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Clippings and articles about Governor Davis. Reports, press releases, copies of memos and correspondence from governor's office. Correspondence and telegrams concerning LeRoy Hodges's offer of position in the governor's office to Violet McDougall in 1918.

Correspondence concerning subscriptions to the Democratic National Committee's monthly publication, The Democratic Digest, and Virginia's subscription quotas. Correspondence about news submitted to The Democratic Digest.

Correspondence on Democratic National Committee meetings; correspondence with Harry F. Byrd on representation of the South. Correspondence and literature on Women's Activities, particularly on Democratic Women's Day and campaign organizing; correspondence with Democratic National Committee and within Virginia on organizing women in Virginia and increasing their representation in local party structures.

Correspondence on state quotas; Woodrow Wilson Centennial Dinner in Washington.

Pollard served on the Committee on Platform and Resolutions. Agenda for Platform Committee meeting; letters from other committee members expressing pleasure in working together. Correspondence on travel, accommodations, arrangements, delegates and their votes, and ticket availability. Correspondence on naming Cynthia Boatwright, Lucy Williams, and Kitty Clark as delegates from Virginia. Correspondence on selecting pages for Virginia delegation. Convention programs, handbooks, roll of delegates and alternates, programs and invitations for various events. Interim Report of Special Advisory Committee on Rules. Virginia Democrats Statement of Policy. Press releases and clippings about the convention; information about television coverage of the convention. Invitation to Mock Political Convention at Washington and Lee University; request for information for holding facsimile of Democratic Convention at Loras College, Iowa. Letters to women about how much she enjoyed meeting them/seeing them at the convention.

The Eleven States Regional Conference for Democratic Women, February 10-11, 1956, Nashville, Tennessee, sponsored by the Democratic National Committee and the members of the National Committee and State officials in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Announcement, program; Pollard's letters to women in Virginia on their attending the conference (she didn't go because of a broken wrist).

Correspondence with Jessie Ball duPont. Correspondence with others concerning recipients of scholarships given by the Alfred I. duPont Institute.