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Berkley, Michigan insurance executive, poet and composer, and active alumnus of the University of Michigan; contain papers relating to activities of the class of 1911, to his involvement in the University of Michigan Club of Detroit, and to his interest in Michigan football, especially the career of coach Fielding H. Yost; also scrapbooks, and manuscripts of poetry and song lyrics.

The papers of J. Fred Lawton contain material relating to activities of the class of 1911, to his involvement in the University of Michigan Club of Detroit, and to his interest in Michigan football, especially the career of coach Fielding H. Yost; also scrapbooks, and manuscripts of poetry and song lyrics. The collection has been arranged into the following series: Correspondence; Poetry, musical compositions, and other writings; University of Michigan Class of 1911; University of Michigan Club of Detroit; Topical files; Photographs; Scrapbooks; and Sound Recordings.

Editor and publisher of the Port Huron Times Herald. Scrapbooks, correspondence, and photographs concerning his newspaper career and other Port Huron, Michigan, activities.

The collection is composed of four series: Correspondence; Miscellaneous; Scrapbooks; and Audio-Visual materials. One of the scrapbooks contains letters received from William Lyon Phelps, H. L. Mencken, Edgar A. Guest, Chase S. Osborn, Frank Murphy, Theodore Roosevelt and Arthur H. Vandenberg.

Professor of Speech at the University of Michigan. Correspondence, diaries, an autobiography, photographs.

Correspondence, travel diaries, an autobiography, and other papers relating to his activities at University of Michigan and his travels around the world; also speeches, lecture notes, articles, essays, reviews, mostly relating to oratory and debate; one volume of congratulatory letters, 1942, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Department of Speech; and photographs. Correspondents include: Jane Addams, Clinton P. Anderson, James Burrill Angell, Albert J. Beveridge, Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaia, Wilber M. Brucker, Princess Cantacuzene, Edgar A. Guest, Chase S. Osborn, Lieutenant Governor Sir Robert Stout (New Zealand), William Howard Taft, among others. Photographs include portraits and photos of Trueblood in South Africa and as passenger aboard ship. Also included a recording of selective readings from William Shakespeare.