- This collection is the correspondence between Katharine Smith Reynolds (1880-1924) and J. Edward Johnston (d. 1951). Katharine Smith married R. J. Reynolds of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in 1905. She conceived of and was instrumental in the formation of Reynolda Village and the construction of the Reynolda House in Winston-Salem, NC. The correspondence in this collection occurred after Katharine Reynolds had been widowed. A majority of the letters were sent from Katharine Reynolds at the Reynolda House to Edward Johnston, the former school superintendent of Reynolda Village. Reynolds and Johnston married in June 1921, and their correspondence as represented in this collection continues for a few years after their marriage.
- Katie Murray was a native of Rose Hill, Duplin county, North Carolina. She was a graduate of Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina, and the Woman's Missionary Training School, Louisville, Kentucky. She served as a Southern Baptist missionary in China and Taiwan from 1922 until her retirement in 1962.
- Kenneth Keeton was an assistant Professor of German. His papers consist of correspondence and records and receipts for remodeling of the "Barn" for a student center on the Reynolda Estate.
- K.T. Raynor was an alumnus of Wake Forest College (Class of 1914), and an associate professor of mathematics at Wake Forest College from 1926 until his retirement in 1961.