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Papers of Laurence Davis Lafore Access and Restrictions: This collection is open for research. Digital Surrogates: Except where indicated, this document describes but does not reproduce the actual text, images and objects which make up this collection. Materials are available only in the Special Collections Department. Copyright: Please read The University of Iowa Libraries' statement on Property Rights, Copyright Law, and Permissions to Use Unpublished Materials. Use of Collections: The University of Iowa Libraries supports access to the materials, published and unpublished, in its collections. Nonetheless, access to some items may be restricted by their fragile condition or by contractual agreement with donors, and it may not be possible at all times to provide appropriate machinery for reading, viewing or accessing non-paper-based materials. Please read our Use of Manuscripts Statement. Acquisition and Processing Information: These materials were donated to the University Archives from Mr. Lafore in February 1974 and from the History Department in September 1994. Guide created and posted to the Internet by Denise Anderson, March 2007. Photographs: Photographic postcards in Box 60; Travel photographs in Box 65; Book research photographs in Box 67 |
Laurence Davis Lafore, 1971 |
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of Laurence Lafore's manuscripts, memoir, correspondence, and his academic career (including travel). The correspondence series includes both personal and professional contacts. The papers are housed in 67 boxes, and are largely unprocessed.
Biographical Note
Laurence Davis Lafore was born September 15, 1917, in Narbeth, Pennsylvania. He earned his B.A. in 1938 at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. He took his M.A. (1939) and Ph.D. (1950) from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Massachusetts. He taught at Swarthmore until 1969, when he joined the History Department faculty at the University of Iowa. Professor Lafore published works about the origins of the two world wars. He retired in May 1985. Laurence Lafore was writing an illustrated history of the University of Iowa at the time of his death on November 24, 1985.
Related Materials
Folder, "Lafore, Laurence," in Faculty and Staff Vertical Files collection (RG 01.15.03).
Publications by Laurence Lafore include:
"In the Sticks," Harper's Magazine 243, no. 1457 (October 1971): 108-9, 112-15
Nine Seven Juliet. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1969. 300 pp.
Learner's Permit. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1962. 308 pp.
American Classic. Iowa City; State Historical Society, 1975. 95 pp., illus. Includes UI buildings. Main Library; Art Library; Law Library; Special Collections Department, x- collection and Archives cataloged books.
Correspondence from Laurence Lafore dated 1982 is housed in the Papers of John Leggett.
Correspondence from Laurence Lafore, 1977-1980, is housed in the Minnette Doderer collection within Iowa Women's Archives.
Box Contents List
Series I: Manuscripts
Box 1 Modern Europe
Box 2 Modern Europe
Box 3 Long Fuse
Box 4 End of Glory
Box 5 End of Glory
Box 6-13 Days of Emperor and Clown: the Italo-Ethiopian War, 1935 -- 1936
Box 14-17 Learner's Permit
Box 18-21 Devil's Chapel
Box 22-24 Stephen's Bridge
Box 25-28 Nine Seven Juliet
Series II: Memoir
Box 29 Penultimate draft
Box 30 Drafts, including correspondence about
Box 31 Drafts, including correspondence about
Box 32 Drafts, The Keys to the House, including correspondence about
Box 33 Manuscript, A Window in Cambridge; incomplete cookbook; joke recipe; later memoir
Series III: Correspondence
Box 34 Aaron -- Bourjaily
Box 35 Boyd -- Bunny
Box 36 Carroll -- Cuttino
Box 37 Dale -- Forstall
Box 38 Freedgood -- Hunt, E.
Box 39 Hunt, V. -- Kirkland
Box 40 Klaus -- Lafore
Box 41 Laird -- Lippincott
Box 42 Little -- Noyes
Box 43 Ogilby -- Palmer
Box 44 Partymiller -- Shaw
Box 45 Shearer -- Swarthmore
Box 46 Taylor -- Worth
Box 47 Wright -- Zerwick
Box 48 A -- Z
Box 49 A -- Z
Box 50 Telegrams; postcards; greeting cards; birth and death announcements
Box 51 Correspondence, professional
Box 52 Speaker invitations; thank you notes; business letters; letters while attending college
Box 53 Loose material and correspondence from Benjamin Kirkland
Series IV: Academic career
Box 54 Manuscript draft, "Stephen's Bridge"
Box 55 Publications
Box 56 Drafts
Box 57 Drafts
Box 58 Drafts and educational material
Box 59 Bound volumes:
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, papers, 1939 -- 1940
Press and Diplomacy in Liberated France, vol. I, II, III
At Love's Command
Box 60 Photographic postcards of Montgomery School, 1929
Drafts about cooking
Swathmore materials
Trinity College materials
Box 61 Travel brochures and postcards
Correspondence
Journals: Ladies Home Journal, 1956; Science, 1964
Swathmore, class of 1938 class reunion material
Box 62 Academic correspondence
Box 63 Travel material
Letters of reference
Box 64 Book reviews by Lafore
University diplomas
Cedar Rapids Gazette article and photographs, 1970
Iowa State University (Ames), and Grinnell College courses taught by Lafore
Box 65 Travel photos of European cities
Postcards
Maps
Travel journal (year not provided)
Box 66 Drafts
Box 67 Photographs and research for an illustrated history of the University of Iowa
