Includes letters of Governor Clyde R. Hoey and Dr. Frank P. Graham (1940) concerning membership on the state committee for the ten-year appointment by Hoey (1940) as member of State Council of National Defense; replies from various members of Congress (1941) to her invitation to view the Southern States Exhibition of cotton articles; appointment (1941) by Governor J. Melville Broughton as member of Advisory Committee for Agriculture Planning; congratulations (1947) on being chosen Woman of the Year by the and (1949) on award for distinguished service by the Farm Bureau; replies from Georgia Neese Clark (Treasurer of the U.S.), Pearl Buck (Mrs. Richard Walsh), and Eleanor Roosevelt (1950-1951) to invitations to speak at Annual Farm and Home Week; congratulations (1953) for Woman of the Year awards by the State Grange; letters relative to promotion (1958) to assistant director of agriculture extensions; various appointments by Governor Terry Sanford, to a committee of the N.C. Emergency Economics Stabilization Organization (1962), to the Advisory Committee of the N.C. Recreation Commission (1964), and to a committee of the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women (1964).

Files contain folders on her promotion (1937) to state home demonstration agent; award as Woman of the Year (1953) by the Chi Omegas; superior service award (1954) by the U.S. Department of Agriculture; retirement (1961) from home demonstration work. Letters, cards, telegrams, news releases, clippings, programs, photographs, and tributes are included. Among the correspondents at time of her retirement are William Friday, Terry Sanford, John C. Caldwell, and Frank P. Graham.

Contains information on the Governor's Advisory Committee on Education including a letter from Governor William B. Umstead announcing a meeting, clippings, and a report of the committee (1954); Home Demonstration Music Program containing copies of (a mimeographed booklet), programs for workshops, pictures, etc. (1950-1961); and information about the United Nations including letters, programs, speeches, reports, clippings, photographs (including Frank Graham and Eleanor Roosevelt), relating to tours to the U.N. by rural women from North Carolina (1950-1960).

Includes various published reports and studies (1956-1959, n.d.); speeches, releases, notes, tributes, discussions, articles, etc. (1942-1961, n.d.); typed copy for a column in and clippings of these columns (1937-1943); Extension publications, (booklet published by N.C. Home Demonstration Clubs), and other miscellaneous newsletters (1940-1961).