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Subject: Florida State University - Graduation Commencement Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Mel Martinez Notes: Tape 3 of 3 Location: Leon County Civic Center Type: A-roll B-roll

Photos, clippings, mementos, and letters of thanks for his third book The Power and the Glory, with handwritten annotations. Included are autographed photos of Governor Caldwell, and U.S. Senators Claude Pepper and Charles O. Andrews. Also, letters from Justice B.K. Roberts, former Governor Doyle E. Carlton, State Senator Verle A. Pope, Secretary of Education Thomas D. Bailey, State Librarian Dorothy Dodd, FSU Professor Hudson Rogers, FSU President John E. Champion, among others. Also includes commencement program, University of Florida, May 28, 1929, when the class of 1903 of South Florida Military Institute, of which Gray was an alumnus, was graduated by unanimous consent of the Legislature 26 years afterwards. Last Christmas card from his wife, 1954. 31 pages. Back end sheet also used.

Primarily from the 1960s. Clippings, photos, and a few letters of thanks for Gray's books, My Story and The Power and the Glory, with handwritten comments. Letter from James Van Fleet, LeRoy Collins, Haydon Burns, and Farris Bryant. First seven pages about the South Florida Military Institute. Clippings about his retirement and Gray Memorial Methodist Church, named for his father, R.W.J. Gray. 16 pages. Back end sheet used also.

Photos and letters with handwritten and typewritten annotations. Includes letters from Judge G. Harrold Carswell and newspaper owner John S. Knight as well as photos of R.A. Gray as a Captain in World War I, his wife before they were married, their golden wedding anniversary celebrated in 1953, and the presentation of a gift of Richard Ervin on Gray's retirement in 1961. 12 pages.

Notes: Run down copy with tape. Type: Show Master