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The addition to the Hardy Cross Dillard Papers (six linear feet in 12 boxes) contains the bulk of the records documenting his nine years on the International Court of Justice. Included are files on the cases brought to the ICJ from 1970 to 1979, as well as extensive records concerning the Beagle Channel Case heard by a Court of Arbitration on which Dillard served from 1971 to 1977. The files for each ICJ case contain memoranda and notes in addition to assorted annotated documents for most of them. Dillard was chairman of the ICJ Rules Revision Committee in the mid-70's, and that work is documented. Finally, there are miscellaneous ICJ documents, general memoranda, and correspondence. The correspondence (20 folders) here, as in the earlier gift, contains letters from personal as well as professional acquaintances; some frequent correspondents included Eduardo Jimenez de Arechaga, Richard Baxter, Gerald Fitzmaurice and Phillip Jessup. Judge Dillard did much of his thinking on paper in memoranda to himself and to his colleagues on the Court. Consequently, there is substantial commentary on arguments of cases, as well as formulation of positions he felt the Court should take. The Beagle Channel Case is the most thoroughly documented, filling almost four boxes.

Highlights of this collection include material concerning the Washington and Lee Journalism Department, including course material, student papers, and lecture notes. Supplementing this course material are published materials on the history of film, 20th century war propaganda, the Nazification of Germany, Paris in the 1920's and the "Lost Generation." There also includes wide selections of personal research materials for projects such as Riegel's books Mobilizing for Chaos and Crown of Glory; collections on Riegel's travels to Central and South America and Europe including Germany during the 1930s, and the typescript of his unpublished autobigraphy to 1945 titled "Hacking It."

Thomas W. Miller collection contains 3,600 LP's (60 boxes), 11,000 programs (70 boxes) 3,000 posters, 17 autograph albums and several artifacts from the Broadamoor Cooperative Apts. located on 3601 Connecticut Avenue. NW, Washington, DC 20008-2450.

Research notes, 1930-1939, compiled by historian Abbot E. Smith for his monograph, Colonists in Bondage: White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1766. His notes cover indentured servitude in the colonies -- convicts shipped to the colonies, legal status of indentured servants and their life in the colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Records of Storer College, West Virginia's first African American institution of higher learning, located in Harpers Ferry. This collection contains mainly administrative and operational records of the college. Types of records include annual reports, publications, memorabilia, artifacts, and other material. This collection includes material regarding John Brown's Fort.

This collection consists of files containing newspaper articles, history essays and writing, and photographs concerning Native American land, battles with colonial settlers, prominent figures, and forts in Rockbridge County. Many materials describe the Shawnee Tribe and their presence and relationship with settlers in Kerrs Creek, Abbs' Valley, Balcony Falls, and Hayes Creek Mound. Some materials concern the death of Chief Cornstalk, also known as Hokoleskwa, and the Kerrs Creek Massacre.

Letters, clippings, manuscript volumes, business papers, pamphlets, genealogical material, family papers, reports, memos, campaign literature, photographs of John G. Pollard (1871-1937), lawyer, educator, statesman, humanitarian, and governor of Virginia, 1930-1934. Prominent correspondents include Henry Watkins Anderson, Lady Astor, Frederic W. Boatwright, David K. E. Bruce, John Stewart Bryan, William Jennings Bryan, Harry F. Byrd, James Cannon, J. A. C. Chandler, Calvin Coolidge, Westmoreland Davis, Jessie Ball Dupont, Carter Glass, John D. Rockefeller, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Claude A. Swanson, Lyon G. Tyler, Alexander W. Weddell, and Woodrow Wilson.

Addresses, correspondence, notes and newspaper clippings. Addresses: "The Juvenile Court and its Contribution to Child Welfare" (undated); "The Child and the Law" (undated); Barton Heights Women's Club (undated); untitled: Under Democratic administrations, Virginia … (undated); "Legal Aspects of Adoption" (undated); untitled: "The Juvenile Court Movement …" (undated); "The Jurisdiction of Juvenile Courts Over Delinquent Children for Acts Committed in Other Jurisdictions" (undated); "The Judge and the Probation Officer" (undated); "The Evolution of the Family Court" (undated); "Where are we in the probation work?" (June 1924); "Virginia and her Handicapped Children" (10 January 1929); [Campaign 1929]; "The Judge and the Probation Officer", Boston, MA (5 June 1930); "The Community Fund" (27 October 1930 and 31 October 1931); "The Juvenile Court and its Contribution to Child Welfare" (April 1931); "Unemployment Relief," Radio, Herald Tribune (2 November 1931); "Address Over WRVA" (2 October 1932); "Kings and Daughters Convention" (21 May 1936); Report of the Juvenile Court and Institutions Committee Safety Director's Citizens' Committee on Crime, Judge J. Hoge Ricks, Chairman, Jefferson Hotel, Richmond, VA (27-29 September 1936); "The Evolution of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court" (1938); Text of talk over WRVA on the "YMCA Boys' Radio Club Program" (16 August 1939); "Social Progress in Virginia", Roanoke, 1943; "What can be done to secure care for defective delinquents" by James Hoge Ricks and Clair Sager, Probation Officer, "The Juvenile and Domestic Court," Richmond, VA (undated).