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Includes James E. Shepard's proposal for building an African American teaching college in Durham, letters from Daniel Lindsay Russell and others regarding 1896 Republican campaigns and the Fusion movement in NC, and letters related to Washington Duke's endowment of Trinity College.

Includes correspondence related to the funding and construction of the (Mary E. Duke Lyon) Memorial Hall at Guilford College.

Includes letters from Governor Daniel Lindsay Russell about the Fusion movement, the 1898 election campaigns of NC and their results, and personal and political troubles following the November 1898 Wilmington race riots; and a letter from Bishop W. A. Candler requesting aid for missionary work in Cuba (August 1898).

Includes letters regarding fundraising for the Braxton Craven Memorial Hall at Trinity College (January 1899), the rebuilding of the Durham Colored Graded School after a fire (January-February 1899), the construction of a Methodist church in Havana, Cuba, a letter from Julian S. Carr regarding the need for new management at the Durham Electric Lighting Company, and correspondence related to the debt of Daniel Lindsay Russell.

Includes correspondence related to the Southern Conservatory of Music building addition and the purchase of timber land in FL.

Chas. C. Hook to J. E. Stagg: sketches of Southern Conservatory of Music addition.

Includes letters related to construction of Benjamin N. Duke's Durham stables and J. C. Kilgo's residence, dedication of the Southern Conservatory of Music, Catawba River water power, Erwin Cotton Mills expansion, and state and national Republican campaigns, and a letter from J. S. Trice regarding the Soudan Mission in Sierra Leone (March 1900).