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Papers (1937, undated) including a typescript volume, newspaper clippings, scripts of radio broadcast, African American spirituals.

Papers (1775-1949) including correspondence, deeds, financial accounts, photographs, and miscellaneous related to the Hughes and Grimsley families of Greene County, North Carolina.

Papers (1805-1889, 1961-1963) of a wealthy, Elizabeth City, NC business family, consisting of correspondence, legal records, financial records, genealogical papers, Civil War events, letters, wedding gift, labor strikes and miscellaneous.

Papers (1866-1872) consisting correspondence to suitor, romantic and personal letters, receipt, bill of sale, difficulty of making train connection, dispute between older and younger, etc.

Papers (1918) of U.S. army officer candidate from Elizabeth City, NC, including notebooks of training notes, army manuals, special orders, and an equipment inventory.

Information and artifacts from the visits to Laupus Library by librarians from the Moldovan Scientific Medical Library in 2007 and by the Moldovan Minister of Health in 2008.

The collection includes publications created by the ECU School of Medicine and the University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina, formerly Pitt County Memorial Hospital.

Lower Cape Fear Section and Adjacent Country Giving the Location of some of the Old Plantations and Names of the Planters Made in 1775 by Henry Mouzon (Photocopy)

Papers (1792-1969) including correspondence, financial papers,a diary, a cipher book, newspaper clipping, and a family history references to school, comments on Democratic Party, genealogical material, etc., related to the Sills family residing at Belford Plantation in Nash County, North Carolina.

Papers (1895-1935) of Greenville attorney, three-term mayor, and judge of the NC Superior Court, 1910-1920, consisting of correspondence, financial papers, legal papers, brief book, clippings, postcards, poems, negatives, standard diary, etc.

Papers of Andre Dubus (1967-1984, undated) documenting the literary career of the noted Lake Charles, Louisiana-born American novelist and essayist, consisting mainly of loose manuscript items transferred from the Stuart Wright Book Collection including correspondence, photographic prints, notes, advertising postcards, dust jackets, broadsides, and clippings of reviews, by or about Andre Dubus, Richard Ghormley Eberhart, and others; also a corrected page proof of his short story Land Where My Fathers Died (1984).

Collection about the East Carolina University lecture series begun in 2001 to honor noted surgeon and Laupus Library donor Karel B. Absolon, MD, PhD.

Included is the July 30, 1862, issue of The London American newspaper which was published in London, England. The newspaper was only published from May 2, 1860, through early 1863 and had a pro-Union focus once the American Civil War started.

Reconaissance of the Country between Newbern and Goldsboro between the Trent and the Neuse Rivers