Susie Sharp Papers, 1900-1997

Collection Number: 04898

Collection Title: Susie Sharp Papers, 1900-1997

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Size	About 20,000 items (79.5 linear feet)
Abstract	The collection of white attorney, jurist, and chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, Susie Marshall Sharp (1907-1996), documents Sharp's professional career and personal life through correspondence, subject files, speeches, and other material, chiefly 1920s-1990s. Subject files contain clippings, memoranda, and correspondence about judicial and personal matters. There are also speeches, chiefly on judicial topics, that Sharp delivered beginning in the 1950s; notebooks in which she defined legal terms and cited precedents; and memoranda, opinions and other materials related to cases she decided. Correspondence, speeches, and other materials document Sharp's 1974 campaign as Democratic Party candidate for the chief justiceship, and there are related letters from friends and associates after her election and her selection as one of twelve 1975 Time magazine Women of the Year. Some of the materials relate to William Haywood Bobbitt, whose retirement as chief justice made way for Sharp's election, and to professors, particularly Albert Coates, and students at the University of North Carolina School of Law and the North Carolina College for Women (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro). Topics include judicial reform and procedures, particularly relating to discipline of judges; women in the judiciary; women lawyers; women's rights, including the Equal Rights Amendment; and prisoners' rights. Much of the personal correspondence is with Sharp family members and friends. The Additions contain materials similar to those in the original deposit and include correspondence between Susie Sharp and her siblings discussing trials and family affairs; family photographs; professional photographs; scrapbooks compiled by Sharp and her mother, Annie Britt Blackwell Sharp; newspaper clippings, some of which pertain to the Klenner-Lynch murders; personal correspondence with family and friends, some of which is in Gregg shorthand; calendars, diaries, notebooks, and other volumes that record professional and private affairs; and papers of James Merritt Sharp that concern fundraising for the Near East College Association.
Creator	Sharp, Susie, 1907-1996.
Curatorial Unit	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language	English.

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Copyright Notice: Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], in the Susie Sharp Papers #4898, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance: Received from Susie Sharp through Anna Ragland Hayes in November 1997 (Acc. 97147), January 2001 (Acc. 98825), and March 2009 (Acc. 101076); from James V. Sharp in July 1998 (Acc. 98168) and in January 2005 (Acc. 99984); from Lawrence A. Taylor in April 2008 (Acc. 100899); from Barbara D. Taylor in August 2008 (Acc. 101030), and in May 2015(Acc. 102218).

Sensitive Materials Statement: Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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Processed by: Arturo S. Bagley, August 1999

Encoded by: Arturo S. Bagley, August 1999

Finding aid updated in August 2002 by Bridget T. Lerette, in July 2005 by Ashley Doar, in July 2008 by Kathryn Roth, by Jessica Mlotkowski and Kiley Orchard in February 2010, and by staff in April 2019.

Additions are arranged in the same way as, but have not been incorporated into, the original deposit of materials.

The August 2008 and March 2009 additions to this collection were processed with support from Elizabeth Moore Ruffin.

Diacritics and other special characters have been omitted from this finding aid to facilitate keyword searching in web browsers.

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William H. Bobbitt Papers (#4637)
Albert Coates Papers (#3818)

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Susie Marshall Sharp (1907-1996) of Reidsville, N.C., attorney and jurist, was elected chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court in 1974, becoming the first woman elected chief justice of a state supreme court in the United States. A graduate of the North Carolina College for Women and the University of North Carolina School of Law, Sharp began the practice of law in Reidsville in 1929. She served as Reidsville city attorney, 1939-1949; North Carolina superior court judge until 1962; and as North Carolina supreme court justice, 1962-1979.

Susie Marshall Sharp was born in Rocky Mount, N.C., on 7 July 1907 to James Merritt Sharp and Annie Britt Blackwell Sharp. She was the eldest of seven children who survived to adulthood, including Sally Blackwell, Annie Hill, Thomas Adolphus, Louise Wortham, Florence Abigail, and James Vance.

James Merritt Sharp was born 26 September 1877. In 1900, he established Sharp Institute, a co-educational day and boarding school. The school burned down in 1907. Sharp had been studying law, and the end of his teaching career led to one as a lawyer. Sharp passed the Supreme Court's bar examination in 1908. In 1914, he moved his practice to Reidsville, N.C., where he remained for the next 38 years. He served in the North Carolina State Senate in 1925 and 1927, representing the 17th district.

Annie Britt Blackwell (4 March 1884-9 April 1971), the daughter of John Pomfret Blackwell and Sally Wortham Blackwell, was a teacher at Sharp Institute. She married James Merritt Sharp in 1906.

Susie Marshall Sharp, the couple's first child, was named after her mother's younger sister Susie and her Civil War grandfather, James Marshall Sharp. Susie Sharp attended Reidsville public schools from 1914 to 1924. An excellent student and a champion debater, she was chosen class salutatorian. Following her graduation from high school in 1924 and her entrance to the North Carolina College for Women (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro), Sharp developed an interest in chemistry. In part because of her debating ability, however, she had been encouraged to become a lawyer, and, in 1926, following an all-night session of wrestling over her decision, she chose law over chemistry.

In 1926, Sharp entered the School of Law at the University of North Carolina, the only woman in her class. She soon encountered the entrenched attitudes of the time that opposed women being lawyers. In spite of the obstacles, Sharp became an editor of the North Carolina Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. She received her LL.B. degree with honors in 1929. Sharp passed the bar examination in 1928 while still in school and returned to Reidsville in 1929 to practice law with her father. In the early 1930s, Sharp served as secretary and legal researcher at the University of North Carolina School of Law. As a female lawyer Sharp was a rarity at the time; women were not allowed to serve on juries in North Carolina until 1946.

Sharp was appointed Reidsville's city attorney in 1939. In 1948, her growing influence in the governmental and political affairs of Rockingham County led her father's friend, Kerr Scott, to appoint her as his campaign manager for Rockingham County in the Democratic primary for governor. In the summer of 1949, Governor Scott appointed Susie Sharp to the North Carolina Superior Court bench, making her the first female judge in the history of the state. Judge Sharp's first term established her interest in prison conditions, a concern she maintained for the remainder of her career.

Governor Terry Sanford appointed Sharp to the North Carolina Supreme Court on 9 March 1962. Justice Sharp's appointment made her the first female member of the North Carolina Supreme Court and only the second associate justice from Rockingham County, Thomas Settle having preceded her nearly 100 years earlier in 1868. She was elected in November to fill the remainder of Associate Justice Emory Denny's term, and, in 1966, she was elected to a full eight-year term.

Forced by a newly enacted retirement law to retire in 1974, Chief Justice William Haywood Bobbitt and the rest of the court encouraged Sharp, as the senior associate justice, to seek the chief justiceship. In 1974, she became the first female in the United States to be elected chief justice of a state supreme court, garnering 74 percent of the vote.

During Justice Sharp's seventeen-year tenure on the court, she wrote 459 majority opinions. Her first reported case was Trust Company v. Willis , 257 N.C. 59 (1962), and her last reported case was Pipkin v. Thomas & Hill, Inc., 298 N.C. 278 (1979). In addition, she authored 124 concurring opinions and 45 dissenting opinions.

Sharp's major opinions include: Toone v. Adams, 262 N.C. 403 (1964), about an umpire's right to sue a baseball team and manager who had incited the crowd against him; D & W, Inc. v. Charlotte , 268 N.C. 577 (1966), ruling that brown-bagging in restaurants was not permitted under the law then in existence; Rabon v. Rowan Memorial Hospital, Inc. , 269 N.C. 1 (1967), abolishing hospitals' immunity from liability under the charitable immunity doctrine; Hall v. Board of Elections, 280 N.C. 600 (1972), establishing criteria for college students' eligibility to vote where they went to college; Smith v. State, 289 N.C. 303 (1976), that limited the ancient doctrine of "sovereign immunity"; and In re Peoples, 296 N.C. 109 (1978), the first decision removing a judge for willful misconduct in office.

Chief Justice Sharp successfully advocated for a constitutional amendment, passed in 1980, requiring that all judges be lawyers, after having faced fire extinguisher salesman James Newcomb as her Republican opponent for the chief justiceship.

Sharp received many honors, beginning in 1950 with an honorary LL.D. degree from the North Carolina College for Women. She received an honorary L.H.D. degree from Pfeiffer College in 1960 and honorary LL.D.s from Queens College in 1962, Elon College in 1963, Wake Forest College in 1965, Catawba College in 1970, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1970, and Duke University in 1974. In 1952, the February issue of the Ladies Home Journal recognized her as one of the thirteen outstanding women in public office throughout the country. Twenty-four years later, she was selected by Time magazine in its 6 January 1976 issue as one of twelve women of the year for 1975.

Sharp's accomplishments resulted in a series of awards from women's organizations including the 1959 Achievement Citation from the North Carolina Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, the Distinguished Service Award for Women from the Chi Omega Sorority in 1959, the Alumni Service Award from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1975, and the Special Award for Outstanding Legal Achievement from the New York Women's Bar Association in 1976.

Susie Sharp died in 1996.

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The collection documents Susie Sharp's professional career and personal life through correspondence, subject files, speeches, and other material, chiefly 1920s-1990s. Subject files contain clippings, memoranda, and correspondence about judicial and personal matters. There are also speeches, chiefly on judicial topics, that Sharp delivered beginning in the 1950s; notebooks in which she defined legal terms and cited precedents; and memoranda, opinions and other materials related to cases she decided. Correspondence, speeches, and other materials document Sharp's 1974 campaign as Democratic Party candidate for the chief justiceship, and there are related letters from friends and associates after her election and her selection as one of twelve 1975 Time magazine Women of the Year. Some of the materials relate to William Haywood Bobbitt, whose retirement as chief justice made way for Sharp's election, and to professors, particularly Albert Coates, and students at the University of North Carolina School of Law and the North Carolina College for Women (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro). Topics include judicial reform and procedures, particularly relating to discipline of judges; women in the judiciary; women lawyers; women's rights, including the Equal Rights Amendment; and prisoners' rights. Much of the personal correspondence is with Sharp family members and friends, 1920s-1980s, although there are no letters from the 1950s and few from the 1960s. The Additions of 2001 and 2005 chiefly contain materials similar to that of the original deposit. The Additions of April and August 2008 relate chiefly to family and private life, including correspondence between Susie Sharp and her siblings discussing trials and family affairs; postcards from various Sharp family members; a photograph of Sharp's father, James Merrit Sharp; scrapbooks compiled by Sharp's mother, Annie Britt Blackwell Sharp; clippings; a music lesson book; and sewing materials. The Addition of March 2009 includes newspaper clippings and scrapbooks that document Sharp's career and personal correspondence with family and friends, some of which is in Gregg shorthand. There are also family and professional photographs and photograph albums; calendars, diaries, notebooks, and other volumes that record professional and private affairs; and other materials, such as personal scrapbooks that reflect Sharp's interest in various lifestyle topics, clippings relating to the Klenner-Lynch murders, and papers of James Merritt Sharp that concern fundraising for the Near East College Association.

Note that, in some cases, original file folder titles have been retained.

Contents list

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1. Office Files, 1929-April 1986.
1.1. General Subject Files, July 1946, August 1963-July 1985.
1.2. 1974 Chief Justice Campaign Files, July 1973-November 1974.
1.3. General Correspondence, October 1972-April 1986.
1.4. Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court and Time Magazine Files, November 1974-January 1976.
1.5. Speech Files, April 1959-September 1981.
1.6. Case Files, 1962-1979.
1.7. Legal Notebooks, 1929-1979.
2. Personal Correspondence, 1900-1989.
2.1. 1900-1929.
2.2. 1930-1949.
2.3. 1960-1989.
Additions
3. Office Files and Personal Correspondence, 1906-1997 and undated (Addition of January 2001).
3.1. Office Files, 1910, 1923-1996 and undated.
3.1.1. General Subject Files, 1910, 1923-1996, and undated.
3.1.2. 1974 Chief Justice Campaign Files, 1974.
3.1.3. General Correspondence, 1928, 1945-1992, and undated.
3.1.4. Speech Files, 1980-1985 and undated.
3.1.5. Case Files, 1926, 1953-1979, and undated.
3.2. Personal Correspondence, 1906, 1931-1997, and undated.
3.2.1. 1900-1929.
3.2.2. 1930-1959.
3.2.3. 1960-1989.
3.2.4. 1990-1997 and undated.
4. Office Files, Personal Correspondence, and Pictures, 1929-1993 and undated (Addition of January 2005).
4.1. Office Files, 1950-1992 and undated (bulk 1962-1978).
4.1.1. General Subject Files, 1950-1992.
4.1.2. General Correspondence, 1962-1980 and undated.
4.1.3. Speech Files, 1951-1979 and undated.
4.1.4. Case Files, 1968-1979 and undated.
4.1.5. Opinions, 1962-1979.
4.1.6. Clippings, 1949-1996 and undated (bulk 1974-1984).
4.2. Personal Correspondence, 1929-1993 and undated.
4.2.1. 1900-1929.
4.2.2. 1930-1959.
4.2.3. 1960-1989.
4.2.4. 1990-1997 and undated
4.3. Pictures, 1966 and undated.
5. Personal Correspondence, Pictures, and Other Materials, circa 1900-1970s (Addition of April 2008)
5.1. Personal Correspondence, 1905-1971 and undated.
5.2. Pictures, 1943.
5.3 Other Materials, circa 1900-1956.
6. Other Materials, 1940s-1960s. (Addition of August 2008)
7. Office Files, Personal Correspondence, Pictures, and Other Materials, circa 1920s-1990s (Addition of March 2009)
7.1. General Subject Files, 1929-1989 and undated.
7.2. Chief Justice Campaign Files, 1974.
7.3. Speeches, 1951-1964 and undated.
7.4. Case Files, 1929-1979 and undated.
7.5. Clippings and Professional Scrapbooks, 1930s-1990s.
7.6. Personal Correspondence, 1927-1991 and undated.
7.7. Pictures, 1880s-1990 and undated.
7.8. Other Materials, 1911-1990s.
7.9. Calendars, Diaries, and Other Volumes, 1929-1987 and undated.
8. Papers and Pictures (Addition of May 2015)
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Expand/collapse Series 1. Office Files, 1929-April 1986.

About 3,000 items.

Processing note: See also Additions of January 2001, January 2005, and March 2009.

Expand/collapse Subseries 1.1. General Subject Files, July 1946, August 1963-July 1985.

About 2,000 items.

Processing note: See also Additions of January 2001, January 2005, and March 2009.

Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.

Letters, memoranda, magazine and newspaper articles, pamphlets, research materials, and other items chiefly documenting Susie Sharp's professional, but with some materials relating to her personal life.

While most of the items date from the late 1960s on, the materials on the Fultz quadruplets, for whom Sharp served as trustee, contain letters from earlier in the decade and a 1946 deed by which Sharp's father sold property to the Fultz family.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation folders document Sharp's involvement in a presidential commission to recommend a successor to FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley. Sharp had initially begged off the assignment when contacted by Vice President Walter F. Mondale but agreed when importuned by Attorney General Griffin Bell, an old acquaintance.

The judicial district files contain information about judges who had been accused of wrongdoing. There is similar material in files under the name of particular judges (e.g., such as Ken Griffin) and in the In re Peoples materials in Series 1.6.

The materials on Albert Coates include correspondence, newspaper clippings, and remarks Sharp made at a ceremony honoring him. Coates was one of Sharp's teachers at the University of North Carolina School of Law and the founder of the Institute of Government at UNC.

Prison letters are from prisoners complaining about prison conditions or about the circumstances of their convictions. Sharp was known to have a long-standing interest in maintaining humane prison conditions.

There is a substantial amount of material, including newspaper clippings and correspondence, on the Equal Rights Amendment. Despite her role as a trailblazer for women lawyers, women judges, and women in government generally, Sharp received criticism from some quarters for her opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment. Sharp believed that, while women must be afforded equal opportunities, their position in society entitled them to certain preferential protections, such as pensions, that a rigorous interpretation of the Equal Rights Amendment would destroy.

Note that Sharp's original folder titles have, for the most part, been retained.

Folder 1	Administrative Office of the Courts
Folder 2	Advisory Opinion Regarding Constitutional Amendment Election
Folder 3	Allowance of Attorneys' Fees
Folder 4	Alumni Associations
Folder 5	American Bar Association
Folder 6	The American Bench--Judges of the Nation
Folder 7	Appellate Judges Seminars
Folder 8	Autobiographical Materials
Folder 9	Automobile
Folder 10	Bar Meetings, 1975
Folder 11	Bickett, William Y., Judge
Folder 12-15 Folder 12 Folder 13 Folder 14 Folder 15	Bobbitt, William H., Justice
Folder 16	Bonds: Mitchell v. Authority, 273 N.C. 137
Folder 17	Books
Folder 18	Branch, Joseph, Justice
Folder 19	Britt, David M., Justice
Folder 20	Brock, Walter, Justice
Folder 21-22 Folder 21 Folder 22	Capital Punishment
Folder 23	Carlton, J. Phil, Justice
Folder 24	Removed by donor
Folder 25	Ceremonials
Folder 26	Certificates of Election and Oaths of Office
Folder 27	Change of Address
Folder 28	Chapel Hill Matters
Folder 29	Chief District Judges Meeting
Folder 30-31 Folder 30 Folder 31	Clippings
Folder 32	Clippings for Book Club Programs
Folder 33-35 Folder 33 Folder 34 Folder 35	Coates, Albert
Folder 36	Coffee Hour
Folder 37-48 Folder 37 Folder 38 Folder 39 Folder 40 Folder 41 Folder 42 Folder 43 Folder 44 Folder 45 Folder 46 Folder 47 Folder 48	Conference of Chief Justices
Folder 49	Conference of Superior Court Judges and District Court Judges
Folder 50	Conference of Superior Court Judges: Committee on Salaries, Expenses and Retirement Benefits
Folder 51	Conference Rules
Folder 52	Copeland, J. William, Justice
Folder 53-54 Folder 53 Folder 54	Counsel Fees for Indigent Defendants
Folder 55	Court of Appeals
Folder 56	Court of Appeals Rules
Folder 57	Crackpot File
Folder 58	Criminal Justice Information Systems
Folder 59	Death Penalty
Folder 60	Defense of Capital Cases
Folder 61	Delta Kappa Gamma
Folder 62	Devin, William A., Justice: Portrait
Folder 63	Directed Verdict
Folder 64	District Judges/Chief District Court Judges
Folder 65	Dukakis, Michael: Presidential Campaign
Folder 66	Duties of the Chief Justice
Folder 67	East Carolina University
Folder 68	Edgewater
Folder 69	Election Returns
Folder 70	Electoral College
Folder 71-76 Folder 71 Folder 72 Folder 73 Folder 74 Folder 75 Folder 76	Equal Rights Amendment
Folder 77-78 Folder 77 Folder 78	Ervin, Sam, Senator
Folder 79	Estate by the Entireties
Folder 80	Ethics and Advocacy
Folder 81	Exclusionary Rule
Folder 82	Executives Club
Folder 83	Exum, James G., Justice
Folder 84-86 Folder 84 Folder 85 Folder 86	Federal Bureau of Investigation Meeting
Folder 87-88 Folder 87 Folder 88	Federal Habeas Corpus
Folder 89	Free Press v. Fair Trial
Folder 90	Freeman, Franklin
Folder 91	Friday, William C.
Folder 92	Fultz Quadruplets
Folder 93	General Statutes
Folder 94	Governor's Crime Commission
Folder 95	Griffin, Ken, Judge
Folder 96-97 Folder 96 Folder 97	Gwyn Memorial
Folder 98	Health Matters
Folder 99	Hope Plantation
Folder 100-101 Folder 100 Folder 101	Hunt, Jim, Governor
Folder 102	Huskins, J. Frank, Justice
Folder 103	Inauguration, 1977
Folder 104	Insurance
Folder 105	International Year of the Child
Folder 106-109 Folder 106 Folder 107 Folder 108 Folder 109	Invitations, 1975-1977
Folder 110-116 Folder 110 Folder 111 Folder 112 Folder 113 Folder 114 Folder 115 Folder 116	Invitations to Speaking Engagements, 1974-1984
Folder 117	Journal of Rockingham County History and Genealogy
Folder 118	Joyner, William T.: Publications Endowment
Folder 119	Judges' Administrative Week
Folder 120-124 Folder 120 Folder 121 Folder 122 Folder 123 Folder 124	Judges: Appointment: Governor Jim Hunt's Plan
Folder 125	Judges: Censured
Folder 126-127 Folder 126 Folder 127	Judges: Complaints and Praise
Folder 128	Judges: Continuing Judicial Education
Folder 129	Judges: Non-attorney
Folder 130-136 Folder 130 Folder 131 Folder 132 Folder 133 Folder 134 Folder 135 Folder 136	Judges: Salaries (see also Judicial Salaries)
Folder 137-139 Folder 137 Folder 138 Folder 139	Judges: Selection
Folder 140-141 Folder 140 Folder 141	Judicial Council
Folder 142-165 Folder 142 Folder 143 Folder 144 Folder 145 Folder 146 Folder 147 Folder 148 Folder 149 Folder 150 Folder 151 Folder 152 Folder 153 Folder 154 Folder 155 Folder 156 Folder 157 Folder 158 Folder 159 Folder 160 Folder 161 Folder 162 Folder 163 Folder 164 Folder 165	Judicial Districts
Folder 166-170 Folder 166 Folder 167 Folder 168 Folder 169 Folder 170	Judicial Ethics
Folder 171	Judicial Planning Committee
Folder 172	Judicial Retirement
Folder 173-174 Folder 173 Folder 174	Judicial Salaries (see also Judges: Salaries)
Folder 175-176 Folder 175 Folder 176	Judicial Standards Commission
Folder 177	Jury and Grand Jury
Folder 178-179 Folder 178 Folder 179	Justice Building
Folder 180	Juvenile Code Revision Committee
Folder 181	Kennedy, Edward, Senator
Folder 182-183 Folder 182 Folder 183	Lake, I. Beverly, Justice
Folder 184-185 Folder 184 Folder 185	Law Clerks
Folder 186-187 Folder 186 Folder 187	Legal Questions
Folder 188-193 Folder 188 Folder 189 Folder 190 Folder 191 Folder 192 Folder 193	Legislative File, 1969 and 1977
Folder 194	Letters of Recommendation for United States Supreme Court
Folder 195	Magistrates
Folder 196	Manning, Allen
Folder 197	Memoranda to Justices
Folder 198	Metric System
Folder 199	Miscellaneous Research
Folder 200	Montague, Bert
Folder 201	Moore, Dan K., Justice
Folder 202	Mordecai Square Historical Society
Folder 203	Morris, Naomi, Chief Judge
Folder 204-207 Folder 204 Folder 205 Folder 206 Folder 207	National Center for State Courts Meeting, Williamsburg, March 1978
Folder 208	National Conference on the Causes of Popular Dissatisfaction with the Administration of Justice
Folder 209	National Judicial College
Folder 210	North Carolina Association of District Court Judges Meeting, Asheville, N.C., 1978
Folder 211	North Carolina Awards Commission
Folder 212-213 Folder 212 Folder 213	North Carolina Bar Association
Folder 214	North Carolina Citizens Association
Folder 215	North Carolina Code of Judicial Conduct
Folder 216	North Carolina Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution
Folder 217	North Carolina Court History
Folder 218	North Carolina Criminal Justice Information Security and Privacy Board
Folder 219	North Carolina Index
Folder 220	North Carolina Legislative Directories
Folder 221-222 Folder 221 Folder 222	North Carolina Prisons
Folder 223-224 Folder 223 Folder 224	North Carolina State Bar
Folder 225-230 Folder 225 Folder 226 Folder 227 Folder 228 Folder 229 Folder 230	North Carolina Supreme Court (see also Personnel)
Folder 231	Oaths
Folder 232	Obscenity
Folder 233-234 Folder 233 Folder 234	Oddities
Folder 235	Open Courts
Folder 236	Our Webb Kin of Dixie
Folder 237	Outer Banks
Folder 238	Passport
Folder 239-241 Folder 239 Folder 240 Folder 241	Pennrose Park Country Club
Folder 242-243 Folder 242 Folder 243	Personnel of North Carolina Supreme Court (see also North Carolina Supreme Court)
Folder 244-246 Folder 244 Folder 245 Folder 246	Pertinent Personalities
Folder 247	Pfeiffer College
Folder 248	Price, J. Hampton
Folder 249	Prison Conditions
Folder 250-259 Folder 250 Folder 251 Folder 252 Folder 253 Folder 254 Folder 255 Folder 256 Folder 257 Folder 258 Folder 259	Prison Letters
Folder 260	Probation
Folder 261-262 Folder 261 Folder 262	Proposed North Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure
Folder 263	Public Information Officer
Folder 264	Sir Walter Raleigh Memorial
Folder 265-267 Folder 265 Folder 266 Folder 267	Rape
Folder 268	Recipes
Folder 269	Reid, David E., Judge
Folder 270	Religion
Folder 271	Requests for Autographs
Folder 272	Resume
Folder 273	Retirement
Folder 274	Right to Counsel
Folder 275-277 Folder 275 Folder 276 Folder 277	Rockingham County Historical Society
Folder 278	Roof Repair
Folder 279	Ruffin, Thomas, Chief Justice
Folder 280	Ruffin Statue
Folder 281	School Desegregation
Folder 282	Sea Island, Ga., Trip
Folder 283	Seat Belts
Folder 284	Senior Citizens
Folder 285-286 Folder 285 Folder 286	Sharp Family
Folder 287	Silver Paul Revere Bowl
Folder 288	Southeastern Judicial and Selective Enforcement Conference
Folder 289	Speaker Ban Law
Folder 290	Speedy Trial
Folder 291	Spicer-Breckenridge Memorial Lecture
Folder 292	State of the Judiciary
Folder 293	Subpoenas and Suits
Folder 294	Suggested Court and Conference Rules
Folder 295	Superior Court Judges
Folder 296-298 Folder 296 Folder 297 Folder 298	Swearing in Ceremonies
Folder 299	Takings of Land by Highway Commission
Folder 300	Telegrams
Folder 301-303 Folder 301 Folder 302 Folder 303	Television in Court
Folder 304	Tobacco
Folder 305	Uniform Sentencing
Folder 306	United States Supreme Court
Folder 307	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 50th Class Reunion
Folder 308	University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Folder 309	University of North Carolina at Greensboro: Alumni Service Award
Folder 310	University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Folder 311	Valentine Museum
Folder 312	Vanore, Andy
Folder 313	We the People of North Carolina Magazine Article
Folder 314	"Why 65? The Right to Choose"
Folder 315	Who's Who Materials
Folder 316-318 Folder 316 Folder 317 Folder 318	Wilmington 10
Folder 319	Wilson Pest Control Company
Folder 320	Woman's Club of Raleigh
Folder 321	Women
Folder 322	Women Judges and Women Attorneys
Folder 323	Writ of Habeas Corpus
Folder 324	Wrongful Death

Expand/collapse Subseries 1.2. 1974 Chief Justice Campaign Files, July 1973-November 1974.

About 350 items.

Processing note: See also Additions of January 2001 and March 2009.

Arrangement: alphabetical.

Newspaper clippings, magazine articles, correspondence, invoices, and other materials related to Susie Sharp's campaign for election to the position of chief justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court. In 1974, Chief Justice William H. Bobbitt was forced to step down due to a law requiring judges to retire at age 72. Justice Sharp was next in line in seniority, but she had to be elected to the position. She expected that her Republican opponent would be Elreta Alexander, a state district judge. Alexander was defeated in the primary, however, by Jim Newcomb, a businessman without any legal training or experience. Sharp made the importance of legal experience the central theme of her campaign.

Note that Sharp's original folder titles have, for the most part, been retained. See also folder 477 for speeches given during the campaign.

Folder 325	Advertising
Folder 326	Alexander, Elreta, Judge
Folder 327	Alexander, Lelia M.
Folder 328	Announcement and Filing
Folder 329	Armstrong, Frank M., Judge
Folder 330	Asheville/Concord
Folder 331	Brochures Mailed
Folder 332-335 Folder 332 Folder 333 Folder 334 Folder 335	Campaign Contributions
Folder 336	Campaign Expenses
Folder 337	Campaign Report Transmittals and Tharrington Correspondence
Folder 338	Candidacy Filing Statement and Personal Data
Folder 339	Charlotte Speech
Folder 340	Cherokee County
Folder 341	Collier, Robert, Judge
Folder 342-343 Folder 342 Folder 343	Correspondence: A-C
Folder 344	Correspondence: D-F
Folder 345-346 Folder 345 Folder 346	Correspondence: G-I
Folder 347	Correspondence: J-L
Folder 348	Correspondence: M-O
Folder 349	Correspondence: P-R
Folder 350	Correspondence: S-U
Folder 351	Correspondence: V-Z
Folder 352	Correspondence with Contributors
Folder 353	Counties
Folder 354	County Commissioners
Folder 355	Cumberland County
Folder 356	Democratic Campaign Committee
Folder 357	Democratic Convention
Folder 358	Democratic Executive Committee
Folder 359	Democratic Party Platform
Folder 360	Democratic Women of North Carolina
Folder 361	Duties of the Chief Justice
Folder 362	Guilford County
Folder 363	Haywood County
Folder 364	Headquarters
Folder 365	Invitations for Speaking Engagements
Folder 366	Labor Party
Folder 367	Lists
Folder 368	Lyon, Virginia
Folder 369	Multiple Mailings
Folder 370-371 Folder 370 Folder 371	Newcomb, Jim
Folder 372	News Releases
Folder 373	Newspaper Directories
Folder 374	Newspaper, Television, and Radio Schedule
Folder 375	Official Election File
Folder 376	Pless, J. Will, Justice
Folder 377	Poll
Folder 378	Possible Campaign Workers and Campaign Materials
Folder 379	Precinct Committees
Folder 380	Radio, TV, and Newspaper Information
Folder 381	Stockton, Ralph
Folder 382	Supplies: Invoices
Folder 383	Thank You Letters
Folder 384	Tharrington, J. Harold
Folder 385	Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report Articles
Folder 386	Unanswered Letters
Folder 387	Unidentified Speech
Folder 388	Volunteers
Folder 389	Wake County Democratic Executive Committee
Folder 390	Winston-Salem
Folder 391	Women and Equal Rights
Folder 392	Women's Rallies

Expand/collapse Subseries 1.3. General Correspondence, October 1972-April 1986.

About 350 items.

Processing note: See also Additions of January 2001 and January 2005.

Arrangement: alphabetical by correspondent.

Much of this correspondence is of a professional nature, but there are many personal letters, particularly to and from Sharp family members.

Folder 393	A
Folder 394-395 Folder 394 Folder 395	B
Folder 396-398 Folder 396 Folder 397 Folder 398	C
Folder 399	D
Folder 400	E
Folder 401-402 Folder 401 Folder 402	F
Folder 403-404 Folder 403 Folder 404	G
Folder 405-407 Folder 405 Folder 406 Folder 407	H
Folder 408	I
Folder 409	J
Folder 410	K
Folder 411	L
Folder 412-414 Folder 412 Folder 413 Folder 414	M
Folder 415	N
Folder 416	O
Folder 417-418 Folder 417 Folder 418	P
Folder 419-421 Folder 419 Folder 420 Folder 421	R
Folder 422-424 Folder 422 Folder 423 Folder 424	S
Folder 425-426 Folder 425 Folder 426	T
Folder 427	V
Folder 428-429 Folder 428 Folder 429	W
Folder 430	Y-Z

Expand/collapse Subseries 1.4. Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court and Time Magazine Files, November 1974-January 1976.

About 150 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical.

Correspondence offering Sharp congratulations on her 1974 election to the chief justiceship of the North Carolina Supreme Court and her selection as one of Time magazine Women of the Year, 1975.

Folder 431	A
Folder 432	B
Folder 433	C
Folder 434	D
Folder 435	E
Folder 436	F
Folder 437	G
Folder 438	H
Folder 439	I
Folder 440	J
Folder 441	K
Folder 442	L
Folder 443	M
Folder 444	N
Folder 445	O
Folder 446	P
Folder 447	R
Folder 448	S
Folder 449	T
Folder 450	V
Folder 451	W
Folder 452	Y-Z

Expand/collapse Subseries 1.5. Speech Files, April 1959-September 1981.

About 30 items.

Processing note: See also Additions of January 2001, January 2005, and March 2009.

Arrangement: alphabetical by speech title or group/occasion.

Texts of various speeches Susie Sharp delivered during her career, most of which relate to the law and her experiences. Please note that a few speeches may be found elsewhere in the collection, particularly in the General Subject Files (Series 1.1).

Folder 453	"Breaking the Barriers Which Face Women in Public Affairs"
Folder 454	Buncombe County Democratic Women's Club, 25 July 1974
Folder 455	Caswell County Courthouse Dedication, July 1976
Folder 456	Chi Omega Service Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 3 April 1959
Folder 457	"Common Errors in Appellate Practice--The Mechanism by which the Court Considers Appeals"
Folder 458	Elon College Commencement
Folder 459	4th Congressional District, Fall 1974
Folder 460	Greensboro Bar Association, 19 September 1974
Folder 461	Justice James Iredell Papers Ceremony, 29 September 1976
Folder 462	Joan Mondale Introduction
Folder 463	Judge Naomi Elizabeth Morris Night
Folder 464	National Conference of Law Reviews, 31 March 1978
Folder 465	New York Women's Bar Association, 17 May 1976
Folder 466	North Carolina Bar Association, 2 July 1975
Folder 467	North Carolina Sheriffs' Association Annual Conference, 30 July 1974
Folder 468	North Carolina State Bar Annual Meeting, 26 October 1962
Folder 469	North Carolina State Bar Annual Meeting, 17 October 1975
Folder 470	North Carolina State Bar Annual Meeting, 22 October 1976
Folder 471	Peace College
Folder 472	Phi Alpha Delta
Folder 473	Resident Judge and District Attorney Swearing-in Ceremony, 1 September 1981
Folder 474	Rockingham Community College Commencement, 19 May 1974
Folder 475	Superior Court Judges, 17 March 1978
Folder 476	Unidentified
Folder 477	Various Speeches During Chief Justice Campaign (see also Series 1.2)

Expand/collapse Subseries 1.6. Case Files, 1962-1979.

About 150 items.

Processing note: See also Additions of January 2001, January 2005, and March 2009.

Arrangement: alphabetical by case name.

Research memoranda and opinions delivered in various cases during Susie Sharp's tenure on the North Carolina Supreme Court. Cases of note include D & W, Inc. v. Charlotte , 268 N.C. 577 (1966), ruling that brown-bagging in restaurants was not permitted under the law then in existence, and In re Peoples , 296 N.C. 109 (1978), the first opinion of this court removing a judge from office for willful misconduct in office.

Folder 478	AT & T v. Griffin
Folder 479	"Brown Bag" Case ( D & W v. City of Charlotte )
Folder 480	Camby v. Southern Railway
Folder 481	Campbell v. First Baptist Church
Folder 482	Carolinas-Virginias Association of Building Owners and Managers v. Ingram
Folder 483	FDIC v. Loft Apartments
Folder 484	Garrison v. Miller
Folder 485	Hankerson v. North Carolina
Folder 486	Hasty v. Carpenter
Folder 487	Hennessee v. Cogburn
Folder 488	In the Matter of Mathias P. Hunoval
Folder 489	Leasing v. Brown
Folder 490	Mullaney v. Wilbur
Folder 491	North Carolina v. Alford
Folder 492-496 Folder 492 Folder 493 Folder 494 Folder 495 Folder 496	In Re Peoples
Folder 497	Pipkin v. Thomas & Hill
Folder 498	Scales Case
Folder 499	Spencer v. Sharp
Folder 500	State v. Branch
Folder 501	State v. Covington
Folder 502	State v. Crews & Parrish
Folder 503	State v. Du Pree
Folder 504	State v. Emory
Folder 505	State v. Fox
Folder 506	State v. Futrell
Folder 507	State v. Lawrence
Folder 508	State v. Seymour
Folder 509	State v. Small
Folder 510	State v. Vick
Folder 511	State v. Winfrey
Folder 512	Variety Theatres v. Cleveland County
Folder 513	Williams v. Biscuitville

Expand/collapse Subseries 1.7. Legal Notebooks, 1929-1979.

7 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical by term defined.

Contents of seven three-ring binders with definitions of legal terms and doctrines. The papers from each binder have been arranged alphabetically, but separated to show the structure of the original seven binders. Some of the binders were clearly begun early in Susie Sharp's legal career, with others started after she was on the bench.

Folder 514-520 Folder 514 Folder 515 Folder 516 Folder 517 Folder 518 Folder 519 Folder 520	A-B
Folder 521-527 Folder 521 Folder 522 Folder 523 Folder 524 Folder 525 Folder 526 Folder 527	C-D
Folder 528-535 Folder 528 Folder 529 Folder 530 Folder 531 Folder 532 Folder 533 Folder 534 Folder 535	E-F
Folder 536-542 Folder 536 Folder 537 Folder 538 Folder 539 Folder 540 Folder 541 Folder 542	G-H
Folder 543-549 Folder 543 Folder 544 Folder 545 Folder 546 Folder 547 Folder 548 Folder 549	I-K
Folder 550-556 Folder 550 Folder 551 Folder 552 Folder 553 Folder 554 Folder 555 Folder 556	L-M
Folder 557-563 Folder 557 Folder 558 Folder 559 Folder 560 Folder 561 Folder 562 Folder 563	N-P
Folder 564-570 Folder 564 Folder 565 Folder 566 Folder 567 Folder 568 Folder 569 Folder 570	Q-R
Folder 571-577 Folder 571 Folder 572 Folder 573 Folder 574 Folder 575 Folder 576 Folder 577	S-T
Folder 578-584 Folder 578 Folder 579 Folder 580 Folder 581 Folder 582 Folder 583 Folder 584	U-Z

Expand/collapse Series 2. Personal Correspondence, 1900-1989.

About 1,100 items.

Processing note: See also Additions of January 2001, January 2005, April 2008, and March 2009.

Arrangement: alphabetical by correspondent.

Susie Sharp's personal correspondence with family and friends. The letters begin in the 1920s and continue through the 1980s. There is a noticeable lack of correspondence in the 1950s and only a smattering in the 1960s. Some personal letters that Sharp kept in her office files may be found in Series 1, particularly the Sharp Family folder in the Series 1.1, Series 1.3, and Series 1.4.

Expand/collapse Subseries 2.1. 1900-1929.

About 200 items.

Processing note: See also Additions of January 2001, January 2005, April 2008, and March 2009.

Arrangement: alphabetical.

Personal letters written to and from Susie Sharp, mostly in the 1920s. Included are letters from her father and mother, James Merritt Sharp and Annie Britt Blackwell Sharp, as well as from her siblings Annie, Sallie, Tommy, Florence, and Louise. Other correspondents were Sharp's mother's sister Susie Webb Blackwell Garrett, her husband A. Earle Garrett, Sr., and their son A. Earle Garrett, Jr.

Sharp's friends from Reidsville included Margaret Fillman and Janie Sands. The High School Notes folder contains notes passed to Sharp from classmates in her secondary school. Nuion Boulliat was Sharp's pen pal from France, and Constance Gwaltney was a friend from the North Carolina College for Women.

Correspondents connected with the University of North Carolina include law professor Millard Breckenridge and his wife Venitah and students, including Maude Brown, Dorothy Fahs, Lee Kennett, Lina Keller, Howard Gibson Godwin, and Eleanor Torrens. Ruby Ross was a secretary in the law school.

The only letter written before the 1920s is a 1900 love letter to Sharp's mother.

Folder 585	Averitt, Edith
Folder 586	B
Folder 587	Bacon, Mabel
Folder 588	Baird, Lucy
Folder 589-590 Folder 589 Folder 590	Boulliat, Nuion
Folder 591	Breckenridge, Millard S.
Folder 592	Breckenridge, Venitah
Folder 593	Brown, Maude
Folder 594	Counts, Donie
Folder 595	C
Folder 596	D
Folder 597	E
Folder 598	F
Folder 599	Fahs, Dorothy
Folder 600	Fillman, Margaret
Folder 601	G
Folder 602	Garrett, A. Earle, Jr.
Folder 603	Garrett, A. Earle, Sr.
Folder 604	Garrett, Susie Webb Blackwell
Folder 605	Godwin, Howard
Folder 606	Gwaltney, Constance
Folder 607	H
Folder 608-609 Folder 608 Folder 609	Henry, Helen
Folder 610-611 Folder 610 Folder 611	High School Notes
Folder 612	J
Folder 613	K
Folder 614	Keller, Lina
Folder 615	Kennett, Lee
Folder 616	L
Folder 617	M
Folder 618	N
Folder 619	R
Folder 620-621 Folder 620 Folder 621	Ross, Ruby
Folder 622-624 Folder 622 Folder 623 Folder 624	Sands, Janie
Folder 625	Sharp, Annie Britt Blackwell
Folder 626	Sharp, Annie Hill
Folder 627	Sharp, James Merritt
Folder 628	Sharp, Louise
Folder 629	Sharp, Sallie
Folder 630	Sharp, Tommy
Folder 631	Snell, Mary
Folder 632	T
Folder 633	Torrens, Eleanor
Folder 634	V
Folder 635-636 Folder 635 Folder 636	W
Folder 637	Unidentified

Expand/collapse Subseries 2.2. 1930-1949.

About 400 items.

Processing note: See also Additions of January 2001, January 2005, April 2008, and March 2009.

Arrangement: alphabetical by correspondent.

In September 1930, Sharp accepted a position as law school secretary and research assistant from Dean Charles T. McCormick of the University of North Carolina School of Law. This position brought her back into the Chapel Hill orbit early in the 1930s. Law school faculty and staff correspondents in this period include Agnes R. Neville, Charles McCormick, Albert Coates, A. C. McIntosh, and M. T. Van Hecke. Law school students include Hugh Lobdell, William T. Covington, Jr., Allen Langston, and John B. Lewis. Jean Breckenridge Newnam is the daughter of UNC law professor Millard Breckenridge.

In addition to correspondence from the family members identified in Series 2.1, there are also letters from Sharp's younger brother James Vance Sharp, also known as Kits.

Folder 638	A
Folder 639-643 Folder 639 Folder 640 Folder 641 Folder 642 Folder 643	Averitt, Edith
Folder 644	B
Folder 645	Bacon, Mabel
Folder 646	Baird, Lucy
Folder 647	Beck, Dorothy Fahs
Folder 648	Boulliat, Nuion
Folder 649	Breckenridge, Millard S.
Folder 650	Breckenridge, Venitah
Folder 651	Brogden, Willis J., Justice
Folder 652	Brown, Maude
Folder 653	C
Folder 654	Counts, Donie
Folder 655	Covington, William T., Jr.
Folder 656	D
Folder 657	E
Folder 658	Elliott, Lucille
Folder 659	F
Folder 660	Fillman, Margaret
Folder 661	G
Folder 662	Garrett, A. Earle, Sr.
Folder 663	Godwin, Howard
Folder 664	Gwyn, Allen H.
Folder 665	Gwyn, Janie S.
Folder 666	H
Folder 667-668 Folder 667 Folder 668	Henry, Helen
Folder 669	Henry, Tom
Folder 670	J
Folder 671	K
Folder 672-673 Folder 672 Folder 673	Keller, Lina
Folder 674	L
Folder 675-677 Folder 675 Folder 676 Folder 677	Langston, Allen
Folder 678	Lewis, John B.
Folder 679	Lobdell, Hugh L.
Folder 680	M
Folder 681-682 Folder 681 Folder 682	McCormick, Charles T.
Folder 683	McIntosh, A. C.
Folder 684	Martin, Frances
Folder 685	N
Folder 686	Neville, Agnes R.
Folder 687	Newnam, Jean Breckenridge
Folder 688	Newnam, Margaret
Folder 689	P
Folder 690	Perkins, E. M.
Folder 691	R
Folder 692-693 Folder 692 Folder 693	Ross, Ruby
Folder 694	S
Folder 695	Sands, Janie
Folder 696-698 Folder 696 Folder 697 Folder 698	Sharp, Annie Britt Blackwell
Folder 699	Sharp, Annie Hill
Folder 700	Removed by donor
Folder 701-703 Folder 701 Folder 702 Folder 703	Sharp, Florence Abigail
Folder 704-705 Folder 704 Folder 705	Sharp, James Merritt
Folder 706	Sharp, James Vance
Folder 707	Sharp, Louise
Folder 708-709 Folder 708 Folder 709	Sharp, Sallie
Folder 710-711 Folder 710 Folder 711	Sharp, Thomas
Folder 712	Snell, Mary
Folder 713	T
Folder 714-715 Folder 714 Folder 715	Torrens, Eleanor
Folder 716	Tyner, Nina
Folder 717	Van Hecke, M. T.
Folder 718	W
Folder 719-723 Folder 719 Folder 720 Folder 721 Folder 722 Folder 723	Unidentified

Expand/collapse Subseries 2.3. 1960-1989.

About 500 items.

Processing note: See also Additions of January 2001, January 2005, April 2008, and March 2009.

Arrangement: alphabetical by correspondent.

Correspondence from family members includes letters from Susie Sharp's sister Annie Hill Sharp Klenner and her children Fredrick Klenner, Jr., and Gertrude Klenner Wilkerson; Sharp's sister Florence Sharp Newsom and her children Susie Sharp Newsom Lynch and Robert Newsom, Jr.; Sharp's brother James Vance Sharp and his wife Gwen Sharp; Sharp's sister Louise Sharp, who had moved back into the family residence in Reidsville; Sharp's brother Thomas Sharp, his wife Bobbie Sharp, and their daughter Tyrell Sharp; and Larry Taylor and Barbara Taylor, the son and daughter-in-law of Sharp's deceased sister Sallie.

Other correspondents include Judge Bobbitt's sister, Mary Potts, and Sharp's secretary, Virginia Lyons.

Louise Sharp's correspondence is particularly voluminous. She kept in touch with many family members and wrote long Christmas letters detailing the activities of many family members.

Folder 724	A
Folder 725	Alexander, Lelia
Folder 726	Averitt, Edith
Folder 727-728 Folder 727 Folder 728	B
Folder 729	Bethea, Virginia
Folder 730	Breckenridge, Jean
Folder 731-732 Folder 731 Folder 732	Breckenridge, Millard S.
Folder 733	C
Folder 734	Carpender, Catharine C.
Folder 735	Carter, Sarah
Folder 736	Casper, Margaret
Folder 737	Chaney, Margaret
Folder 738	Copeland, J. William, Justice
Folder 739	Covington, William T., Jr.
Folder 740	D
Folder 741	Davis, Bobbie
Folder 742	E
Folder 743	F
Folder 744	G
Folder 745	H
Folder 746	I-J
Folder 747	K
Folder 748	Keller, Lina
Folder 749	Klenner, Annie Hill Sharp
Folder 750	Klenner, Fredrick Robert, Jr.
Folder 751	L
Folder 752	Leonard, Janie
Folder 753-754 Folder 753 Folder 754	Lynch, Susie Sharp Newsom
Folder 755	Lyons, Virginia
Folder 756-757 Folder 756 Folder 757	M
Folder 758	N
Folder 759	Newnam, Margaret Reid
Folder 760-761 Folder 760 Folder 761	Newsom, Florence Abigail Sharp
Folder 762	Newsom, Robert; Newsom, Alice
Folder 763	O
Folder 764	P
Folder 765	Palmer, Mary Anne
Folder 766	Penn, Anne Garrett
Folder 767	Potts, Mary
Folder 768-769 Folder 768 Folder 769	R
Folder 770-772 Folder 770 Folder 771 Folder 772	Ripple, Evelyn
Folder 773-774 Folder 773 Folder 774	S
Folder 775	Sharp, Annie Britt Blackwell
Folder 776-778 Folder 776 Folder 777 Folder 778	Removed by donor
Folder 779-782 Folder 779 Folder 780 Folder 781 Folder 782	Sharp, James Vance; Sharp, Gwen
Folder 783-787 Folder 783 Folder 784 Folder 785 Folder 786 Folder 787	Sharp, Louise W.
Folder 788	Sharp, Thomas A.
Folder 789	Sharp, Tyrrell C.
Folder 790	Smith, Janie Sands
Folder 791	T
Folder 792-793 Folder 792 Folder 793	Taylor, Larry; Taylor, Barbara
Folder 794	V-W
Folder 795	W
Folder 796	Wilkerson, Gertrude Klenner
Folder 797	Y
Folder 798	Unidentified

Expand/collapse Additions

Expand/collapse Series 3. Office Files and Personal Correspondence, 1906-1997 and undated (Addition of January 2001).

About 7,100 items.

Acquisitions Information: Accession 98825.

The Addition of January 2001 is arranged in the same way as, but has not been incorporated into, the original deposit of materials.

Expand/collapse Subseries 3.1. Office Files, 1910, 1923-1996 and undated.

About 3,400 items.

Chiefly correspondence, clippings, financial records, campaign materials, notes, legal documents, and other papers documenting Susie Sharp's professional interests and activities. Included are articles about Sharp's judical career and accomplishments; records of the Sharp family properties in Rockingham County, N.C.; speeches; and case files.

Expand/collapse Subseries 3.1.1. General Subject Files, 1910, 1923-1996, and undated.

About 3,000 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.

Chiefly letters, clippings, financial records, reports, research materials, and other papers documenting Susie Sharp's professional interests and activities. Included are articles about Sharp's judical career and accomplishments as well as information about her colleagues. Also included are records of the Sharp family properties in Rockingham County, N.C.

Folder 799-800 Folder 799 Folder 800	Adoption of Mary Ann Walker by Mary Taylor, 1941-1942, 1962
Folder 801	American Law Institute, 1971
Folder 802	Annual Report of the Administrative Assistant, 1961
Folder 803	Appellate Judges Seminar, 1963
Folder 804	Automobile Accident, 15 May 1984
Folder 805-806 Folder 805 Folder 806	Awards, 1970-1985
Folder 807	Bell, J. Spencer, 1957
Folder 808	Bibliographies, undated
Folder 809-810 Folder 809 Folder 810	Biographical Information, 1975-1985 and undated
Folder 811-812 Folder 811 Folder 812	Bobbitt, William H., Justice, 1970-1974, 1986, 1993
Folder 813	Bolich, W. Bryan, 1955
Folder 814	Branch, Joseph, Justice, 1979
Folder 815	Breckenridge, Millard S., undated
Folder 816	Brogden, W. J., Justice, undated
Folder 817	Canadian Rockies Adventure, 17-26 September 1983
Folder 818	Cherry Hill, undated
Folder 819	Child Custody, 1958
Folder 820-821 Folder 820 Folder 821	Christmas Lists, 1969-1977 and undated
Folder 822	Clerk of the Supreme Court, 1990
Folder 823-840 Folder 823 Folder 824 Folder 825 Folder 826 Folder 827 Folder 828 Folder 829 Folder 830 Folder 831 Folder 832 Folder 833 Folder 834 Folder 835 Folder 836 Folder 837 Folder 838 Folder 839 Folder 840	Clippings, 1938-1996 and undated
Folder 841-842 Folder 841 Folder 842	Coates, Albert, 1960-1989
Folder 843-845 Folder 843 Folder 844 Folder 845	Conference of Chief Justices, 1963-1964, 1971-1973
Folder 846	Copeland, J. William, Justice, undated
Folder 847	Court Calendar, 1963, 1973, 1977
Folder 848	Democratic Party, 1974
Folder 849	Denny, Emery Byrd, Justice, undated
Folder 850	Due Process, undated
Folder 851	Equal Rights Amendment, undated
Folder 852	Election Returns, 1978
Folder 853	Exum, James G., Jr., Justice, 1986
Folder 854-856 Folder 854 Folder 855 Folder 856	Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1976-1977
Folder 857	Financial Audit Reports, 1960-1961, 1975-1977
Folder 858-861 Folder 858 Folder 859 Folder 860 Folder 861	Financial Records, 1952-1961, 1987-1990
Folder 862-864 Folder 862 Folder 863 Folder 864	Financial Records: 629 Lindsey Street, 1972-1989 and undated
Folder 865	Financial Records: Loan 2490, 1928-1936
Folder 866	Furches-Douglas Impeachment Trial, 1977 and undated
Folder 867	Greensboro College, 1952
Folder 868	Guest Book, 1974
Folder 869	Housing Authority of the City of Greensboro, 1974
Folder 870	Inaugurations, 1961, 1973, 1977
Folder 871	Industrial Bonds, 1974
Folder 872	Institute of Government, 1962
Folder 873	Judges: Selection, 1951, 1978
Folder 874	Judicial Council, 1964, 1978
Folder 875	Kennedy, John F.: Inaugural Address, 20 January 1961 (sound recording)
Audiodisc FC-4898/1	Kennedy, John F.: Inaugural Address, 20 January 1961 7" LP record
Folder 876	Law Alumni Association of UNC, Inc., 1949-1963 and undated
Folder 877	Law School: Class of 1926 Party, 1965
Folder 878	Medical Articles by Fred R. Klenner, M.D., 1952-1957, 1960, 1971
Folder 879	Memberships, 1985-1987 and undated
Folder 880	Miscellaneous, 1970s-1980s and undated
Folder 881	Monetary Contributions, 1981-1986
Folder 882	Monetary Contributions, 1987-1994 and undated
Folder 883	Montague, Bert, 1981-1982
Folder 884	Monthly Library Reports, 1971-1979
Folder 885	Moore, Dan K., Justice, 1966, 1988
Folder 886-889 Folder 886 Folder 887 Folder 888 Folder 889	North Carolina Conference of Superior Court Justices, 1956-1962 and undated
Folder 890	North Carolina Court Commission, undated
Folder 891	North Carolina Court System, 1961 and undated
Folder 892	North Carolina Judicial Council, 1960 and undated
Folder 893	North Carolina Senior Citizens Association, 1988 and undated
Folder 894-895 Folder 894 Folder 895	North Carolina State Bar, 1958-1982
Folder 896	North Carolina State Music Society, 1964 and undated
Folder 897	North Carolina Supreme Court, 1965 and undated
Folder 898	O.U.A.M, August 1910
Folder 899	Permanent Families Task Force, 1966
Folder 900	Pfeiffer College, 1960
Folder 901	Poetry, undated
Folder 902	Portrait, 1982-1983 and undated
Folder 903	Posters: War Bonds, undated
Folder 904	Powell, Laura L., 1945, 1953
Folder 905	Prayer in Schools, 1962-1963
Folder 906-909 Folder 906 Folder 907 Folder 908 Folder 909	Prison Letters, 1976 and undated
Folder 910-912 Folder 910 Folder 911 Folder 912	Programs and Bulletins, 1951-1969, 1972-1979, 1981-1989 and undated
Folder 913	Prohibition, 1959
Folder 914	Queens College, 1962
Folder 915	Reidsville Veterans Housing Commission, Inc., 1946 and undated
Folder 916	Recipes, undated
Folder 917	Rules of Appellate Procedure, 1975
Folder 918	Rules of Practice in the Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1970
Folder 919	Scotland: Legal History, 1976
Folder 920	Sharp vs. Hartmann, 1988
Folder 921	Sharp Family, 1937-1987
Folder 922	Sharp Family: Farm, 1923-1973 and undated
Folder 924	Sharp Family: List of Condolences, April 1971
Folder 925	Social Security, 1959
Folder 926	Sunday Blue Laws, 1963-1965
Folder 927	Thompson, Robert L., 1968
Folder 928	UNC-TV, 1978
Folder 929-930 Folder 929 Folder 930	University of North Carolina: Case against U.S. Department of Education, 1979-1981
Folder 931-932 Folder 931 Folder 932	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1937, 1968, 1971, 1983-1989
Folder 933	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Distinguished Alumnus Award, 1977
Folder 934	University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1979, 1986 and undated
Folder 935	Who's Who Materials, 1979-1983 and undated
Folder 936	Will, 1990
Folder 937	Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, 1933-1949 and undated
Folder 938	Wright, T. W., 1935
Folder 939-940 Folder 939 Folder 940	Writ of Habeas Corpus, 1960-1961, 1964
Folder 941	Wrongful Death, 1977

Expand/collapse Subseries 3.1.2. 1974 Chief Justice Campaign Files, 1974.

2 items.

A campaign brochure and election results from Susie Sharp's campaign for the position of chief justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court.

Folder 942	Brochure
Folder 943	Election Results

Expand/collapse Subseries 3.1.3. General Correspondence, 1928, 1945-1992, and undated.

About 350 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Chiefly correspondence about Susie Sharp's professional endeavors and financial matters.

Folder 944	1928
Folder 945	1945-1954
Folder 946	1960-1968
Folder 947	1971-1975
Folder 948	1976-1977
Folder 949	1978-1979
Folder 950	1980-1981
Folder 951	1982
Folder 952	1984-1986
Folder 953	1987-1989
Folder 954	1990, 1992
Folder 955	Undated

Expand/collapse Subseries 3.1.4. Speech Files, 1980-1985 and undated.

About 50 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical.

Chiefly notes and text drafts of speeches Susie Sharp delivered during her career. Included is her acceptance of the North Carolina Citizens Association's 1980 Public Service Award.

Folder 956	Alpha Association of Phi Beta Kappa, undated
Folder 957	Gowell, Bertha Mable, undated
Folder 958	Graham, Frank Porter, undated
Folder 959	North Carolina Citizen's Association: Public Service Award, 26 March 1980
Folder 960	Snow, A. C., undated
Folder 961	University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1985
Folder 962	Unidentified, 1981 and undated

Expand/collapse Subseries 3.1.5. Case Files, 1926, 1953-1979, and undated.

About 450 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical by case name.

Chiefly memoranda, correspondence, research materials, and other legal papers about various cases Susie Sharp was involved with during her career. The cases describe a variety of legal issues.

Folder 963	Adamee, Paul Chester: Estate, 1976
Folder 964	Bellemy v. Reinhart, 1953
Folder 965	Brown v. State of North Carolina , 1975
Folder 966	Clary v. Board of Education, 1974
Folder 967	Cutts v. Casey, 1967, 1969
Folder 968-970 Folder 968 Folder 969 Folder 970	Dix v. Pruitt, 1926
Folder 971	Dixon v. Rivers, undated
Folder 972	Duggins v. Board of CPA Examiners , 1977
Folder 973	Fuller v. Scott, 1971
Folder 974	Greene v. Nichols, 1968
Folder 975	Hudson v. State of North Carolina , 1976
Folder 976	Kindley v. Privette, 1953
Folder 977	Master Hatcheries, Inc. v. Coble , undated
Folder 978	Parris v. Garner Commercial Disposal, Inc., King, and Aetna Life and Casualty Co., Inc. , 1979
Folder 979	Schloss v. Schloss, undated
Folder 980	Spence v. Durham, 1972-1975
Folder 981	State v. Brown, undated
Folder 982	State v. Davis and Foster, 1975
Folder 983	State v. McZorn, undated
Folder 984	State v. Miller and Clark, 1977
Folder 985	State v. Tenore, 1971
Folder 986	Sterk v. Sterk, undated
Folder 987	Szabo Food Service v. Balentine's Inc. , 1973
Folder 988	Taylor v. City of Raleigh, 1973
Folder 989	Toone v. Adams, Deal, and Raleigh Baseball, Inc. , 1964
Folder 990	Trust Co. v. Gill, State Treasurer , 1975
Folder 991	Yates v. Brown, undated

Expand/collapse Subseries 3.2. Personal Correspondence, 1906, 1931-1997, and undated.

About 3,700 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Chiefly Susie Sharp's personal correspondence with family and friends. The letters document Sharp's life, including her accomplishments, family matters, and everyday activities.

Expand/collapse Subseries 3.2.1. 1900-1929.

1 item.

Invitation to the wedding of Susie Sharp's parents, Annie Britt Blackwell and Professor James Merritt Sharp, 3 July 1906.

Folder 992

1906

Expand/collapse Subseries 3.2.2. 1930-1959.

About 40 items.

Chiefly Susie Sharp's correspondence with family and friends about her life and the activities of family members. Included is a letter from J. M. Sharp's campaign, 1938, for the position of Judge of the Superior Court of the 21st Judicial District.

Folder 993	1931-1932
Folder 994	1938
Folder 995	1941-1949
Folder 996	1950-1959

Expand/collapse Subseries 3.2.3. 1960-1989.

About 3,000 items.

Chiefly letters written to and from Susie Sharp describing family affairs, Christmas messages, birthday wishes, local news, and other personal matters. Included are condolences received following the loss of family members and get-well cards following Sharp's automobile accident in 1986. Correspondence from family members includes letters from Susie Sharp's sister, Annie Hill Sharp Klenner and her children, Fredrick Klenner, Jr., and Gertrude Klenner Wilkerson; Sharp's sister, Florence Sharp Newsom, and her children, Susie Sharp Newsom Lynch and Robert Newsom, Jr.; Sharp's brother, James Vance Sharp, and his wife, Gwen Sharp; Sharp's sister, Louise Sharp, who had moved back into the family residence in Reidsville; Sharp's brother, Thomas Sharp, his wife, Bobbie Sharp, and their daughter, Tyrell Sharp; and Larry Taylor and Barbara Taylor, the son- and daughter-in-law of Sharp's deceased sister Sallie. Other correspondents include Evelyn Ripple (Mrs. Hoyle Ripple), Lelia Alexander, and Ruth Hutchinson.

Folder 997	1960-1964
Folder 998	1965-1967
Folder 999	1968-1969
Folder 1000	1970
Folder 1001-1007 Folder 1001 Folder 1002 Folder 1003 Folder 1004 Folder 1005 Folder 1006 Folder 1007	1971
Folder 1008	1972
Folder 1009	1973
Folder 1010-1014 Folder 1010 Folder 1011 Folder 1012 Folder 1013 Folder 1014	1974
Folder 1015-1016 Folder 1015 Folder 1016	1975
Folder 1017-1022 Folder 1017 Folder 1018 Folder 1019 Folder 1020 Folder 1021 Folder 1022	1976
Folder 1023-1028 Folder 1023 Folder 1024 Folder 1025 Folder 1026 Folder 1027 Folder 1028	1977
Folder 1029-1031 Folder 1029 Folder 1030 Folder 1031	1979
Folder 1032-1036 Folder 1032 Folder 1033 Folder 1034 Folder 1035 Folder 1036	1980
Folder 1037	1981
Folder 1038-1039 Folder 1038 Folder 1039	1982
Folder 1040-1041 Folder 1040 Folder 1041	1983
Folder 1042	1984
Folder 1043-1054 Folder 1043 Folder 1044 Folder 1045 Folder 1046 Folder 1047 Folder 1048 Folder 1049 Folder 1050 Folder 1051 Folder 1052 Folder 1053 Folder 1054	1985
Folder 1055-1072 Folder 1055 Folder 1056 Folder 1057 Folder 1058 Folder 1059 Folder 1060 Folder 1061 Folder 1062 Folder 1063 Folder 1064 Folder 1065 Folder 1066 Folder 1067 Folder 1068 Folder 1069 Folder 1070 Folder 1071 Folder 1072	1986
Folder 1073-1079 Folder 1073 Folder 1074 Folder 1075 Folder 1076 Folder 1077 Folder 1078 Folder 1079	1987
Folder 1080-1084 Folder 1080 Folder 1081 Folder 1082 Folder 1083 Folder 1084	1988
Folder 1085-1090 Folder 1085 Folder 1086 Folder 1087 Folder 1088 Folder 1089 Folder 1090	1989

Expand/collapse Subseries 3.2.4. 1990-1997 and undated.

About 600 items.

Chiefly correspondence of Louise Sharp, Susie Sharp's sister, and undated letters. Included are correspondence with family members, birthday cards, and Christmas letters.

Folder 1091-1095 Folder 1091 Folder 1092 Folder 1093 Folder 1094 Folder 1095	1990
Folder 1096-1097 Folder 1096 Folder 1097	1991
Folder 1098	1992-1994
Folder 1099	1996-1997
Folder 1100-1107 Folder 1100 Folder 1101 Folder 1102 Folder 1103 Folder 1104 Folder 1105 Folder 1106 Folder 1107	Undated

Expand/collapse Series 4. Office Files, Personal Correspondence, and Pictures, 1929-1993 and undated (Addition of January 2005).

About 5,000 items.

Acquisitions Information: Accession 99984

Processing note: The Addition of January 2005 is arranged in the same way as, but has not been incorporated into, the original deposit of materials.

Expand/collapse Subseries 4.1. Office Files, 1950-1992 and undated (bulk 1962-1978).

About 4,000 items.

Chiefly correspondence, clippings, financial records, notes, legal documents, and other papers documenting Susie Sharp's professional and some personal interests. Included are her court opinions between 1962 and 1978, case files, a few speeches, and some general subject files. This addition is roughly sorted and maintained in Sharp's original order whenever possible.

Expand/collapse Subseries 4.1.1. General Subject Files, 1950-1992.

About 1,000 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical by subject.

Court papers, college and high school diplomas, awards, licenses, financial records, pamphlets, brochures, committee papers, some family material, writings documenting Susie Sharp's professional, and some personal, interests. Also included are notebooks recording Sharp's health and activities during her final years and a certificate to practice law granted to James Merritt Sharp from the United States Supreme Court dated 8 October 1923. Original file names maintained when possible.

Folder 1108	1971 Awards
Folder 1109	Advisory Committee Opinion on Farming Out of Prisoners
Folder 1110	Allied Officers
Folder 1111	An Unplanned Judicial Career by Susie Sharp
Folder 1112	Awards Commission, 1972
Folder 1113	Awards Commission, 1973
Folder 1114	Award Pamphlets
Folder 1115	Awards, Diplomas and Certificates (filed in OPF-4898/1)
Folder 1116	Bar Council (Frazier)
Folder 1117	Calendars, 1957-1971
Folder 1118	Commencements
Folder 1119	Court Reform
Folder 1120	Credit Cards (Sharp, J.)
Folder 1121	Daybooks, Notebooks, Inventory of Personal Possessions, Calendar, Vehicle Booklet
Folder 1122	Dedication Ceremonies
Folder 1123	Delta Kappa Gamma
Folder 1124	Diets
Folder 1125	Driver's License Examinations
Folder 1126	Ervin, Sam, Jr., Senator
Folder 1127	Excellence Fund
Folder 1128	Fisher Console
Folder 1129	Gorrell, Bertha, Eulogy
Folder 1130	History of the Supreme Court of North Carolina
Folder 1131	Houses, Hotels, Motels, Apartments
Folder 1132	Judicial Council
Folder 1133	Judicial Robes
Folder 1134	Justice Susie M. Sharp (biographical)
Folder 1135	Juvenile Delinquency
Folder 1136	Kit's Law Suit
Folder 1137-1138 Folder 1137 Folder 1138	Loose Items
Folder 1139	Lynch, Susie Newsome/Louise Sharp
Folder 1140	Maps
Folder 1141	Mirror
Folder 1142	Miscellaneous Items
Folder 1143	Moore, Dan K.: Inauguration Materials
Folder 1144	Morris, Judge: Court of Appeals
Folder 1145	New York University Appelgate Judges Seminar
Folder 1146	North Carolina Supreme Court (Composite Folders)
Folder 1147	Notebooks/Logs of Susie's Health Status, 1991-1992
Folder 1148	Paid Bills
Folder 1149	Paid Hotel Bills
Folder 1150	Personal Papers
Folder 1151	Phi Beta Kappa
Folder 1152	Radio and Television Broadcasts
Folder 1153	Robbery
Folder 1154-1155 Folder 1154 Folder 1155	Sir Walter Cabinet
Folder 1156	Speaker Ban Law
Folder 1157	Supreme Court Brochures
Folder 1158	Tutankhamun Book
Folder 1159	Vitamin C
Folder 1160	Voting Rights Bill
Folder 1161	Wortham

Expand/collapse Subseries 4.1.2. General Correspondence, 1962-1980 and undated.

About 3,000 items.

Arrangement: original order.

Chiefly correspondence about Susie Sharp's professional and financial matters. Original order and file names maintained whenever possible.

Folder 1162	R
Folder 1163	S
Folder 1164	T
Folder 1165	U
Folder 1166	V
Folder 1167	W
Folder 1168	X-Y-Z
Folder 1169	West Publishing Company
Folder 1170	1970 Correspondence
Folder 1171	1969 Correspondence
Folder 1172	1968 Correspondence
Folder 1173	A
Folder 1174	B
Folder 1175	C
Folder 1176	D
Folder 1177	E
Folder 1178	F
Folder 1179	G
Folder 1180	H
Folder 1181	I
Folder 1182	J
Folder 1183	K
Folder 1184	L
Folder 1185	M
Folder 1186	N
Folder 1187	New York Trip
Folder 1188	O
Folder 1189	P
Folder 1190	Q
Folder 1191	R
Folder 1192	S
Folder 1193	T
Folder 1194	Sharp, J. (letters of recommendation to United States Supreme Court) 1967
Folder 1195	V
Folder 1196	W
Folder 1197	A
Folder 1198	Alabama Seminar
Folder 1199	American Business Woman's Association
Folder 1200	American Law Reports
Folder 1201	B
Folder 1202	C
Folder 1203	D
Folder 1204	Democratic Party
Folder 1205	E
Folder 1206	The Executive Club
Folder 1207	F
Folder 1208	G
Folder 1209	Judge Allen Gwyn (Re: Judge Seminar at Chapel Hill)
Folder 1210	H
Folder 1211	I
Folder 1212	Invitations
Folder 1213	J
Folder 1214	Judicial Highlights (West Publishing Company)
Folder 1215	K
Folder 1216	L
Folder 1217	Law Alumni
Folder 1218	Mc
Folder 1219	M
Folder 1220	N
Folder 1221	North Carolina Council of Women's Organizations
Folder 1222	P
Folder 1223	Prison File (8-14-73)
Folder 1224	R
Folder 1225	S
Folder 1226	State vs. Harold Smith
Folder 1227	T
Folder 1228	Letters of Recommendation to the U. S. Supreme Court, 1971
Folder 1229	W
Folder 1230	X-Y-Z
Folder 1231	A
Folder 1232	B
Folder 1233	C
Folder 1234	D
Folder 1235	E
Folder 1236	F
Folder 1237	H
Folder 1238	I
Folder 1239	J
Folder 1240	K
Folder 1241	L
Folder 1242	M
Folder 1243	Mc
Folder 1244	N
Folder 1245	O
Folder 1246	P
Folder 1247	R
Folder 1248	S
Folder 1249	T
Folder 1250	W
Folder 1251-1252 Folder 1251 Folder 1252	Prison File
Folder 1253	Soroptimist Club
Folder 1254	U
Folder 1255	V
Folder 1256	X-Y-Z
Folder 1257	G
Folder 1258	H
Folder 1259	I
Folder 1260	J
Folder 1261	K
Folder 1262	L
Folder 1263	Mc
Folder 1264	M
Folder 1265	N
Folder 1266	O
Folder 1267	P
Folder 1268	North Carolina Bar Association
Folder 1269	Law Books
Folder 1270	Spence and Williams (School children's letters in regard to)
Folder 1271	A
Folder 1272	B
Folder 1273	C
Folder 1274	D
Folder 1275	E
Folder 1276	F
Folder 1277	G
Folder 1278-1279 Folder 1278 Folder 1279	Prison File
Folder 1280	North Carolina Bar Association: Sharp, J., Vice President
Folder 1281-1282 Folder 1281 Folder 1282	Prison File
Folder 1283	Brown Bag Fan Mail
Folder 1284	A
Folder 1285-1286 Folder 1285 Folder 1286	B
Folder 1287	C
Folder 1288	D
Folder 1289	Court Reporters
Folder 1290	E
Folder 1291	Elon Speech: Sharp, J.
Folder 1292	F
Folder 1293	G
Folder 1294	H
Folder 1295	I
Folder 1296	Income Tax Returns (1962): Correspondence
Folder 1297	J
Folder 1298	K
Folder 1299	L
Folder 1300	M
Folder 1301	Mc
Folder 1302	N
Folder 1303	O
Folder 1304	P
Folder 1305	Q
Folder 1306	R
Folder 1307	S
Folder 1308	T
Folder 1309	U
Folder 1310	V
Folder 1311	W
Folder 1312	Y
Folder 1313	Seminar for Appellate Judges, New York University School of Law, 22 July-2 August 1965
Folder 1314	1964 New York Seminar
Folder 1315-1316 Folder 1315 Folder 1316	Prison File
Folder 1317-1318 Folder 1317 Folder 1318	Loose Papers

Expand/collapse Subseries 4.1.3. Speech Files, 1951-1979 and undated.

About 10 items.

Arrangement: roughly chronological.

Notes and drafts of speeches delivered by Susie Sharp during her career. Included is the oath of office for Governor Jim Hunt in 1979.

Folder 1319	Bar Association Speech, October 1951
Folder 1320	Rockingham Community College Speech
Folder 1321	Speeches by S. Sharp, Includes oath for Governor Jim Hunt, 1979

Expand/collapse Subseries 4.1.4. Case Files, 1968-1979 and undated.

About 300 items.

Miscellaneous case files, chiefly memoranda, notes and other court related papers. These were piled together in a locked filing cabinet in no particular order.

Folder 1322-1326

Folder 1322

Folder 1323

Folder 1324

Folder 1325

Folder 1326

Case Files

Folder 1327

Hall vs. Hall: Non-support of Property Adjustment

Folder 1328-1332

Folder 1328

Folder 1329

Folder 1330

Folder 1331

Folder 1332

Loose Papers

Expand/collapse Subseries 4.1.5. Opinions, 1962-1979.

About 30 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Bound reports of Sharp's opinions for each North Carolina Supreme Court session between 1962 and 1979.

Folder 1333	Spring and Fall, 1962-1963
Folder 1334	Spring and Fall, 1962
Folder 1335	Spring and Fall, 1963
Folder 1336	Spring and Fall, 1964
Folder 1337	Spring and Fall, 1965
Folder 1338	Spring and Fall, 1966
Folder 1339	Spring and Fall, 1967
Folder 1340	Spring and Fall, 1968
Folder 1341	Spring and Fall, 1969
Folder 1342	Spring and Fall, 1970
Folder 1343	Spring and Fall, 1971
Folder 1344	Spring and Fall, 1972
Folder 1345	Spring and Fall, 1973
Folder 1346	Spring and Fall, 1974
Folder 1347	Spring and Fall, 1975
Folder 1348	Spring, 1976
Folder 1349	Fall, 1976
Folder 1350	Spring and Fall, 1977
Folder 1351	Spring and Fall, 1978
Folder 1352	Spring and Fall, 1979

Expand/collapse Subseries 4.1.6. Clippings, 1949-1996 and undated (bulk 1974-1984).

About 800 items.

Various newspaper and magazine clippings relating to Susie Sharp.

Folder 1353-1368

Folder 1353

Folder 1354

Folder 1355

Folder 1356

Folder 1357

Folder 1358

Folder 1359

Folder 1360

Folder 1361

Folder 1362

Folder 1363

Folder 1364

Folder 1365

Folder 1366

Folder 1367

Folder 1368

Clippings

Folder 1369

Magazine Articles

Expand/collapse Subseries 4.2. Personal Correspondence, 1929-1993 and undated.

About 1,000 items.

Chiefly Susie Sharp's personal correspondence with family and friends documenting her personal life, accomplishments, family matters, and everyday activities.

Expand/collapse Subseries 4.2.1. 1900-1929.

1 item.

A congratulatory note from a Virginia of Salisbury dated 26 March 1929.

Folder 1370

March 1929

Expand/collapse Subseries 4.2.2. 1930-1959.

About 25 items.

Cards and letters from friends and family.

Folder 1371	1930-1955
Folder 1372	1956-1959

Expand/collapse Subseries 4.2.3. 1960-1989.

About 900 items.

Cards and letters from friends and family. Included are two volumes of bound letters regarding Sharp's appointment to the North Carolina Supreme Court in 1962.

Folder 1373	1961-1969
Folder 1374a	V-4898/1. March 1962
Folder 1374b	V-4898/2. March/April 1962
Folder 1375	March-April 1962 (Responses A-C)
Folder 1376	March-April 1962 (Responses D-H)
Folder 1377	March-April 1962 (Responses I-Mc)
Folder 1378	March-April 1962 (Responses N-Z)
Folder 1379	1972-1979
Folder 1380	1980-January 1981
Folder 1381	February 1981-September 1981
Folder 1382	October 1981-December 1981
Folder 1383	1982
Folder 1384	1983
Folder 1385	1984
Folder 1386	1985-1986
Folder 1387	1987-1988
Folder 1388	1989

Expand/collapse Subseries 4.2.4. 1990-1997 and undated

About 50 items.

Cards and letters from, and to, friends and family.

Folder 1389

1990-1993

Folder 1390-1391

Folder 1390

Folder 1391

Undated

Folder 1392

Draft to Francis Driscoll

Expand/collapse Subseries 4.3. Pictures, 1966 and undated.

3 items.

Oversize Image Folder OP-PF-4898/1-2

OP-PF-4898/1

OP-PF-4898/2

Oversized Pictures

A picture of the North Carolina Supreme Court Justices, autographed by each Justice including Susie Sharp, dated 1966; an original cartoon by Gene Payne depicting a decision made by Justice Susie Sharp, dated 1 December 1966; an undated photograph of a group of people with Susie Sharp, possibly of her family.

Expand/collapse Series 5. Personal Correspondence, Pictures, and Other Materials, circa 1900-1970s (Addition of April 2008)

About 100 items.

Acquisitions Information: Accession 100899

The Addition of April 2008 is arranged in the same way as, but has not been incorporated into, the original deposit of materials.

Correspondence between Susie Sharp and her siblings discussing trials and family affairs; postcards from various Sharp family members; a photograph of Sharp's father, James Merrit Sharp; a scrapbook compiled by Sharp's mother, Annie Britt Blackwell Sharp; clippings; and a music lesson book.

Expand/collapse Subseries 5.1. Personal Correspondence, 1905-1971 and undated.

About 100 items.

Folder 1393	Correspondence, 1944-1945 and undated
Folder 1394	Postcards, 1905-1971
Folder 1395	Postcard Album, 1905-1971

Expand/collapse Subseries 5.2. Pictures, 1943.

1 item.

Image Folder P-4898/2

Sharp, Merritt James and Taylor, Jimmy, 1943

Black and white professional photograph of James Merrit Sharp with his grandson Jimmy Taylor, Richmond, Ind.

Expand/collapse Subseries 5.3 Other Materials, circa 1900-1956.

4 items.

Folder 1396

"Music Notes: My Book One," circa 1925

Folder 1397

Other Papers, 1904-1956

Includes a photocopied pamphlet on the Sharp Institute, 1904-1905; a 1944 newspaper clipping on Susie Sharp; a 1956 newspaper clipping on the 100th birthday of Mrs. J. P. Wilson; and a 1944 Christmas shopping list.

Folder 1398

Scrapbook: Annie Britt Blackwell Sharp, circa 1900

Chiefly newspaper clippings on religious topics, prayers, essays, printed pictures, and poems.

Expand/collapse Series 6. Other Materials, 1940s-1960s. (Addition of August 2008)

About 10 items.

Acquisitions Information: Accession 101030.

The Addition of August 2008 is arranged in the same way as, but has not been incorporated into, the original deposit of materials.

Materials belonging to Annie Britt Blackwell Sharp, including sewing materials from the American System of Dressmaking of the American College in Kansas City, Mo.; a fabric sample catalog from Gluck Mills; and an apron scrapbook with pictures of aprons clipped chiefly from sewing pattern catalogs and an apron party favor, circa 1950-1952, designed to wrap around a six-ounce bottle of Coca Cola.

Folder 1399	Sewing materials Includes American System of Dressmaking tuition receipts and a fabric sample catalog from Gluck Mills.
Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-4898/1	Printed sewing lessons and patterns
Oversize Volume SV-4898/48	Apron scrapbook, 1940s-1960s Pictures of aprons clipped chiefly from sewing pattern catalogs.
Folder 1400	Apron scrapbook, 1940s-1960s: Enclosures Includes pictures of aprons clipped chiefly from sewing pattern catalogs and an apron party favor, circa 1950-1952, designed to wrap around a six ounce bottle of Coca Cola.

Expand/collapse Series 7. Office Files, Personal Correspondence, Pictures, and Other Materials, circa 1920s-1990s (Addition of March 2009)

About 3,500 items.

Acquisition Information: Accession 101076

The Addition of March 2009 is arranged in the same way as, but has not been incorporated into, the original deposit of materials.

The Addition of March 2009 includes general subject files; 1974 chief justice campaign files; speeches; case files; newspaper clippings and scrapbooks that document Susie Sharp's career; personal correspondence with family and friends, some of whom were also a part of Sharp's professional life; family and professional photographs and photograph albums; and calendars, diaries, notebooks, and other volumes that record professional and private affairs. Other materials include personal scrapbooks that reflect Sharp's interest in health and beauty, recipes, and other lifestyle topics; clippings relating to the Klenner-Lynch murders; Reidsville, N.C., high school and University of North Carolina yearbooks and books on Gregg shorthand, law, marriage, sex, politics, and other subjects; and papers of James Meritt Sharp that concern fundraising for the Near East College Association.

Expand/collapse Subseries 7.1. General Subject Files, 1929-1989 and undated.

About 500 items.

Arrangement: Alphabetical by subject.

Correspondence, memoranda, magazine and newspaper articles, pamplets, law journals, land deeds, maps, and other items chiefly documenting Susie Sharp's professional life.

Folder 1401	"Criminal Law" binder, 1955 and undated Binder is empty except for a 1955 article from the Raleigh News and Observer regarding prison rules and a magazine clipping of a photographic image of a man in a prison cell.
Folder 1402	Democratic book material, 1988, undated Includes a draft of "An Unlikely Jurist," an essay by Susie Sharp recounting her experiences as a woman in politics and the legal profession.
Folder 1403	Dr. John S. Stone matter, 1957, 1962, and undated
Folder 1404	Equal Rights Amendment, 1970-1974, undated
Folder 1405	Federal appointments, 1968 Includes Susie Sharp's partially completed federal government form in which she recommended herself for appointment as a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Folder 1406	Fourth Court Circuit of Appeals, 1973, 1977, and undated
Folder 1407	History of North Carolina Supreme Court, undated
Folder 1408	"Institute of Government Faculty and Staff Members Who May Deal with Prosecutors," undated
Folder 1409	Judge Allen H. Gwyn, 1952-1962 and undated Contains letters to Robert McNamera protesting a rule of enlistment in the armed services on account of civil restraints.
Folder 1410	Judicial Council, 1954-1960 and undated
Folder 1411	Land deeds and maps, 1917-1918, 1940s Relating to various properties in and around Reidsville, Rockingham County, N.C. (oversize maps are filed in OPF-4898/5).
Folder 1412	Law Day, 1972-1984 Includes a speech by William H. Bobbit.
Folder 1413	North Carolina Forestry Foundation Inc. petition, 1978
Folder 1414	North Carolina Supreme Court Permanent Families Task Force Interim Report, 1986
Folder 1415	Presidential election, 1988
Folder 1416	State of the Judiciary message, 1989
Folder 1417-1418 Folder 1417 Folder 1418	Thomas B. Cantine Estate, 1944-1947 and undated Includes war bond poster with caricature of Adolf Hitler; guide to determining degrees of relationships as recognized by canon and civil law on verso (filed in OPF-4898/1)
Folder 1419	Women's liberation, 1951-1973 and undated
Folder 1420-1421 Folder 1420 Folder 1421	Other legal papers, 1929-1979, undated Miscellaneous crime statistics, newsletters, opinions, memos, and drafts of court documents.

Expand/collapse Subseries 7.2. Chief Justice Campaign Files, 1974.

About 10 items.

Folder 1422

Chief Justice campaign files, 1974

Materials include a "State Candidates' Questionnaire" compiled by the League of Women Voters of North Carolina; clippings related to Susie Sharp's campaign for chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court; and a list of attendees for a luncheon for Susie Sharp.

Expand/collapse Subseries 7.3. Speeches, 1951-1964 and undated.

About 50 items.

Speeches chiefly relate to Susie Sharp's experiences as a woman in law. Some files include clippings and correspondence.

Folder 1423	Alcohol and the Church's Responsibility, 1961
Folder 1424	Bankers speech, undated Given to a group of bankers discussing women's role in banking.
Folder 1425	Bar Association, October 1951
Folder 1426	Business and Professional Women (B.P.W.) speech at Institute of Government, Chapel Hill, N.C., February 1959
Folder 1427	Bringle, 1959
Folder 1428	Cherry Point, 1962
Folder 1429	Church speech material, 1958-1962 and undated
Folder 1430	Duke University, Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity, 1960
Folder 1431	Durham Future Business Leaders of America, 24 March 1962
Folder 1432	Eastern North Carolina Press Association, undated
	Freedom of speech opinion pieces and speeches, undated
	"Plain Talk, 6 November 1954" address
	Baptist Brotherhood, Lexington, N.C., 21 April 1955
Folder 1433	Flora MacDonald College, undated
Folder 1434	North Carolina Women's College Alumnae, 10 December 1955
Folder 1435	High school graduation speech, undated
	Salisbury speech, undated
	Delta Kappa Gamma speech, undated
	Other speeches, undated
Folder 1436	Law School banquet, undated
	North Carolina Court Watch (N.C.C.W.), undated
	Bosses night, undated
	Memorial services speech, undated For William E. Apple and William R. McKinney.
Folder 1437	Law school speech, undated
	National Association of Women Lawyers, 28 November 1952
	Greensboro College commencement, June 1952
Folder 1438	Legal Auxiliary, 19 September 1961
Folder 1439	North Carolina State Highway Patrol, undated
Folder 1440	Old speeches, 1929-1953 and undated
	Introductions and responses
	Town meeting on books, undated
Folder 1441	Peace Institute commencement address, undated
	Pine Hill commencement, undated
	Other speeches, undated
Folder 1442	"Politics Beckons" in National Business Woman, August 1959
	Address to the North Carolina State Bar, undated
	United States Special Warfare School, undated
	Other speeches, undated
Folder 1443	Race relations speech
	High Point speech
	Pinehurst speech
Folder 1444	Business and Professional Women (B. P. W.), undated
	Delta Kappa Gamma, undated
	University of North Carolina Law School speech honoring Albert Coates, undated
Folder 1445	Radio and television speech, 11 October 1959
Folder 1446	Raleigh Quota Club, 11 October 1958
Folder 1447	Raleigh Young Democrats, undated
Folder 1448	Reidsville Kiwanis, July 1953
	Leaksville Kiwanis and Business and Professional Women, 26 October 1953
Folder 1449	"The Role of a Newspaper Reporter in the Courtroom," 1956
Folder 1450	Salem College commencement, May 1957
Folder 1451	Sertoma Club speech, undated
	Atlanta speech, undated
Folder 1452	Sharp family reunion, September 1954
Folder 1453	South Atlantic Regional Conference: Greensboro, N.C., 24 March 1962
Folder 1454	Spring term, 1962
Folder 1455	Stratford speech, undated
Folder 1456	Sunday School, 29 February 1960
Folder 1457	Trooper of the Year, 24 March 1959
Folder 1458	University of North Carolina Law School talk, 3 April 1964
Folder 1459	Wake Forest, 1962
	Elon University commencement, 1963
Folder 1460	Winston-Salem alumnae, undated
Folder 1461	Women's Business Association, undated
Folder 1462	Women in Politics, undated
	Raleigh Women's Club, undated
Folder 1463	Young Democrats, Reidsville, N.C., undated
Folder 1464-1465 Folder 1464 Folder 1465	Miscellaneous speeches, 1951-1960s and undated Includes drafts of speeches related to women in law, women voters, communism, and the Kiwanis Club, and lists of quotations.

Expand/collapse Subseries 7.4. Case Files, 1929-1979 and undated.

About 500 items.

Chiefly memoranda, correspondence, research materials, and other legal papers relating to various legal cases, including State of North Carolina v. Joan Little, that Susie Sharp was involved with during her career. Also included are materials related to Susie Sharp's 1986 lawsuit filed against Elizabeth Hartmann, seeking damages to compensate for lifestyle changes that resulted from injuries suffered in an automobile accident.

Folder 1466	Alvin R. Dixon and Marvin C. Mills v. Thomas W. Rivers, ex. rel., et al. , 1979
Folder 1467	Board of Transportation v. David J. Martin , 1978
Folder 1468	Branch Banking and Trust Company v. Edwin Gill and Henry L. Stevens , 1977
Folder 1469	Clark v. Clark, 1977
Folder 1470	Fred J. Stanback Jr., v. Vanita B. Stanback , 1966
Folder 1471	James E. Swann v. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education , 1969-1970
Folder 1472	Herff Jones Company v. Allegood & Barnes , 1976
Folder 1473	James N. Duggins case, undated
Folder 1474	Martin v. Bonclarken Assembly , 1978
Folder 1475	Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company v. Andrew Currie Chantos , 1977
Folder 1476	Paul O. Perry v. Hibriten Furniture Co. and Liberty Mutual Insurance , 1978
Folder 1477	Rabon v. Hospital, 1967
Folder 1478	Richard Pitts v. Village Inn Pizza, Inc. , 1978
Folder 1479	Roy Shelton Lloyd, et al. v. R. Kenneth Babb, et al. , 1978
Folder 1480	Spring Term, 1978
Folder 1481	State of North Carolina v. Bobby Lee Smith , 1977
Folder 1482	State of North Carolina v. Bryon James Stevens , 1977
Folder 1483	State of North Carolina v. Chapman , 1978
Folder 1484	State of North Carolina v. David Bernard Foster, 1977
Folder 1485	State of North Carolina v. Gregory Dean Patterson , 1978
Folder 1486	State of North Carolina v. Joan Little , 1975 Includes telegrams from human rights organizations to Susie Sharp requesting a new trial for Joan Little.
Folder 1487	State of North Carolina v. Sebrina Davis Freeman , 1978
Folder 1488	State of North Carolina, ex. rel. William H. Andrews v. Chateau X, Inc. , 1978
Folder 1489-1492 Folder 1489 Folder 1490 Folder 1491 Folder 1492	Susie Sharp v. Elizabeth Hartmann , 1986-1988 and undated Includes hospital records and invoices, legal correspondence, and other documents related to lawsuit.
Folder 1493	T. LaFontine Odom v. Little Rock and I-85 Corporation , 1979
Folder 1494	Thomas O'Grady, et al. v. First Union National Bank of North Carolina v. Bank of North Carolina v. Jack Stewart and Wayne Huddleston, 1978
Folder 1495	Trust Co. v. Gill, State Treasurer , undated
Folder 1496	Utilities Commission v. Mebane Home Telephone Company , 1978
Folder 1497	Ware v. Knight, 1929-1930 and undated Includes map of the J.T. Ware farm and map of a tract of land surveyed for T.B. Knight.

Expand/collapse Subseries 7.5. Clippings and Professional Scrapbooks, 1930s-1990s.

About 1,500 items.

Chiefly newspaper clippings and scrapbooks related to Susie Sharp's career and to the Klenner-Lynch murders described in Jerry Bledsoe's Bitter Blood; some lifestyle pieces that represent Sharp's personal interests may also be included. Many scrapbooks also include photographs.

Folder 1498	1930s
Folder 1499	1940s
Folder 1500-1502 Folder 1500 Folder 1501 Folder 1502	1950s
Folder 1503-1506 Folder 1503 Folder 1504 Folder 1505 Folder 1506	1960s
Folder 1507-1522 Folder 1507 Folder 1508 Folder 1509 Folder 1510 Folder 1511 Folder 1512 Folder 1513 Folder 1514 Folder 1515 Folder 1516 Folder 1517 Folder 1518 Folder 1519 Folder 1520 Folder 1521 Folder 1522	1970s
Folder 1523-1531 Folder 1523 Folder 1524 Folder 1525 Folder 1526 Folder 1527 Folder 1528 Folder 1529 Folder 1530 Folder 1531	1974
Folder 1532-1534 Folder 1532 Folder 1533 Folder 1534	1975
Folder 1535-1540 Folder 1535 Folder 1536 Folder 1537 Folder 1538 Folder 1539 Folder 1540	1980s
Folder 1541	1990s
Folder 1542-1543 Folder 1542 Folder 1543	Undated
Folder 1544-1549 Folder 1544 Folder 1545 Folder 1546 Folder 1547 Folder 1548 Folder 1549	Klenner-Lynch clippings, 1980s Clippings related to the Klenner-Lynch killings described in Jerry Bledsoe's Bitter Blood.
Folder 1550-1552 Folder 1550 Folder 1551 Folder 1552	Legal publications, 1959-1986
Oversize Volume SV-4898/1	Her Honor Volume I, 1944-1949
Oversize Volume SV-4898/2	Her Honor Volume II, 1950-1951
Oversize Volume SV-4898/3	Her Honor Volume III, 1951-1952
Oversize Volume SV-4898/4	Her Honor Volume IV, 1952-1954
Oversize Volume SV-4898/5	Her Honor Volume V, 1954-1955
Oversize Volume SV-4898/6	Her Honor Volume VI, 1955-1956
Oversize Volume SV-4898/7	Her Honor Volume VII, 1956-1958
Oversize Volume SV-4898/8	Her Honor Volume VIII, 1958-1959
Oversize Volume SV-4898/9	Her Honor Volume IX, 1959-1960
Oversize Volume SV-4898/10	Her Honor Volume X, 1960-1962
Oversize Volume SV-4898/11	Scrapbook, 1962
Oversize Volume SV-4898/12	Scrapbook, November 1962-September 1964
Oversize Volume SV-4898/13	Scrapbook, 1964-1966
Oversize Volume SV-4898/14	Scrapbook, 1966-1967
Oversize Volume SV-4898/15	Scrapbook, March 1967-December 1968
Oversize Volume SV-4898/16	Scrapbook, January 1969-January 1970
Oversize Volume SV-4898/17	Scrapbook, 1970
Oversize Volume SV-4898/18	Scrapbook, 1970-1971
Oversize Volume SV-4898/19	Scrapbook, 1971
Oversize Volume SV-4898/20	Scrapbook, January-May 1974
Oversize Volume SV-4898/21	Scrapbook, June-July 1974
Oversize Volume SV-4898/22	Scrapbook, September-October 1974
Oversize Volume SV-4898/23	Scrapbook, September 1974 Letters written by various individuals for a tribute to Susie Sharp at the North Carolina Democratic Women's Convention.
Oversize Volume SV-4898/24	Scrapbook, October 1974
Oversize Volume SV-4898/25	Scrapbook, January 1975
Oversize Volume SV-4898/26	Scrapbook, April-July 1975
Folder 1554	Scrapbook, April-July 1975: Enclosures
Oversize Volume SV-4898/27	Scrapbook, December 1975-January 1976
Folder 1555	Scrapbook, December 1975-January 1976: Enclosures
Oversize Volume SV-4898/28	Scrapbook, 1979-1980
Folder 1556	Scrapbook, 1979-1980: Enclosures
Oversize Volume SV-4898/29	"Susie Marshall Sharp" scrapbook, 1983-1984 Letters of congratulation, invitations, and programs related to Susie Sharp receiving the 1984 James Iredell Award, presented by the James Iredell Chapter of Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity International, Campbell University School of Law. Also includes a signed letter from Governor James B. Hunt Jr. designating 10 November 1983 as Susie Marshall Sharp Day.
Oversize Volume SV-4898/30	Scrapbook, 1946-1950 Chiefly newspaper clippings related to the contest between John H. Folger and Thurmond Chatham for United States House of Representatives. Also clippings on prohibition and liquor stores in Rockingham County, N.C.
Oversize Volume SV-4898/31	Scrapbook, 1954 Articles on North Carolina news and elections.

Expand/collapse Subseries 7.6. Personal Correspondence, 1927-1991 and undated.

About 300 items.

Arrangement: Alphabetical by name and subject.

Chiefly Susie Sharp's personal correspondence with family, friends, and mentors and acquaintances in the legal field. Some letters were excised by Susie Sharp, but in many cases she copied the original letter in full in Gregg shorthand in bound volumes. Many letters to Sharp include clippings.

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Bobbitt, William H., 1949, 1953

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Breckenridge, Millard S., 1949-1979 and undated

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Breckenridge, Millard S.: Copied letters in shorthand, December 1928-April 1957, and miscellaneous, August 1958

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Driscoll family, 1974-1991 and undated

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Happer, Gladys Morgan, 1927-1949, 1953, 1963, and undated

Letters from Gladys Morgan Happer concern women and higher education, women in medicine, medicine in India, World War II, and marriage and children.

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Kesler, John C., 1949-1990 and undated

Letters from Susie Sharp to John Kesler between the years 1949 and 1973 were partially excised by Sharp; correspondence between 1980 and 1990 is primarily greeting cards from Kesler to Sharp.

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Kesler, John C.: Copied letters in shorthand, 1947-1966

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Mebane, Jessie: 1964-1973 and undated

Letters from Susie Sharp's former college professor and friend relating Mebane's experience while hospitalized in a mental institution in the 1960s and her religious views and beliefs; also included are various writings by Mebane.

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Sharp, Annie Britt Blackwell, 1949, 1953

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Sharp family, 1937-1991 and undated

Includes correspondence with Susie Sharp, Louise Sharp, and other family members.

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Folder 1591

Retirement, 1979-1980

Contains letters written to Susie Sharp following her retirement with copies of her responses to each letter.

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Folder 1593

Sympathy letters, 1952-1953

Includes sympathy letters to Susie Sharp following the death of her father, James Merritt Sharp, and her sister, Sallie Blackwell Sharp Taylor.

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Other correspondents, circa 1940s-1980s

Topics include social news, recipes, congratulatory sentiments from friends and colleagues, and legal cases and court matters. Also included are letters related to the Klenner-Lynch killings.

Expand/collapse Subseries 7.7. Pictures, 1880s-1990 and undated.

About 400 items.

Arrangement: Alphabetical and chronological.

Chiefly photographs and photograph albums depicting Susie Sharp's family, personal, and professional life.

Photograph Album PA-4898/1	Blackwell and Sharp family, circa 1870s-1960s
Oversize Image Folder OP-PF-4898/3	North Carolina Supreme Court Justices: Portraits, 1973 Two black-and-white photographs of North Carolina Supreme Court justices; one photograph includes court clerks.
Photograph Album PA-4898/2	Sharp, Susie, circa 1890s-1960s
Photograph Album PA-4898/3	Sharp, Susie, circa 1890s-1980s
Image Folder PF-4898/1-4 PF-4898/1 PF-4898/2 PF-4898/3 PF-4898/4	Sharp, Susie: Photograph album, circa 1910s-1950s
Image Folder PF-4898/5	Sharp, Susie: Photograph album (disassembled), circa 1910s-1980s
Image Folder PF-4898/6	Sharp, Susie: Photograph album, circa 1920s
Image Folder PF-4898/7	Sharp, Susie: Photograph album, 1924-1932 and undated
Image Folder PF-4898/8	Sharp, Susie: 1929-circa 1990s
Photograph Album PA-4898/4	Sharp, Susie: Christmas photograph album, circa 1940s-1960s
Photograph Album PA-4898/5	Sharp, Susie, circa 1960s-1970s
Image Folder PF-4898/9	Sharp, Susie: Photograph album (disassembled), 1973-1981 and undated
Photograph Album PA-4898/6	Sharp, Susie, circa 1970s-1980s
Image Folder PF-4898/10	Sharp, Susie: Photograph album (disassembled), circa 1970s-1980s
Image Folder PF-4898/11	Sharp Family: Photograph album, circa 1880s-1930s
Photograph Album PA-4898/7	Sharp family, circa 1890s-1950s
Image Folder PF-4898/12	Sharp family and personal photographs, 1909-1990 and undated

Expand/collapse Subseries 7.8. Other Materials, 1911-1990s.

About 400 items.

Includes personal scrapbooks and a sample of newspaper clippings that reflect Susie Sharp's interest in the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, health and beauty, recipes, and other lifestyle topics; Annie Blackwell Sharp's 1922-1924 diary; funeral materials relating to the Klenner-Lynch murders; Reidsville, N.C.; high school and University of North Carolina yearbooks; books on Gregg shorthand, law, marriage, sex, politics, and other subjects; and papers of James Meritt Sharp that concern fundraising for the Near East College Association.

Folder 1596	Christmas list: 1928-1987; Reidsville Booster Club Minutes: 1915-1916
Folder 1597	Christmas card list, 1977-1983 and undated
Folder 1598-1600 Folder 1598 Folder 1599 Folder 1600	Clippings: Duke and Duchess of Windsor, 1936 and circa 1960s-1970s Includes Her Royal Romance and Life Story: Mrs. Wallis Simpson .
Folder 1601	Clippings: Lifestyle, circa 1960s-1970s
Folder 1602	Clippings: Health and beauty, circa 1960s-1970s
Folder 1603	Clippings: Recipes, circa 1960s-1970s
Folder 1604	Clippings: Religion, circa 1960s-1970s
Folder 1605	Diary: Annie Blackwell Sharp, 1922-1924
Folder 1606	Diet and exercise booklets, circa 1940s-1950s
Folder 1607	Funeral materials, 1985 Includes memory books with funerary details following the Klenner-Lynch murders of Florence Newsom, Bob Newsom, Hattie Newsom, John Lynch, and James Lynch, and the subsequent suicides of Susie Sharp Newsom Lynch and Fritz Klenner.
Folder 1608	Magazines, 1964, 1967, 1979, 1981 Issues of Newsweek and Time, including the July 1981 edition with a cover story on Susie Sharp.
Folder 1609	Recipe book, undated
Folder 1610-1611 Folder 1610 Folder 1611	Sharp, James Merritt: Near East College Association, 1927-1928 Correspondence, fundraising records, and other promotional materials related to James Merritt Sharp's role as chair of the Rockingham chapter of this organization. Includes a statement by Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick discussing religious, cultural, and political misconceptions between westerners and people of the Middle-East and the Near East College Association's role in bridging cultural gaps through training future leaders.
Folder 1612	Sharp, Louise: Naval Hospital papers, 1952, 1966, and undated Includes "Duty Aboard a Hospital Ship," a speech written by Louise Sharp discussing her experiences as a naval nurse aboard the U.S.S. Repose during the Korean War and materials relating to the nursing inservice education program for which she delivered this speech.
Folder 1613	Sharp, Susie: Interview with Carol Gable, 1979
Folder 1614	Sharp Institute brochures, 1903-1906
Folder 1615	Travel brochures, circa 1930s Includes the Chapel of Duke University, Canada, Florida, and the Great Smoky Mountains.
Folder 1616	Webb, Bailey: Writings on Susie Sharp
Oversize Volume SV-4898/32	Scrapbook, circa 1921-1964 Performance programs, invitations, report cards, notes exchanged with friends, newspaper clippings, and other papers from Susie Sharp's school days. Also includes clippings related to Sharp's later career.
Oversize Volume SV-4898/33	Scrapbook, circa 1920s-1950s Christmas cards sent to Susie Sharp.
Oversize Volume SV-4898/34	Scrapbook, 1927-1950s Articles on health, celebrities, and news; cartoons; postcards; ticket stubs; and brochures.
Oversize Volume SV-4898/35-40 SV-4898/35 SV-4898/36 SV-4898/37 SV-4898/38 SV-4898/39 SV-4898/40	Scrapbooks, Duke and Duchess of Windsor, 1930s-1950s
Oversize Volume SV-4898/41	Scrapbook, 1917 Includes pictures from magazines, posters, greeting cards, and postcards chiefly relating to art, culture, and beauty.
Folder 1553	Scrapbook, 1950s Adages; prayers; and quotations and essays regarding love, marriage, and womanhood.
Oversize Volume SV-4898/42-43 SV-4898/42 SV-4898/43	Scrapbooks, circa 1950s Recipes, diets, exercises, and pictures of Hollywood actresses.
Oversize Volume SV-4898/44	Scrapbook, undated Printed pictures of landscapes, people, and scenes.
Oversize Volume SV-4898/45	Scrapbook, undated Vintage ads from The Saturday Evening Post, chiefly for the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company of Boston, Mass.
Oversize Volume SV-4898/46	Scrapbook, undated Art clippings from The Saturday Evening Post.
Oversize Volume SV-4898/47	Scrapbook, undated Writings on character, discipline, and anger; poems; and quotations pasted in a book that may have originally belonged to Roy Armstrong.
Folder 1617-1621 Folder 1617 Folder 1618 Folder 1619 Folder 1620 Folder 1621	Miscellaneous, 1911-1986 Includes programs, invitations, and brochures from various events; a book of handwritten poems by Florence Sharp to her mother, 1932; newsletters; poems; church bulletins; stamps with portraits of Hugo Black and Jack London on them; a 1911 deed to J.M. Sharp; a booklet entitled "Understanding your teen-ager"; a 1915 newspaper article about women judges; Memoirs of J. Sidna Allen, 1929; and assorted notes.
Box 142a	Books, circa 1910s-1990s A Book of English Literature selected and edited by Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Ph.D., and Robert Grant Martin, Ph.D. A Review of Algebra by Romeyn Hebrt Rivenburg, A.M. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Graded Readings in Gregg Shorthand by Alice Margaret Hunter Gregg Speed Studies by John Robert Gregg Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique by Th. H. Van de Velde, M.D. Letters to a Young Lawyer by Arthur M. Harris Renocahi, Reidsville High School, 1923-1927 Sex: Methods and Manners by Louis Berg, M.D., and Robert Street Souvenir, 1992 The Adventures of Ephraim Tuit by Arthur Train The New Reference Atlas of the World The Short Story Case Book by Edward J. O'Brien William Kerr Scott, Late Senator from North Carolina: Memorial Addresses Delivered in Congress Yackety-Yack, 1928, 1929

Expand/collapse Subseries 7.9. Calendars, Diaries, and Other Volumes, 1929-1987 and undated.

About 150 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Chiefly calendars, diaries, daybooks, and notebooks for recording professional and private affairs. Most calendars were used for writing short diary entries to recount daily activities and thoughts; Susie Sharp often pasted newspaper clippings of professional and personal interest into her calendars. Following her retirement, Sharp recorded more extensive diary entries in blank books and dated diaries.

Folder 1622	Personal notebooks, 1927-1968 Includes three notebooks with lists of dates and corresponding shorthand notes; Susie Sharp labeled these notebooks 1-A, 1-B, and 2.
Folder 1623	Calendar, 1929
Folder 1624	Lawyer's diary, 1942 Appears to have been used chiefly to keep war bond records for various family members for the years 1942-1958.
Folder 1625	Calendar, 1943 Record of calendar activities, 1927-1943.
Folder 1626	Calendar, 1948
Folder 1627	Calendar, 1949
Folder 1628	Calendar, 1950
Folder 1629	Calendar, 1951
Folder 1630	Calendar, 1951 Appears to have been used chiefly as a daybook for recording daily transactions and notes.
Folder 1631	Calendar, 1952
Folder 1632	Calendar, 1953
Folder 1633	Calendar, 1954
Folder 1634	Calendar, 1955
Folder 1635	Calendar, 1956
Folder 1636	Calendar, 1957
Folder 1637	Calendar, 1958
Folder 1638	Calendar, 1959
Folder 1639	Day book, 1959-1962; Christmas list, 1984-1985
Folder 1640	Notebook, circa 1950s Includes oratories, opinion pieces, and other legal writings.
Folder 1641	Calendar, 1960
Folder 1642	Calendar, 1961
Folder 1643	Lawyer's diary, 1961 Used primarily as a notebook and to record daily transactions.
Folder 1644	Calendar, 1962
Folder 1645	Lawyer's diary, 1962
Folder 1646	Calendar, 1963
Folder 1647	Lawyer's diaries, 1963 Used for varied calendar and notekeeping purposes.
Folder 1648	Calendar, 1964
Folder 1649	Lawyer's diaries, 1964
Folder 1650-1651 Folder 1650 Folder 1651	Calendars, 1965
Folder 1652	Calendar, 1966
Folder 1653-1654 Folder 1653 Folder 1654	Calendar, 1967
Folder 1655	Lawyer's diary, 1967
Folder 1656-1657 Folder 1656 Folder 1657	Calendar, 1968
Folder 1658	Lawyer's diary, 1968
Folder 1659	Calendar, 1969
Folder 1660	Diary: Exercise and beauty routine, circa 1960s
Folder 1661	Calendar, 1970
Folder 1662	Lawyer's diary, 1970
Folder 1663	Calendar, 1971
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-4898/2	Calendar, 1971-1972
Folder 1664	Calendar, 1972
Folder 1665	Lawyer's diary, 1972
Folder 1666	Calendar, 1973
Folder 1667	Calendar, 1974
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-4898/2	Calendar, 1974
Folder 1668	Calendar, 1975
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-4898/2	Calendar, 1975
Folder 1669	Lawyer's diary, 1975
Folder 1670	Calendar, 1976 Includes correspondence and photographs.
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-4898/2	Calendar, 1976
Folder 1671	Lawyer's diary, 1976
Folder 1672	Calendar, 1977
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-4898/2	Calendar, 1977
Folder 1673	Calendar, 1977-1978
Folder 1674-1675 Folder 1674 Folder 1675	Calendars, 1978
Folder 1676-1677 Folder 1676 Folder 1677	Calendars, 1979
Folder 1678	Calendar, 1980
Folder 1679	Diary, 1980
Folder 1680-1681 Folder 1680 Folder 1681	Diary, 1981-1983
Folder 1682	Health notebook, 1981-1985
Folder 1683	Calendar, 1982
Folder 1684	Daybook, 1982
Folder 1685-1686 Folder 1685 Folder 1686	Diary, 1982
Folder 1687	Calendar, 1982-1983
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-4898/2	Calendar, 1982
	Calendar, 1983
Folder 1688-1689 Folder 1688 Folder 1689	Diary, 1983
Folder 1690	Calendar, 1984
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-4898/2	Calendar, 1984
Folder 1691-1692 Folder 1691 Folder 1692	Diary, 1984
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-4898/2	Calendar, 1985
Folder 1693-1694 Folder 1693 Folder 1694	Daybook, 1985-1987
Folder 1695-1696 Folder 1695 Folder 1696	Diary, 1985 Includes a letter from Susie Sharp to her friend Allan following the Klenner-Lynch killings, other correspondence, and clippings.
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-4898/2	Calendar, 1986
Folder 1697	Calendar, 1986-1987
Folder 1698	Daybook, 1986-1987
Folder 1699-1700 Folder 1699 Folder 1700	Diary, 1986
Folder 1701	Financial account book, 1987
Folder 1702	Calendar, 1988
Folder 1703-1704 Folder 1703 Folder 1704	Diary, 1988 Includes correspondence, clippings, and notes.
Folder 1705-1706 Folder 1705 Folder 1706	Address book, circa 1980s
Folder 1707	Notebooks, circa 1980s-1990s, Notes, diary entries, driving directions, contact information, and records of blood pressure readings and other health-related information.
Folder 1708-1709 Folder 1708 Folder 1709	Address books, undated
Folder 1710	Daily notes, undated
Folder 1711-1712 Folder 1711 Folder 1712	Poetry and quotations journal, undated Includes clippings, quotations, and diary-like entries written on topics such as life, love, and law.

Expand/collapse Series 8. Papers and Pictures (Addition of May 2015)

.5 linear feet

Acquisitions Information: Accession 102218.

Clippings, pamphlets, printed materials, and professional photographs of Susie Sharp.

Box 142b

Papers

Pamphlets, publications, newspaper clippings, photocopy of "Susie Sharp: First Woman of Justice," and other papers.

Image Folder PF-4898/13

Portraits of Susie Sharp

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Land Deeds and Maps

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Collection Number: 04898

Collection Title: Susie Sharp Papers, 1900-1997