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This collection contains material related to the creator's time as a student in the FSC Laboratory School from 1939-1941. It includes assignments, report cards, correspondence with classmates, and instructor correspondence with her parents. It also includes later reminiscences of her experience on campus, offering a unique perspective of Florida Southern College in the late 1930s and early 1940s through the eyes of a schoolgirl.

Photocopies of a diary of a trip south, 1921, and a scrapbook, 1881-1978, of William George Bruce, a Milwaukee, Wisconsin businessman and Pensacola, Florida shipyard owner. The diary documents Mr. Bruce's trip to New Orleans and Pensacola, including the Pensacola Navy Yard, and the Bruce, Ollinger, and Watson families, with photographs. The scrapbook covers newspaper clippings, especially family marriages and deaths, for Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Pensacola, Milton, Bagdad and Blackwater, Florida. Subjects include poetry, yellow fever, race problems, and the Blackwater Academy. A separate index ia available.

Papers, 1927-1973, including correspondence, typescripts and drafts of poetry, subject and idea files, genealogical information, photographs, and books containing published works. Other subjects and correspondents include the Milner, Thiot, Winship, and Wylly families, Henry Harrison (1903- ), Wightman Fletcher Melton (1867-1944), the Poetry Society of America, and the National Writers Club.