CERTIFICATES AND DIPLOMAS (Oversize)

The papers of attorney and civic leader Roy Mundy Davidson Richardson, a member of the Rutgers College class of 1915, are about 2.2 cubic feet in size and span the years between 1905 and 1968. The bulk of the collection dates from the 1930s to the 1960s and includes Richardson's speeches to various organizations, including some speeches given as a member of the Rutgers University board of trustees, as well as speeches relating to the Republican party and Richardson's 1946 campaign for Congress. His personal correspondence from the period 1939 to 1966 makes up a large portion of the collection, although it does not include family correspondence, nor does it include correspondence from his legal practice. Also included is a legal case file on the re-organization of Ivar Kreuger's financial empire, as well as a case file containing a copy of an application to the Interstate Commerce Commission regarding acquisitions by the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway Company. In addition there are numerous certificates and diplomas of Richardson's from his professional and personal life, as well as a scrapbook of personal memorabilia from his early life and his periods at both Rutgers and Oxford Universities. Three photographs are also included in the collection: a 1908 class picture and two 8 x 10 photographs from June, 1951, when Richardson received an honorary law degree from Rutgers University.

Two items formerly in the collection were transferred to the Rutgers University Archives: "Proposal To Rutgers University For Owned Properties Located Within One City Block Bound By Washington Street, New Street, Warren Place, Warren Street In Downtown Newark, New Jersey" (dated June 3, 1965) and "Public Hearing On Site For New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry Before the Board of Trustees of New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry" (dated November 14, 1966).

The Rutgers University Archives also holds a collection containing records of the Rutgers University board of trustees which includes one manuscript box dedicated to Roy Richardson's activities as a member of the board.

An additional 2.5 cubic feet of Roy Richardson's papers, emphasizing his civic and political activities in Brooklyn, New York, are held in the Brooklyniana Collection, Brooklyn College Archives and Special Collections, Brooklyn College Library, City University of New York.