Odum's correspondence chiefly concerns the origin of the School of Public Welfare at the University of North Carolina; the Interracial Commission, Atlanta, Ga.; and arrangements for Dr. Frances Sage Bradley of the Children's Bureau of the United States Department of Labor to teach and do field work with Odum's University of North Carolina students. Scattered letters concerning publication of his work in southern periodicals. Major correspondents: Harry Woodburn Chase, University of North Carolina president; Jesse Frederick Steiner, director of the Educational Service of the Red Cross and Odum's close personal friend; Drs. Anna Rude, Julia Lathrop, and Frances Sage Bradley of the United States Department of Labor; Will W. Alexander, Commission on Interracial Cooperation; Leo Perla of the Southern Review; and Albert Bushnell Hart, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Correspondence is chiefly with the United States Department of Labor concerning Dr. Frances Sage Bradley's work with Odum's students, and with those involved with the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. Several items of correspondence concern the Russell Sage Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, and the Southern Cooperative League, for which Odum served on the Organization Committee. Correspondents: Jesse F. Steiner; Judia C. Jackson Harris (about a lynching); Cameron Morrison; W. L. Poteat; John Sprunt Hill; Frederick W. Jenkins; James B. Dudley; Anna E. Rude; Frances Sage Bradley; Barry C. Smith; Mrs. John Everett; and J. E. McCulloch.

Major topics concern the January 1923 issue of Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, which Odum edited; the Journal of Social Forces; and city officials of Raleigh, Durham, and Greensboro about ways to link the University of North Carolina more closely to the cities and towns of the state. Lesser topics include correspondence with J. W. McCulloch on the Southern Cooperative League; and with George Ross Pou, superintendent of the North Carolina state prison system, on prison reform; and the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. Chief correspondents: Clyde King, editor of The Annals; W. W. Alexander; J. E. McCulloch; and Gerald W. Johnson, with the Greensboro Daily News.

Correspondence chiefly concerns the Journal of Social Forces. Minor topics include traveling institutes in industrial centers in North Carolina and South Carolina and the Commission on Interracial Cooperation. Chief correspondents: W. W. Alexander, Franklin H. Giddings, Gerald W. Johnson, Dr. Worth M. Tippy, H. W. Chase, Henry E. Barnes, William Ogburn. Also four letters (written in September) from H. L. Mencken.

Correspondence mainly concerns the Journal of Social Forces. Also included are letters about traveling institutes in industrial cities of North Carolina and South Carolina; a meeting of teachers of sociology Charlotte, N.C., March 25-26; three Weil lectures given by E. A. Ross of the University of Wisconsin; a visit of Beardsley Ruml of the Rockefeller Foundation to discuss scholarships and other Odum projects; work on a five-year study on industrial social life in the South; an Institute for Research in the Social Sciences; correspondence with Gerald and Mrs. Johnson about their new house. Major correspondents: Beardsley Ruml, H. W. Chase, Frank H. Hankins, Franklin H. Giddings, W. W. Alexander, Worth M. Tippy, Gerald Johnson, Harriet Herring, Ora Latham Hatcher. Also four letters from H. L. Mencken (October and December).

Chief topics are evolution, atheism, and academic freedom at the University of North Carolina. There is a small amount of material about the Scopes trial, which Odum attended, but more about the autonomy and independence of the university, the North Carolina state legislature's proposed laws banning the teaching of evolution, and essays in the Journal of Social Forces criticized as atheist and blasphemous by pastors in North Carolina. Lesser topics include the Southern Women's Educational Alliance concerning Cordelia Cox's research at the University of North Carolina on the Four County Plan and rural vocational guidance. Major correspondents: Beardsley Ruml, Frank Hankins, Harry E. Barnes, H. W. Chase, Ora Latham Hatcher, Charles E. Merriam, Sydnor H. Walker, and assorted local clergy.

Major topics are the offer of the presidency of the University of Oregon to University of North Carolina president, H. W. Chase; studies in progress at the IRSS, especially studies of Negroes financed by the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial; articles by Odum on Negro folk songs for The Country Gentleman; buying and selling of prize Jersey cows; finding someone to deliver the annual Weil lectures; the North Carolina conference of social service, "North Carolina's Social Deficit"; and the Henry Holt American Social Science Series. Major correspondents: Beardsley Ruml, E. H. Taylor, Frank A. Daly, W. C. Jackson, Moore C. Tussey, and Leonard Outhwaite. Also several letters each from H. L. Mencken, Jesse Steiner, Gerald Johnson, Sydnor Walker, Julia C. Harris, H. W. Chase, Dr. A. A. McGeachy, Rev. William P. McCorkle, Rev. Thomas F. Opie, George W. Ochs Oakes, Henry N. MacCracken, William E. Spaulding, W. W. Alexander, Henry W. Thurston, C. A. Madison, F. A. Sondley, N. E. Mullen, T. S. Cooper, Louis Round Wilson, Kate Burr Johnson, Loring A. Schuler.

Major topics are financing and staffing of School of Public Welfare and the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, and publication of various manuscripts by Odum with Henry Holt, Bobbs-Merrill, and Houghton-Mifflin publishing houses. Books involved are American Masters of Social Science (Henry Holt, 1927); Man's Quest for Social Guidance (Henry Holt, 1927); Rainbow Round My Shoulder: The Blue Trail of Black Ulysses (Bobbs-Merrill, 1928). Odum edited a social science series for Henry Holt, the first volume of which appeared in 1927. Lesser topics are Odum's prize Jersey herd; activities of the Interracial Commission; and conferences and projects related to public welfare and the social sciences. Major correspondents: Jesse Steiner, William E. Spaulding, C. A. Madison, T. S. Cooper, D. L. Chambers, Moore C. Tussey, W. W. Alexander, Sydnor Walker. There are several letters each from Worth M. Tippy, Harry Elmer Barnes, Julia C. Harris, Louis R. Wilson, Beardsley Ruml, F. A. Daly, H. W. Chase, Gerald Johnson, Henry W. Thurston, William F. Ogburn, Paul Blanshard, H. L. Mencken, Thomas Jesse Jones, and Broadus Mitchell.

Bulk of correspondence is January-June; Odum was on leave for the rest of the year. He traveled throughout the South, gathering material for a book, and apparently did not keep copies of the letters he wrote. Major topics of correspondence include: the publication and promotion of Odum's Rainbow Round My Shoulder; the social science series Odum was editing for Henry Holt; development of the University of North Carolina's social science program--schools of public welfare and sociology, the Journal of Social Forces, and IRSS; the Social Science Research Council's study of Negro culture on St. Helena Island, SC, run by T. J. Woofter, Jr.; correspondence with bankers, newspaper editors, merchants, and others asking them for case studies of cotton farmers for an IRSS study by Rupert Vance, "Human Factors in Cotton Industry"; and some correspondence concerning J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton's attempt to start a collection of resource materials on the South (now the Southern Historical Collection). Also included are Odum's memoranda on various departments, and a list of prominent Negro leaders in the South, 1 February 1928. Major correspondents: Richard H. Thornton, D. L. Chambers, W. W. Alexander, William F. Ogburn, C. A. Madison, Gerald Johnson, Jesse F. Steiner, Julia C. Harris, L. L. Bernard, H. W. Chase, H. L. Mencken, Anne Johnston, Herschel Brickell. Also letters from George Foster Peabody, Frederic A. Ogg, Harold G. Moulton, J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, W. T. Couch, Thomas Jesse Jones, Robert S. Lynd, Louis R. Wilson, Aaron B. Bernard, Lorine Bruette, Beardsley Ruml, Henry W. Thurston, Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse, Daniel L. Grant, Worth M. Tippy, Broadus Mitchell, T. J. Woofter, Jr., George Shively, Sydnor H. Walker, W. Bedford Moore, Jr.

Major topics are procuring funds to publish Charles S. Johnson's study of the Negro in America, arising out of the National Interracial Conference; publication matters with Bobbs-Merrill and Henry Holt and Co.; problems of financing, staffing, and organizing the schools of social sciences at the University of North Carolina; and various committees and conferences in which Odum participated. Chief correspondents: Franklin H. Giddings, William F. Ogburn, C. A. Madison, Sydnor H. Walker, French Strother, Gerald Johnson, Richard H. Thornton, Herschel Brickell, W. W. Alexander, Robert S. Lynd, Anne Johnston, President H. W. Chase, and Mary Van Kleeck. Also letters from Jesse Steiner, Beardsley Ruml, H. L. Mencken, Oswald Garrison Villard, Worth M. Tippy, W. T. Couch, Edmund E. Day, D. L. Chambers, and 2 letters from Wilbur J. Cash - one a 5 1/2 page typed letter discussing Cash's proposed book, 13 November 1929.

Odum was at the forefront of activities in diverse areas. Those with most correspondence are the annual meeting of the American Sociological Society, of which Odum was the first southern president; President Hoover's Research Committee on Social Trends, of which Odum was assistant director; and the organization of the Southern Regional section of the Social Science Research Council. Also correspondence with Henry Holt and Bobbs-Merrill about An American Epoch and Cold Blue Moon; and some describing Mississippi Governor Bilbo's abrupt dismissal of approximately 50 members of the faculty and administrative staff of the University of Mississippi. Major correspondents: William F. Ogburn, Herschell Brickell, Robert S. Lynd, Sydnor Walker, W. W. Alexander, D. L. Chambers, Edward Eyre Hunt, Edwin B. Wilson. Also several letters each from French Strother, Franklin H. Giddings, Edmund E. Day, Wilson Gee, Arnold Bennett Hall, Anne Johnston, Jesse Steiner, Edwin R. Embree, Gerald Johnson, Benjamin B. Kendrick, President H. W. Chase, Frank Porter Graham, Maurice J. Karpf, Thomas D. Eliot, O. Max Gardner, Louis Round Wilson, Ernest R. Burgess, Malcolm Eilley, Arthur M. Schlesinger, John B. Andrews, Herbert Blumer, George Ross Pou, Leroy E. Bowman, L. L. Bernard, Edwin B. Bridges, Edward W. Ruggles, George S. Counts, Sidney P. Simpson, George Foster Peabody, George Ford Milton.

Odum spent most of this year traveling and working on committees. Correspondence deals with sales of books; the President's Research Committee on Social Trends; the social science division of the Chicago World's Fair; the Southern Commission for the Study of Lynching; and the Rockefeller Foundation financing for the North Carolina Institute for Research in the Social Sciences. Correspondents include: Edmund E. Day, William F. Ogburn, Edward Eyre Hunt, Herschel Brickell, Richard Thornton, D. L. Chambers, H. W. Chase, W. W. Alexander, Gerald Johnson, Sidney Simpson, Frank Porter Graham, George Fort Milton, Arthur Raper, Louis Round Wilson, Benjamin Kendrick, Sydnor H. Walker, Walter W. Pettit, H. L. Mencken, Robert S. Lynd, R. B. Eleazer, Rudolf A. Clemen, Inez G. Richardson, Harlean James.

Correspondence chiefly concerns Odum's three main projects: the President's Research Committee on Social Trends; exhibits for the social science division of "A Century of Progress"; and the study by the Southern Commission for the Study of Lynching. Also correspondence with Bobbs-Merrill and Henry Holt, and with friends concerning the University of Mississippi and its political involvements. Major correspondents: Benjamin B. Kendrick, W. W. Alexander, Sydnor H. Walker, William F. Ogburn, Edward Eyre Hunt, Jackson Davis, Robert T. Crane, Louis R. Wilson. Odum also corresponded with R. A. Clemen, Edmund E. Day, H. W. Chase, Douglas Griesemer, Frank Porter Graham, Arthur Raper, Helen Bennett, Herschel Brickell, Homer N. Calver, C. A. Madison, Elizabeth Burchenal, Charles W. Fitch, William A. Wiltberger, S. C. Gilfillan, H. L. Mencken, W. C. Jackson, Rudolf Modley, Edwin B. Wilson, Lucy Morgan, Gertrude Springer, N. B. Bond, O. Max Gardner, R. H. Ruffner, Jesse Daniel Ames, W. Kerr Scott.

Correspondence revolves around Odum's social welfare projects and committees, his eugenics experiments with his Jersey herd, dealings with publishers, and his departments at the University of North Carolina. Projects and committees include the organization of a study of the social implications involved in the Tennessee River Basin; organization of a Southern Regional Study; activities of the North Carolina Commission on Interracial Cooperation; and the North Carolina Civil Works Administration. Chief correspondents: Robert T. Crane, Benjamin B. Kendrick, W. W. Alexander, L. R. Reynolds, N. C. Newbold, George Fort Milton, Alan C. Collins, Louis Round Wilson, Jackson Davis, Sydnor Walker. Also letters to and from Stacy May, Harry F. Comer, L. H. Duncan, W. A. Stanbury, Arthur Raper, W. Kerr Scott, Donald Slesinger, Helen R. Bryan, R. H. Ruffner, R. B. Eleazer, Margaret Sanger, O. J. Elder, Clarence Heer, J. A. Cotton, Jesse Steiner, Fred W. Powell, D. St. Pierre Du Bose, Lynn Copeland, Harry L. Hopkins, Charles W. Fitch, C. C. Spaulding, William Moore, Norman Y. Chambliss, several high school principals around the state, and the following members of the Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, concerning the "Tuscaloosa case" (a lynching): Sidney Howard, Lewis Mumford, Burton Rascoe, George S. Counts, Waldo Frank, W. E. Sapir, Malcolm Cowley, and Robert Morse Lovett.

Correspondence primarily concerns the North Carolina Commission on Interracial Cooperation, of which Odum was chair. Also represented are Odum's regional study of the South; and his confrontation with Benjamin Kendrick, Donald Davidson, and the "Nashville Group" on differing views of sectionalism and southernism. Also covered are the reorganization of the history, public administration, and political science departments at the University of North Carolina; Odum's Jersey herd; and dealings with publishers. Major correspondents: Sydnor Walker, W. W. Alexander, Benjamin B. Kendrick, L. R. Reynolds, Jackson Davis, N. C. Newbold, Louis Round Wilson, Harry Woodburn Chase, Edmund E. Day, and Robert T. Crane. Other correspondents include C. C. Spaulding, George Fort Milton, Harry L. Hopkins, Paul and Arthur Kellog, W. Kerr Scott, H. L. Mencken, David St Pierre Du Bose, Helen M. Bennett, J. C. B. Ehringhaus, J. A. Cotton, Alan C. Collins, Charles W. Eliot, Frank Porter Graham, Lance G. E. Jones, F. W. Barber, William Moore, R. H. Ruffner, Donald Davidson, John D. Wade, Lynn Copeland, Stacy May, Carl Sauer, J. A. Arey, John Dewey, Bishop Paul B. Kern, Paul Green, Howard E. Jensen.

The major topic is the state interracial commission. Other topics include Odum's manuscript on southern regionalism, and the organization, staffing, and financing of Odum's various University of North Carolina departments. Major correspondents: L. R. Reynolds, N. C. Newbold, Sydnor Walker, Louis R. Wilson, Jackson Davis, T. J. Wilson, and Frank Porter Graham. Also letters to and from W. W. Alexander, C. C. Spaulding, M. T. Van Hecke, Albert Coates, Carl Sauer, Rev. E. McNeill Poteat, Jr., J. C. B. Ehringhaus, George Fort Milton, Richard Thornton, Margaret M. Edwards, H. W. Chase, Benjamin B. Kendrick, Stacy May, W. C. Jackson, Edmund E. Day, R. Y. Winters, and Richard Shryock.

During this year, Odum taught second semester at the University of Illinois, withdrew as editor of Henry Holt's Social Science Series, published his work on southern regions, and spoke at various conferences around the country. Major topics of correspondence include his book, Southern Regions; a summer institute on Southern Regional Development and the Social Sciences, held at the University of North Carolina in June; a southeast regional planning group with federal and state representation; and interracial commission activities. Chief correspondents: Gerald Johnson (of special note is a 3 page typed letter, 15 June 1936, to Odum about Frank Porter Graham), Donald Young, L. R. Reynolds, Jackson Davis, and Sydnor Walker. Other correspondents include Robert T. Crane, Louis R. Wilson, C. C. Spaulding, N. C. Newbold, Ernest R. Groves, Stacy May, Edmund E. Day, Richard Shryock, J. C. B. Ehringhaus, V. E. Daniel, Edwin R. Embree, Louis D. Brandeis, Lucy R. Mason, David E. Lilienthal, E. S. Draper, D. Clay Lilly, Paul Webbink, A. W. McAlister, Mrs. Spears Hicks.

During 1937, Odum was elected president of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation and member and trustee of the Julius Rosenwald Fund. He spent spring semester as visiting professor at the University of Illinois. Topics include activities of the state and regional interracial commissions; programs and financing of the IRSS; planning a North Carolina State Conference for Social Service; the Southern Regional Committee examination of region-wide coordination of research and planning; the consolidation of the University of North Carolina system; Odum and Moore's subregional study called American Regionalism; and cooperation between the University of North Carolina and Duke University. The General Education Board replaced the Rockefeller as chief financier of Odum's University of North Carolina programs. Major correspondents: Jackson Davis, Harry E. Moore, L. R. Reynolds, Frank Porter Graham, Edwin Embree, Gerald Johnson, Albert R. Mann. Other correspondents include Edith Abbott, Samuel T. Emory, Edmund E. Day, Jonathan Daniels, H. F. Jenkins, Martha Elizabeth Edwards, Charles W. Eliot, Charles A. Ellwood, George Brett, Jr., W. W. Alexander, Donald Young, T. C. Morehouse, O. C. Carmichael, Wilson Gee, R. Hayne King, Leo M. Favrot, W. C. Jackson, Gertrude Weil, Clyde R. Hoey, George W. Coan, Jr., Capus Waynick, Hugh MacRae, C. C. Spaulding, Mrs. W. T. Bost, Mrs. W. B. Aycock, Chloris Kellum, John E. Pomfret, A. W. McAlister, John S. Bradway, Harvey Couch, H. C. Nixon, B. O. Williams, Edgar B. Stern Lewis Mumford, John Temple Graves II, Virginius Dabney, Richard Thornton.

During 1938, Odum corresponded with members of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, the General Education Board, the Julius Rosenwald Fund board, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council. There are also letters relating to publication of American Regionalism. Major correspondents: Will W. Alexander, O. C. Carmichael, Emily H. Clay, Jackson Davis, Edwin R. Embree, Mark Etheridge, Leo M. Favrot, Frank Porter Graham, Albert R. Mann, Francis Pickens Miller, T. C. Morehouse, Arthur Raper, George M. Reynolds, Sydnor H. Walker.

During 1939, Odum corresponded with members of the Council of Interracial Cooperation, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the General Education Board, Julius Rosenwald Fund, and many publishers. Major correspondents: Will W. Alexander, Jesse Daniel Ames, O. C. Carmichael, Emily C. Cly, Virginius Dabney, Jackson Davis, Mark Etheridge, Walter Lippmann, Gilbert Loveland, Albert R. Mann, Francis Pickens Miller, Stanislav Rembski, George M. Reynolds, Lillian E. Smith, Sydnor H. Walker, W. D. Weatherford, and Louis Round Wilson.

During 1940, Odum corresponded with members of the Council on Interracial Cooperation, the Julius Rosenwald Fund board, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the General Education Board, the University of North Carolina faculty, and publishers. Major correspondents: Will W. Alexander, Jesse Daniel Ames, W. W. Brierley, Jackson Davis, Edwin R. Embree, E. S. Draper, Wilson Gee, Gordon Gray, Gilbert Loveland, Arthur Raper, Syndor H. Walker, W. D. Weatherford, and Louis Round Wilson.

During 1941, Odum corresponded with members of the Carnegie Corporation, the General Education Board, the Julius Rosenwald Fund board, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Council on Interracial Cooperation, the National Commission of Christians and Jews, and publishers. Major correspondents: Will W. Alexander, Jesse Daniel Ames, Arthur G. Askey, W. W. Brierley, O. C. Carmichael, Virginius Dabney, Jackson Davis, Edwin R. Embree, A. W. Gottschall, Walter A. Jessup, Albert R. Mann, A. J. Putnam, Tom J. Wilson.

During 1942, Odum corresponded with members of the General Education Board, the Carnegie Corporation, the Julius Rosenwald Fund Board, the Council on Interracial Cooperation, University faculty members, and publishers. Topics include arrangement of meetings, public lectures, distribution of funds, race relations, and the significance of teaching sociology in American life. Major correspondents: Will W. Alexander, Jesse Daniel Ames, J. Melville Broughton, Emily C. Clay, William E. Cole, Jackson Davis, W. E. B. Du Bois (1 letter), Edwin R. Embree, Wilson Gee, Frank Porter Graham, Ralph McGill, Albert R. Mann, Lillian E. Smith, Jesse E. Steiner, Louis Round Wilson, Tom C. Wilson.

During 1943, Odum corresponded with members of the General Education Board, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Julius Rosenwald Fund Board, the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, the Southern Regional Council, University of North Carolina faculty and staff, and publishers. Topics include Jersey cattle breeding, race relations, sociological publications, Southern improvements and development, Gordon Blackwell, and University of North Carolina faculty affairs during World War II. Major correspondents: Will W. Alexander, Jesse Daniel Ames, J. Melville Broughton, Emily C. Clay, William E. Cole, Virginius Dabney, Jackson Davis, Edwin R. Embree, Frank Porter Graham, Robert B. House, Charles S. Johnson, Gerald W. Johnson, H. S. Latham, Ralph McGill, Albert R. Mann, T. C. Morehouse, Joseph H. Willits, Louis Round Wilson.

During 1944, Odum corresponded with members of the General Education Board, the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, the Julius Rosenwald Fund Board, the Southern Regional Council, University of North Carolina faculty and staff, and publishers. Topics include race relations, African American advances and organizations, Southern improvements, University of North Carolina faculty and staff, and Jersey cattle. Major correspondents: Will W. Alexander, Jesse Daniel Ames, J. Melville Broughton, Emily C. Clay, William E. Cole, Virginius Dabney, Jackson Davis, Edwin R. Embree, Frank Porter Graham, Charles S. Johnson, Gerald W. Johnson, Guy Johnson, H. S. Latham, Ralph McGill, Albert R. Mann, T. C. Morehouse, and Henry Estill Moore.

During this period, Odum corresponded with members of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, the Southern Regional Council, the General Education Board, University of North Carolina faculty and staff, and publishers. Topics include race relations, Southern improvements, sociological publications, Jersey cattle, and Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia. Major correspondents: Will W. Alexander, Emily C. Clay, Virginius Dabney, Frank Porter Graham, Charles S. Johnson, Gerald W. Johnson, Guy Johnson, Henry B. McCurdy, Ralph McGill, Albert R. Mann, George S. Mitchell, C. A. Madison, T. C. Morehouse, and Harry S. Truman (1 letter, 1945).

During this period, Odum corresponded with members of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, the Southern Regional Council, the General Education Board, University of North Carolina faculty and staff, and publishers. Major correspondents: Edwin R. Embree, Dana H. Ferrin, Frank Porter Graham, Gerald W. Johnson, Guy S. Johnson, Hugh McCurdy, James Putnam, Flora M. Rhind, W. Kerr Scott, and Paul D. Williams.

During this period, Odum corresponded with members of the General Education Board, the Southern Regional Council, the Ford Foundation, University of North Carolina faculty and staff, and publishers. Topics include race relations, sociological publications, Southern improvements, Jersey cattle, reforms in North Carolina, and African American students at the University of North Carolina. Major correspondents: Dana H. Ferrin, Frank Porter Graham, Robert B. House, Gerald W. Johnson, Alfred A. Knopf, George S. Mitchell, William F. Ogburn, W. Kerr Scott, Robert L. Straker, and Paul D. Williams.

During this period, Odum corresponded with members of the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Southern Regional Council, the General Education Board, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, University of North Carolina faculty and staff, and publishers. Topics include Jersey cattle, race relations, the O. Max Gardner Award, Southern improvements, and academic freedom. Major correspondents: Dana H. Ferrin, Gordon Gray, Robert B. House, Robert M. Hutchins, Gerald W. Johnson, Alfred A. Knopf, Henry Allen Moe, W. Kerr Scott, Robert L. Straker, William B. Umstead, and Marion A. Walker.

During this period, Odum corresponded with members of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, University of North Carolina faculty and staff, the Southern Regional Council, and publishers. Odum died in 1954; much of the correspondence around the time of his death was handled by Katherine Jocher and Marjorie Tallant. Topics include race relations, integration, Odum's illness and death, and a memorial fund established in Odum's honor. Major correspondents: Dana H. Ferrin, Gordon Gray, Katherine Jocher, Robert B. House, Ralph McGill, Henry Allen Moe, The Odum family, Majorie Tallant, and William B. Umstead.

Arrangement: chronological.

Speeches, flyers, lecture notes, drafts, programs, and other related material presented by H. W. Odum. Topics include regionalism, education, race relations, planning, the social sciences, and Southern development and growth. Unless otherwise stated all copies of the speeches are typed, carbon copies.

Arrangement: Minor writings arranged chronologically and substantial writings arranged alphabetically by title.

Articles, book drafts, research notes, and related materials which appear to be written or compiled by Odum for publication purposes. This subseries is divided into two sections. The first section contains minor writings arranged in chronological order. The second section is material related to books and monographs penned by Odum. Items of note in the second section include large monograph drafts which may have never been published, such as "American Picture" and "American Road," or were published in part under another title. Also noteworthy, are the clippings, pictures, and notes concerning "White Sands of Bethlehem." This novel was an ongoing project for Odum, from 1925 until his death, that never reached the presses.

Photographs documenting Howard Washington Odum's involvement in regional planning conferences and social events at the University of North Carolina, some of which are interracial. Also included are photographs credited to the United States Department of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service, Texas Forest Service, Tennessee Valley Authority, United States Department of the Interior, and photographs of agricultural production, and textile and industrial factories. There are also photographs of Odum at the University of North Carolina in his office and with his family, as well as scattered photographs of Odum with livestock. Other items include several scrapbook pages documenting a 1922 Red Cross summer conference at the University of North Carolina; a small number of photographs of national parks in California, Montana, and Arizona; and a photograph of anti-evolutionists, including William Jennings Bryan, taken at the John T. Scopes trial in Dayton, Tenn., in July 1925. There are also photographs that appear to have been taken between 1915 and 1935 that relate to Odum's unfinished novel, "White Sands of Bethlehem." The photographs include images of African Americans and their homes and churches, as well as whites in rural farm settings.

Arrangement: Photographs are arranged in roughly chronological order and are followed by unlabeled photographs, duplicates, and supporting notes and documentation.

Photographs of agricultural activity and everyday rural farm life taken by Dorothea Lange and Marion Post Wolcott in North Carolina and Virginia, circa 1939 to 1940. The photographs were to be included as part of a sub-regional photograph study of the area under the Farm Security Administration. Included are images of black and white sharecroppers engaged in cotton, tobacco, and sugar cane farming, as well as photographs of agricultural activities and other everyday farm activities. There is also supporting documentation for the photographs that includes notes taken by Howard Washington Odum and others associated with the study.

Acquisitions Information: Accessions 91039 and 93093.

Arrangement: Folder labels appear largely as assigned by Odum. There has been some checking of contents against folder labels, but, because materials are largely unprocessed, researchers should be aware that folder labels may not always comprehensively reflect folder contents. Researchers should also be aware that dates are often duplicated from folder to folder and that letters to and from correspondents with individual folders may appear in general alphabetical folders (e.g., there will be Burr Blackburn letters in the 1924 Burr Blackburn folder, but there may be additional Burr Blackburn letters in the 1924 B (general) folder.)