Special Collections & Archives

This certified carbon copy of materials from the album of Reverend Alexander Bell Smith contains birth and death dates, family information, sermon notes, notes of a student, and a Civil War letter from M.A. Nelms to her husband Capt. E. Nelms, 9th Regt, Miss. Inf., November 15, 1861.

Benson Field Cole was a Wake Forest College alumnis (1856), who died in late 1856. This collection contains two items from Cole's time as a Wake Forest student: a photocopied diary and a notebook containing course notes for philosophy and chemistry courses taught by William Gaston Simmons. It also contains clippings about Cole from the .

Dr. Harold Wayland Tribble was a scholar, professor, Baptist minister, and the tenth president of Wake Forest University. This collection contains materials from Tribble's professional and personal work, including biographical materials, correspondence, educational materials, interviews, sermons, photographs, subject files, and writings.

Livingston Johnson was a Baptist minister and editor of the . His papers contain biographical information, correspondence, photographs, news clippings, writings, and other memorabilia.

Richard E. Groves served as pastor of the Wake Forest Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, from 1985-2008 and was one of the constituent members of the organizations Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, the Alliance of Baptists, and Religious Leaders for Reconciliation. This collection consists of biographical materials; correspondence with professor and liberal Baptist Stewart A. Newman and others; writings by Groves and others; materials concerning race relations in Winston-Salem; and general subject files regarding the Southern Baptist Convention, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, the Alliance of Baptists, and other topics.

These biographical files are comprised primarily of newspaper clippings and materials collected by or on behalf of Wake Forest University's Special Collections and Archives department. Materials were collected to document people of note related to Wake Forest College, Wake Forest University, Baptists in North Carolina and elsewhere, and other related organizations.

William Bailey Royall was an alumnus of Wake Forest College (1861), Commissary Sergeant in the 55th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, professor of Greek and bursar of Wake Forest College for sixty years, and a Baptist minister. His papers consist of biographical information, writings, photographs, subject files, and materials related to his time at Wake Forest College. The bulk of the collection consists of grade and attendance reports from Wake Forest College professors.

Reverend Willoughby Hudgins was born March 8, 1799, in Orange County, N.C. He resided in North Carolina until 1852 when he moved to Walton County, Georgia, where he later died on September 18, 1862. Materials in this collection include photocopies of various documents from Hudgins' life including some of his correspondence between family members. A small number of other items are also available such as a pension card and short biographies of his life.