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Includes letters related to the funding needs of Watts Hospital and Kittrell College; letters from W. A. Erwin about the new Erwin Cotton Mills sites in Cooleemee, NC and Harnett County, NC; letters from William A. Blair, Lindsay Patterson, and Jeter C. Pritchard on 1902 political campaigns; and letters related to Benjamin N. Duke's purchase of property on 5th Ave. and 76th St., New York, NY.

B. F. Taylor to Benjamin N. Duke: land plat for property at 5th Ave. and East 76th St., New York, NY (Frank E. Forbes, surveyor).

Includes a letter dated November 24, 1902 that describes a possibly gender nonconforming and/or a transgender person. The letter is written by George Craven and is addressed to his mother. Toward the end of the letter on the third page, he writes about a Columbia University student who lives in his boarding house. He writes, "There is a half crazy man at our boarding house, or at least he is crazy half of the time, thinks he is a woman and dresses like one, wearing dresses and a wig with long hair. He is a Columbia student and went down to the gymnasium dressed this way the other day. It was all right until he went into the locker rooms where the men were minus even fig leaves, but then there was a scattering to all the darker corners. He is perfectly harmless and quite like ordinary mortals most of the time."