Special Collections & Archives

Humphrey was president of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad. This letter, dated March 8, 1876, is to the Lobdell Car Wheel County, Wilmington, Delaware, regarding their account.

Lady Dorothy Nevill (1826-1913) was a political and artistic hostess, a horticulturalist, a memorist, and a prolific correspondent. This collection contains 54 letters, mostly brief, that formed correspondence of Lady Dorothy Nevill. Repeat correspondents include Arthur Charles Wellesley, fourth Duke of Wellington; Henrietta Blanche, Countess of Airlie; Mary du Claux, also known as Agnes Mary Frances Duclaux née Robinson; Georgina, Dowager Countess of Dudley (G. H. Dudley); and Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbooke. Suffragette leader Millicent Fawcett also wrote to Nevill.

In 1946, lead architect Jens Fredrick Larson, joined by his son Nils, was hired to develop architectural plans for the new Wake Forest College (WFC) campus under the patronage of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. This collection documents a small amount of the work that Jens F. Larson and his son Nils did on the Wake Forest University campus and in the Winston Salem area, as well as a WFU memoradum and biographical information.

This church was founded in 1849. It is a member of the Montgomery Baptist Association. Records consist of minutes of church conferences, 1849-1964.

This collection contains the manuscripts and correspondence of Laurence Stallings, writer and Wake Forest College alumnus. It also contains numerous reviews and newspaper clippings collected by Stallings, motion picture ephemera, personal memorabilia, and materials from his military service. An large portion of the collection is dedicated to the many drafts and revisions of his final book, The Doughboys.

Materials within this collection include audiotapes collected by Lee H. Potter, WFU English professor from 1965-1989. Many of the tapes were recorded by WFDD, the on-campus public radio station. Included are recodings by W. H. Auden, Cleanth Brooks, Malcom Cowley, Dwight MacDonald, and Stephen Spender.

L. R. Pruette was a Baptist minister in North Carolina and an alumnus of Wake Forest College (Class of 1887).

L.E. Huffman was an alumnus of Wake Forest College (Class of 1939).

1838 letter from Wake Forest College student Samuel Meredith Ingram (1809-1905) condemning United States policy toward Native Americans.

Levander T. Rushing was a soldier during the Civil War. He served in the Company I of the 53rd Regiment from Anson County, N.C. This collection contains correspondence of a variety of people with links to Rushing,though the main correspondent is G.M. Rushing, who may have gone by the name Burwell. Also present are a number of undated envelopes and two Confederate 2-dollar bills.

Lewis Elwood Ludlum was a Baptist pastor and mission developer for the N.C. Baptist State Convention and Associational Missionary for both Kings Mountain and Pilot Mountain Baptist associations. His papers consist of biographical information, including an autobiography; correspondence with local, state, and Southern Baptist Convention leaders; educational files; financial and legal documents; literary productions of Ludlum and others; photographs; printed items; and his professional files containing information on North Carolina Baptist associations, churches, and Winston-Salem, North Carolina organizations in which he participated.

Lewis W. Williams was a Baptist pastor who served churches in western North Carolina.

Liberty Baptist Church was constituted on March 17, 1849. Included in this collection are meeting minutes, membership rolls, and records of church expenses.

In November, 1824, Joshua Lee, Peter Owen, Phillip Copple, and approximately 20 others met near a spring one mile east of the present Liberty Baptist Church and organized as an arm of Tom's Creek Baptist Church. On August 22, 1829, this arm was constituted into a Baptist Church by a presbytery consisting of Elders Eli Phillips, Jesse Sowell, Ashley Swaim, and the deacons of Tom's Creek Baptist Church. Liberty was constituted with a membership of 25. This collection contains minutes of church conferences, articles of faith, the constitution of the church as an arm of Toms Creek, their constitution as a church, a list of charter members and histories of the church by G.W. Miller and H.T. Penry.

Records of Carlton Prince West, Librarian, Heck-Williams and Z. Smith Reynolds libraries, 1946-1975. There are correspondence and subject files, literary productions, personnel files, and reports and statistics. Selected correspondents include Brooks Hays, Charles B. Deane, and Harold W. Tribble. There are files relating to the Cornerstone Committee, the Baptist Historical Collection, the Library and Lecture committees, the Piedmont University Center, and the Wake Forest Baptist Church Music Commitee.

Lillion Wingate (L. W.) Cain, Sr. was a Wake Forest College alumnus (1927), minister, and Army chaplain during World War II. This collection contains the manuscript for Cain's second book and a newspaper article titled "90-year old Doesn't Let Accident Get Him Down" from October 11, 1990.

The Lipe (or Leib) family lived in Deep Well, now Mooresville, Iredell County, North Carolina. The collection consists of 27 letters by 7 different Confederate soldiers, telling of their experiences in the Civil War.

Lisbon Street Baptist Church was constituted in 1870. Included in this collection are church meeting minutes, financial records, clippings, and membership lists.

Little Conetoe Primitive Baptist Church was established on July 23, 1803. This collection contains minute books, membership lists, and financial records.