This collection contains a selection of unpublished letters written by Jacob Hugh Jackson (1931-1956) during his tenure as dean of the Graduate School of Business. The school’s second dean, Jacob Hugh Jackson (1931–1956), held the longest tenure of any dean to date, seeing the school through the lean days of World War II and into the ’50s. In 1926, Dean Jackson joined Stanford’s new Graduate School of Business as a professor of accounting. In 1931 he became dean, a post which he held for 25 years. From 1937 to 1940, he also served as acting comptroller.

The collection consists of letters written by J. Hugh Jackson to his mother, Mrs. J. M. Jackson. The original envelopes are included. The letters are either typed or handwritten. The collection includes several items that are not letters; including hotel brochures, travel itineraries, and annotated day planner pages.