James Hoge Ricks papers

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968

Summary

Extent:
4 Linear Feet 13 boxes
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

Addresses, correspondence, notes and newspaper clippings. Addresses: "The Juvenile Court and its Contribution to Child Welfare" (undated); "The Child and the Law" (undated); Barton Heights Women's Club (undated); untitled: Under Democratic administrations, Virginia … (undated); "Legal Aspects of Adoption" (undated); untitled: "The Juvenile Court Movement …" (undated); "The Jurisdiction of Juvenile Courts Over Delinquent Children for Acts Committed in Other Jurisdictions" (undated); "The Judge and the Probation Officer" (undated); "The Evolution of the Family Court" (undated); "Where are we in the probation work?" (June 1924); "Virginia and her Handicapped Children" (10 January 1929); [Campaign 1929]; "The Judge and the Probation Officer", Boston, MA (5 June 1930); "The Community Fund" (27 October 1930 and 31 October 1931); "The Juvenile Court and its Contribution to Child Welfare" (April 1931); "Unemployment Relief," Radio, Herald Tribune (2 November 1931); "Address Over WRVA" (2 October 1932); "Kings and Daughters Convention" (21 May 1936); Report of the Juvenile Court and Institutions Committee Safety Director's Citizens' Committee on Crime, Judge J. Hoge Ricks, Chairman, Jefferson Hotel, Richmond, VA (27-29 September 1936); "The Evolution of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court" (1938); Text of talk over WRVA on the "YMCA Boys' Radio Club Program" (16 August 1939); "Social Progress in Virginia", Roanoke, 1943; "What can be done to secure care for defective delinquents" by James Hoge Ricks and Clair Sager, Probation Officer, "The Juvenile and Domestic Court," Richmond, VA (undated).

Correspondence: to Miss Mary Crampton, State Teachers College, Fredericksburg (20 February 1931); to News Leader, Richmond, VA (27 June 1931); to John A. Cutchins, Director, Public Safety, Richmond, Virginia (22 September 1936); to Mrs. G. S. Gunter (7 June 1940); from Harvie DeJ. Coghill, Director-Psychiatrist, Children's Memorial Clinic (18 July 1936); loose notes and newspaper clippings

2 folders

"What can be done to secure adequate care for defective delinquents"; "The Juvenile Court and its Works"; "Child Welfare Program for Virginia"

correspondence, brochure, newspaper clipping

correspondence

American Crime Study Commission – correspondence

correspondence re military training in high school

correspondence with representatives of the League for the Abolition of Capital Punishment and other individuals; newspaper clippings and brochures

correspondence

correspondence

correspondence and Bulletin, Vol. VIII, No. 1, January 1929; Bulletin, Vol. X, No. 7, September 1931

Woman's Club, Richmond, VA – program

Richmond, VA – correspondence, Annual Report of 1939; Financial Report 1939; Report of the Director (31 December 1939); health survey [incomplete]

re status of courts] – correspondence with Lewis F. Powell, Chairman of the Richmond City Charter Commission

two letters

Public Welfare, Vol. 4, September 1927

correspondence

correspondence; "A Petition to President Roosevelt" re increase of military character of the Civilian Conservation Corps (undated); "Copy of Ruling on Military Training by United States Department of Justice, C. M. E. (20 June 1930)

Richmond Community Council correspondence, memoranda, Minutes of the Mental Hygiene Committee, the Health Division; newsletter; directory

Richmond Community Fund, Richmond War and Community Fund correspondence, memoranda, minutes. Minutes of the Committee on Protective Services and Agency-Court Coordination (26 February 1946)

memoranda, correspondence

correspondence with other states Juvenile Courts

correspondence, memoranda, reports re Citizens Committee on Crime. Also Reports of the Juvenile Court and Institutions Committee, Safety Director's Citizens Committee on Crime

correspondence

correspondence

Chief, Federal- State Relations Section – correspondence and telegrams re National Conference on Prevention and Control of Juvenile Delinquency

White Detention Home. Correspondence and minutes

Correspondence with Franklin D. Roosevelt, Senator Harry F. Byrd and Senator Carter Glass

Letter from Hoover to Judge Ricks (17 May 1940); Uniform Crime Reports for the United States and its possessions, Vol. X, No. 4, 1939

Richmond, VA – correspondence, reports

correspondence; "Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Services, No. 19 – A Little Journey to the Girl Scouts of Richmond," presented over Radio Station WMBG by Elwood Street, Director, Richmond Community Fund and Community Council (11 June 1940)

National Child Labor Committee correspondence, minutes of the Committee on Child Labor, Education and Training first meeting in Richmond (15 October 1931); Report of Committee on Commercialized Amusements; Governor's Conference on Child Labor (November 1931)

correspondence

Virginia Commission on Interracial Cooperation correspondence and brochure

invitation, program, lists of invitees, correspondence

correspondence

Correspondence, memoranda. Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts and Senate Bill 175, 1948 Session of the General Assembly A Report of the Virginia Advisory Legislative Council to the Governor and the General Assembly of Virginia (30 November 1949); "The Proposed Juvenile and Domestic Court Bill"; working papers, correspondence and memoranda.

printed Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court Rules of Court; Rules Governing Hours and Administration of the Juvenile & Domestic Relations Courts; memoranda to probation officers

correspondence, list. Commonwealth of Virginia List of Judges and Officers in Counties and Cities, compiled and issued by Comptroller, January 1, 1932. Richmond, Division of Purchase and Printing, 1932; Commonwealth of Virginia List of Judges and Officers in Counties and Cities, compiled and issued by Comptroller, January 1, 1937. Richmond, Division of Purchase and Printing, 1937

correspondence

notes, correspondence, memoranda, decrees, information for judges, notices, copies of some cases, newspaper clippings. "Information for Justices of the Peace and Police Officers concerning the New Juvenile and Domestic Relations laws (c. 1922); Minnesota 1921, Chapter 318s S.F. No. 197: An act to regulate certain occupations of children in streets and public places (1921); Laws Governing Commitments to State Jail Farms (undated); Digest of Oregon Laws – City of Portland Ordinances for Child Protection, Portland, Oregon, Compiled by Parents-Teachers Assn., 1923 (2 folders)

extensive correspondence, minutes of Study of Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court Committee (9 October 1941); minutes of Staff Meeting on Probation Department (1 December 1941)

National Council of Juvenile Court Judges – correspondence

correspondence

correspondence with Wilbert P. Katz , dean of the University of Chicago Law School; Roscoe Pound, dean of Harvard Law School; and F.D.G Ribble, dean of the University of Virginia Law School

correspondence

of Richmond. "The Juvenile and Domestic Court of Richmond"; "Community Plan in Children's Work, Richmond, Virginia, 1926"

constitution; minutes; correspondence; "House of Delegates Joint Resolution Authorizing the Governor of Virginia to transfer or exceed certain funds, if needed to meet the state's obligations in regard to city Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts" (circa 1947) (2 folders)

Attorney General's National Conference on Juvenile Delinquency: correspondence

letter from Sarah Mayo Oppenheimer to Judge Ricks about dues (8 November 1926)

Scout Executive, Boy Scouts of America – correspondence

correspondence

Secretary of the State Board of Charities and Corrections (1908-1922), First State Commissioner of Public Welfare – Dinner: program, notes, correspondence

correspondence

Mickens v. Commonwealth of Virginia correspondence

correspondence and documents re eligibility for mothers' aid in Virginia. Virginia Department of Public Welfare newsletter, November 5th, !936; "Procedure for Determining Eligibility and Referring Mothers for Mothers' Aid Grants (undated); "Suggested Outline for Narrative Record – Mothers' Aid Application" (undated)

correspondence

correspondence; United States Department of Labor Children's Bureau Monthly Bulletin on Social Statistics, Vol. 1, No. 5, November 1933; Nutt, Alice Scott: The future of the Juvenile Court as a Case-Work Study, The Child – Monthly News Summary , Vol. 4, No. 1, July 1939

correspondence

correspondence

Report and Recommendations (1943); "Post War Juvenile Problems. An Address by Honorable Carl B. Hyatt, Special Attorney, US Department of Justice before the Twelfth Annual Convention of Association of Trial Judges, Richmond, VA 15 November 1946"; "Excerpts from a Six Weeks Study of Juvenile Delinquency at The University of Richmond" (undated); "The Ohio Juvenile Court Code of 1937. A Sypnosis by Paul W. Alexander," Judge of Juvenile Court, Lucas County

correspondence

correspondence

correspondence, minutes

correspondence from the National Child Labor Committee re N.R.A.; "Statement of Those Opposed to Newspaper Code at N.R.A. Hearing (broadside); Statement on Paragraph 3 of Newspaper Publishers Code Submitted by Courtenay Dinwiddie representing the National Child Labor Committee

correspondence re information of boys with records on the court

two letters from Mrs. M. V. Vinga, chair of the Colored Recreation Association, Richmond, VA

Committee of the Richmond Council of Social Agencies – correspondence, reports, notes, newspaper clippings.

[re social legislation] – correspondence, memoranda, minutes; drafts and copies of bills, printed bills: House Bill No. 28 (16 March 1918); House Bill No. 250 (1 July 1936); House Bill No. 170 (2 February 1944); House Bill No. 149 (29 January 1946); House Bill No. 150 (29 January 1946); House Bill No. 151 (29 January 19460; House Bill No. 152 (29 January 1946); Senate Bill No. 126 (undated); Senate Bill No. 257 (24 March 1926); Senate Bill No. 281 (undated); Senate Bill No. 348 (undated); Senate Bill No. 307 (undated)

correspondence

– "Chapter 203 (S.H.B.19) Provisions for Maintenance of Child Born Out of Wedlock (Session Laws, State of Washington, 1919); US Department of Labor, Illegitimacy Laws of the United States passed during the years 1919 to 1922, inclusive. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1922; Idaho Session Laws, 1925, Chap. 198, P. 368, "An Act Making it a misdemeanor for one not being the husband of a woman to get her with child … (1925); "General Survey of 1923 Child Welfare Legislation", US Department of Labor (29 September 1923); Lanpher, Henry Coe: "Illegitimacy and Paternity Legislation" (undated); House Bill 167 (undated); broadside of Ernest Freund "A Uniform Illegitimacy Act", reprinted from Survey (15 October 1922); "A Bill to Provide for establishing the paternity of children born out of wedlock an to fix the duties, liabilities and obligations of the fathers of such children" (undated); some correspondence with Virginia Governor Jno. Garland Pollard (1933)

correspondence

correspondence; "A Declaration of the Principles of Parole" (broadside, undated)

correspondence with Albert B. Carter, Commissioner of the Board of Probation of Massachusetts and with Henry P. Chandler, Director, Administrative Office of the US Courts. Printed materials: Henry P. Chandler: "Probation Service a Specialized Educational Task", reprint from Federal Probation Quarterly, August-October 1940; Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Annual Report of the Board of Probation for the Year ending September 30, 1932, Public Document No. 85.

correspondence

letter and Statement from the Dover Baptist Association of Dumbarton, VA re Senate Bill No. 49; newspaper clippings

correspondence

correspondence with James E. Cannon, Horace H. Edwards, J. Elliott Drinard; memorandum re: "Authority of police officers to arrest persons for the commission of crime and violating city penal ordinances" (8 February 1945); newspaper clipping

correspondence

2 copies

lists, directories

correspondence; Preliminary Summary and Report of Joint Committee on Unemployment (30 June 1932)

memoranda, printed materials

some correspondence

correspondence

correspondence and Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court Statements of Accounts

correspondence; "Digest of State Labor Law Relating to Employment of Minors"

correspondence

correspondence

correspondence and memoranda

correspondence

correspondence

correspondence

correspondence

correspondence

correspondence

[in Richmond schools] – correspondence , 1932-1933

correspondence

correspondence

Richmond School of Social Work – correspondence

Acquisition information:
This collection was transferred to the Law Library from Alderman Library on September 9, 1985.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard