Special Collections & Archives

Account books of the Crudup family with merchants in Wake Forest, North Carolina and Son, and County, and two unnamed accounts. There is also a receipt, a letter (1883), and a manuscript copy of a circa 1816 pamphlet that contained an address to the by (1791-1872), circa 1870s.

Cuala Press was a printing press established in 1902 as the Dun Emer Press, founded by Yeats sisters, Elizabeth (Lolly) and Mary (Lily), and friend Elizabeth Gleeson. The Yeats spun off the Cuala Press in 1908, leaving Gleeson and working with other Yeats family members. The press sought to return printmaking to its artisinal roots and highlight the works of Irish writers and artists. This collection's prints predominantly include excerpts from Irish poets, letters, and proverbs, but also include personal invitations, print devices and advertisements for the Press, photographs, a 1910 Gaelic calendar, and cards.

The collection includes correspondence, 1861-68, relating to the G.W. Barefoot family in Wilson, North Carolina and is primarily correspondence dealing with mercantile products. There are letters from Wilmington, Suffolk, Virginia, Wilson, North Carolina and "Camp Advance, June 21, 1861", from a member of Co. K, 2nd Regt. North Carolina Infantry who had lost his Colt revolver. There are receipts for goods, three legal papers. One folder contains letters of L. Robert Lancaster to his sister [Mrs. Maggie Culpepper?], 1886-90.

Cyclone Covey was a Professor of History and Humanities at Wake Forest University from 1968-1988. Materials in this collection include Cyclone Covey's monographs.