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The Writings series consists of Baldwin's own articles and essays, as well as her notes, drafts, and related materials. Most of her writings focused on the colonial United States, especially colonial clergy, and higher education for women. Her ninety-page essay, "The Woman's College As I Remember It," documents Baldwin's challenges in administering Duke's Woman's College. The series begins with individual essays and articles, organized alphabetically, followed by other writing-related materials, organized alphabetically by type (i.e. notes, book reviews, etc.).

The Writings series includes published pieces, unpublished manuscripts, and drafts of Boyd's articles and books. His interest in southern, and especially North Carolina, history is evident in these materials, as is his interest in colonial America. The writings are arranged alphabetically by title.

Hand- and typewritten manuscripts, notebooks, bound volumes, together with research notes, for published and unpublished books and articles. Not included are the Guide to Religious Pageantry (published in 1923) and The Project Method in Religion (Ph.D. thesis, University of South Carolina, 1924). Works represented are: 1) Autobiography, tentatively titled The Young Bee Makes the Honeycomb, [1959-1960]. 2) A Boy's Life of Albert Schweitzer, undated 3) Character Building, various dates 4) Cherokee Legends of the Great Smokey Mountains, [1954-1962] 5) Child Development, writings on, various dates 6) Childhood and Character, [1929] 7) College term papers, Harvard, [1911-1912]. 8) Counseling College Students, [1930-1967]. 9) Doorways of Duke, [1950], on Duke architecture. 10) Duke University and the Things of the Spirit, undated 11) Family counseling, writings on, various dates. 12) Fiction, unpublished short stories, various dates. 13) Gullah. Duke University Press, 1940. Bound typescript and personal copy. 14) History of the Southern Christian Advocate, undated The Advocate is a South Carolina Methodist publication. 15) Life Among the Gullah Negroes, undated 16) Life and Times of Washington Duke, undated 17) A Little Girl Named Maggie, [1953, how Maggie Valley, N.C. got its name.] 18) Miscellaneous articles 19) The Negro in the Methodist Church. The Board of Missions and the Church Extension, The Methodist Church, 1951. Bound copy inscribed to Dr. and Mrs. Gross. 20) A Negro Story Nobody Knows: When Negro Methodists sat in Southern Churches (tentative title), undated [on the pre-Civil War period] 21) Writings on Religion 22) A Southerner Looks at Segregation, 1955 (written in response to the Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education) 23) Speaking of Boys, undated (Chapter 3) 24) The Story of Lake Junaluska, 1950, and Chief Junaluska. 25) Where Your Hillbilly Music Comes From, undated

Bassett appears to have been a prolific author, and a small portion of his drafts and essays are in this series. Topics range from public health or medical issues and treatment to personal essays and genealogical research on various figures in Georgia medical history.

Research notes, manuscript drafts, clippings, programs, and bulletins related to Cannon's sermons, publications, and courses. Additional course-related material can be found in the Subject Files series.

Divided into two categories: parapsychological and other writings. Within that arrangement, the papers are broken down into sub-categories that are chronologically and topically arranged. Included is information about the Rhines' writings and those of others.

Writings include articles, book reviews, addresses, and other pieces written by Wilson while a student at Princeton University and as a faculty member of the Political Science Dept. at Duke University. Major subjects include obligatory arbitration, treaties, African American suffrage, international law, public law, international organization, World War II, the British Commonwealth, the United Nations, and U.S. foreign relations.

Contains material related to Currie's writings as well as writings by others that he kept as research files.

This series contains copies, reprints, drafts, notes, and other documents associated with Chamberiln's scholarly and popular writings and his service as an editor. These include: reprints and copies of published journal articles and book chapters; draft writings; reviews of published work by Chamberlin and others; copies of books written by Chamberlin; and files from Chamberlin's activity as an editor.