Three library collections of family papers & another book

I've just discovered a book called Tulip Evermore, which contains letters written by Emma Butler Paisley* & her husband/others, in the mid-1800's. These were the Butlers who were Wyche descendants, second cousins of H. A. Tillett. They lived in the vicinity of the community called Tulip or Tulip Ridge, Dallas County, in south central Arkansas. The Butlers, Smiths, and other North Carolina families had moved here in the late 1840's, some taking their slaves with them, about twelve years before the Civil War.

The War Between the States was very destructive for this part of Arkansas, and in some ways it was never the same, having had an antebellum reputation for fine educational facilities. According to Wikipedia, at the 2000 census there were only about 9,000 people living in the entire county, with the largest employer being Georgia-Pacific Corp.

A nearby town to Tulip was Princeton, and it was to this area Gus Tillett went in 1881 after having finished at the University of North Carolina. Here he met and courted Mary Benjamin Smith, who was born and grew up on her family's plantation, called Tulip Farm.

One of Emma Butler's brothers, Ira Wyche Butler, had married Mary Smith's sister. This was the couple in Abilene, Texas, who sent a telegram to Mary and Gus in June of 1885, causing them to get married a little earlier...Fannie John Smith Butler died the next month.

One of Emma Butler's sisters married a Reverend Matthews and lived out her life in the old Butler home place; the Butler-Matthews Homestead is on the National Register of Historic Places.

*The Butler-Paisley Family Papers, including the published letters, are in a special collection at the University of Arkansas's library in Fayetteville:

http://libinfo.uark.edu/SpecialCollections/findingaids/butlerpaisley.html

The central Arkansas library system in Little Rock owns a collection of Smith Family Papers, which revolve around the household of Maurice Smith, a younger brother of Samuel Harrison Smith, or Mary Smith Tillett's great uncle on her mother's side & first cousin once removed on her father's side. The papers were donated only about six years ago, and they're located in a place called the Butler Center. --- I don't know whether this name is connected to the Dallas County Butlers...I would love to look through this collection someday:

http://www.cals.lib.ar.us/butlercenter/manuscripts/collection/mss02-20.html

In the main Charlotte-Mecklenburg library, North Carolina, there is a collection of Tillett papers and albums, donated by our relative Charles Allison, the Tillett book's author. (On my recent N. C. visit, I didn't have enough time to go inside this library.) They are located in the Carolina Room Collections & Archives.