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Collection (1839, 1859-1867, 1905-1978) including correspondence, family histories, receipts, notes, clippings, photographs.

Biography of Clarence Raymond Deller, Jr., Cdr., USN (ret) [1918- ], by Elise B. Deller

Includes receipts from tuition payments at College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore, Maryland, letter and signatures of support for Smith to operate a drug store, and receipt from supply order.

The collection has letters, journals, notes, and transcripts of journals that belonged to Newsom Jones Pittman.

Correspondence (1828) between John Pearsall and Elizabeth Pearsall, his wife, of New Hanover County.

Blueprint, 1916, of Plan of Greenville, NC, a true and correct copy of a former plan, 1885, by Alex L. Blow, Jr., which was also a true and precise copy of a town map made prior to the burning of the courthouse.

Commonplace book (1801-1846) compiled by G. Harris, while surgeon aboard a British East India Company opium-carrying ship, the 750 ton Lady Flora, just off Singapore, wherein he documents his care of two patients, a comatose 6-year old boy suffering from fever, and a 30 year old woman who was hemorrhaging; lists of more than forty books; abstracts from them including medical titles such as "Diseases of the East Indies," "Johnstone on Diseases of Hot Climates," "Jenner on Vaccine Inoculation," Erasmus Darwin's "Zoonomia...," Burke's "Essay on the Sublime," and "Southey's Life of Nelson"; including an engraved stationer's seal from I. W. Norie and Co. on the front pastedown; a "A New and Correct Plan of the City of Bath, published in 1801, and a several loose notes.

Photographs, clippings and miscellaneous. 1943-1993, undated

Papers (1865) consisting of diary of day to day activities.

Papers (1944–1945) of Lieutenant Commander Louis F. Loutrel Jr. including ship's histories, war diary (27 September–4 October 1945), roster, and clippings concerning the USS Williams (DE-372).

Papers (1929-1961, 1982) including correspondence, photographs, citations, reports, war diaries for USS Zane and Trever, accounts of battles at Pearl Harbor and Guadalcanal, publications, orders, and personal materials.