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Materials compiled by Painter while working in the late 1980s with one of her students, Leah Hagedorn, on a reprint edition (never published) of the novels of Walter White, an early 20th century African American author and chief executive of the NAACP from 1929-1935. Subgroup contains copies of correspondence to, from, and about White; copies of his newspapers columns, fiction manuscripts, and other writings; and Painter's original correspondence, drafts, and notes about White's life and work. Arranged alphabetically based on Painter's original folder titles; descriptive words such as "correspondence" and "photocopies" were added as needed to clarify folder contents.

Description from Frey: Autograph manuscript, written in ink on one sheet of ruled paper, about 12 x 7 inches. Recto: thirty-two lines. Verso: "is rougher than it was on Michigan or Huron"; thirty-nine lines. Bound in a small folio volume, half green morocco. A list of the names and birth dates of the members of Whitman's family; a newspaper clipping on the death of Walter Whitman is pasted on the page. The fragment on verso is a portion of the diary of Whitman's trip from New Orleans, beginning with the journey on the Great Lakes and ending with the return to Brooklyn (Uncollected Poetry and Prose, 11, 78-79).

This article, written in German, was written by Walther Flemming, a German biologist and founder of cytogenetics (a branch of cell biology concerned with chromosomes).