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Papers include funding requests, planning documents, conference reports, annual reports, and financial statements from the programs and projects supported by the Total Action against Poverty organization in Roanoke Valley and the Cabell Brand Center for International Poverty and Resource Studies. These programs and projects include Harrison Museum of African American Culture, Human Resource Foundation, Project Discovery, Second Harvest, Virginia CARES, and Virginia Water Project.

This collection contains primary and secondary resources pertaining to Robert E. Lee and the Lee family. Included are correspondences from, to, and about Lee and various family members; memorabilia, pamphlets, photographs, reminiscences, miscellaneous personal papers, family history and genealogy. The collection includes materials acquired from the Lee family and items donated to and purchased and compiled by W&L University since Lee's tenure as president of Washington College from 1865 - 1870. Adminstrative papers, such as President's Reports, etc..., from Robert E. Lee's presidency of the school may be found within the W&L University Archives. Please contact W&L Special Collections for information regarding the University Archives.

Two letters relating to the Robertson family of Virginia. The first letter is by Mary Lucinda Robertson (1833-1921); the daughter of Charles Henry Robertson, Mary was raised on the 2000 acre Pineland plantation and attended Ann Smith Academy in Lexington, Virginia. The second letter was sent to Miss Dora L. Judd of Williamsburg, VA. She was Charles Robertson's second wife. The letter is dated 1846 and was sent from Westhampton, Mississippi.

The Topography Maps collection (1984-2006) contains topographic maps and land surveys documenting (or relating to) Farmville, Hampden-Sydney, Slate Hill Plantation, and other surrounding areas. Not included in the collection are photographs of the land of the aforementioned locations nor maps of locations in other states.

This collection includes letters from James Turner, 1759-1829, and his son, Jesse Hopkins Turner, 1788-1863, both Presbyterian ministers in Virginia and North Carolina.