Scrapbook of mounted newspaper clippings compiled by the staff of Watson Library from December, 1941, through May, 1952, concerning the life of W.C. Simons, editor and founder of the Lawrence Daily Journal World. A photograph of W. C. Simons taken by Henry Moore of Kansas City, Missouri is mounted as the frontispiece.

This collection consists of diaries, correspondence, copies of speeches and talks, news clippings, genealogical information, and other related materials from the Simons family of Kansas. The bulk of the collection relates to W.C. Simons, founder of the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper of Lawrence, Kansas.