Scope and Contents Primarily letters from John F. Williams to Ethel Trotter Williams, both before and after they were married. In the early letters, which he wrote while on business in Massachusetts and New York, he expresses his love for her and repeatedly tells her how much he misses her - a theme he continued in the later letters, most of which he wrote while Ethel was visiting her mother in Black Mountain, N.C.

Scope and Contents Comprised of five composition books in which Ethel Trotter, as a teen in high school and college, records observations about such things as the weather, encounters with friends, visiting family, trips to uptown Charlotte and Lakewood Park, school, and her various suitors.

Scope and Contents These are primarily lists of events, e.g., weather, clothes worn, etc., with some diary-type entries.