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Map of the Southern Parts of the United States, (ca. 1804?) (Corrected by the author) 8 by 15 image. 16-3/4 by 23-3/4 frame, 3-1/4 inch matting. Heavy creases at folds, Tattered bottom edge only slighting affecting image, Moderate foxing. Framed in decorative full wooden frame and matted in wide linen matt with acid free matte board. Location: Vault.

Virginia partis australis et Floridae.., (1671-1673) (Militaria Germanica Communia) 11-1/4 by 13-1/2 image size. 2-1/2 - 3 inch linen matting over acid free inner matting. 20-3/8 by 22-3/8 decorative wooden frame. Two "professional" repairs and one repair with tape: one in the land image and one in the ocean. Contains a watermark on the left side of a fools cap. Location: Vault.

[Amsterdam] : [J. and C. Blaeu], [1662]. 1 map : hand colored ; 38 x 49 cm. Scale [ca. 1:2,300,000] (W 86°--W 75°/N 38°--N 30°). Relief shown pictorially. Covers Atlantic Coast from Virginia to Florida. Prime meridian: [Ferro]. Bar scale above the neat line on the lower margin: Milliaria Germanica communia.From J. Blaeu's Atlas Maior, 1662. Cf. Burden, P.D. Mapping of North America. Includes decorative cartouche and coat of arms. Latin text on the reverse side. Contains elepant watermark. Date approximated.

Virginia Marylandia et Carolina in America Septentrionali, (1714). Britannorum Industria exculte. 18-1/2" x 22-1/4" image. 2-1/2" matting. 26-3/4" x 30" wooden framing. Hand-colored. Dampstaining at margins. Contains a countermark and watermark of fleur-de-lys. Location: Vault.

Carolina (1746?). Pulled from volume-3. page 562. 7-7/8 by 10-7/8 image size, 2-2/3 to 3-1/3 linen matting over acid free matting, 16-2/3 by 18-2/3 decorative wooden frame, Moderate foxing. Black and white map. Location: Vault.

Carte de la Carolina et Georgie Pour . . . (1773). This is the 2nd state of the map and it was included in Histoire Generale Des Voyages.... , published by Harrevelt and Changuion in Amsterdam in 1774. The map is black and white and minimal foxing. Watermark of a strasbourg bend with a fleur. Location: Vault.

Regni Mexicani seu Nova Hispania, Ludovicianae, N. Anglia. . . (ca. 1759). 18 by 21-3/4 image size. 2-1/2 to 3 inch matting. 27 by 30-1/4 inch frame. Included on this map is the location of Quivira, one of the lost "Seven Cities of Gold" sought by Spanish explorers in the 16th Century. Engravings of natives and ships in margins. Smudge of color in Native American image. Small dark mark in Central America area. Folds at center. Hand-colored. Contains a fleur watermark and a countermark. Location: Vault.

Regni Mexicani seu Nova Hispania, Ludovicianae, N. Anglia. . . (ca. 1759). 18 by 21-3/4 image size. 2-1/2 to 3 inch matting. 27 by 30-1/4 inch frame. Included on this map is the location of Quivira, one of the lost "Seven Cities of Gold" sought by Spanish explorers in the 16th Century. Engravings of natives and ships in margins. Smudge of color in Native American image. Small dark mark in Central America area. Folds at center. Hand-colored. Contains a fleur watermark and a countermark. Location: Vault.

Papers (1862-1863) consisting of correspondence from a Massachusetts soldier written to his mother while he was stationed for part of his Civil War service in occupied New Bern, North Carolina.

The collection contains papers related to Dr. Mabe's personal medical practice, personal papers, product advertisements, and journal.

Papers (1902-1980s, undated) of Greenville, NC, lawyer and member (1956-1961) of the N.C. House of Representatives and Greenville Mayor (1969-1971) Frank Marion Wooten, Jr. (1916-1992) consisting of correspondence, pamphlets, proposed bills, reports, petitions, resolutions, bulletins, periodicals, printed bills, and photographs. Crime and punishment-related topics, and tax issues are major topics covered.

Papers (1929-1974) of Rear Admiral Wilson Durward Leggett, Jr., U.S. Naval Academy graduate of 1920 and Tarboro, North Carolina, native, including correspondence, photographs and photograph album, newspaper clippings, an order book, newsletters, journals, scrapbook, etc., documenting his Naval career and work with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Science and the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy.

Papers of Henry S. Taylor (1968-1990) documenting the life and literary career of the noted Lincoln, Virginia-born American poet, translator, and educator who taught literature and co-directed the creative writing at American University in Washington, DC, 1973-2003; including edited manuscripts, loose manuscript items transferred from the Stuart Wright Book Collection, printed materials, proofs of published works & oversized materials.

Papers of John Crowe Ransom (1904-2000, undated) documenting the life and literary career of the noted Pulaski, Tennessee-born American editor, poet, literary critic, and educator, including correspondence, manuscripts, photographic prints, proofs of published materials, printed material, audio recordings, loose manuscript items transferred from the Stuart Wright Book Collection and oversized materials, by or about W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, T. S. Eliot, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Ghormley Eberhart, Randall Jarrell, Katherine Anne Porter, William Styron, Allen Tate, Peter Hillsman Taylor, and others, in English and French language.

Papers of Flannery O'Connor (1962-1984, undated) documenting the life and literary career of the noted Savannah, Georgia-born American short story writer & novelist in the Southern Gothic style, consisting of a broadside entitled Higher Education [Poem] by Mary Flannery O'Connor. Palaemon Broadside No. 16 (Palaemon Press, Ltd., undated); also mimeographed, photocopied typescripts, clippings, letters, and an audio recording of Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction, a speech given by Flannery O'Connor in 1960.