BOX 1: MEL LAWSON: THE EARLY YEARS
1.1-"F. Melvyn Lawson" (1989) [typescript autobiography]
1.2-"Mel Lawson: His Early Years to 1959" [scrapbook]
1.3-Mel Lawson. Course of Study Guidebook--Sacramento Senior High School Bulletin no. 3 (1939)
1.4-World War II Scrapbook [forest green w/ gilt lettering]
1.5-World War II Notebook
BOX 2: MEL LAWSON MUSICAL & DRAMATIC ACTIVITIES
2.1-"Mel Lawson, 1960-65" [scrapbook]
2.2-Music Scrapbook
2.3-Lawson Drama Award file
2.4-Lawson music manuscripts
BOX 3 : MEL LAWSON: PUBLISHED WRITINGS & MUSIC
3.1-"Needed: science to survive---the humanities to live," California Social Science Review 5:2 (Feb 1966)
3.2-Scattered Leaves (1981) [poetry]
3.3-My Gipsy Mind (1975) [poetry]
3.4-World Pictures (1976) [poetry]
3.5-Selected Parables in Verse (1977) [poetry]
3.6-"Fantasy House," In a Nutshell 2:4 (Autumn 1976) [poetry]
3.7-Benjamin Franklin: The Curious Philosopher, An Address (1974)
3.8-"The Difference," In a Nutshell 1:1 (Winter 1975) [poetry]
3.9-A Saga of Service: 1913-1985. Sacramento, 1986
3.10-"The Tanka; a Japanese verse form," 1993
3.11-"Cinquain Magic," 1994; "Limericks by Lawson" [poetry]
3.12-"Go UOP" and "Our Team is Ready" (1978) [music; audiotape]
3.13-October Roses: A Collection of Love Songs (1982) [music]
3.14-Sugar Talk and Other Singables (1975) [music]
3.15-"Camellia girl" (1972) [official song of Sacramento Camellia Festival]
3.16-Binder of articles by FML, 1935-1970 [chiefly on education]
BOX 4: MEL LAWSON IN WORLD WAR II; SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR IN SACRAMENTO
4.1-U.S. Navy Papers
4.2-Snapshots taken by FML & friends in New Guinea during WW II
4.3-School Administrator: Correspondence
4.4-School Administrator: Sacramento school papers
4.5-Sacramento City Public School News (1961-67)
4.6-Superintendent's News Bulletin (1967-68)
4.7-Mel Lawson & Verna K. Lawson Study Guide for Our America: Today & Yesterday (1940)
4.8-"My Friend the Wind" in Maurice Poe. Rutabaga Ruby & Friends (1989)
4.9-"The Shepherd who Turned Back" (1971)
4.10-School Administrator: Contract, certificates, awards, etc.
4.11-The Pulse; Rotary Club of Sacramento (1948-49)
4.12-Misc. clippings
BOX 5--SCRAPBOOKS, 1924-
5.1-"The Ideal Scrapbook" (1924-39) [black w/ gilt lettering]
5.2-"Scrapbook" (1932-45) [false wood covers]
5.3-"Scrapbook" (1946-52) [pale ochre w/ dutch children on cover]
5.4-"Scrapbook"
5.5-Mrs. Mel Lawson's Scrapbook [chiefly American Assn. University Women]
5.6-Mrs. Mel Lawson's M.A. thesis [Classics]
5.7-Floyd Melvyn Lawson. "A History of the U.S. Air Mail Service," 1935 [M.A. thesis]
5.8-Lawson's testimonial retirement dinner binder, 1968
BOX 6--CORRESPONDENCE & MEMORABILIA
6.1-FML letters to Mrs. FML, written in Pacific during WWII
6.2-Misc. correspondence
6.3-Biography; clippings
6.4-Misc. certificates & diplomas
6.5-Masonic materials
6.6-Misc. photos [chiefly b & w 8 x 10s]
6.7-Misc. photos [incl. COP, 1920s & portrait w/ Ronald Reagan]
6.8- Misc. memorabilia [incl. FML student report cards; adult awards; clippings]