Papers, 1909–42, 65 ft., ca. 60,000 items. President of St. Olaf, 1918–42. Dr. Boe was a member of the executive committee of the Lutheran World Convention (established in 1923), in which capacity he was active in the cause of international Lutheran cooperation. (The organization is presently known as the Lutheran World Federation.) In Box 103 of his papers are 2 pertinent file folders. The first concerns the plight of the "Harbin refugees," some 200 German-Russian Lutherans who fled the Russian Civil War and were stranded for a time in Harbin, Manchuria. Correspondence, 1932–34, some in German, details efforts to resettle this group in Brazil in 1934. The second folder contains letters and reports on the "Russian Situation," i.e., freedom of worship in the USSR. There are letters, copies, in German, from Bishop Th. Meyer of Moscow to Dr. John A. Morehead of the LWC office in New York. Other letters are between different LWC officials concerned about the "Russian Situation" and the Lutheran Church in the Soviet Union. Materials are from 1931–35.
Some items are translations and/or copies. It is possible that other documents interspersed in the Boe papers relate to the USSR. Box list/inventory (NUCMC 73–862).
