Correspondence between Lawrence and Gretchen Lynch, 1916 May-1940 September

Other correspondents include former Governor Glasscock, who wrote a letter to Lawrence to congratulate him on his Master's Thesis (Columbia University) and published paper on the West Virginia Coal Strike; and Harry Westcott Worley and his wife Zela Wiltsie Worley, prominent Methodist missionaries who spent three decades in Foochow, China.

Topics covered in the Lynch correspondence (boxes 2-6) include education; world events; Clarksburg; Charleston; developments in West Virginia, including politics, conservation, personalities, and sermons; Ohio Wesleyan University; details of Lawrence's educational experiences at Columbia University when it had the preeminent Master's program in Political Science in the country; and details of his law classes at Harvard Law School.