This series includes materials on Frank and Jean Reade, their personal lives, his career and education prior to GSWC, personal correspondence, and papers by and about his relatives. These papers include manuscripts and published works by Reade and by his father Willoughby Reade, a manuscript of a published Civil War diary by Frank Smith Robertson, and a several scrapbooks of photographs, family history, and important events. This series includes personal correspondence with Edith Bolling Wilson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Stillwell Edwards, Lamar Dodd, Albert Einstein, Walter George, Jim Thorpe, and other notables of the day. Mike Nelson, an animator at Disney Studios maintained a long correspondence with Reade which he illustrated with original drawings. Numerous photographs are in this series, and realia such as Reade's baby curls, his yearbooks from Episcopal High School and University of Virginia. Wills, Deeds and other official documents from the Reade-Robertson families are included. Journals and books, some featuring Willoughby Reade's work are part of this series. This series has earliest and latest items, with many in the early 1900's.