This letter from James MacAlister, the first president of the Drexel Institute of Arts, Science, and Industry, to Katharine Drexel, circa 1899-1900, asking for Mother Katharine to send funds to cover Nash’s tuition and expenses. The letter preserved…
After the death of Louise Bouvier Drexel Morrell in 1945, the bulk of the inheritance went to Saint Katharine to continue to fund schools and missions serving African American and Native American communities.