John Garland Pollard Papers

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College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
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John Garland Pollard Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
30.00 Linear Feet
Creator:
Pollard, John Garland, 1871-1937
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

John Garland Pollard Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Letters, clippings, manuscript volumes, business papers, pamphlets, genealogical material, family papers, reports, memos, campaign literature, photographs of John G. Pollard (1871-1937), lawyer, educator, statesman, humanitarian, and governor of Virginia, 1930-1934. Prominent correspondents include Henry Watkins Anderson, Lady Astor, Frederic W. Boatwright, David K. E. Bruce, John Stewart Bryan, William Jennings Bryan, Harry F. Byrd, James Cannon, J. A. C. Chandler, Calvin Coolidge, Westmoreland Davis, Jessie Ball Dupont, Carter Glass, John D. Rockefeller, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Claude A. Swanson, Lyon G. Tyler, Alexander W. Weddell, and Woodrow Wilson.

Series 3 contains the correspondence and papers of John Garland Pollard related to his career at the College of William and Mary. Box 4, Folder 98 contains plot plans for Pollard Park and Chandler Court in Williamsburg, Va.

Correspondence, notes, clippings. Includes letters of H.E. Bacon concerning death of Thomas Pollard, Alexander S. Brown, William MacFarlane Jones, Hugh Pollard (of London, England) John Pollard, John Garland Pollard, Violet McDougall Pollard; typescript of Pollard and Robinson family Bible record; newspaper obituary of Dr. George Franklin Bagby; and biographical sketch of John Pollard (1839-1911)

Notes: and photocopy of Pollard and Robinson family Bible record

Includes correspondence of John Garland Pollard concerning the Pollard family; letter, 1891,of Grace Hawthorne (Phillips) Pollard; will (copy) of John Pollard (1803-1877); and chart, 1870, of Pollard Family.

Includes correspondence of John Garland Pollard concerning the Pollard family.

Includes correspondence of John Garland Pollard concerning the Pollard family.

Includes correspondence of John Garland Pollard concerning the Pollard family.

Includes Bagby family tree.

Johnson, Elizabeth Pollard Cox and Dodge, Jessie Gresham Pollard, compilers. Pamphlet. (Acc. no. 76-53)

Photostat of Petition from the citizens of St. Stephens Parish of New Kent County to Lt. Gov. Henry Chicheley, 1683?. Robert Pollard's signature among the petitioners. Original in the Virginia State Library. Oversize.

Manuscript book of oaths, 1785

1 letter

Cyphering book which includes law notes

License to practice law (signed by John B. Clopton, John A. Meredith and John Taylor Lomax); photograph; phrenology chart; obituary of wife Juliet (Jeffries) Pollard; and will (copy) of Thomas Jefferies.

Columbian College Diplomas. Oversize. T.P. commencement address, 1850, Columbian College

to son, John Pollard, Jr., 1860. 1 leter

Autobiography. (See also manuscript volumes)

Kept while serving as minister of Les St. Baptist Churh, Baltimore, Md., and on trips to Virginia, the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pa, New York, New London, Ct., and Washington, D.C. Mentions funeral of Reverdy Johnson, his lecture to South Baltimore Mechanics Library Association; shaking hands with Ulysses S. Grant; death of Richard Fuller; and hearing the astronomer simon Newcomb speak.

Photograph of Richmond College faculty, 1888, including JP, Jr. (missing)

Sermons 1857-1868 and n.d. (no date); and newspaper clippings from The Religious Herald 10 November 1870, concerning death of Richard Hugh Bagby

Printed and manuscript sermons, 1876, 1887, 1901, and n.d. (no date), including sermon on history of Lee Street Baptist Church, Baltimore, Md

Essays and Addresses Presented at the first metting of the Congress of Virginian Baptists, 1883; The Blood of Jesus (unauthorized tract); manuscript record book of [Baptists?] probably in Richmond, Va., 1880's

Essays and Addresses Presented at the Second Congress of Virginia Baptists, 1886; Southern Baptists Convention, 1888; Religious Herald, 1899; The Civil Sabbath, 15 Nov 1900

Temperance, petitions (from Va. branches of W.C.T.U. including Staunton Branch [bearing signature of Flora (Cooke) Stuart]), Letters and notes 1882-1885

including record of salary recieved as professor at Richmond College.

Receipted bills, 1897

Receipted bills, 1898

Receipted bills, 1899

Receipted bills, 1900

Letters, 1856-1857, including letters written from Columbian College.

Letters, including letters written from Columbian College

Letters, 1859 written while attending Columbian College

Letters, 1860, written while teaching at Columbian College

Letters, 1861, written while teaching at Columbian College and concerning the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln

Correspondence, 1870-1873, including letter from John Pollard, Jr. to his children

Family correspondence, 1874-1907. Includes letters written by John Pollard, Jr. on trips to Rawley Springs, Rockingham Co., Va., Southern Baptist Convention at charleston, S.C., Philadelphia Centennial [ typewritten letter from Centennial], Groton, Conn., Buffalo Springs, [?] ; Portland, Me., Round Lake, N.Y. and London, Eng. Also includes letter of John Pollard (1803-1877) concerning his second marriage; and letters of John Garland Pollard. Also includes obituary of Susie Virginia Pollard.

James Pollard, Ord[inance] Dept. Rodes' Division, to John Pollard, Jr. concerning conduct of Confederate soilders during Gettysburg Campaign

Including calls to be pastor in Northampton Co., Va., and Farmville, Va., and a letter concerning John Garland Pollard at Columbian College. Also includes certificate as member of Masons; letter of thanks to Virginia (Bagby) Pollard and resolutions adopted to John Pollard upon their leaving Lee St. Baptist Church, Baltimore, Md.

Letters to John and Virginia Bagby Pollard, Letters 1861-1876

While serving in Confederate States Army at Gloucester Point and Yorktown, Va; and near Adams Run, S.C., and in the trenches near Petersb[ur]g, [Va.].

Letters 1861-1876 ( including letter of Edward Bagby)

Including letter of T.P. Bagby written while attending Richmond College.

Letters to and from, Includes letters from Alfred [Bagby ?], Mattie Evans, Mary E. Gresham, Mattie Hill, Virginia F. Lawrence, Sue Ryland and B. Woodward.

Copy of New Testament

Speech entitled "The Spoils System" delivered in response to an article by H.R. Pollard. no date., speaker unidentified.

Pollard and Bagby family fragments including on unidentified photograph

John Garland Pollard. Biographical material

Biography of John Garland Pollard by his sister, Maud Turman

1904 (names of lawsuits and lists of things to do). 1906( names of lawsuits), 1908 (names of lawsuits and lists of things to do), 1911 (appointments), 1916 (appointments for speeches), 1917 ( vote totals, appointments for speeches and campaign strategy), and 1929 (3 books; appointements for speeches, addresses of people and things to do for campaign). Files, John Garland Pollard's diary of World War I work in France, see Professional Files, Y.M.C.A.

Photographs

Photographs

Photographs

no date. (some taken during his gubernatorial term)

Copy of will, lists of bequests

Correspondence, mostly with John Garland Pollard (some letters concern teaching of evolution in schools) and letters of sympathy to John Garland Pollard on death of his brother, EBP, 1927. Also includes correspondence of Robert N. Pollard with John Garland Pollard.

Correspondence, with John Garland Pollard concerning John Garland Pollard's efforts to have him appointed federal Judge. Includes correspondence with Harry F. Byrd, Cary T. Grayson and Carter Glass.

Written ( or copied) by M.E. Pollard; newspaper clipping, 1917, concerning death of Mrs. Robert N. Pollard and poem, " My Mother"

Maud P. Sherman (sister of John Garland Pollard) correspondence, 1925-1936

Folders 56-

Mr. and Mrs. G. Harvey (sister of John Garland Pollard and brother- in- law). Correspondence, 1925-1937

Correspondence, 1921-1936. concerning student loan Funds established by Bagby at University of Richmond and William and Mary

Correspondence, 1923-1936, of A. Paul Bagby, Alfred Bagby, Jr. (and wife), Charles T. Bagby, George P. Bagby, Harry A. Bagby, Leslie H. Bagby, Luther R. Bagby, Mabel Strother Bagby, Olive Bagby, Sue E. Bagby, William F. Bagby, and William Hugh Bagby with John Garland Pollard.

Correspondence, 1928-1933

Correspondence, 1920-1937, concerning finances, William Jenings Byan's opinions concerning illness of Woodrow Wilson, Depression and drunken driving. Also includes correspondence of C. Browne Garnett, Jr., [?] Gignilliat, Hattie Belle Gresham and Lalla Smoot.

Correspondence with John Garland Pollard, 1934-1935, concerning death of John Garland Pollard's sister, Mrs. J. W. Willis and health of John Garland Pollard.

Correspondence with John Garland Pollard, 1936-1937, concerning health of John Garland Pollard

Correspondence. Chiefly letters from Pollard children and Billie Harris in China

Interdenominational missionary records

Correspondence. Mostly correspondence with John Garland Pollard and Pollard children. For correspondence with John Garland Pollard, 1930-1934, see Governorship Files

List of Files, callers at Executive mansion, Christmas cards and gifts sent and received. 1933-1942

Chiefly correspondence with John Garland Pollard, 1934-1937 and undated Includes letter of Joseph P. Kennedy

Chiefly cprrespondence with John Garland Pollard 1934-1937

Papers relating to attendance at National Cathedral School, 1922-1925

Receipts and Bills chiefly relating to wedding

Florida Vacation, 1936-1937 mostly notes and correspondence

"Get Well" letters, chiefly addressed to Mrs. John Garland Pollard

List of cards etc.

Mrs. John Garland Pollard's drafts of answers to sympathy letters, lists of those who sent flowers, condolences, letter, etc

Sympathy Letters and telegrams. A-E

Sympathy Letters and telegrams F-L

Sympathy Letters and telegrams M-R

Sympathy letters and telegrams, S-Z and Resolutions

Sympathy cards

Stock certificates, deeds, letter relating to cases, etc

1915-1918 Includes a notebook of carbon copy notes and letters prior to John Garland Pollard's departure for France, 1918, and during his stay

Expenses April to August 31, no year (year during residence in Williamsburg)

Business correspondence with Walter C. and W.B. Hopkins, 1921-1933

Banking Matters and correspondence

Mostly printed material-- home plans etc

Plats and Plans,(see also oversize) Ginter Park, Richmond; Chandler Court, Williamsburg home plans, Pollard Park, Belle Haven

Deeds. American Terminal Warehouse--Armour and Company and Gordon-Garnett.

Deeds. Includes Williamsburg deeds

Includes Williamsburg deeds

Deeds, including William and Mary and Williamsburg deeds.

Includes Williamsburg deeds

Deeds. Includes Williamsburg deeds

Deeds, etc. Includes Williamsburg deeds

Correspondence with Mrs. A.W. Dearing (purchaser of John Garland Pollard's Chandler Court house).

Washington area

and to Mrs. JCP (II)-1940. Also inaugural invitations

Washington, 1934-1937 (Mrs. John Garland Pollard (II) -1940) Invites other than the White House

Washington, 1934-1937 (Mrs. John Garland Pollard (II)- 1940). Invites other than the White House

Washington, 1934-1937 (Mrs. John Garland Pollard (II)-1940). Invites other than the White House

Programs, badges, etc

Bulletins, notes of meetings, etc., 1940-1970

Xmas Cards, dinners, etc. 1927-1936

(most of the John Garland Pollard clippings are to found in his vols.). Includes obituaries

Clippings, pamphlets, photographs.

Miscellaneous correspondence, etc.

Miscellaneous correspondence. 1921-1937, concerning founding of Marshall-Wythe School of Politics and Governmet, Va. gubernational race of 1925, and health of John Garland Pollard.

ABC Advisory Commitee, 1934-1937

Correspondence and data, 1929

Correspondence, 1932-1933

Correspondence and printed matter, 1927-1928

Correspondence

Correspondence

Correspondence

Correspondence with W. Garrett Conant, President of the National Society of American Art

Correspondence. 1931-1932. Including letter to Lady Astor from Stanley Baldwin

Correspondence with members of 1932- 1937, including new tribute to St. Andress motifs

War department correspondence.

Including correspondence of Gari Melchers

William Jennings Bryan and other members of the Bryan family, 1913-1924

Correspondence and with members of the Bryan family, 1925-1926 ; Re scopes trial

Memorial Association. Correspondence with P.H. Callahan and Ruth Bryan Owen

Correspondence and legal papers, 1928-1935

Correspondence, clipings, speeches 1923-1929

Correspondence and lcippings, 1930

Correspondence

Correspondence and clippings, 1932 (January-April), including Byrd for Presidential campaign material.

Correspondence

Correspondence, etc. 1933-1966, including speech by Byrd re John Garland Pollard

Correspondence, 1927-1932

Miscellaneous, 1922-1937

Includes letter to Elizabeth Cox giving John Garland Pollard's views on co-education. Miscellaneous, 1922-1937

Correspondence, 1926-1929 concerning memorial to William Jennings Bryan; and prohibition. (See also Bryan)

Printed material, 1935

Printed material, etc. 1935

Printed material

Copies of and correspondence, 1923-1928

Correspondence, clippings, notes, 1900-1902

"Survivors" correspondence, 1913

Correspondence and printed material, 1930

Letter to John Garland Pollard

Correspondence and printed material, 1935, includes letter from John D. Rockerfeller

Booklets and correspondence, 1934-1935

Printed matter and correspondence, 1936-1937

Correspondence and printed matter

Correspondence, 1930

County map of Virginia, 1915

John Garland Pollard's review of Lillian Craig's book, "The Road to Echo" Correspondence with D.S. Freeman concerning the review, etc.

including letters of Ted Dalton, Westmoreland Davis, Collins Denny, Jr., E. Griffith Dodson, and Ashton Dovell

Correspondence

Correspondence

Correspondence and clippings

Correspondence and articles, 1928-1937

E. Miscellaneous 1926-1934

Letter in response to invention

1 letter accepting invitations

including correspondnece with Sarah Lee Fain, Junis P. Fishburn, R. D. Ford (concerning Kate Walker Barrett) and Harry Emerson Fosdick

Correspondence, 1919-1928, concerning Y.M.C.A.

Mostly church and state relations, 1937

Correspondence, etc.

Complaints and recommendations

Chiefly correspondence re John Garland Pollard's and J.F. Nigent's re-appointments, 1924-1934

G. Miscellaneous

Certificate of incorporation, 1912

Correspondence, 1920-1931

Directories and ordinances

Correspondence

Correspondence

Correspondence

Correspondence and Clippings

Correspondence, including correspondence concerning the restoration of Bruton Parish Church

Invitation to Governors, printed material, John Garland Pollard's address of welcome.

Correspondence with Harry Byrd

Correspondence and clippings

Correspondence and clippings

Clippings

Expenses. (Bank Records)

Expenses. (Hotel, Printing)

Expenses. (Multigraphing)

Congratulatory letters. A-B.

Congratulatory letters. C-D.

Congratulatory letters. E-G.

Congratulatory letters. H-J.

Congratulatory letters. K-L.

Congratulatory letters. M.

Congratulatory letters. N-P.

Congratulatory letters. R-S.

Congratulatory letters. T.

Congratulatory letters. U-Z.

Correspondence and clippings. Including letter from Pollard-Dovell Democratic club, Williamsburg, Va.

Correspondence, includes speeches of opponent, W.M. Brown, and clippings.

Correspondence and clippings. Includes letter to W.M. Brown and unpubllished reply to Bishop Cannon's attack.

Mostly congratulatory letters. A-Bon.

Mostly congratulatory letters. Boo-Bz.

Mostly congratulatory letters. C.

Mostly congratulatory letters. D-E.

Mostly congratulatory letters. F-G

Mostly congratulatory letters. H.

Mostly congratulatory letters. I-K

Mostly congratulatory letters. L.

Mostly congratulatory letters. M-Mc.

Mostly congratulatory letters. N-Q

Mostly congratulatory letters. R.

Mostly congratulatory letters. S.

Mostly congratulatory letters. T.

Mostly congratulatory letters. U-Z.

Letters of thanks

Letters of thanks, Includes election results.

Correspondence.

Correspondence and other material.

Correspondence

Correspondence

Correspondence

Correspondence

Letters from John Garland Pollard's office including letters from Violet McDougall (Pollard) and letters concerning the Danville Strike and busts of Virginians, and location of Va. Museum of Fine Arts.

Correspondence

Correspondence

Corrupt Practices Acts. Pamphlets and mimeo data.

Good Roads. Printed material.

Government. Printed material; speech entitled "Who Represent the People of Virginia" by James E. Pate.

Taxation. Letter and pamphlets.

Including resolution by General Assembly endorsing Harry F. Byrd for president, proposal to cut expenses in criminal trials, and purchase of Jamestown.

A.

Applications for Jobs. A.

Applications for Jobs. B.

Applications for Jobs. C.

Applications for Jobs. D.

Applications for Jobs. E.

Applications for Jobs. F.

Applications for Jobs. G.

Applications for Jobs. H.

Applications for Jobs. I, J.

Applications for Jobs. K.

Applications for Jobs. L.

Applications for Jobs. M.

Applications for Jobs. N, O.

Applications for Jobs. P.

Applications for Jobs. Q, R.

Applications for Jobs. S.

Applications for Jobs. T, U, V.

Applications for Jobs. W, Z.

B, including letters from Mr. and Mrs. H. Lee, and letter from William J. Clark, president of Virginia Union University, concerning low cost housing project for Black people.

C, including fundraising request from William J. Clark, President of Virginia Union University, correspondence with sister, Mrs. G. Harvey Clarke, and nephew, G. Stanley Clarke, and in-laws, Judge Heriot Clarkson, c.c. Cooper (concerning Prohibition).

Carters' Grove, (including aerial photographs), and the creation of Colonial National Historical Park.

Clippings including John Garland Pollard's views on separation of church and state

Congratulatory letters.

Cox Family, correspondence.

D, E.

F (including letters concerning Federal Bar Assocaition).

G (including correspondence with Noel Gaines concerning John Garland Pollard's views on separation of church and state).

George Washington University.

H.

Invitations

Invitations

J, K, L.

M.

Military Academy appointments

N, O, P.

Publication notes

Q, R.

S.

Smoot Family, correspondence.

Speech Material.

T, U, V.

W, X, Y, Z.

"Wits-Bits."

Letters re Jackson Monument

Letters and clippings

Correspondence re appointments

Letter re arrangements

Letter re arrangements

Correspondence re: sale of property

Correspondence re: sale of property

Correspondence re new school

Notes and clippings about Mason and Gunston Hall

Correspondence

Inscribed poem "John Pollard of Virginia"

Mimeographed report

Report on the program

Correspondence and mimeographed material

Mimeographed material and correspondence

Including letters of Ruth (Bryan) Owen Rohde

Correspondence

Re visit to Yorktown

Signed program and letter

Correspondence, chiefly business and political

Correspondence regarding John Garland Pollard's copy of

Includes correspondence with A. J. Montague

Correspondence with H. St. George Tucker re Tucker's campaign for governorship

W. A. Jones' and Carter Glass' campaigns for U.S. Senate. Correspondence, etc.

Printed material re Jones and Glass campaigns

A. J. Montague's possible judgeship. Correspondence, etc.

John Garland Pollard's campaign for Attorney General; Popular Government League. Correspondence

Correspondence and printed material re inauguration of Gov. Stuart and John Garland Pollard as Attorney General. Also correspondence of Virginia Progressive Democratic League.

Prohibition "Speech Stuff" and newspaper clippings

Prohibition. Clippings and correspondence, including correspondence with James Cannon.

Chiefly John Garland Pollard's campaign for Governor. Correspondence and printed material.

John Garland Pollard's campaign for Governor. Correspondence. Attitude of the "Drys" and the Anti-Saloon League.

Correspondence, campaign literature for governorship, clippings

Campaign for Governor. Correspondence and printed material. Anti-Saloon League letters.

Campaign for Governor. Clippings and copy of speech about Ellyson, n.d.

Campaign for Governor. Account book listing expenses and supporters by county.

Campaign for Governor. General Correspondence.

War time clippings (some relating to John Garland Pollard's work abroad).

Correspondence, printed material, and clippings.

Trinkle vs. Anderson governorship.

Correspondence re government and medicine and John Garland Pollard's campaign for Federal Trade Commission appointment (see also FTC folder).

Correspondence, affidavits, and printed materail relating to government and medicine, HGP's interest in FTC appointment, reorganization of State government, John Garland Pollard as chairman of Williamsburg Democratic Committee.

Reorganization of State government; Hoover-Smith Presidential campaign. H.F. Byrd letters included.

Correspondence re Hoover-Smith campaign.

Correspondence re Hoover-Smith campaign

Printed material and clippings re reorganization of State government, prohibition, and Hoover-Smith campaign.

Miscellaneous correspondence and printed material

Correspondence

Correspondence, Anti-Saloon League Yearbook

Correspondence and printed matter

Chiefly printed matter

Correspondence and printed matter

Correspondence and printed matter

Printed material including: Speech, Indian appropriations by T. A. E. Weadock, 1894. Legal aspects of Christian Science, 1901. Case in Supreme Court of Nebraska (2 copies--see clippings in back of each copy), 1904. Christian Science and legislation, 1906. The Los Angeles case, 1907.

Printed material including: "Religious Liberty in America" by Charles M. Snow, 1914. Clipping of Model Sunday Law, 1915.

Chiefly printed material including the following "Religious Herald" articles: "Freedom, Civil and Religious," 1920. "Baptists and Religious Liberty," 1920. "The Bible in the Public Schools," 1923.

Printed material including: William Jennings Bryan speech at Democratic Convention, 1924. Minutes of Peninsula Baptist Association, 1925. Bibliographies on Bible study and religious education. Bible in public schools. "Religious Herald" pamphlets and clippings.

Correspondence and printed material

Correspondence and printed material including "The Church in Politics" (booklet).

Printed material and correspondence including the following: "The Story of Religious Intolerance" by Hudson Cary, etc. "Liberty" Magazines. "The Vatican-Italian Accord."

Printed material and correspondence including: "The Danger of Catholicism in Public School." "The Truth Shall Make You Free." "Legal Status of Bible Reading and religious Instruction in Public Schools." "Liberty" article: "The Ideals of Thomas Jefferson on Religious Liberty" by John Garland Pollard.

Printed material including: Copies of John Garland Pollard's speech before the Constitutional Convention of Virginia in 1901 (in "Liberty"). "Virginia's Task in Higher Education." "Religious Liberty and Mutual Understanding."

Printed material including: "Liberty" and other magazine articles. "Laws Relating to the Releasing of Pupils from Public Schools on Religious Instruction." "Week-day Religious Instruction." Jeremiah Moore, 1746-1815.

Printed material and correspondence including the following: "Aid to Parochial and other Schools." "The Kourier," November 1934 publication of the Ku Klux Klan. "New Relations with Jews and Catholics." "Discussion Outlines for Protestant Groups.

Correspondence and printed material including the following: State aid to schools. "The School of Law of Illinois" (book). "State Aid to Donominational Schools." "Kourier", July 1935. "Religious Liberty: Civilization's Barometer" by Strauss. "Liberty" copies.

Correspondence and printed material including the following: "Liberty" magazine copies. Annual Southern Baptist Convention (See notes on cover). Report of the President of the University of Richmond.

Correspondence and printed material including the following: "Reference on the Use of Public Funds for the Support of Private or Sectarian Educational Institutions" (NEA memo). "Liberty" magazine, 2nd quarter of 1937. Congresssional Records, February 10th, 11th, and 12th of 1937.

Correspondence and printed material including the following: "Axioms of Religious Liberty" by James. "Religion and Politics" by John W. Davis. "The Bible: Should It be in the School Room?" by Franklin Steiner.

Correspondence and court records re: scholarships and drive for funds

Letter of thanks for hospitality

Correspondence

Letter and clippings

Letters of thanks, etc.

Sa-Se

Sh-Sl.

Sm-Sp.

St-Sz.

Correspondence and printed matter

Proclamation by Governor Pollard and clipping

Printed material and correspondence. Assessed value of personal property for 1920. Tax levies, etc.

Memos, digests of statements, etc.

General correspondence

General correspondence

Correspondence and data on bank deposits.

Reports, memos, and correspondence.

Correspondence and typed and printed material

Newspaper clippings.

Data, charts, maps.

Correspondence

Correspondence re political matters

Correspondence re political matters. Mostly 1921.

Correspondence re political matters.

Miscellaneous correspondence

Correspondence

Letters of congratulations

Correspondence re positions. Phone directory.

Letters to John Garland Pollard from his office and other B of VA material

Miscellaneous correspondence and printed matter

Correspondence

Printed matter.

Typescriipts and correspondence

Correspondence. Including correspondence concerning National Park Service and Shenandoah National Park.

Correspondence and reports.

Correspondence, roster, and programs

Correspondence and news letters

News letters

Receipts

Correspondence

Correspondence, concerning Fork Union Military Academy

Correspondence, includes correspondence with J. A. C. Chandler and with J. T. Davis concerning possible appointment to Federal Trade Commission.

Correspondence including correspondence with J. A. C. Chandler and Dr. E. G. Swem

Including correspondence concerning William & Mary Presidential vacancy caused by death of J. A. C. Chandler. Also mentions an order for a gold seal, ordered from Balfour, London, that is to be awarded as a prize at commencement. Correspondence include John Stewart Bryan, Robert H. Tucker, Cary T. Grayson, Harry F. Byrd, Robert M. Hughes, J. H. Dillard, George C. Peery and correspondence concerning Franklin D. Roosevelt's visit in 1934.

Correspondence including correspondence concerning Franklin D. Roosevelt's visit in 1934. Correspondents include John Stewart Bryan, Cary T. Grayson, Kenneth Chorley, and Mrs. Alfred I. Dupont. Correspondence concerns possibility of John Garland Pollard's return to the College and his appointment to the Board of Visitors.

Correspondence, including correspondence concerning Marshall-Wythe School of Law.

Correspondence

Correspondence

Correspondence and reports re restoration and John Garland Pollard's mayoralty campaign

Printed historical material

Correspondence

Letter re autograph copy of "Dixie."

Mimeo press releases

Miscellaneous correspondence

John Garland Pollard's work with Y.M.C.A. in France including original and typescripts of diary. (See also manuscript volumes, folders 81, 339, 546-563, including anti-German propoganda.)

Historical and printed material, including programs and invitations concerning the Yorktown sesquincentinnial

Correspondence re Yorktown Country Club, Yorktown Memorial Institute, etc.

John Barton Payne Collection, catalog, 1926

(Bound)

Also, copies of "The Four Arts" magazine

Building plans Copy of "The Four Arts" magazine

Two clippings

Copy of the "Commowealth" magazine, which includes an article about John Garland Pollard and the VMFA

Also, "Prospectus of Program"

"The Main Currents in the Development of American Painting". "Prospectus of Program, 1936-1937". "Organic Laws". "Roster of Members".

Reports.

Reports, includes letter from sculptress, Malvina Hoffman

Applicants for positions with the museum

Thoams C. Parker- Thomas Colt controversy. Letters favoring Parker for Director

Letters favoring Parker for Director

Letters favoring Parker. Data re Colt.

Communications favoring Parker. Affidavits concerning Colt. Letter by Colt.

Letters to and from both sides

Final correspondence. Appointment of Colt as Curator.

Corrsepondence and copy of will.

Correspondence

Correspondence.

Correspondence concerning

Correspondence, clippings, and notes

Correspondence, minutes, and legal papers

Manuel and Treasurer's book

Sunday School. Printed matter and reports.

Sunday School reports re religion by great men in business

Correspondence regarding

Correspondence and reports

Printed minutes of annual sessions

Financial matters, correspondence, and memos

Check stubs, checks, and bank statements

Correspondence and printed matter. Attendance contest with Methodists in Sunday Schools.

Correspondence with and about new pastor

Correspondence mainly about sale of property

Correspondence about building new church

Articles and newspaper comments

General correspondence

Data for future articles

Data for future articles

National Youth Act. Copies, comments, and correspondence

"The Ohio Situation." Correspondence about proposed aid in Ohio to parochial schools.

Printed matter, memos, and correspondence

Editor of "The Religious Herald". Correspondence about Baptist Policies

Sunday School children's letters defining word and Pollard's reply.

Manuscript and printed speeches by John Garland Pollard, by other person, and speech material gathered by John Garland Pollard. (See also Mansucript Volumes and Professional Files, appropriate folders)

See also manuscript volumes

Unfair Trade Practices

Tax Equalization.

Law as vocation

Democratic Convention speeches

Notes and speeches on Thomas Jefferson

Theodore Roosevelt articles on heroes of World War I.

Speeches

Part I.

Part II.

Correspondence, notes, clippings, printed matter

Notes for future editions

List of cases. Certificate of copyright

Correspondence

Correspondence and printed material

Correspondence

Correspondence

Notes and clippings

First edition. Comments from Bagbys and Pollards

First edition. Thanks from distinguished people.

First edition. Thanks from members of the General Assembly.

First edition. Thanks miscellaneous.

First edition. Requests for copy. Mailing list for second edition.

Second edition. Notes.

Second edition. Correspondence.

Third edition. Correspondence and clippings, includes letters from political and literary notables: Charles E. Hughes, Eleanor Roosevelt, etc.

Chiefly correspondence with Thomas Y. Crowell Company, publishers.

Chiefly correspondence with Thomas Y. Crowell company, publishers.

Proofs and notes

(Newspaper clipping). John Garland Pollard, "Virginia, Where Washington Lived," Review of Reviews

Various subjects

Various subjects

World War I work of John Garland Pollard

World War I work of John Garland Pollard

World War I work of John Garland Pollard

World War I work of John Garland Pollard

World War I work of John Garland Pollard

World War I work of John Garland Pollard

World War I work of John Garland Pollard

World War I work of John Garland Pollard

World War I work of John Garland Pollard

World War I work of John Garland Pollard

World War I work of John Garland Pollard

World War I work of John Garland Pollard

World War I work of John Garland Pollard

World War I work of John Garland Pollard

World War I work of John Garland Pollard

World War I work of John Garland Pollard

World War I work of John Garland Pollard

World War I work of John Garland Pollard

World War I work of John Garland Pollard

Scrapbook of clippings, photographs

Scrapbook of photographs, clippings, and other memorabilia (Late nineteenth century)

Volume containing typscript of "To A Waterfowl" and typescript of article re Washington Irving.

Scrapbook of clippings and memorabilia.

Notebook of "Scraps" (poems, quotes, jokes, anecdotes, and 5a. etc. collected by John Garland Pollard.

Volume containing newspaper clippings of poems, jokes, etc.

Volume containing signed photographs of members

Clippings with list of papers favorable to Pollard's candidacy

Campaign literature relating to his campaign for Governor

Speeches and speech material including speeches delivered in France

Typescripts

Typescript

Some of these items have are already listed in Series 1 of the finding aid but have to be stored separately due to their physcial dimensions.

[Series 1, Folder 8] Original in the Virginia State Library

[see also Series 1, Folder 98?]

[Series 1, Folder 12A]

The framed certificate that was part of this addition has been moved to the Artifacts collection.

Correspondence, notecards , publications: "America's Favorite Poems" published by Frederic J. Haskin, "These United States" a pamphlet of an address given by Nicholas Murray Butler on March 23, 1931 at the University of California, Berkeley, "Fifteen Minutes a Day, The Harvard Classics" edited by Charles W. Eliot, "Commonwealthe Gleanings, A Collection of Epigrams, " "Plutology and Politics" by Gilbert F. Stevenson, 1930, "Higher Education in Virginia" by William H. Stauffer, 1936, "An Overlooked side of George Washington" an address by Joseph Buffington, 1932, and a typed list of "Extracts from Freethought Year Book."

1936 letter from Fred T. Wilson with a pamphlet, "The Political Thought of John Dickinson," and a typed manuscript on George Mason.

Letters from W. Marvin Watson, Special Assistant to the President and Mrs. Margaret Price of The Democratic National Committee.

A print of the Governor's Mansion entitled "Early Print of Governor's Mansion of Virginia."

Large Christmas card from Sid Salomon with an embossed print of the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence and an attached story of the picture.

Large Christmas card from Jean and Sid Salomon with an photograph of the 1967-1968 St. Souis Blues hockey team and a print of "If," by Rudyard Kipling on gold paper.

Cartoon, "A Double Ringer," by Fed O. Seibel of the R ichmond Times-Dispatch, dated July 28, 1933, about wedding of Governor Pollard and Violet Elizabeth. Inscribed to "Governor John Garland Pollard with my compliments, Fred O. Seibel." Mounted on illustrating board.

This collection contains the correspondence and papers of John Garland Pollard related to his career at William & Mary.

Biographical / historical:

In 1930, John Garland Pollard, a professor at the College of William and Mary was elected governor of the commonwealth of Virginia. A progressive Democrat interested in reform, his administration as governor was marred by dealing with the country's worst economic crisis. From King and Queen County, Va. he combined a strong sense of public service with a firm belief in the separation of church and state and a whimsical sense of humor. Trained in law, he was elected to the Constitutional Convention of 1901 where he made his mark by opposing in the revised constitution, the use of phrase describing Virginia citizens as only Christian; his strong belief in the Baptist faith prompted his speech.

He rose to be elected in 1913 to be Virginia's attorney-general on a reform platform which included initiative and referendum, the short ballot, etc. In 1922 he was appointed William and Mary's director of the School of Government and Citizenship (School of Law) where he excelled as a teacher and was also elected Mayor of Williamsburg. He served as a Sunday School teacher at the Williamsburg Baptist Church.

His run for the gubernatorial seat had the approval of Harry Byrd, leader of the Virginia Democratic machine (called the Byrd Organization) and he worked with Byrd during his term as a maverick governor. One of his chief accomplishments by far during the Great Depression was the founding of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the first state-supported art museum in the United States. Unfortunately, the Byrd mandate of fiscal integrity and balanced budgets did not permit much help to the suffering citizens of the commonwealth. State salaries were cut ten percent including the salary of the governor.

Acquisition information:
Donated to W Special Collections Research Center in batches between 1970 and 1987 by Violet M. Pollard, John G. Pollard, Jr., Charles Pollard, Susan P. Boatwright, Elizabeth P. C. Johnson, Jessie G. P. Dodge, and Joseph P. Pollard. 1989-38A received on 8/31/1989.
Arrangement:

Series 3 was originally the John Garland Pollard Papers, UA 6.025, and was combined with this collection in 2011.

This material was originally the John Garland Pollard Papers, UA 6.025, and was comibined with his Personal Papers in August 2011.

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