Letters, documents, and financial records, the majority of which were addressed to Dr. Charles D. McIver concerning the Southern Education Board in the year 1903. Many of these documents detail the growth of public schools in North Carolina counties and the means to pay for and build them. Topics and correspondents include R. A. Banks (headmaster of Prebysterian High School), J. W. Bailey (editor of the "Biblical Recorder"), an order of 1000 copies of the The Patriot for the Southern Education Board, Mrs. A. M. Barbrey, a planned conference for the Women's Association for the Betterment of Public Schools Houses in North Carolina, Peabody College For Teachers, J. J. Beach (principal of Union High School in East Bend N.C.), R.F Beasley (superintendent of Monroe County Schools), the Monroe Journal, Captain W. T. R. Bell (superintendent of Rutherford County Schools), W. W. Boddie (superintendent of Franklin County Schools), G. G. Bond (superintendent of Athens City Schools in Athens Ga.), A. E. Booth Ph.D. (Southern Normal University in Huntingdon, Tennessee), Rev. R.H. Bowling, D.D. (Virginia Baptist State Convention), the Columbia Institute, Eugene C. Brooks (Monroe Public Schools), district taxes for public education, the Campaign for the Promotion of Public Education in North Carolina, Whiteville Lumber Company, R. H. Burns and Castalia Academy, General Education Board, Wallace Buttrick, and an obituary for Mr. William E. Dodge. (JS)