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Contains three bibliographies regarding Appalachian Studies, including: 1. Bibliography compiled by Donald A. Clelland on "Appalachian Coal"; 2. Bibliography compiled by Glenna Horne Graves of the University of Kentucky on "Agriculture and Modernization Relating to the Appalachian South"; and 3. Bibliography of "Southwest Virginia Writers".

Typescript copy of "Foundations of American Continental Security Policy and Inter-American Relations; A Study in American Diplomacy," by James Morton Callahan.

This collection includes manuscripts, correspondence, research notes, photographs, artifacts, and publications of author Jayne Anne Phillips.

Works of author and poet Jesse Stuart in audio recording and microfilm formats. Includes two copies of no. 158 of the series "Contemporary American Poets Read Their Work" featuring Jesse Stuart within the "Cassette Curriculum in American Literature" published in 1970. Also includes one reel of microfilm containing "Harvest of Youth", published by The Scroll Press in 1930.

Papers of Melville Davisson Post (1869-1930), an American mystery and detective short story writer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The bulk of the materials date from 1850 to 1929 and primarily consist of Melville Davisson Post's personal and business letters and family financial and legal papers. Business letters mainly document the process of soliciting or accepting and then publishing Post's stories. Financial papers pertain to Post's personal finances in the 1920s, and legal documents from the 18th and early 19th century relate to several members of the Post and Davisson families. Collection also contains a manuscript and typescript draft of the story "The Hole in the Glass" (The Bradmoor Murder, 1929); a biography of Melville Post by Charles Norton; and several black-and-white photographs of Templemoor, Post's childhood home.