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Collection includes correspondence, alumni reunion materials, and family photographs.

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The clippings book contains newspaper clippings, theatre tickets, theatre advertisements, programs, and report cards.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection consists of three typewritten pages written by Dr. Scott in November 1937, describing her experiences over several days as a medical missionary doctor in China during their war with Japan, just prior to World War II. Entries describe the frequency of bombings, the noise bombs make as they are dropping, the conditions of patients, and her own living conditions and preparations for returning to the United States. There is a handwritten note at the top of the page...

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The notebook (50 leaves, leaf 5 torn out) contains Chapter XV of an unidentified novel, a critique of Mystery of the Androgyne by Theodore J. Faithfull, and four chapters of a draft of a novel, Unchartered Seas.

There are also 15 letters written by Ludovici to his friend, Francis Bickley. The letters date from 1949 to 1970.

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Stegner's letter to Donna Ore, UNCG class of 1973, deals with his story, Chip off the Old Block. It appears Ore had written Stegner concerning a term paper topic comparing Stegner's own childhood with the childhood portrayed in the story.

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This letter, written in Paris and dated 10 July 1930, is addressed to "Mr. Knoll," who was apparently a young admirer of Le Gallienne's works, particularly his "lines on war." Le Gallienne writes: "I value your appreciation the more because you are so young, for it gives me hopes that the young men of your generation will resist to the utmost the foolish 'call to arms', which alas!, for all the tragic lessons of the last 'Great War', seems all too likely to come."

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This original holograph manuscript of A Small World is a tale about an American injured in Spain and the woman who nurses him back to health. It was collected in Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories in 1904.

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The correspondence in this collection includes seven letters and two notes dated 1884-1902 to Ladies' Home Journal editor Edward Bok and four letters written to Ladies' Home Journal editor William Alexander dated 1899 to1905. The letters discuss Sangster's contributions to the magazine.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The O. E. Rolvaag Letters date from 1927 to 1928 and include two letters written to critic Harry Hansen of the New York World. In the first letter, written on St. Olaf College letterhead and dated June 4, 1927, Rolvaag remarks, "I've been waiting for your review of Giants in the Earth with a good deal of anxiety. Now I hasten to thank you sincerely for your kind, sympathetic review of the book!" The second letter, dated Sept. 17, 1928 and written on the letterhead of the Norwegian American...

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This signed original holograph manuscript is an apparently unpublished play, Grand-dad, or, The Spirit of the British Navy. The cast of characters includes: Grand-dad Pettigrew (an old veteran), Mr. Sailor-man (a quartermaster), Tummus (a boy, Grand-dad's great-grandson), Mrs. Pettigrew (Grand-dad's grandson's wife, Tummus' mother), Selina and her baby (Mrs. Pettigrew's niece), and Mrs. Hawkins (Selina's mother-in-law).

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Manuscript teaching contract dated March 26, 1858 made with Maria Rendleman, who agreed to teach at the Public School House of District No. 25 Rowan County, North Carolina, for the term of three months. Included are the names of five subscribers who agree to pay Miss Rendleman seventy-five cents per scholar per month. Miss Rendleman agreed to teach Orthography, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, History, Grammar and Geography.

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The letter in this collection is written in French by Lamartine's niece, Valentine, to an unknown "Monsieur et cher ami". Dated "1 Avril 1870" (April 1, 1870), it appears to be a lament about the sale of her uncle's property and perhaps the settlement of his estate. She is entreating the unknown recipient to help her with pricing certain articles, and signs the letter "Valentine de Lamartine, 135 avenue de L'empereur".

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The letter, written on White House stationery and dated March 26, 1945, was written to the students at Woman's College in appreciation of flowers they had presented to her.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Small manuscript book (61 pages) containing handwritten transcriptions of stories, poems and songs. The pages are handsewn, and both the front and back covers bear the words "Josiah Sanborn. His Book. 1784." Included is an alphabetical list of names of other students who attended Josiah's school in 1782, taught by "Doctor Emerson." Among the names are other Sanborns, including Enoch, Elizabeth, Jonna, Joseph, Jude, Phinhes [sic], Reuben, and Sarah. Other common names listed are Dearborn,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Dorothy Turlington Norment Papers date from approximately 1935 to 1947 and include letters, greeting cards, a wedding invitation, newspaper clippings, grades and schedules from Woman's College and an ORD program.Except for one undated letter (circa 1945) from Dorothy to her parents, all of the letters are written to Dorothy, most from her future husband. The letters are personal, with an occasional comment on the news of the day. Ed mentions a sighting of Winston Churchill in a...

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This collection includes an autographed poem signed "J.P." entitled "Earl Morie - a Ballad" with an autograph note at the foot, undated. The poem is a sad story of the death of the Earl sung by one who also seeks "the Field of Glory." The note identifies the poem as "One of my Bagatelle songs for Moira."

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The letter in this collection is written by Ruskin from Brantwood to his publisher, and is dated December 29, 1880: "I send you a phot[ograph] from my sketch of Amiens folk - now destroyed by Violet le Duc -- can you set in hand a pretty vignette from it..."

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Correspondents include: Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906), leader of the American women's suffrage movement. One handwritten, signed letter written to Reverend Holland, dated January 24, 1888. One handwritten, signed note to __ Ernst, 1881. Mary Antin (1881-1949), American sociologist. One handwritten, signed letter to children's author Kate Douglas Wiggin Riggs, Feb. 25, 1913. Cecelia Beaux...

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The 1988 letter to the Alumni News is from Winifred M. Reid, and encloses the other two other letters in the collection.

The 1919 letter is from Rebekah McClain (Stroupe), who gives a very good description of the "Y" Hut and mentions the flu epidemic. The 1928 letter is from Eulalie Elliott (Reid), who shares memories of her year here and tells of a return visit to the campus in 1942.

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May Queen and Attendants, The Carolinian, May 1938.

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This collection contains Lydia Rawlins' manuscript diary, accompanied by two letters written to Lydia Rawlins. Lydia Rawlins was a schoolteacher and daughter of a preacher who lived in Manila, Indiana. When the diary begins she is teaching in Addison, Township in Shelby County, Indiana. Lydia was very religious and held anti-slavery views. Her diary covers the tension within her church regarding the issue of slavery and how the issue affected her faith.

Content Description From the Collection: This collection contains a single page proof from What I Really Wrote About the War, a book of essays written by George Bernard Shaw. Shaw has corrected the page proof, altering the reading "...I regard the Tsar as a monarch whose views differ deeply from President Wilson's..." to "....I regard the Tsar as a gentleman whose views are not those of President Wilson..." He made...