Correspondents include Isaac Rusling Pennypacker, Emily M. Deland, Theodore Marburg, John Henry Kelley Shannahan, William B. Howland, George Otto Trevelyan, and Landon Carter Gray.
Includes correspondence about the death and estate of John C. Angier, letters regarding the heating system for Lincoln Hospital, and correspondence related to the Trinity College building fund and construction of new dormitories.
Includes correspondence with John Merrick, James E. Shepard, and others related to contributions by James B. Duke and Benjamin N. Duke to Lincoln Hospital and the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua for the Colored Race; letters regarding the Main Building (Washington Duke Building) fire at Trinity College; and letters and statements related to the Trinity College building fund and campus construction.
Includes correspondence with C. W. Toms and W. W. Flowers related to the construction of Memorial Methodist Church (Durham); and letters from James A. Thomas regarding the conversion of his American Tobacco Company securities, with some observations on events in China.