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This collection contains over 100 letters (1885, 1892-1897) written to Sallie Dromgoole Cotten (1876-1972), daughter of Sallie Swepson Southall Cotten and Robert Randolph Cotten, either while she was at home at Cottendale in Falkland, Pitt County, North Carolina, or at Notre Dame of Maryland Preparatory School and Collegiate Institute in Baltimore. The letters are written mainly by Sallie's female friends, but also some male friends in the 1890s (1892-1897) The correspondents are family, associates, and friends, especially schoolmates. Topics are mainly related to interests of college women and men. Also included are ephemera such as dance cards and dance invitations especially to "German" dances which were large popular events among wealthy white families in Eastern North Carolina tobacco towns in the 1890s.

International pocket medical formulary used by three doctors in Spring Hope, North Carolina.

Papers (1863-1961) including correspondence; diary; family histories; recollection; description of prisoners playing games, making furniture, jewelry, beer; reading newspaper, letters, etc.

This collection contains letters, clippings, photographs, and historical information about Vanceboro, North Carolina.

The collection has papers from the Massengill family, specifically John David, Samuel Evans, and Pauline (Massengill) DeFriece. Included are John's account books, booklets, DeFriece's correspondence with the Country Doctor Museum, photographs, and information about the S. E. Massengill Company.

Papers of physician William Ernest Evans, including "The Physician's Perfect Call List and Record" notebook and a newspaper clipping of "Brotherhood."

Collection consists of a single annotated manuscript titled History of Greenville, North Carolina, authored anonymously and undated. The manuscript documents aspects of the history and development of Greenville, North Carolina. Handwritten and or editorial revisions appear throughout the text.

Papers (1929-1966, 1979) including photographs, clippings, correspondence, certificates of promotion and retirement, publication, newspaper clipping.

Collection (1802-1863) of a New York family including correspondence from England,

Abstract: This collection contains documents from 1949-1953 related to Reverend Henry Speight, born in Greenville, NC, who was a pastor for the First Christian Church in Staunton, Indiana, and the Vanceboro Christian Church in Vanceboro, North Carolina.

Register (1908-1913) including hotel register, information about hotel guests, arguments between two parties, etc.

Papers (1824-1918, undated) including correspondence, financial records, legal materials, clippings, and miscellaneous.

Papers (1947-1960) including correspondence, references concern Bible, auditing of books, school events, receipts, pilgrims, and miscellaneous.

Papers (1974-1916) consisting of correspondence, land records, financial papers, legal papers, newspaper clippings and miscellaneous.