Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to all researchers.

Conditions Governing Use

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred Citation

Clara L. Lawrence Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information

The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center from Sharon L. Zuber on 07/14/2009.

Accruals

Acquisition information for material received after 7/13/2009 is available by consulting a Special Collections Research Center staff member.

Processing Information

Accessioned by Amy C. Schindler, University Archivist, in July 2009. Arranged and described by Terry Noziglia, SCRC Staff, in August-October 2009; further arranged and described by Peter Klicker, SCRC Staff, in December 2009-January 2010.  Acc. 2010.784 added by Benjamin Bromley in January 2011.

Biographical Note

Clara Louise Walde Lawrence was a nurse in the period before, during, and after World War I. Her family lived in Rochester, New York and her two children were named Betty and Donald. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Clara L. Lawrence">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Clara L. Lawrence</a>.

Scope and Contents

This collection primarily concerns Clara Louise Walde Lawrence's career as a nurse in the period before, during, and after World War I.  Materials in the collection include correspondence, scrapbooks, diaries, photographs and negatives, pamphlets, medical supplies, and other publications.  Most of the correspondence, photographs, and publications relate to either WWI or nursing.  Notable correspondents include a letter from Julia Cherney (Bateman) to Clara Walde while serving as a missionary in China.  Other items of interest include a 1763 Boston Gazette as well as several 19th century American newspapers.  The collection also includes Lawrence's Veterans Administration account books from the 1930s.   Transcriptions were created of the correspondence before the collection was donated to the Special Collections Research Center and are available here as PDFs. Acc. 2010.784 contains correspondence, 1909-1923, primarily

Related Material

A compact disc with digital copies of transcripts of letters was pulled from this collection and was added to the Manuscripts Audiovisual Collection in November 2010.

Separated Material

A compact disc filled with digital copies of transcripts of letters was pulled from this collection and was added to the Manuscripts Audiovisual Collection in November 2010.

Index Terms

Genre/Form of Material:

• Diaries
• Letters (correspondence)
• Negatives
• Photographs
• Scrapbooks

Topical Term:

• Nurses--1910-1920
• Women--Travel.
• World War, 1914-1918--Medical and sanitary affairs.

Additional Information