Guilford College
- The papers of Raymond Binford (1876-1951), President of Guilford College, 1918-1934; Chairman, Board of Education, Five Years Meeting, 1930-1945; minister and professor of biology, and Helen Titsworth Binford (1885-1952), President, North Carolina PTA, c.1930; Field Secretary, Carolina Institute of International Relations; and community volunteer, were given to the Friends Historical Collection by their children, Anna Naomi Kirchner, Richard, Frederick, and Mary Margaret Bailey c.1953.
- Robert and Lyra Dann were former Guilford College faculty members who lived in Ireland working with the Miles Linen Company from 1924 to 1927 when they returned to this country to teach at Oregon State College in Corvallis, Oregon. There are 14 letters in the collection, 11 from Mary Mendenhall Hobbs and 3 from Lewis Lyndon Hobbs.
- Made up largely of the writings and lectures of Mary Mendenhall Hobbs, these papers reflect her strong views on the true spirit of Quakerism; on women's rights, especially their right to a first class education; on the fallacy of rigid Biblical interpretation; and many other topics of current moment.
- The Elwood Perisho Papers chiefly document the life of Elwood Chappell Perisho (1861-1935), Quaker, educator, geologist and lecturer; and Guilford College operations such as financing and student recruitment during the 1920s and '30s. Types of materials include clippings, correspondence, diaries, addresses, miscellaneous notes and writings, photographs and various printed materials.