and other individuals with regard to matters of public administration and policy.

Box 9-10: The files express the Bureau's relationship with the Administration of the University of California, Berkeley.

Box 11-12: Personal papers of Samuel S. May, including correspondence and teaching material; his students' notebooks and research papers; and miscellaneous Bureau-directed research.

Founded by Samuel C. May, Professor of Political Science, in 1921 as an adjunct to the Political Science Dept., it became independent in the 1930s. In 1962 it became the Institute of Governmental Studies.

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Collection is open for research.