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ALS. Writes on his novels Zeluco and Edward. On the reverse is a note that the letter was received of Captain Graham Moore, 1798, May 16.

ALS. Petitions for the institution of Welsh language instruction in schools and the use of the Welsh language in courts and churchs in those areas where the majority of the populace speaks only Welsh.

John M. Orr was a lawyer residing in Leesburg, Virginia. The John M. Orr papers include legal and business correspondence and papers, and other items relating to Orr's activities as meat supply agent for the Confederate Army, his legal work for railroads, and his interest in the Southern racial problem and in colonization as a possible solution. Includes records of Orr as a commission merchant, mercantile and legal office accounts of Orr and Arthur Lee Rogers, and court records of Loudoun and Fauquier counties, Virginia, including an execution record book for Loudon County, Virginia. Other manuscript volumes include notes for suits, ledgers, and a journal.

Collection of 23 photographs taken by John Moses, pediatrician and photographer, of teenaged parents and their children, chiefly in Durham, North Carolina and surrounding communities, and eight photographs of farmworkers taken in the South. Seeking to find the "human stories behind the statistics," he photographed the adolescent parents - almost all young women - in their homes and urban surroundings. A few images include grandparents. The photographs of farm laborers were taken in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida from 1974-1979, and include portraits of children, adults, and older people of all races at work and at home; also includes one of farmworkers protesting on a road as a bus with a Minute Maid sign rolls by. The gelatin silver prints all measure 11x14 inches. Includes an index of image titles and a three-page statement by Moses about his photography and its relevance to his medical work. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.

3 letters (ALS) to Seaver relating to personal and professional matters.

John M. W. Hicks was an elected auditor of the American Tobacco Company in 1898. The collection contains material concerning the American Tobacco Company and its affiliate, the British-American Tobacco Company; some papers of the R.J. Reynolds Company; and papers concerning the widespread philanthropies of Mr. Hicks as well as information concerning his personal investments.

John Nelson Cole, Jr. was an undergraduate student at Trinity College from 1905-1909. The scrapbook includes diary-style entries, photographs, clippings, receipts, tickets, poems, short stories, correspondence and other memorabilia related to his final year at Trinity College and his subsequent career. The scrapbook ranges in date from 1905-1919.

Johnny Long was a native of Newell, North Carolina and a student at Duke University from 1931 to 1935. In 1931, Long and ten other Duke freshmen formed the Duke Collegians Orchestra, later the Johnny Long Orchestra. Long and the Orchestra recorded several hits and performed at jazz venues around the country. Long continued to perform until his death in 1972. The scrapbook contains photographs, clippings, gig posters and advertisements, album liner notes, and other assorted memorabilia related to the Duke Collegians and the Johnny Long Orchestra and other big bands from North Carolina with inclusive dates 1931-1990.

Professor of American Literature, President of Georgia Southern College from 1968 to 1971, and editor of the Georgia Review from 1950 to 1957. Collection contains John Olin Eidson's research papers pertaining to Alfred Lord Tennyson in America. There are copies of reviews of Tennyson's dramatic works and of performances by Mrs. D. P. Bowers, actress. Also included are notes, writings, and clippings about American authors (Thomas Wolfe, Charles Stearns Wheeler, John Hall Wheelock, and many others).

2 ALS and a newspaper clipping. Ordronaux, then State Commissioner in Lunacy, writes to William Fairfield Warren, president of Boston University, that he must postpone his lectures in law at Boston University. He attaches a newspaper clipping which relates that a report critical of the management of the State Lunatic Asylum had been presented, but that the signatures of the doctors presenting the report had apparently been forged.