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Pages from the publication, "St. Nicholas," with poems by Helen Thayer Hutcheson.

"Homeward bound." 5 pages, Fighting Fire and Water. 7 pages, Our First Ride. 7 pages, "When Scotsmen meet." 5 pages and The Pioneer. 7 pages. "In the days of long ago." 2 pages, The Spirit of William. 2 pages, and Untitled (An incomplete story) 13 pages. "In the Vale of Flesh." 1 copy with 22 pages, 1 copy with 16 pages. "Won't Behave, A Story of Friendship Village." Draft with 18 pages and a draft with 59 pages. "The Land of the Winding Trail." 39 pages. "Squash." 11 pages. " Little Jim. 8 pages. Note: These stories are typed with some editing marks.

Scope and Contents Cover of manuscript, "J.C. Robertson, Alleghany College, Blue Sulphur, Richmond, Virginia…Blue Sulphur Springs, Greehbrier Co., Va. R. Roberson, Richmond. "The Student." undated 9 pages.

Printed poetry by Miss Meta Glass, President of Sweet Briar College.

"Virginia." Appears to be a school paper written about the beginnings of Virginia. 6 handwritten pages.

Written in 1938. Nancy D. Morton was the daughter of Dr. S. Morton and is probably a teenager when she wrote this story. "Elizabeth. (The Run-Away)." Handwritten in pencil. 148 pages.

A small book bound with wood. Inside labels says, To Mr. A.B. Williams from B.W. Bowers, May 24, 1906.

"The Careless Good Fellow." Typed poem found in papers of Wyndham Robertson and given to William and Mary. "The Dying Soldier." Copied from the last few pages of "Adventures of General Coriolanus Flam", a manuscript now in the hands of Charles F. Heartman. February 25, 1926.

51 pieces. Dates of these poems are unknown, but probably range from mid 1800's to early 1900's. Genre includes newspapers, cards, broadsides, books, postcards and music store advertisements. Titles include: Cottage by the Sea, Mary of Argyle, Uncle Ned, On de Oder Side of Jordon, Cary Me Back to Ole Virginny, The Course of Empire, The Old Sexton, The Bell of St. Paul's, Some Fugitive Rhymes by An Old Confederate Soldier, The Conquered Banner, The Roses nowhere bloom so white as in Virginia, Old Virginia Moves at Last, When Love for His Maker Awoke in Man, The Dance Began, Join Hands, poem by Judge George L. Christian of Richmond, Virginia about Civil War, poems from the December 1930 issue of the American Poetry Magazine, The Wages of Sin, Mistakes (1854) by Annie, The Fox Meditates by Rudyard Kipling and illustrated by Lionel Edwards, The Three Reasons by John G. Saxe, Enigma by John P. Brown, The Young Widow, The Wife of Crawford by L.H. Sigourney, A Gem, Growing Old Together, I Find No Light, Hymeneal Poem and Christmas Bells.