The John Leonard Davies papers include correspondence, reports of the Cresco, Iowa, Kiwanis Club, doctoral essays about adult education written by Davies, and a file of correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to Robert J. Blakely, Dean of the SUI Extension Division from 1961 to 1963. Notes are included from an Air Raid Wardens Course dated February 1942, which was attended by delegates from the Iowa Department of Public Transportation and the Iowa Department of Public Health, according to Davies. Adult education publications issued by associations he was affiliated with are included. Correspondents include Hiram S. Hunn, a Des Moines attorney affiliated with the Iowa Adult Education Association committees, and J. C. Wright, state superintendent of public instruction. Materials are arranged in chronological order within each folder. Each line in the box list represents one folder, unless otherwise noted.