This series includes articles, pamphlets, tickets, postcards, some North Carolina materials, and folklore society information.

Materials include:
The Brazos Port Facts
Information on Rudolph Bertram, and Ector County
Pamphlets on Wildlife
Special Editions of the Bellville Times, and Texas Mohair Weekly
North Carolina Material (includes Billy Arlington)
Correspondence between Dr. John Q. Anderson and Texas Folklore Society and John A. Lomax Society.

This series contains correspondence and other materials related to Rural Church conferences and programs that Trotter participated in. Included is correspondence relating to the publications Soils & Souls, and Preservation, Patriotism & Piety - Three Motives for Saving the Soil.

Noteworthy conferences were held at Southwestern University in 1944 and one in College Station in 1946.

This series consists of correspondence, reports, and newspaper clippings concerning the Postwar Committee on Planning and Policy, including the Subcommittee on Research, the Subcommittee on Student Life, and the State Postwar Agricultural Planning Steering Committee.

This series contains various publications, speeches, and speech summaries, all written by Trotter and/or other authors.

This series contains general newspaper clippings, in boxes 17-20 clippings are mostly about the use of radioisotopes, and some clippings deal with Dr. Aebersold's personal activities (1936-1970). Also, in box 20 are clippings related to special subjects, cartoons, and clippings in series (1939-1963).

Additional materials filed separately:
Fourteen large photographs
Three of Trinity Crater, Alamogordo, New Mexico, site of atomic bomb test, July 16, 1945
One of the High Flix Isotope Reactor and Transuranuim Processing Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
One of the Feed Materials Production Centers at Fernald, Ohio
One of the Biomedical Facilities of Puerto Rico Nuclear Center
One of the Paduca Gaseous Diffusion Plant; five of Brookhaven National Laboratory
Two unidentified

A 16mm sound, motion picture film of an interview of Dr. Aebersold by Miss Marcelle Napier at the IAEA conference on Radioisotopes in Copenhagen in September, 1960.

Correspondence concerning folksongs, Owens' novel Swing and Turn, lectures, and records, folksongs, Owens' work as Director of Folk Festivals for the University of Texas. Also correspondence concerning short stories by Owens and his work on his books.

Research materials, notes and drafts of Owens' book, Fever in the Earth, published in 1958, Early drafts of the book were titled No Toil No Death No Danger. Also an unedited-uncut manuscript of Fever in the Earth, typescript, notes and revisions, and galley proofs.

Papers relating to Pocantico Hills 1609-1959, published in 1960.

Papers relating to Look to the River, published in 1963, including book reviews, notes, early typescripts, complete manuscripts, and the screenplay.

Information relating to This Stubborn Soil (1966), including the contract between Owens and Charles Schribner's Sons, advertisements, and book reviews. Also includes "We Had Us Some Christmas", an excerpt published in the Ladies Home Journal - December 1966, and the First draft. Copies of a typescript and early draft, cuttings from the manuscript, a photostatic copy of the typescript, and page proofs.

Papers relating to Three Friends: Bedichek, Dobie, Webb (1969). Contains background information, retyped letters of Bedichek, Dobie, and Webb including editor's notes, book reviews, manuscript copies, typescripts, galleys and proofs.

Tales From the Derrick Floor (1970) co-authored by Owens and Mody Boatright. Includes notes, reviews, and interviews with early oil pioneers. Edited interviews and final draft (copy edited), page proofs, and final galley proof of Tales From the Derrick Floor.

Papers relating to A Season of Weathering (1973) including background material, book reviews, First, Second, Third, and unidentified drafts, a copy edited typescript.

Papers relating to Impressions of the Big Thicket (1973) with text by Owens and paintings by Michael Frary including background material, book reviews, typescripts, and manuscripts.

Papers relating to A Fair and Happy Land (1975) including background material and Owens' research on the Cleaver and Bragg families, and book reviews. Notes and early typescripts of sections of A Fair and Happy Land. , as well as a first, second and thirddrafts, edited manuscript with layouts, photocopies of manuscripts with revisions. Also includes two books of page proofs.

Articles, short stories, and book reviews, and speeches by Owens.

Material concerning Owens including personal information, publications and programs regarding Columbia University and lectures by Owens, and newspaper articles.

Contains photographs of Owens, photographs relating to Owens' books, and miscellaneous photographs.

Miscellaneous material - articles and short stories by other authors. Miscellaneous literary publications, magazines, and college publications, and other material collected by Owens

Instantaneous recording disks and access CDs now in "William A. Owens Papers - Folk Song Collection: Instantaneous Disks"

Correspondence dealing with publication arrangements of Owens' books and short stories, Texas Folk Songs, and Slave Mutiny. Correspondence dealing with Walking on Borrowed Land, Owens' work on the Oral History of Texas Oil Pioneers and Walter B. Sharp's biography, Fever in the Earth, Pocantico Hills, Look to the River, and This Stubborn Soil. Correspondence dealing with Black Mutiny, Three Friends: Bedichek, Dobie, Webb, Tales From the Derrick Floor, A Season of Weathering, and A Fair and Happy Land.