Cornelius (Neal) Dickinson Thomas, local artist and author, spent most of his life at his family home, Clarendon Plantation, in Brunswick county. This collection includes personal correspondence, post cards, greeting cards, photographs, documents relating to James Forte and two paintings.

This collection contains correspondence from Wilmington native and poet Will Inman to Neal Thomas, as well as some of Inman's works and letters to additional recipients. Inman's correspondence was usually typed, landscape view, with the letter on one half and a poem on the other. He also often included additional poems with his letters.