Materials related to Lawson's personal life, finances, and property. Correspondence includes letters from family and friends as well as requests for monetary contributions. Financial records include lists of Lawson's yearly charitable contributions and various investment reports. Properties folders contain materials detailing the construction of Lawson's home at 1500 Lake Shore Drive, and also records from his vacation property at Lone Tree Farm in Green Lake, Wisconsin. Also of note are materials related to a feud with former Chicago Mayor William Hale Thompson, and a biographical manuscript written by Ozara S. Davis of the Chicago Theological Seminary. There is a small series of items related to Lawson's wife, Jessie.