LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES.

The Southern Historical Collection in the Manuscripts Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently made available the following manuscript groups: papers,, 1770-1830, of Martin Browne (fl. 1770-1830), a Frederick County, Virginia, tavern keeper and flour trade speculator; papers, 1861-79, of Ancram W. Ezzell (fl. 1837-79), a Duplin County, North Carolina, merchant and captain in the state's 40th Regiment, 3rd Artillery; papers, 1862-79, of John J. Metzgar (fl. 1862-79), a sergeant and later 2nd lieutenant in the 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry with the Army of Tennessee; papers, 1874-77, of J. B. Willis (fl. 1851-77), a Methodist minister and teacher at New Orleans University and at a normal school in Huntsville, Alabama; papers, 1900-89, of Susie Sharp (1907-96), a Reidsville, North Carolina, attorney and the first woman elected a chief justice of a state supreme court; records, 1940s-80s, of the North Carolina Council on Human Relations, organized to solve racial problems in the state through research and communication; papers, 1950-85, of Ernest B. Furgurson (1929-), author, reporter, and former chief of the Washington bureau of the Baltimore Sun; papers, 1956-57, of Herschel V. Anderson, soldier in the 93rd Signal Battalion, 7th U.S. Army, stationed in Stuttgart, Germany, describing Army life and his travels in Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Denmark, Belgium, and England; papers, 1958-89, of Elizabeth McRae of North Carolina, documenting her career as a movie and television actress; papers, 1960s-80s, of Robert E. Gallman, economic historian on the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; records, 1975-87, of the Cardinal Health Agency in Lumberton, North Carolina, concerning public health efforts in the eastern portion of the state; records, 1985-96, of the Publishers Association of the South, an organization of book publishers, related firms, and individuals with the goal of promoting publishing in the region; and oral history interviews, 1997, conducted by Bryan T. McNeill with four retired southern West Virginia coal miners, who discuss family, work, and the United Mine Workers of America's 1949 strike.

The University Archives in the Manuscripts Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently made available an addition to the records of the Legal Affairs division of the University of North Carolina system pertaining to litigation and negotiations with the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare over desegregation of the university system.

The Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, reports the following recently accessioned manuscript collections: papers, 1787-1895, of Reuben Bartley of the U.S. Army Signal Corps from Pennsylvania primarily concerning his service during the Kilpatrick-Dahlgren raid in 1864, his capture and incarceration in Libby Prison in Richmond; minute book, 1828-36, of the Temperance Society of Shenandoah County, Woodstock, which also includes records, 1840, of the Shenandoah Temperance Society Auxiliary of the Virginia State Temperance Society; papers, 1842-73, of Thomas R. Ware as a purser in the U.S. Navy and a merchant in Fredericksburg; financial records, 1847-79, of Livingston P. Noell, merchant of Pittsylvania County; letter, 1843, of Lilburn Henderson Trigg to Charles A. Wickliffe concerning the practice of law while serving as postmaster of Lynchburg and the duties of a postmaster; papers, 1848-1961, of the Otey family of Virginia, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., including records of Bishop James Hervey Otey, Eliza Ripley (Otey) Compton, and Pattie Otey (Compton) Warden; papers, 1863-64, of Abner Dawson Ford of Charlotte County concerning his service in Moorman's [later Shoemaker's] Battery of Virginia Heavy Artillery, C.S.A., in Maryland and Virginia; commonplace book, 1865, kept by Albert Gallatin Williams as a C.S.A. prisoner of war at Johnson's Island, Ohio, and the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C.; papers, 1877-1919, of James P. Still as a merchant in Brosville, Pittsylvania County; records, 1902-94, of the Highland Springs Women's Club including minute books, scrapbooks, and related materials, with particular focus on activities during the Great Depression and World War II; papers, 1911-53, of Katherine Terrell Nufer primarily concerning her attendance at Miss Turnbull's School for Girls in Norfolk, 1949-53; papers, 1942-46, of Clinton Webb of Richmond concerning his service in the U.S. Army and the Office of Strategic Services; papers, 1946-53, of Elise Bessie (Hofheimer) Wright concerning her student life at Miss Turnbull's School for Girls in Norfolk; records, 1951-53, of the News Leader Current Events Class, Richmond, founded by Douglas Southall Freeman [later Forum Club]; papers, 1951-98, of Edward Harden Peeples concerning his study of the integration of the public schools in Prince Edward County; records, 1954-67, of the Forum Club of Richmond; records, 1968-69, of the Monique Nursing Training Center, Richmond, concerning the operations of a school and employment agency for African American graduates in practical nursing; papers, 1978-90, of Elizabeth B. Bauder concerning her career as an executive with Thalhimer Bros., Inc., a retail chain of Richmond; and records, 1988-98, of the Culinary Historians of Virginia, Petersburg.

Swem Library, College of William and Mary, reports the following recently inventoried manuscript collections: Literary manuscripts and correspondence of Christopher Bram, author, including his manuscript, Father of Frankenstein (1994); papers, 1962-80, of former William and Mary College professor Anthony Esler relating to youth and youth revolts of the 1960s and 1970s; press clippings and formal invitations, 1940-91, of Donald Gonzalez, journalist and UPI, State Department, and White House correspondent; letters, 1861-65, of William F. Morgan, sergeant in the 2nd Mass. Volunteers Infantry, mostly concerning northern Civil War camp conditions in Virginia; Myers, Burrage, and Graham Papers, 1770-1933, covering six generations of a Jewish family of merchants, lawyers, and public officials in Norfolk, Virginia; and papers, 1969-98, of Zelda Nordlinger, Richmond, Virginia, women's activist and state coordinator of the Virginia Chapter, National Organization for Women.