Working draft of Meserve's unpublished History of Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1865-1930.

1-student uprising, Thomas H. Briggs, dates of erection of buildings on campus, Henry Martin Tupper, student enrollment 1875-1918, Emma L. Miller, Joseph Leishman Peacock; Leonard medical school

2-law school, Estey Hall, Nicholas Franklin Roberts, Colored soldiers, graduates 1920-1929, receipts and expenditures; occupations reports, charter, employees; Meserve's parting address on commencement May 1918; football lineup and cheers, prohibition

3-Missionary work, D.S. Saulter, soldiers, P.W. Moore, C.C. Boone, Cicero F. Pope, John T. Pullen, Raphael O'Hara, Mary Barbee, Nathaniel Bruce, Nathan Carter Newbold

4-Caesar Johnson, C.H. Williamson, James McKee, letter extract Lulu C. Fleming, 1897 commencement, early graduates, Meserve biographical information, Josephus Daniels, Dr. Tupper dies, testimonials Leonard Medical school (Morehouse, Morgan, MacVicar, Snelling), Thomas J. Morgan

5-Lovelace Brown Capehart, Max Yergan, eminent men at Shaw University, wives of the first three presidents, Charles Clinton Spaulding,J.G. Osborne, analysis of curriculum, Sarah Bakeer Leonard Tupper