A collection of letters, speeches, postal cards, telegrams & office notes. These are not filed in exact chronological order. Examples are: a letter (2/3/60) from John M. Payne (Asst. to the President, Claremont Men’s College), Wilson’s reply (2/12/60) & “a copy of the speech by Dr. George C. S. Benson before the Los Angeles Rotary Club” re/ “WE CANNOT ESCAPE HISTORY;” letters (Jan.-Feb. 1960) re/ personal relations & illness of Wilson friend, Albert W. Wright; postal card & letter (Jan.-Feb. 1960) re/ a request for a copy of Wilson’s recent speech on “G.O.P. Principles;” telegram (2/1/60) re/ “Reservations confirmed Lee House, February 2” for La Jolla constituent Sherwood Roberts; postal card & 2 letters (2/60) re/ Coronado constituent H. J. Grassie, Jr. (Member Republican State Committee) requests copy of recent article in the Congressional Record – a reprint of a newspaper article dealing with a late 19th century contested Presidential election; letters (2/60) re/ illness of Russell Baines, editor and manager of the Copley News Service; letters (2/60) re/ response of Wilson to query of constituent George E. McDonough for information on proposing an amendment to the Constitution & whom to ask as to an investigation of the Marine Corps; letter (2/17/60) re/ personal comment to Mrs. Ruth Richards; a letter (2/10/60) from civics class student La Mesan Jack Leathers & Wilson’s reply (2/22/60) “requesting information on our Government and an autographed picture;” a letter (2/9/60) from Mar Vista High School student Rosie Garcia & Wilson’s reply (2/18/60) re/ a request for information on a school project entitled “California Transportation;” letters (2/60) from Associate Professor Henry L. Janssen (Dept. of Political Science, SDSC), Wilson & Hugh L. Elsbree (Dir., Legislative Reference Service, The Library of Congress) re/ a response to Dr. Janssen’s request for information on special sessions of Congress called by the President; letters (2/12/60) re/ contributions made to the City of Imperial Beach by Godfrey Berry (South Bay School District); a copy of a poem on Abraham Lincoln written by Deborah Frazer (5th grade, Silvergate School) & Wilson’s letter (2/27/60) of appreciation; letters (3/60) re/ El Cajon constituent, retired naval officer and SDSC student writing a thesis requests a copy of American Ethnological Bulletin 153; copy of a letter (3/1/60) from Wilson to Nancy and Stephen McElfresh re/ sending them “documents about our Capitol and Government” that may be useful to them in school; a letter (2/26/60) from John H. Rousselot to Wilson appreciating the help Maggie and Leon gave him in getting tickets to the ice follies; letters (Feb. & Mar. 1960) re/ clipping from the Birmingham Post-Herald, “What of Nixon?” & a request for an autographed picture of Mr. Nixon; addition items in this folder are: letters re/ information about summer jobs at the UN; a folder on the C.I.A. building; comment from Vice Adm. W. R. Smedberg, III; El Cajon constituents, the Patterson’s, seek delayed birth certificate information; personal info. re/ Kathleen Mitchell, Jean Fuller (Congressman Miller’s secretary) & Dick Grihalva; Milton H. Ironfield’s long letter (5/2/60) “containing a suggestion for a Presidential vacation and work retreat in the San Diego area;” a USN response for information on the USS IOWA (Spanish American War) as requested by Coronado resident Lloyd M. Harmon; Wilson’s concern for U.S. District Ct. Judge Fred Kunzel’s health, his response & news clipping; retirement of Jack Napier as President of Local 197; Fallbrook constituent Mrs. Ada Louise Williams, personal information and search for a deck of the President’s playing cards; birth notice card for Michael Eugene Thornton; need for additional copies of “The Capitol;” request from a collector of autographed cards and photographs of Americans – “Sent cards 9-6-60;” letter (7/14/60) from Wilson to La Mesa constituent Murray Hill re/ Lincoln statement; interest of Crawford High student Dave E. Kempton in a foreign service career; response from Wilson to an inquiry as to censorship – “I know of no committee that censors our literature;” card thanking Wilson for bringing the Coast Guard to Long Beach; Dr. Jonah Salk (University of Pittsburg) thanks Wilson for his support for virus research; Wilson helps constituents Mr. & Mrs. Seiler visit the UN; a copy of Wilson’s “Open Letter To the Mexican-Americans of San Diego on the Occasion of Mexican Independence Day” & a letter from the “American GI Forum of the U.S.”; a new constituent for Wilson – Miss Mary Gillett; letter and office notes re/ search for Brent R. McCulloch and reference to a letter from the Atomic Energy Commission; Wilson’s assistance to Ohio Wesleyan University political science student Donald Moran, who was studying effects of media and political materials on the electorate; similar assistance to Notre Dame political science student Joseph D. Paroody; poems from Imperial Beach constituent Mrs. George Alcantara; a “Baby Boy” notice sent to Wilson for the birth of Peter Robert III; interesting item concerning a request to the President to re-sign Dr. Wayne A. Neal’s “First Sergeant Warrant” – first signed by Captain Eisenhower in 1918; letters re/ failed attempt of Chula Vista constituent Albert Passeri to locate information on Common Sense editor Conde McGinley; Wilson’s request from a constituent to gather data pertinent to the establishment of a business on Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas, is responded to by the Dept. of Commerce and others; telegram and office notes re/ response to request for figures more recent than 1958 for strength of Communist Party and Soviet Bloc agents in Latin America; Wilson assists a last minute request from La Jolla constituent Roy L. Smith to obtain a military permit for a stop-over at Okinawa – Smith was on a world trip and was a representative of the Methodist Publishing House; letters, post card & office notes re/ mementos from Nixon’s office and reference to Mrs. Edna Starmer’s song “Let’s Elect Nixon” & her serious illness; responses to inquiry from Coronado constituent Lloyd M. Harmon for information on the Shonnard torpedo from the National Archives; human interest item from Wilson and John O. Card (General Contractor) about Card’s 87 years old mother being able to file an absentee ballot; constituent Mrs. Anne Z. Bailey congratulates Wilson on his reelection and also contributes a check to help obtain a helicopter for retiring President Eisenhower; Wilson responds to student Denise Hall’s request for an autographed photo of Wilson for her geography class; Wilson letter to Ray Blair re/ “another bout in the hospital;” comments from Wilson on his conversation with Long Beach Congressman Hosmer and Wilson’s inability to represent the North Island American Legion at the Veterans Day ceremonies; brief note on Republican politics from Dr. William F. Eads of Pacific Beach; new comers to La Jolla, Mr. & Mrs. Roy Mason are welcomed by Wilson; Wilson to the Honorable H. Allen Smith re/ met your old friend H. E. Ryker (V.P. for Operations at Ryan Aeronautical); a letter (1/13/60) from constituent Walter M. Merrill & Wilson’s reply (1/21/60) re/ “Thank you for being such an excellent representative for the district. We hope someday you will run for President;” letter (12/22/60) from Wilson to La Mesa constituent Mrs. Bob Harness; “By separate mail you will get a large copy of the Declaration of Independence;” letters (1/60) re/ Wilson assists Alpine constituent John K. Wilson obtain a copy of “Special Report on Diseases of the Horse,” Dept. of Agriculture from the Govt. Printing Office.