Adelaide Williams Totten was a leader in the garden club movement and served as organizer of the Chapel Hill Garden Club; president of the Garden Club of North Carolina, 1935-1937; and director of the South Atlantic District of the National Council of State Garden Clubs, 1942. She was also a certified flower show judge. Correspondence and other materials of Totten reflecting her interests and activities in gardening. Much correspondence is with members of garden clubs both in North Carolina and in other states, with garden club federation offcials, and with flower show judges and members of judging societies. Especially prominent among corrspondents are those representing the Garden Club of North Carolina, Inc., and the National Council of State Garden Clubs, Inc. Most letters relate to flower and garden research, garden club organization and structure, organizing and judging flower shows, and other garden and flower topics. Also included are papers and notes from classes Totten took at the University of North Carolina in the 1930s; clippings, 1930s-1970s, relating to garden clubs in North Carolina and other parts of the country and to the National Council of State Garden Clubs, Inc.; Totten's speeches and writings, 1930s-1970s, chiefly on gardening topics; and appointment, travel, and address books with largely nonsubstantive entries, 1918-1919 and 1934-1958. There are also two photographs of Totten and a few items relating to her husband, Henry Roland Totten (1892-1974), professor of botany at UNC.
