- R. Harvey Chappell, Jr. Papers3
- REPOhistory Collection3
- RMC Faculty, Staff, and Alumni Files35
- Rachel H. Thomas, Student, Memory Book Regarding Student Days at Marshall College1
- Racial and Ethnic Ephemera Collection4
- Racing Commission, Virginia, Records1
- Raleigh General Hospital Nurses Alumnae Association Records1
- Raleigh and Mercer Counties Photographs1
- Ralph Cohen papers5
- Ralph Cohen papers and "New Literary History" records39
- Ralph E. McCoy Collection4
- Ralph Edwin "Ted" Spears, Jr., Compiler, Battelle-MacLane-Mendel-Spears Family Collection1
- Randall S. Hawthorne Papers17
- Randolph Family (Musical Groups) Collection1
- Randolph Family Papers1