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Grimball, John Berkley, 1800-1892. John Berkley Grimball diaries, 1832-1883.

Title: John Berkley Grimball diaries, 1832-1883.

Grimball's diary discusses plantation management and cultivation of crops, especially rice; slavery and free blacks; plantation finances; social and cultural life in Charleston, S.C.; travel, especially to the Virginia springs and to New York, and the modes of transportation he used in his travels; the suffering of the civilian population during the Civil War and Reconstruction; the Episcopal church to which Grimball's wife and children belonged and the Presbyterian church where he worshipped; the education of his children, including a son who studied law, another who studied medicine, a third who went to the United States Naval Academy, and a daughter who attended Montpellier Institute in Macon, Ga.; and his own and his family's health problems, including struggles during various epidemics. The diary also contains entries about members of families to which Grimball was related, largely through his wife, including the Manigault and Lowndes families of Charleston and the Morris family of Morrisania, N.Y. There is also mention of an 1834 hot air balloon ascension and of a duel in 1856.

ArchivalResource: 17 v. (1.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22612724 View

Grimball family. Grimball family papers, 1683-1930 (bulk 1830-1900).

Title: Grimball family papers, 1683-1930 (bulk 1830-1900).

The collection includes correspondence, plantation accounts, financial and legal papers, commonplace books, notebooks, scrapbooks, and other material, chiefly 1830 through 1900. Topics include the management of plantations before and after the Civil War; relations with slaves and freedmen; the careers of the Grimball sons in the Confederate Army, including William Grimball in the 1st South Carolina Artillery Regiment; and antebellum and postbellum family life in South Carolina and New York, through the Grimball's connections with the Morris family of Morrisania, N.Y. Also included are papers relating to John Berkley Grimball's interest in the Charleston Library Society.

ArchivalResource: About 1500 items (3.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22758239 View

Margaret Ann Meta Morris Grimball Diary, 1860-1866

Title: Margaret Ann Meta Morris Grimball Diary, 1860-1866

Margaret Ann Meta Morris Grimball was the wife of John Berkley Grimball (1800-1892), rice planter of Saint Paul's Parish in the Colleton District of South Carolina, with connections to the Manigault and Lowndes families of South Carolina and to the Morris family of Morrisania, N.Y. The collection is the manuscript diary, 1860-1866, of Margaret Ann ( ) Morris Grimball, with the greater part of the entries concentrated in 1861 and 1862. Mrs. Grimball wrote from the Grove Plantation (Colleton District, S.C.), primary Grimball residence until after the Civil War; from Charleston, where the family spent the summer months; and from Spartanburg, S.C., where they took refuge in May 1862 from anticipated Union attacks on the South Carolina coast. Topics include plantation life; slave management; the progress of the Civil War and its effects on the lives of those close to Mrs. Grimball, including the activities of her sons in the Confederate army and navy, and civilian relief efforts; sickness among the civilian and military population; the family's removal to the relative safety of Spartanburg, where they rented quarters at St. John's College; her husband's conversion from Presbyterianism to Episcopalianism; her daughters' teaching careers; and other family and community matters. Meta

ArchivalResource: 2

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/g/Grimball,Margaret_Ann_Meta_Morris.html View

Grimball, John, 1840-1922. John Grimball family papers, 1804-1893, bulk 1858-1885.

Title: John Grimball family papers, 1804-1893, bulk 1858-1885.

This collection chiefly consists of correspondence, mostly letters to John Grimball from his mother and other family members. Letters of the 1850s, to John Grimball while he was serving in the U.S. Navy, concern family matters, life at the Grove Plantation, social life, and political events at home. Several letters (1858) mention the capture of the slave ship Echo and the disposition of the Africans brought into Charleston. Two letters (1859) from John B. Grimball to his son John concern his views on the reopening of the slave trade, and other family letters from that year discuss John Brown's raid on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, South Carolinians being on the alert for slave uprisings, and the possibility of secession and war ("there would undoubtedly be a most bloody war, for the north would not like the most valuable section to go."). Wartime correspondence includes letters to John Grimball in France from his family in Spartanburg, S.C., and elsewhere, and from fellow Confederate naval officers, including W.C. Whittle, E.G. Read, Dabney Minor Scales, Charles E. Lining, and John T. Mason. There is also a note to Grimball from Matthew Fontaine Maury (13 July 1863). There are a few letters from John Grimball to his family, including one (22 Jan. 1861) describing social life in Mobile, Ala., and a clergyman's condemnation of parties and dancing in a sermon. Just after the war, the letters often concern the fate of the officers of the CSS Shenandoah. John T. Mason's letter (17 Dec. 1865) reports he has been told that "none of the officers of the 'Shenandoah' could go back to the U.S. without standing trial for piracy." Postwar correspondence traces the economic and personal struggles of various members of the Grimball family. Letters of this period from John Grimball's mother, brothers, and sisters, including Gabriella Grimball, Charlotte ("Lottie") Grimball, Berkley Grimball, Arthur Grimball, Lewis Grimball, Harry Grimball, and Elizabeth Grimball Munro, often concern friends and social life in Charleston. Letters (1881) include notes of condolence to John Grimball on the death of his mother, mostly from members of the Morris family.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/326878800 View

Grimball, John, 1840-1922. Correspondence, 1856-1909.

Title: Correspondence, 1856-1909.

Correspondence of the 1850s includes letters from Grimball on board the U.S.S. Macedonian at foreign ports including Leghorn, Italy and Alexandria, Egypt to his family members describing shore leave in Marseilles, France, and elsewhere and a fancy ball given by the "Pacha" of Egypt; and letters to Grimball from W.A. Kerr, a friend serving on the U.S.S. Roanoke. Civil War correspondence consists of letters between Grimball and his family and friends during his service on the Confederate ships Shenandoah, Lady Davis, Fingal, Arkansas, and Baltic. Correspondents include his father and mother, sister Elizabeth (Munro), George Strong Storrs (Alabama), and George W. Gift (C.S.S. Chattahoochee). His parents' letters from Charleston and Spartanburg, S.C., (a wartime refuge for the Grimballs) relate news of the war and family members. Grimball's correspondence with his family contains descriptions of his daily life and includes letters concerning reports of U.S. troops landing at Beaufort, S.C. (1861 June 13); his difficulty finding the C.S.S. Arkansas, which had sailed up the Yazoo River (Miss.) for safety (1862 May 2); and conditions in Vicksburg (1862 May 8). Early post-war correspondence includes a letter (1865 Nov. 26) from John at Caen, France, to his mother regarding his future plans and the possiblity of sheep ranching near Buenos Aires; and letters (1866) to John in Liverpool, England, and Cordova, Mexico, from his father. Later correspondence mainly consists of letters to John in Charleston, S.C., and New York City from his brother Berkley in Charleston regarding family, estate, and business matters; and John Grimball's legal and business correspondence, including a letter (1870 Oct. 8) to him from D.M. Scales in Memphis, Tenn., and many letters (1878-1906) to Grimball and Richard B. Tunstall from Lewis and Carrie (Ostenheim) Morris (New York residents living in Europe) regarding Morris financial affairs.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70974900 View

Manigault, Morris, and Grimball family papers, 1795-1832.

Title: Manigault, Morris, and Grimball family papers, 1795-1832.

The collection is chiefly family letters, 1804-1822 and 1831-1832, written by members of the Manigault, Morris, and Grimball family, especially Margaret Izard Manigault and Harriet Manigault Wilcocks in Philadelphia to Elizabeth Manigault Morris and Margaret Ann (Meta) Morris Grimball in Charleston, S.C. These letters are heavily focussed on family affairs and social life, providing much detail about Philadelphia polite society, including descriptions of balls, theater parties, social calls, clothing, problems with servants, women's issues, and other matters. There are also references to family marriages, illnesses, and deaths, as well as to world affairs and foreign aristocrats living in the United States.

ArchivalResource: About 200 items (0.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22758274 View