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James Monroe 1758-1831 [book]; The Reader's Digest Dictionary of Quotations [book]; Tough Choice Who made them .. And who didn't, The Concord Coalition's Deficit Reduction Scorecard 103rd Congress 1993 [booklet]; Miracle on the Potomac, The Kennedy Center from the Beginning [book]; Billy Franklin's Tough Enough, The Cocaine Investigation of United States Senator Chuck Robb [book]; Fix Bayonets! [book]; Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May to September 1787 [book]; The Hite Report on Male Sexuality [book]; Our American Government, What Is It? How Does It Function? 150 Questions and Answers (1981 Edition) [book]; America: An Affirmation of Faith [book]; A Search for the 100 Greatest Members of Congress, Heroes of the US Congress [book]; Eminent Americans: Namesakes of the Polaris Submarine Fleet [book]; Henry Cabot Lodge, Late a Senator from Massachusetts, Memorial Addresses Delivered in Congress [book]; Will the Gentleman Yield? [book]; Song and Service Book for Ship and Field [book]; Profiles in Courage [book]; Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary [book]; Pages From the Virginia Story [book]; The X Factor, A Quest For Excellence [book]; Jefferson, Public and Private Papers [book]; The New Fat Cats, Members of Congress as Political Benefactors [book]; Military Project Management Handbook [book]; Richmond Redeemed, The Siege at Petersburg [book]; The Battle of Berlin 1945 [book]

James Monroe 1758-1831 [book]; The Reader's Digest Dictionary of Quotations [book]; Tough Choice Who made them .. And who didn't, The Concord Coalition's Deficit Reduction Scorecard 103rd Congress 1993 [booklet]; Miracle on the Potomac, The Kennedy Center from the Beginning [book]; Billy Franklin's Tough Enough, The Cocaine Investigation of United States Senator Chuck Robb [book]; Fix Bayonets! [book]; Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May to September 1787 [book]; The Hite Report on Male Sexuality [book]; Our American Government, What Is It? How Does It Function? 150 Questions and Answers (1981 Edition) [book]; America: An Affirmation of Faith [book]; A Search for the 100 Greatest Members of Congress, Heroes of the US Congress [book]; Eminent Americans: Namesakes of the Polaris Submarine Fleet [book]; Henry Cabot Lodge, Late a Senator from Massachusetts, Memorial Addresses Delivered in Congress [book]; Will the Gentleman Yield? [book]; Song and Service Book for Ship and Field [book]; Profiles in Courage [book]; Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary [book]; Pages From the Virginia Story [book]; The X Factor, A Quest For Excellence [book]; Jefferson, Public and Private Papers [book]; The New Fat Cats, Members of Congress as Political Benefactors [book]; Military Project Management Handbook [book]; Richmond Redeemed, The Siege at Petersburg [book]; The Battle of Berlin 1945 [book]

Includes diaries and notebooks, which include religious meditations and observations, drafts of works and notes about her work, correspondence, and more:

Box 10.
Diary, 1906, 1927
Diary, 1907 (account of a trip to Europe)
Diary, 1917, 1925-1927 (record of personal income, charities, household accounts, writing and manuscripts submitted for publication)
Diary, Etc., 1927, 1928, 1929, 1942 (also portions of a play, Awake)
Diary, 1929-1933
Diary, Meditation, 1929
Guidance record, 1929
Diary, 1935-1938, 1944
Diary, 1936-1940

Box 11:
Diary, A Tapestry of Thought, 1908-1912, 1915-1925 (portions published as "Leaves from a Secrete Journal")
Diary, A Book of Pleasant Things, 1947-1948 (essays and reminiscences)
Diary, 1910-1915 (manuscripts sent to publishers), 1927 (religious meditations)
Notebook, 1908 (notes and plots)
Notebook, undated (notes, plots, and accounts)
Notebook, undated (Biblical and religious quotations)
Notebook undated (notes on the blind)
Note pads, 2 vols (notes, poetry and letters)
Notes for lectures, 1927

Box 17:
Diary with notes on flowers
"Diary" of verse and miscellaneous notes
Booklet, "A Happy New Year" (originally from A&M 1169)
Notebook, undated
Notebook, undated
Miscellaneous Notes

Mostly typescript drafts of articles and other prose writings, some with annotations. Includes:
Acquiring a Social Conscience
At the Long Last
Baby and the Steam Shovel
Blue Birds for the Blind
Christians and Criminals
The Closing of the Doors
The Danger in Gardens
Deliverance
A Dinner of Herbs
Do They Bite You
Dog's Eye View
The Doll-Baby Dresses
A Farewell and a Message
A Fugitive Seeks Sanctuary
The Game
The Girl and the Mountains
God and a Few Souls
The Great Awakener
The Ground of Thy Beseeching
The Hidden Flame
Home to Him's Muvver
The Hungry House
John Bull at His Window
Lee's Old Gray Nag
Let the People Praise Thee, O God
Lion-In-The-Conversation
The Night After Christmas
An Offering of Worship
An Open Letter to All the School Children in the United States
Papa in Soap
Pictures of Englishman
Pioneers of Silence
In Praise of Machines
Prayer for the World
The Rally For Death
Shingles from an Old Roof
Sister Water
Squints
Some Lesser Loves
Tangier
Thoughts
Time for Immemorial to Seek the Rest Cure
Time Dispatch (Richmond), Letter to the Editor
To the Women of America
A Tribute of Praise
Waifie
When Gold May Lose its Glamour
When Nature Takes the Lid Off
The Women's Moment

Typescript drafts of "The Spell," "For the Fighting Men," and "Gold"

Includes a variety of notes and drafts of poetry.

Mostly typescripts of short stories, some with annotations. Stories include:
"Altars of Earth"
"At the Fall of the Year"
"The Baby Angel"
"The Battlefield"
"The Benefit of the Doubt"
"Big Music"
"Blue Silk and Gingham Apron" (1st page)
"The Cloak of Dreams"
"Cock Crow"
"Concerning the Mystery"
"The Dark Tower"
"Fine Growing Weather" and "Nice Growin Weather"
"The First Breakfast "
"In the Grip of John Hamilton"
"A Good Bargain"
"Grand Rough Old Martin Luther"
"The Great Sleep Tanks"
"The Kiss at Large"
"The Last Tenth"
"The Lucky Lady"
"North Plays South"
"Portrait of a Saint"
"Pretty Gal"
"The Squirt Gun"
"The Storm in the Mountains"
"The Third Rail"
"To the Unknown People"
"The Troubles of Tipsy Turpentine"
"Victory of Dorothy Ellis"
"Visitors from the Air"
"The Ways of Providence"
"What Trouble Is"
"The Word"
"A Yard of Nonsense"

Mo 7 may include Tech Players and Thespian Club.

This subseries includes materials related to Walker's education in Clay County schools and her secondary education to become a teacher. She earned her teaching certificate from Glenville State Teachers College in 1934, her bachelor's degree at Marshall College in 1940 and her master's degree at West Virginia University in 1942. Includes academic textbooks, photographs of Walker with school friends and in graduation regalia, correspondence, and a copy of her master's thesis.