Series 4. John W. Davis Correspondence (box 3), 1899, 1923-1925, 1953-1954

This series includes a letter from William L. Wilson to John A. Preston, trying to persuade "Davis" to accept law professorship at Washington and Lee University (1899) and a newspaper clipping of John W. Davis's reminiscences at age 81 (1954). Subjects of the 1920s letters include John W. Davis's trip to London to attend an American Bar Association meeting, his legal work in Washington D. C., oil investigations in Washington ruining McAdoo's chances for the Presidential nomination, the political "mess" at Washington, comments on the coming Democratic Convention (all 1924); information on trips to Canada, England, and France made by John W. Davis (1925); and family matters (1924-1925).