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Bennett, John, 1907-. John H. Bennett papers, 1875-ca. 1955.

Title: John H. Bennett papers, 1875-ca. 1955.

Papers consist of literary manuscripts, correspondence, notes, clippings, and a map. Manuscripts (1941-ca. 1955) include drafts (typescripts and carbons) of an unpublished novel about the Scotch-Irish in the South Carolina back country, the Regulator movement (frontier vigilantes) before the Revolutionary War, and the influence of Freemasons, with annotations and corrections by John H. Bennett and John Bennett, as well as accompanying research and reference notes. In addition, there are typewritten manuscripts of of John H. Bennett's novel "So Shall They Reap" (published 1944), with clippings of reviews and related correspondence (1941-1946) of John H. Bennett and John Bennett with each other and with literary agents and Bucklin Moor of Doubleday, Doran & Co. Map (1931, oversized) drawn by John H. Bennett is entitled "A Familiar Map of Portions of Orangeburg & Camden Districts."

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft.1 map.

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Waring, George. George Waring papers, 1806-1947 (bulk, 1806-1810).

Title: George Waring papers, 1806-1947 (bulk, 1806-1810).

Four letters from proprietor of a paper mill at Granby near Columbia, S.C., written to a retail outlet in Charleston, S.C., re collection and shipments of rags for a paper mill, providing newsprint for the editor of The Strength of the People, and experimenting with use of raw cotton in paper making; and a 20th century cover letter, 1947, from author John Bennett, re consultation of this collection by a researcher. Letter, 12 Nov. 1806 (Columbia, S.C.) to his cousin, Richard Waring in Charleston, S.C., "I suppose you have heard of my erecting a Paper Mill & a Tan Yard", request to purchase rags for paper making and detailed list of equipment needed for his new tan yard, an account to be settled for "my Brother Benjamin's Share in th Santee Canal," shipments of cotton and paper for sale; and 3 letters (30 Mar. 1809, 13 Jan. 1810, and 20 Oct. 1810) to Messrs. Waring & Hayne, factors in Charleston, S.C., re specifics of cost for freightage and shipping of cotton, rags, and paper between Columbia and Charleston. Letter, 30 Mar. 1809 (Columbia, S.C.) to Messrs Waring and Hayne, Factors, (Charleston, S.C.), re shipment of large format printing paper from Columbia to Charleston, along with transcription of receipt "Rec[eive]d [at] Granby, Mar. 30th, 1809, of George Waring, seventeen reams of printing paper marked GW... which I promise to deliver to Messrs Waring & Hayne, Factors in Charleston in the like good order as rec[eive]d, the dangers of the River only excepted... (Signed), J. Powell." Letter, 20 Oct. 1810 (Columbia, S.C.) to Waring and Hayne, re Waring's experiments with use of raw cotton in the production of paper, with mixed results, "with respect to the Cotton Mr. I. Robertson has, it does not answer for Paper as well as Rags, unless for Wrapping Paper; though, if it is clear of sticks, motes, etc., I may put a proportion of Rag with it to make it answer for coarse Printing Paper. If that is the case I will give him his price..." Letter, 25 Aug. 1947, John Bennett, to "My dear Dr. Waring" (Charleston, S.C.), re receipt of this collection, noting that portions of these letters had been transcribed and quoted in the News & Courier newspaper during 1940s when Dr. [Dard] Hunter began research on history of paper manufacture in the U.S. and solicited sources.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

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Bennett, John, 1865-1956. John Bennett papers, 1875-1967.

Title: John Bennett papers, 1875-1967.

Papers consist of correspondence, research notes, writings, artwork, photographs, and other items. Included are the papers of Susan S. Bennett, John H. Bennett, and the Smythe family. Correspondence includes family letters as well as Bennett's correspondence with organizations, publishers, friends, other writers and artists including DuBose Heyward, Josephine Pinckney, and Hervey Allen. Topics include family matters, Charleston social life, historical research, Bennett's writings and art, the Poetry Society of South Carolina, Gullah, Black music and folklore, the Regulators, the Revolutionary War in South Carolina, and Bennett's Red Cross work during World War I. Writings include manuscripts and manuscript fragments of novels, stories, and articles (many unpublished); juvenalia; copies of Bennett's poems; and drafts, galley proofs, and adaptations of Bennett's published fiction; with related correspondence, illustrations, clippings, and other items. Photographs (ca. 1875-1956) are of John Bennett and Bennett family members, scenes in Chillicothe (Ohio), North Carolina, and elsewhere, Woodburn Plantation (S.C.), family dwellings, black fishermen and farm workers (ca. 1900), and other subjects. Also included are negatives, including glass negatives of family portraits and houses and buildings in Charleston (S.C.), and silhouette cutouts on glass. Original artwork includes designs for silhouettes, ornamental lettering, mounted silhouettes, and pencil drawings of Egyptian motifs, humorous characters, and other subjects, with related correspondence. There are also reproductions of Bennett's silhouettes and illustrations, and clippings of cartoons and other material. Topics of research notes include black folklore, music, and superstitions, Gullah, slavery in South Carolina, the Revolutionary War in South Carolina, and the history of Charleston (S.C.), with related correspondence and clippings. Other items include scrapbooks of clippings of articles, verse, and drawings by Bennett, reviews and advertisements of his books, and memorabilia; biographical material on Bennett; genealogical material on the Bennett family; and musical transcriptions of black spirituals and street cries and original music by Bennett.

ArchivalResource: 29 linear ft.

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Snowden, Yates, 1858-1933. Unabridged typescript for Two scholarly friends : the Yates Snowden-John Bennett correspondence, 1901-1932 : typescript, / edited by Mary Crow Anderson.

Title: Unabridged typescript for Two scholarly friends : the Yates Snowden-John Bennett correspondence, 1901-1932 : typescript, / edited by Mary Crow Anderson.

Transcription of entire correspondence, 1901-1932, exchanged between Yates Snowden, a professor at University of South Carolina in Columbia, and John Bennett, a writer of Charleston, S.C., active in the the Charleston Renaissance, who was a native of Ohio. Small portion of this correspondence published, 1993, in a single volume as: Two scholarly friends : the Yates Snowden-John Bennett Correspondence, 1901-1932 / edited by Mary Crow Anderson.

ArchivalResource: 3 v.

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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.

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Bennett, John, 1865-1956. John Bennett letter to Carlotta Harris, 1941.

Title: John Bennett letter to Carlotta Harris, 1941.

A letter of condolence from author John Bennett to Carlotta Harris upon the death of her husband, Lancelot Minor Harris (College of Charleston English professor), in 1941.

ArchivalResource: 1 item ([3] leaves) ; 22-28 cm.

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Bennett, John 1956. Bennett, John.

Title: Bennett, John.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

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Govan, Christine Noble, 1898-1985. Gilbert and Christine Govan letters, circa 1932-1973.

Title: Gilbert and Christine Govan letters, circa 1932-1973.

This collection contains 45 handwritten and typescript letters written to the Govans by various prominent Southern American writers. The letters were written roughly from the 1930's to the 1970's.The letters contain correspondence relating to the various writers' projects, personal matters, and relations with Gilbert and Christine Govan. Some of these writers are: Wilma Dykeman Stokely, Julia Peterkin, Andrew Lytle, Caroline Gordon, George Scarbrough, Jesse Stuart, Richard Chase, Donald Davidson, Stanley Horn, Paul Jordan Smith, Anworth Rutherford, John Bennett, Robert Burch, and several others. The collection provides an interesting insight into the thoughts and ideals of Southern writers during the middle 20th century.

ArchivalResource: ca. 0.3 linear ft. 1 box

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Bennett, John, 1865-1956. Research notes on John Stuart, 1932.

Title: Research notes on John Stuart, 1932.

Typescript research materials on South Carolina Loyalist John Stuart (1718-1776) include a letter (typescript, signed, and postscripted by author) of John Bennett to Robert N.S. Whitelaw.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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Bennett, John, 1865-1956. John Bennett papers, 1897-1978.

Title: John Bennett papers, 1897-1978.

Consisting primarily of correspondence, manuscripts of poems, newspaper clippings, and other papers relating to Bennett's career, including the dramatization and film version of his book, Master Skylark, a work printed five times between 1897 and 1965 in various forms. Correspondence includes approximately 500 letters, documenting his long friendship with Yates Snowden (1858-1933); and 7 manuscripts, 27 Dec. 1918 - 16 Dec. 1922, representing Bennett's research with Ambrose Elliott Gonzales on the creole form of the English language known as Gullah, and related to Gonzales' publication of The Black Border: Gullah Stories of the Carolina Coast, published 1922. Letters, 5 and 8 Jan. 1921, containing Bennett's assessments of the works of Charleston artist William Aiken Walker; 16 July 1923, his estimate of writers Hervey Allen and DuBose Heyward; and correspondence, mansucripts of poems, critical notes, and other papers relating to Snowden's writings, including his poem, "A Blast Against Bookkeepers." Other correspondents include Annie E. Snowden, Susan S. Bennett, Anne King Gregorie, Charles Woodward Hutson, and Arthur Medlock. Places represented include Charleston and Columbia, S.C.; Flat Rock and Hendersonville, N.C.; and Bennett's native Chillicothe, Ohio. Collection contains letter, 14 Jan. 1978, from Mrs. Josephine Fenstermacher, Bridgewater, N.J., accompanying John Bennett manuscripts, and including her recollections of Columbia, S.C., when she was the first professional librarian at Columbia High School; and reproduction of typescript of novel, The Treasure of Peyre Gaillard, held at Charleston Library Society. Library also has typed transcripts, 3 volumes, of Snowden-Bennett letters, with editorial notes by Mary Crow Anderson.

ArchivalResource: 599 items.

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Smythe family. Smythe family papers, 1888-1939.

Title: Smythe family papers, 1888-1939.

Correspondence includes letters (1888-1907) from Augustine T. Smythe, Sr. at Woodburn Plantation (S.C.), Charleston (S.C.) and elsewhere to Susan Smythe (later Mrs. John Bennett) and John Bennett at Chillicothe (Ohio) and elsewhere concerning Smythe's health and family and financial matters; letters (1888-1926) from Louisa McCord Smythe to Susan S. Bennett and John Bennett concerning family matters; letters (1902-1939) from Augustine Smythe, Jr. mostly to John Bennett concerning family and friends, photography, and business and financial matters; letters (1928-1937) from Ellison A. Smyth, Sr. (Bennett's uncle) and Ellison A. Smyth, Jr. to John Bennett regarding family matters and Bennett's writings; and a letter [1928?] from Hannah Wright in Savannah (Ga.) to Susan Smythe Bennett regarding family matters. Also included are letters (1933-1939) from Langdon Cheves M. Smythe, a missionary in Japan, concerning the Japanese people, missionary work in Japan, his voyage by sea to Higashi Ku, Nagoya, and other matters; and correspondence (1929-1938) between John Bennett and cousin Amey Smyth in Detroit (Mich.) concerning his writings, the Detroit Civic Theatre (Foundation?), and her poetry. Other items include poems by Amey Smyth, clippings, and excerpts (n.d.) from Civil War era letters (March 1865) of Louisa McCord Smythe concerning her experiences at the close of the Civil War and events in Columbia (S.C.).

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear ft.

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Fred A. Rosenstock autograph collection

Title: Fred A. Rosenstock autograph collection

Autographs, correspondence, portraits, and envelopes. Most of the materials were donated by Fred Rosenstock to Brigham Young University, but some were acquired from different sources. Many of the items were originally gathered by Barton Orville Aylesworth, a biographer and an autograph collector in Fort Collins, Colorado. Contains autographs, correspondence, portraits, and envelopes. Most of the items were originally gathered by Barton Orville Aylesworth, a biographer and an autograph collector in Fort Collings Colorado. The materials are largely letters and autographs produced by prominent American and British authors, editors, politicians, and other important artistic and historical figures in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The items relating to the individual creators are being cataloged separately and will be available on the Brigham Young University cataloging data base. BYU special collections created this artificial collection placing the material in alphabetical order.

ArchivalResource: 40 boxes (20 linear ft.)

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Bennett, John, 1865-1956. Letter, autobiograph, and envelope, 1901.

Title: Letter, autobiograph, and envelope, 1901.

Typewritten and signed letter, dated 18 Nov. 1901, and addressed to Barton O. Aylesworth of Ft. Collins, Colorado. Bennett responds to Aylsworth's request for biographical information. Also included is a brief autobiography by Bennett and the envelope in which these materials were sent.

ArchivalResource: 3 item (3 p.) ; 14 x20 cm. or smaller + 3 photocopies.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78301562 View

Poetry Society of South Carolina. Poetry Society of South Carolina records, 1922-2004.

Title: Poetry Society of South Carolina records, 1922-2004.

Correspondence, administrative records, program material, and publications produced by the Poetry Society of South Carolina between 1922 and 2004. The bulk of the materials date from 1980-1999. Clippings (1966-1994) consist of articles and other items announcing Poetry Society events, competitions, and lectures as well as items relating to South Carolina writers. Correspondence (1940-2005) contains letters, cards, and other items to and from members of the Poetry Society in regard to the organization, finances, and membership of the Society. The administration of the Society is also documented by evolving editions of the Society's constitution and bylaws (1986-1999) as well as by executive board minutes (1965-1998), financial records and grant materials (1984-1997), and treasurers' reports (1986-2001). Membership materials (1982-2002) such as member lists and membership applications are also available. Meeting minutes and notices (1983-2000) provide insight into the activities of the Society, as do materials related to the numerous annual prizes and competitions offered by the Society. Records relating to prizes and competitions (1922-2004) form the bulk of the collection and contain correspondence, submissions, and entry guidelines and rules related to annual competitions such as the annual spring forum as well as memorial prizes such as the John Andrew Hamilton Prize and the Kinloch Rivers Memorial Chapbook Competition. The Skylark Prize, a poetry competition for elementary and high school students named for John Bennett's book "Master Skylark" is also documented (1990-1998). Programs (1982-1998) contain both programs and agendas from Poetry Society events and correspondence and other materials relating to the planning and organization of events, lectures, and workshops. Publications consists of poetry collections and anthologies collected and published by the Poetry Society including "In Memory of John Henry Bennett, Jr. April 26, 1945-November 19, 2000" and "A Retrospective Reflecting More Than Seven Decades of Verse Honored by the Poetry Society of South Carolina" (1996), the seventy-fifth anniversary anthology published by the Society. Drafts and correspondence regarding the publication of these anthologies is also included. Poetry Society publications also include newsletters (1992-1998) and annual yearbooks (1971-2004) featuring prizewinning poems. One scrapbook (1970-1972) has been disbound and contains clippings, meeting minutes, and competition information.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 linear ft.

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Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937,. Letters to Albert Bigelow Paine, 1875-1934 (bulk 1891-1934).

Title: Letters to Albert Bigelow Paine, 1875-1934 (bulk 1891-1934).

ArchivalResource: 2,083 pieces.28 boxes.

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Connor, John Lane. Master Skylark [microform] : a dramatization from the story of the same name by John Bennett / by John Lane Connor.

Title: Master Skylark [microform] : a dramatization from the story of the same name by John Bennett / by John Lane Connor. 1903.

ArchivalResource: 116 p.

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Bennett, Susan Smythe. Susan Smythe Bennett papers, 1899-1952.

Title: Susan Smythe Bennett papers, 1899-1952.

Papers consist of correspondence, accounts, and a guidebook. Correspondence (1899-1951) includes her letters (1899-1915) to John Bennett concerning their courtship (1899-1902), a trip to Europe (1900), their marriage (1902), domestic arrangements, children, social life in Charleston (S.C.), the Smythe family, the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition (1902), ghost stories, and other matters. There is additional correspondence (1917-1951) between Susan S. Bennett and John Bennett, her children John H. Bennett (b. 1907), Jane Bennett Wells, and Susan A. Bennett, her grand-daughter Martha Bennett Stiles, and others. Topics include household management, social life, family matters, a trip to Japan and the Philippines to attend the marriage of Jane Bennett Wells (1923), and a visit to England and France (1930) during which she met Rudyard Kipling. Also included is her correspondence with relative Robert Adger Bowen which discusses, among other things, Ashtabula, Woodburn, and Rivoli plantations. Nineteen bound volumes (1902-1952) contain accounts for household expenses including wages of servants and allowances. A partial, typewritten manuscript (59 p.) is entitled "Bennett's Guide Book to Charleston."

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear ft.19 v.

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Sass, George Herbert, 1845-1908. George Herbert Sass papers, 1859-1933.

Title: George Herbert Sass papers, 1859-1933.

Personal and business correspondence between George Herbert Sass and his family, re family news, Reconstruction, southern culture, and Sass' literary work. Including letters, May-June 1859, Charleston, S.C., to his mother, re traveling North, school life and expenses, servants, and living conditions; letter, June 1866, Savannah, Ga., from John Barnwell Elliott, re book purchases and Savannah social life; letters, 1870-1873, Walterboro, S.C., and Bernham, Texas, from Peter Jehu Malone, re literary matters, legal affairs, and moving to Texas; letter, 10 Feb. 1876, Savannah, Ga., from Edwin Booth, re Sass' criticism of Booth's literary efforts while in Charleston. Letter, 31 Dec. 1881, Copse Hill, Ga., from Paul Hamilton Hayne, recommending Sass' poetry to a publisher; letter, 22 Mar. and 12 Apr. 1903, Eau Claire, Wis., from Charles L. James, re novels of George Payne Rainsford James; letters, 12 Jan. 1905 and 16 Jan. 1905, Princeton, N.J., from Henry Van Dyke, to John Pendleton Kennedy Bryan and G.H. Sass, re literary matters; letter, 28 Feb. 1904, Assouan, Egypt, from Daniel Henry Chamberlain, re reaction to Sass' work by German, English, and American readers. Letter, 11 Nov. 1907, Chillicothe, Oh., from John Bennett, re materials used in his biography; undated letter, Charleston, S.C., to Herbert Ravenel Sass, discussing writing styles, becoming a better writer, and family news; and articles, 11 Nov. 1933, re Reconstruction in Charleston and Cainhoy Riot [16 Oct. 1876] at which 6 men died following a speech in which Martin Delany endorsed Wade Hampton's bid for governor.

ArchivalResource: 60 items.

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United States. Continental Army. South Carolina Regiment, 2nd. 2nd South Carolina Regiment order book, 1777-ca. 1929.

Title: 2nd South Carolina Regiment order book, 1777-ca. 1929.

Collection contains the order book (1777 Jan. 15-Nov. 22) of the 2nd South Carolina Continental Regiment of Foot (commanded by Colonel Motte), an alphabetical list of soldiers serving in the Regiment compiled from the order book by John Bennett (1915), another list (which may have been compiled by DuBose Heyward before 1930) of soldiers names which are contained in the order book, and a partial typewritten transcript of the order book. "Orderly book" may have been kept by or for Isaac DuBose or Samuel DuBose. The volume includes orders, lists of the names of soldiers, and information about courts martial and other matters.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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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