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Lachicotte, Virginia Wilson, 1892-1978. Virginia Wilson Lachicotte papers, 1910-1977.

Title: Virginia Wilson Lachicotte papers, 1910-1977.

Family letters, business correspondence, literary criticism, and draft copies of poems document the work of poet Virginia Lachicotte Wilson; including correspondence, ca. 1936, with officials of The Galleon Press, Inc., re publication of The Runaway Path and Other Poems and her efforts to establish copyright privileges following the bankruptcy of the publishing company. Places discussed include Manning, Waverly Mills, and Pawley's Island, S.C., and New York, N.Y. Other items include letter and poem, 30 May 1941, mailed to Winston Churchill, recalling the Battle of Britain; reproductions of a 1976 poem, "De Gahden Club," by Florence Ward Lachicotte, re the Waccamaw Garden Club; and biographical information on South Carolina state senators David D. Wilson (1790-1868), of Williamsburg District, and John Isaac Ingram (1820-1888), of Clarendon District. Bound volumes include notebooks containing draft copies of poems and sketches of her childhood in Manning, including voume, 1915, commencement program, Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical College; volume, 2 Mar. - 7 June 1942, daily journal; volume, 16 Jan. 1932, notebooks containing draft copies of poems and letters to Henry Bellamann; and volume, 1970, commencement program, The Citadel. Correspondents include Joseph Auslander (b. 1897); Henry Bellamann (1882-1945); the Rev. H.D. Bull; Ellen Douglas Carruthers; William E. Gonzales; Alberta Lachicotte Quattlebaum; Archibald Rutledge (1883-1973); Caroline P. Rutledge; and Nancy Byrd Turner (b. 1880).

ArchivalResource: 495 items and 15 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28419216 View

Gonzales, William E. (William Elliott), 1866-1937. William E. Gonzales papers, 1922-1937.

Title: William E. Gonzales papers, 1922-1937.

Mainly correspondence, 1926-1937, reflecting Gonzales' management of The State, his activities in state and local affairs, and his personal business interests, and documenting his efforts to increase the newspaper's circulation, attract advertising, boost state business, and compete with The Record, Columbia's afternoon newspaper, run first by William Lavarre, then by the International Paper Co., of N.Y. Includes incoming letters praising Gonzales' editorial stands on child labor, race relations, and other issues of the day; personal correspondence reflecting his leadership activity and interest in The Community Chest, Woodyard Fund, Rotary Club, Trinity Episcopal Church, Woodrow Wilson Boyhood Home, and affairs in Latin America; and papers documenting the management of Fairwold Farm, which belonged to his deceased brother, Ambrose Gonzales, and was later renamed Fairwold Farm Dairy, located outside of Columbia. Correspondents include William Watts Ball, Bernard Baruch, Ibra C. Blackwood, James F. Byrnes, Robert Beverley Herbert, McDavid Horton, Hugh MacRae, James Henry Rice, Jr., John G. Richards, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fred Wellington Ruckstull, Archibald Rutledge, Stanhope Sams, Edwin G. Seibels, Ellison D. Smith, Harry Worcester Smith, Leroy Springs, and Frank C. Withers.

ArchivalResource: 1837 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28409152 View

Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?. Ambrose Bierce Correspondence File, 1871-1913.

Title: Ambrose Bierce Correspondence File, 1871-1913.

The Ambrose Bierce Correspondence File consists of letters written by Bierce between 1871 and 1913. The letters are arranged chronologically. Much of the letters are concerned with details of Bierce's multi-volume Collected Works, and a majority are written to the editor of that project, Walter Neale. The letters contain discourse about the contents of the volumes, transportation of proofs, and deadlines. The File also contains an annotated printer's copy of Volume VIII of Bierce's Collected Works, which consists of Negligible Tales and Kings of Beasts.

ArchivalResource: 315 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/748678482 View

Ball, W. W. (William Watts), 1868-1952. Papers, 1805-1952.

Title: Papers, 1805-1952.

Personal and political correspondence, diary, business papers, speeches, editorials, notes, printed matter, personal account books, memorandum books, and scrapbooks. The papers reflect Ball's activities as editor of several newspapers, including the State, of Columbia, S.C., and the News and Courier of Columbia, S.C. The main group is concerned with national and South Carolina history for the first half of the 20th century, and includes discussion of politics, the South Carolina textile industry, Negro problems, the depression and the F.D. Roosevelt administration, newspapers and the newspaper business, education in South Carolina, conditions and problems of both World Wars, prohibition, state's rights, South Carolina social life and customs, Roman Catholicism in South Carolina, international issues, and general business and family matters. Correspondents include J.J. McSwain, D.C. Heyward, John Gary Evans, John Hays Hammond, M.F. Ansel, David D. Wallace, James C. Hemphill, Ambrose E. Gonzales, Thomas R. Waring, Nathaniel B. Dial, James F. Byrnes, Ulrich B. Phillips, Josephus Daniels, Bernard M. Baruch, Warrington Dawson, Ellison D. Smith, Max Fleischman, Nicholas Roosevelt, Wendell Willkie, Frederick H. Allen, and Archibald Rutledge.

ArchivalResource: 26, 905 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17368601 View

Hambidge, Mary, 1885-1973. Mary and Jay Hambidge papers, 1806-1994 1920-1970

Title: Mary and Jay Hambidge papers, 1806-1994 1920-1970

Through personal papers, subject files, and printed material and publications, the collection documents the life of Mary Crovatt Hambidge from her childhood in Brunswick, Georgia to the establishment of the Hambidge Center, formerly the Jay Hambidge Art Foundation, and the efforts of Mary and Jay Hambidge to develop and promote the concept of dynamic symmetry.

ArchivalResource: 61 document cases, 32 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122273579 View

Sanguinetti, Elise. Elise Ayers Sanguinetti papers, 1929-2003.

Title: Elise Ayers Sanguinetti papers, 1929-2003.

This collection consists of the correspondence, manuscripts and galley proofs, as well as reviews and notices of Elise Ayers Sanguinetti, the Alabama author of The Last of the Whitfields (1962), The New Girl (1964), The Dowager (1968), and McBee's Station (1972). The correspondence incluldes letters to and from her parents, Col. and Mrs. Harry M. Ayers (Edel Y.) of Anniston, Alabama, various other family members, agents and editors, as well as letters from friends and classmates. The correspondence is arranged by name and then chronologically. There are also letters of condolence to Elise Sanguinetti on the death of her father in 1964 and one on the death of her mother in 1977. The collection also includes typescript manuscript copies (with edits) and galley proofs of The Last of the Whitfields, The New Girl, and McBee's Station. There are also clippings and photocopies of notices and reviews of all her novels. The clippings are arranged by the novel title. (There was no attempt made to arrange the clippings by newspaper or magazine or by date.) There is also a small group of books and essays covering various family histories and another small collection of various alumni and church publications. The group of photographs and negatives include a scrapbook covering Elise Sanguinetti's trip to California in January of 1945 to act as the Maid of Honor at the christening of the S.S. Anniston Victory (584 Anniston Victory, VC2-S-AP2).

ArchivalResource: 5.6 linear feet

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648256214 View

Cox, H. Morris (Headley Morris), 1916-. Research notes on the Charleston Poetic Renascence, 1920-1930.

Title: Research notes on the Charleston Poetic Renascence, 1920-1930.

This collection consists of 5x8 index cards which were used for research in: Cox, Headley Morris, Jr. Charleston Poetic Renascence, 1920-1930, Thesis (Ph.d.), University of Pennsylvania, 1958. The information included is about the literary South, the Poetry Society of South Carolina, the Charleston Renaissance, and the poems of W. Herbey Allen and DuBose Heyward. Other writers who contributed to the Charleston Renaissance are noted, along with a list of prizewinners in the contests sponsored by the Poetry Society of South Carolina, and a list of the volumes of poetry published by Charleston poets.

ArchivalResource: 1 cu. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/75185029 View

Long, Edgar, 1886-1947. Edgar Long papers, 1896-1950; (bulk, 1927-1950)

Title: Edgar Long papers, 1896-1950; (bulk, 1927-1950)

Consisting chiefly of letters from various authors re Long's proposed publication of an anthology of South Carolina writers, manuscript of a one-act play by Long, obituary notices and tributes; including printed program, 19 Apr. 1927, program of the the Erskine Players' presentation of "Cow's Milk, A Tragi-comedy of South Carolina tenant life"; manuscript, [ca. 1922], of "Cows's Milk"; letter, 26 Mar. 1940, from Chapman J. Milling, Columbia, S.C., identifying poems suitable for inclusion in Long's anthology; letter, 15 Apr. [1940], from Archibald Rutledge, McClellanville, S.C., authorizing the inclusion of "anything I have written"; letter, 25 Apr. 1940, from Julia Peterkin, Lang Syne Plantation, granting permission to use a chapter from Roll, Jordan, Roll; letter, 22 June 1940, from Louise Manning Crossland, Bennettsville, S.C., stating that she was sending several of her poems; and letter, 28 June [1940], from Mary Hume Mills, Hartsville, S.C., forwarding a selection of her poems. Also includes 2 unbound volumes, ca. 1930, "The Social and Cultural Background of Russell's Magazine," thesis written for M.A. degree and later published as Russell's Magazine as an Expression of Ante-Bellum South Carolina Culture, 1932; and 2 manuscript volumes, [ca. 1940], of Long's unfinished anthology, "Readings in South Carolina Literature."

ArchivalResource: 24 items and 4 volumes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31399835 View

Liddell, Viola Goode, 1901-. Viola Goode Liddell collection, 1951-2004.

Title: Viola Goode Liddell collection, 1951-2004.

Consisting of 17 letters, 1951-1968, from South Carolina poet laureate Archibald Rutledge to Viola Goode Liddell, together with editorial notations by Liddell's son, Will Lithgow Liddell, Jr., and inscribed photograph of Archibald Rutledge portrait. Includes copies of Liddell's published books, With a Southern Accent (1948), A Place of Springs (1982), and Grass widow : Making My Way in Depression Alabama (2004); manuscript volume, unpublished novel, "Will O' the Wind," 1976; and manuscript volume, 2003, "The Collected Works of Viola Jefferson Goode Liddell 1901-1998," compiled by Will Lithgow Liddell, Jr., and Ruth Howe Liddell.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 linear ft. (17 items + 5 v. + 1 photograph)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54481495 View

DuPre, Grace Annette, 1894-1984. Grace Annette DuPre papers, 1901-1978.

Title: Grace Annette DuPre papers, 1901-1978.

Letters, clippings, publicity, and photographs re her professional activities, including 27 letters, 1945-1948, from Mary Jane Truman; other correspondents include Edgar A. Brown, James F. Byrnes, Victor Kolar, Robert E. McNair, Sherman Minton, Archibald Rutledge, Thomas M. Scanlon, Strom Thurmond, Harry Truman, Albert Watson, William D. Workman, and others. Volumes include scrapbooks and albums with photographs of her paintings; places represented include Spartanburg, Columbia, Charleston, S.C.; Chicago; New York; and elsewhere. Correspondence with and related to the family of President Harry S. Truman includes: 27 letters, 24 July 1945 - 20 Mar. 1948, from Mary Jane Truman (sister of President Truman), re her activities and DuPre's visits to Missouri to paint Mrs. Truman; correspondence from President Harry S. Truman: letter, 9 Nov. 1945, from Harry S. Truman, thanking her for pictures of Truman's mother and sister; letter, 25 Apr. 1947, "I am not very favorable to the exhibition of pictures of myself while I am still alive"; and letter, 29 Nov. 1948, from James F. Byrnes, commending her on the sculpture of Martha Young Truman, the mother of President Truman. Letter, 26 Apr. 1949, from Edgar A. Brown re her appearance in the S.C. Senate; letter, 29 Apr. 1949, from Strom Thurmond, "it was a delightful pleasure to have you at the Mansion"; letter, 12 Mar. 1956, from Thomas M. Scanlon, re one of her portraits; and letter, 23 Nov. 1973, from Ella Ferguson to Nancy Dowdeswell, "I heard her whistle during WWI, but had no idea she had gone so far with it! To be a good fiddler, a fine tennis player, a super-fine whistler and a successful painter is almost too much good for one person." Later correspondence reflect her interest in conservative political causes, concern over social unrest of civil rights era, and support for candidates in the Republican Party: letters, 1960 and 1968, from Richard Nixon thanking DuPre for her support; letter, 14 Sept. 1956, from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sherman Minton, "I have not minded the designation of me as a conservative judge.... We who are the so called conservatives... are very often criticized and the cheers go to the so called liberals... I know I have not always been right but I have tried conscientiously to be so"; letter, 23 May 1965, from William D. Workman, "The peoples of South Carolina are awakening, bestirring themselves and showing a willingness to stand up and be counted - even if it means breaking with political tradition. I'm flattered that you are taking an interest in these goings-on and I'm grateful for your help"; letter, 16 May 1868, from Corenne La Mon (in Chicago), re the riots in Chicago during early April following the assassinationn of Rev. Martin Luther King on Apr. 4th: "The afternoon the riot started here, we began to get odds and ends of 'reports' over the phone and from people who dropped in at the clerk's office. Many offices closed early...." Matters of elections, politics, and social activism related to S.C. politics also appear in the collection: letter, 5 June 1969, from Robert E. McNair, re the lowcountry hospital workers' strike, "I appreciate very much your interest and support in the Charleston situation"; DuPre encouraged Albert Watson to enter the race for governor and later offered him advice: letter, 1 Sept. 1970, from Watson, "Your suggestion is very deeply appreciated, and I shall hence-forward make every effort to avoid the practice to which you refer.... nothing is more helpful than constructive criticism from friends." Three undated albums of photographs of DuPre's paintings, some of which include her comments, and 3 scrapbooks, 1923-1978, re DuPre's career [one filed in carton]; 27 slides of DuPre's works [filed in carton]; collection of printed booklets, magazines, bulletins, and catalogs documents exhibitions of her work, dedication ceremonies and unveilings of her paintings around the U.S.; includes copies of the Congressional Record, exhibition catalogs, ca. 1940s and 1950s, published by the Allied Artists of America, Inc., the Ogunquit Art Center in Maine, the 75th year catalog [1971] of the Catharine Lorillard Wolf Art Club (New York, N.Y.), with work by DuPre and an image of Anna Hyatt Huntington; and other organizations; and funeral programs honoring Charles Cecil Wyche, James Francis Byrnes, and others. Portraits documented in photograph albums include many leaders in government, industry, education and society, including S.C. Senator Edgar A. Brown; U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes; U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thomas Clark; Chinese Ambassador Dr. Hu Shih; the Rt. Rev. John James Gravatt; Gov. Robert McNair; U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sherman Minton; Charleston mayor William G. Morrison; Gov. Strom Thurmond; President Harry S. Truman; his mother, Martha Young Truman; Judge Henry Hitt Watkins; Maj. James Benjamin White (Superintendent of the Citadel during the Civil War); Judge Charles Cecil Wyche; numerous judges in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago; and others.

ArchivalResource: 27 slides.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/697643097 View

Johnson, David Bancroft, 1856-1928. David Bancroft Johnson papers, 1842-1971.

Title: David Bancroft Johnson papers, 1842-1971.

Consisting of personal and professional papers of Johnson, his wife, Mai Rutledge Smith Johnson (1878-1978), and family, including his father, David Bancroft Johnson, Sr., a native of Maine, vice-president and mathematics professor at Franklin College in Mississippi, and president, LaGrange Female College in Tennessee; Civil War Letters of Mai Johnson's uncle, Benjamin Burgh Smith (d. 1904); Johnson's student correspondence, 1871-1877, from East Tennessee University (now Univ. of Tenn.), Knoxville; and materials pertaining to his educational work as principal of a boys' school in Knoxville, assistant professor of mathematics at East Tennessee University, 1879-1880, school principal in Abbeville, S.C., educator in New Bern, N.C., and superintendent of public schools in Columbia, S.C., 1883-1895; also letters of introduction to and references to meetings with Andrew Carnegie, Grover Cleveland, Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Also includes items re the founding of Winthrop Training School, opened in 1886 in the chapel of Columbia Theological Seminary with financial support from the Peabody Education Fund and named for Robert C. Winthrop of Boston; the opening of Winthrop College in Rock Hill, 1895; the 1912 dispute between Johnson and University of South Carolina President Samuel Chiles Mitchell over distribution of Peabody funds, and the 1913 investigation of the controversy instigated by Gov. Coleman L. Blease; and draft notes and biographical sketch of Johnson's early life, c. 1955, by Archibald Rutledge. Papers of Mai Rutledge Smith Johnson include courtship letters and later correspondence with David Johnson; letters concerning their three children, Burgh Smith Johnson, David Bancroft Johnson, Jr., and Suzanne Rutledge Johnson, the latter two of whom suffered from diabetes, were both blind, and lived with their mother on the Winthrop campus; letters and poems, 1924-1954, written to Mai Johnson by her cousin Archibald Rutledge; and 6 volumes, 1956-1972, personal diary of Mai Johnson. Other correspondents include, Benjamin R. Tillman, James P. Kinard, Edwards S. Joynes, Samuel Green, and J.L.M. Curry.

ArchivalResource: 2, 113 items and 6 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30118573 View

Coker, May Roper, 1890-1976. May Roper Coker papers, 1908-1975.

Title: May Roper Coker papers, 1908-1975.

Correspondence, telegrams, and other papers relating to May Coker; her selection as Mother of the Year in 1958 at both the state and national levels; her concern for the education of women; travels; interest in gardening; involvement in humanitarian causes; and her observations on European, U.S., and South Carolina politics. Correspondence, ca. 1915-1943, from Mrs. Coker's parents, Daniel C. and Lou McKenzie Roper, and husband, David Robert Coker, re state and national politics and economic conditions, particularly re David Roper's campaign support for Woodrow Wilson, and his appointment as Secretary of Commerce for Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration in 1932. Also contains letters of commendation, including one from Eleanor Roosevelt, to Mrs. Coker for her speech at the national Democratic convention in 1932 seconding Franklin Roosevelt's presidential nomination. Correspondence with May Roper's children includes school letters from St. Catherine's School, Richmond, Va., and from the Colleges of Davidson, Vassar, Mt. Holyoke, and Randolph-Macon Women's College. Other correspondents include Hodding Carter, William Edward Dodd, Douglas Southall and Inez Freeman, Frank Porter Graham, Wil Lou Gray, R. Beverly Hubert, Cordell and Frances Hull, Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington, Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Kendall, Mabel Montgomery, Clarence Poe, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Archibald Rutledge, E.T.H. Shaffer, Henry Nelson Snyder, Enid Starkie, George C. Taylor, Bell Tilghman, Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, Sarah Watson, and A.L.M. Wiggins.

ArchivalResource: 2, 520 items (2.5 linear ft., 2 cartons)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28411799 View

Rutledge, Archibald Hamilton, 1883-1973,. Archibald Hamilton Rutledge papers, 1766-1871 [manuscript].

Title: Archibald Hamilton Rutledge papers, 1766-1871 [manuscript].

Letters, deeds, slave list and bills of sale, and miscellaneous other papers of the Grimball, Wilkins, Seabrook, and other families of Charleston, S.C., and the South Carolina low country. Items include a letter, August 1863, from Arthur Grimball to his father about conditions; business letters, 1826, to John Berkeley Grimball; the will of Whitemarsh B. Seabrook, 1854; and lists of slaves belonging to John Berkley Grimball and Martin L. Wilkins, undated.

ArchivalResource: 25 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24303643 View

Rutledge, Archibald, 1883-1973. Public enemy number one: 19uu : [typescript] / by Archibald Rutledge.

Title: Public enemy number one: 19uu : [typescript] / by Archibald Rutledge.

Essay on skepticism with illustrations drawn from accounts re the use of botanical scutellaria, also known as blue skullcap, as a curative for hydrophobia as developed by Dr. Lawrence Van Derveer, of Roysfield, N.J., during the late 18th century period.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (5 leaves) ; 36 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57118855 View

McKellar, Donald. Donald McKellar collection, ca. 1969-1970.

Title: Donald McKellar collection, ca. 1969-1970.

Consisting of 1970 stage script for "Love Light," a drama adapted from works of Archibald Rutledge by Donald McKellar; collection includes 4 pages of sheet music.; and 8 audio recordings on compact disc, ca. 1969-1970, McKellar's interviews with South Carolina poet laureate Archibald Rutledge. A production of Love Light was performed in 1970 by Greenwood Community Theatre, in honor of the S.C. Tricentennial celebration.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (29 sheets)8 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48085734 View

Coker, May Roper, 1890-1976. Papers, 1908-1975.

Title: Papers, 1908-1975.

Correspondence, telegrams of condolences, and other papers, relating to Coker and the Coker and Roper families. Subjects include her selection as South Carolina, as well as national, Mother of the Year (1958), death of her husband, U.S. and South Carolina politics, education, travel, gardening, and humanitarian causes. Correspondents include Hodding Carter, David R. Coker, Jonathan Daniels, William Edward Dodd, Frank P. Graham, Wil Lou Gray, Cordell Hull, Hugh MacRae, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Daniel C. and Lou McKenzie Roper (her parents), Archibald Rutledge, Henry Nelson Synder, Enid Starkie, and Archibald Lee Manning Wiggins.

ArchivalResource: 2520 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122600606 View

Lee family. Papers of the Loring and Lee families, 1834-1963.

Title: Papers of the Loring and Lee families, 1834-1963.

Family, business, and personal correspondence, bills, receipts, agricultural liens, and other papers of members of the Loring and Lee families of Sumter, including correspondence, Sept. 1924-May 1928, from Pauline Loring Lee (b. 1907) as a student at Converse College, Spartanburg, S.C., to her parents, Washington Loring Lee and Harriet Chalmers Fishburne Lee, and her brother, Washington Loring Lee, Jr. Signed certificate, 16 Apr. 1860, commissioning J[ohn] Dozier Lee (1840-1862) cadet captain in the Corps of State Cadets, Citadel Academy; monthly grade report, 3 Apr. 1861, for Miss Anna [Charlotte] Loring from Columbia Female Academy; and 3 items, 14 Mar. 1874, funeral invitation, newspaper obituary, and tribute of respect upon the death of Col. George Washington Lee (1815-1874). Broadside, ca. 1908, reprinting editorial extracts from various S.C. newspapers re senatorial contest between John Gary Evans and Ellison Durant Smith; 6 letters, 15 Nov.-17 Dec. 1918, addressed to Mrs. [Alice C.] Ravenel re death of her husband, Theodore DuBose Ravenel, Jr., killed in action, 10 Nov. 1918, Meusse-Argonne, France. Letter, 23 Apr. 1919, USC, A[ndrew] C[harles] Moore, to G[eorge] W[ashington] Loring, Sumter, re dedication of memorial trees in honor of alumni killed during World War I; and letter, 8 Feb. 1925, Converse [College], Pauline [Loring Lee], to "Mother," describing a lecture and reading by S.C. poet Archibald Rutledge. Contains 2 unbound volumes, 12 Apr. 1834-18 Aug. 1835, 18 May 1836, and undated, copybooks of M[arsena] Brunson as a student at Sumterville Female Academy, containing poetry, essays, and penmanship exercises. Other persons represented include Nessfield Green Loring [Mrs. G.W.], David Worth Loring, Francis Marion Dwight, Jr., Francis Marion Dwight III, and Harriet Lee Dwight.

ArchivalResource: 1 carton (408 items and 2 v.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28412600 View

Ambrose Bierce Correspondence File, 1871-1913

Title: Ambrose Bierce Correspondence File 1871-1913

The Ambrose Bierce Correspondence File consists almost entirely of letters written by Bierce between 1871 and 1913.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 315 items

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Durham, Frank. Frank Durham papers, 193u-1972.

Title: Frank Durham papers, 193u-1972.

Letters, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs and miscellaneous printed items re research interests of Frank Durham, including theatrical, literary and academic life in S.C., Georgia, and North Carolina, the writings of DuBose Heyward, Julia Mood Peterkin, Toomer Rice, and others. Correspondents include: Havilah Babcock, Elizabeth Boatwright Coker, Belford Forrest, Dorothy Heyward, William Herman Patterson, Julia Mood Peterkin, Louis Decimus Rubin, Archibald Hamilton Rutledge, Katherine Drayton Mayrant Simons, and others. Boxes 1-3, Series 1, Subseries 1 (3 cartons): class and lecture notes on literature and drama; papers re faculty and teaching career; 1930s-1971. Boxes 4-6, Series 1, Subseries 2 (3 cartons): Australia and Vietnam experiences; clippings, lectures, theater, politics, photographs, 1958-1970. Boxes 7-8, Series 2 (2 cartons): correspondence, organized by person, 1930s-1971. Boxes 9-12, Series 3 (4 cartons): personal miscellaneous materials; scrapbooks, photographs, creative works, correspondence, 1930s-1970s. Boxes 13-17, Series 4 (5 cartons): research materials; box 13, DuBose Heyward, 1930s-1990; box 14, Julia Peterkin; Box 15, Toomer Rice; Boxes 16-17, research papers and writings, chiefly unpublished, 1940s-1970. Boxes 18-20, Series 5 (3 cartons): published books.

ArchivalResource: 2 oversize folders [on site]

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50217029 View

Rutledge, Archibald, 1883-1973. Archibald Hamilton Rutledge papers, 1780-1983.

Title: Archibald Hamilton Rutledge papers, 1780-1983.

Correspondence (arranged chronologically), manuscripts of writings and poems by Rutledge and others; nature stories, criticism, photographs, tearsheets, clippings, and memorabilia re Rutledge's literary career, his dealings with publishers and literary agents, and his personal life, including restoration of family home Hampton plantation, near McClellanville, S.C. Twenty-nine letters, 1924-1958, from A.H. Rutledge chiefly addressed to his sister, Mary Pinckney Rutledge (Mrs. Paul) Stroman, and relate news of family and friends as well as details of Rutledge's literary efforts and busy lecture schedule. Several refer also to Hampton plantation and Rutledge's efforts to restore the ancestral home. A letter dated 15 Sept. [1937] thanks Mary for her support. A 26 Jan. 1924 letter discusses Rutledge's allegations of Herbert Sass stealing his story, "The Kings of Curlew Island," and submitting it to "The Saturday Evening Post." Letters from the years during which Rutledge taught at Mercersburg, Pa., allude to his feelings of displacement from his native state. Also including volume, 1972, compiled by Loulie L. Owens, listing biographical, bibliographic, and genealogical topics that appear in the correspondence; Hampton plantation, its owners, and other events such as hurricanes, opening of the home to tourists, 1941, and installation of electricty, 1956; genealogical information; list of books written by Rutledge; correspondents and nicknames; clippings; and literary criticism.

ArchivalResource: 35 linear ft. (28 cartons) + 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28415056 View

Rutledge, Archibald, 1883-1973. Papers, 1963.

Title: Papers, 1963.

Letter to Mickey Mizell thanking her for comments on his poetry and seven signed bookmarks illustrating his plantation, Hampton, and containing poems by him.

ArchivalResource: 9 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/46635863 View

Blatt, Solomon, 1896-1986. Solomon Blatt papers, 1918-1986; (bulk, 1933-1986).

Title: Solomon Blatt papers, 1918-1986; (bulk, 1933-1986).

Consisting chiefly of public papers, primarily correspondence, relating to Blatt's role as a member of the South Carolina House from Barnwell County, 1933-1936, and Speaker, 1935-1946 and 1951-1971. Contains constitutent mail, requests for government positions, assistance in gaining college acceptance; etc. Legal papers (consisting of Sub-series: General; Client Files, 1961-1986; and Topical Files) relates to Blatt's legal practice in the firm of Blatt and Fales. Topical files relate to juror character inquiries, the dissolution of the firm of Blatt and Fales, founded in 1934 and dissolved in 1984; Voorhees College, 1976-1986; and an asbestos suit involving the schools of Greenville and Spartanburg, c.1981-1986. Other correspondents include many members of the S.C. General Assembly, other state officials and members of S.C.'s delegation to Congress, including J.K. Breedin, Edgar Brown, Richard M. Jefferies, Bruce Littlejohn, Burnet Maybank, Julius B. Ness, Thomas H. Pope, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Archibald Rutledge. Personal files include family correspondence, financial records, and papers of wife Ethel. Scrapbooks, 1936-1979, consisting of 30 bound volumes, include an undated scrapbook, My University Years, re student life at USC prior to Blatt's graduation in 1917. Also includes photographs; clippings; speeches, 1939-1984; together with the papers of Federal Judge Solomon Blatt, Jr., principally outgoing letters, 1962-1967.

ArchivalResource: 30 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30118375 View

Rutledge, Archibald, 1883-1973. Letter, 1939.

Title: Letter, 1939.

Collection consists of a personal letter from Rutledge describing his activities restoring his family home, Hampton Plantation, writing poetry, and hunting arrowheads.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36635469 View

Connor, Otelia Carrington Cunningham, 1892?-1969. Otelia Carrington Cunningham Connor papers, 1888-1968.

Title: Otelia Carrington Cunningham Connor papers, 1888-1968.

The papers consist of correspondence and other items of Otelia (Cunningham) Connor and her mother, Mrs. John S. Cunningham. Included are materials concerning the genealogy of the Cunningham, Carrington, Codrington, and Cabel families and to a lesser extent, the Ruffin, Wilson, and Alston families; activities of the Colonial Dames, Daughters of the American Revolution, and other women's patriotic and historical societies; Mrs. Cunningham's suffragette activities, 1917-1919, as a member of the North Carolina Equal Suffrage Association, and attendance as a delegate to the Democratic Convention in San Francisco, 1920; Mrs. Connor's work at the Emergency Hospital in Washington, N.C., and the Veterans' Hospital in Durham, N.C.; and problems of the Governor Morehead School, Durham, N.C., 1944. Also included are writings by Mrs. Connor for Durham and Edenton, N.C., newspapers in the 1940s and 1950s; a scrapbook, 1888-1948, of local political, social, and Episcopal church events; and letters received from David W. Connor at the Episcopal High School, Alexanderia, Va., 1951-1952, the University of North Carolina, 1953-1957, while serving in the United States Navy, 1956-1960, and while living in Wilson, N.C. Other correspondents include James M. Carrington, Lenoir Chambers, Walter Clark, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Rose Lawless Geyer, Henry R. Luce, John H. Manning, Henry G. Riely, William H. Ruffin, and Archibald Rutledge.

ArchivalResource: About 480 items (4.0 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25678029 View

Rutledge, Archibald, 1883-1973. Correspondence with Herman Schindler, 1947-1973.

Title: Correspondence with Herman Schindler, 1947-1973.

Correspondence of writer Archibald Rutledge and antique dealer Herman Schindler of Charleston, S.C., chiefly re Rutledge's purchase of collectibles and the sale of furnishings from Hampton plantation, Rutledge's ancestral home near McClellanville, S.C.

ArchivalResource: 204 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37667796 View

Young, T. Benton. T. Benton Young collection, 1958-1988.

Title: T. Benton Young collection, 1958-1988.

Correspondence, poetry, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other materials relating to South Carolina poet laureate Archibald Rutledge compiled by Thomas Benton Young, Jr., both prior to Rutledge's death on 15 Sept. 1973 and subsequently for the yearly Celebration of the Arts Day at the South Carolina Department of Education. Correspondents, in addition to Archibald Rutledge and T. Benton Young, include Rosamund P. Bell, Marion Edmunds, James B. Edwards, Gary D. Ford, Frank N. Handal, Helen von Kolnitz Hyer, Hobart D. Lewis, Robert E. McNair, Willson Powell, Richard W. Riley, Irvine H. Rutledge, John C. West, and A.G.D. Wiles. Items previously contained in two loose-leaf binders: (15 Dec. 1958-15 Sept. 1973) and (15 Sept. 1973-15 Sept. 1988).

ArchivalResource: 7 folders (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57466756 View

Hungerpiller, John C. John C Hungerpiller papers, 1872-1978 (bulk, 1907-1978).

Title: John C Hungerpiller papers, 1872-1978 (bulk, 1907-1978).

Consisting chiefly of correspondence and other papers re Hungerpiller's anthology, South Carolina Literature (1931), including correspondence with authors, and replies (1928) to his survey of principals and teachers re the need for an anthology which could be used as a text in schools. Also including manuscript poetry by John C Hungerpiller; circular letters of the S.C. Cotton Growers' Cooperative Association; and manuscript, 14 Mar. 1924, "Specific Working Plans for the Co-operative Teaching of English in All Subjects," a paper read by Hungerpiller before the Department of Teachers of English of the S.C. Teachers Association. Correspondents include Lily Strickland Anderson, Henry Bellamann, John Bennett (12 Aug. 1922), W.G. Blake (1 Aug. [19]27), DuBose Heyward, Edwin Nungezer (4 Nov. 1927, 9 Jan. 1931), Julia Peterkin ([1931]), James Henry Rice, Jr. (16 July 1925), Franklin D. Roosevelt (14 Nov. 1932), Archibald Rutledge (12 July 1928, 10 Aug. 1933), Stanhope Sams (2 Feb. 1931). Other correspondents include Herbert Ravenel Sass, E.T.H. Shaffer, Katherine Drayton Mayrant Simons (27 Aug. 1925, 4 Sept. 1925), Yates Snowden (21 Jan. [19]29, [ca. 1929]), William Peterfield Trent (25 Sept. 1930), Patterson Wardlaw (14 June 1930), and George Armstrong Wauchope (6 May 1922). Bound volumes, 1872-1977, include 3 volumes, 1911-1932, re farm accounts of tenants of James Edward Hungerpiller, of Elloree, S.C.; record of sales, 1930-1933, of his book, South Carolina Literature, during depth of the Great Depression; and photocopied volume, 1977, genealogical charts and notes re the Hungerpiller family. Microfilm reel (R809) contains 211 printed items, 1924-1974, newspaper articles re various S.C. authors; reviews of their works; published poetry, and Patterson Wardlaw; editorial, 18 Aug. 1940, published in The State newspaper, "The Negro and the New Deal: Archibald Rutledge in The South Atlantic Monthly"; newspaper article, 9 July 1967, "Years in College--Remembered" by Archibald Rutledge; and essay, 14 Apr. 1940, re visit of Marquis de Lafayette to South Carolina during March 1825 . Reel also includes obituary notices of Bernard M. Baruch, John Bennett, Julia Peterkin, Alexander S. Salley, Stanhope Sams, Herbert Ravenel Sass, Patterson Wardlaw, and Yates Snowden.

ArchivalResource: 843 items and 6 v.1 reel microfilm (35 mm. : negative)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37216381 View

Rutledge, Archibald Hamilton, 1883-1973. Letters to the editors of The Youth's Companion, 1909 March 8 and 23.

Title: Letters to the editors of The Youth's Companion, 1909 March 8 and 23.

Two letters, 1909 March 8 and 23, from Rutledge in Mercerburg, Pa., to the editors of The Youth's Companion, submit animal stories to the magazine.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Rutledge, Archibald. Letters to Horace Howard Furness, 1911.

Title: Letters to Horace Howard Furness, 1911.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155884401 View

Rutledge, Archibald Hamilton, 1883-1973. Letter to Mr. Preston. Mercersburg, PA. 1928 Jan. 18.

Title: Letter to Mr. Preston. Mercersburg, PA. 1928 Jan. 18.

Concerning Preston's comments on Rutledge's work "Children of the Night."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/148536445 View

Richardson, Louise. Autograph and typed letters signed collection, 1895-1963.

Title: Autograph and typed letters signed collection, 1895-1963.

This is a collection of autograph letters assembled by Miss Louise Richardson of Tallahassee, Florida, while she was connected with Florida State University Library. The persons concerned by these letters are: Emilio y Famy Aguinaldo, Teresa Bahnam, Pearl S. Buck, James F. Byrnes, Millard F. Caldwell, John Dewey, Margaret Deland, Albert Einstein, Herbert Hoover, Helen Keller, Eleanor Frances Lattimore, Mary Mackey, Louise Richardson, Bob Sikes, Richard H. Simpson, H.A. Wallace, Robert Penn Warren, Thornton Wilder, and William Winter. Other persons or topics mentioned in the letters include: Dr. A.R. Seymour, Philippine General Hospital in Manila, Teresa Bajma, Florida State College for Women, Nathaniel M. Salley, Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, Relief Fund for Spanish Children, Marion D. Nish, child labor laws of Florida, Archibald Rutledge, Florience Bethea, Tallahassee Historical Society, Charles Anderson, Miss A.R. Seymour, Spanish language instruction at the Florida State College for Women, Lotos Club of New York, and Francis G. Townsend.

ArchivalResource: 18 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50670697 View