Cheves family. Cheves family papers, 1808-1934.
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Cheves family papers, 1808-1934.
Family and business correspondence of Langdon Cheves (1776-1857), lawyer, planter, financier, and Congressman from Charleston; his wife, Mary Elizabeth Dulles, of Charleston and Philadelphia; their daughter, Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord (1810-1879), a South Carolina author, and her husband, David James McCord, editor and nullification leader. Antebellum material includes medicinal recipes for the treatment of slaves' aliments, 1808 and undated; letter, 6 Jan. 1819, from J[osehp] J. Dulles, Cheves' brother-in-law, Philadelphia, re movement to secure Cheves' appointment to the presidency of the Bank of the United States. Letter, 25 Sept. 1836, New York, Ed. W[illia]m Johnston, to Langdon Cheves, Jr. (1814-1863), Columbia, re his expedition in the Va. mountains and research on Patrick Henry, re Duff Green's contemplated revival of "Southern Review" with Johnston as editor and the support of William Campbell Preston, John C. Calhoun and James Hamilton, and re his objections to Hugh Swinton Legare's political views. Letter, 30 Dec. 1846, Log Hall (near the Ogeechee River in Georgia), Langdon Cheves to T. P. Huger, reviewing his gifts of a plantation, African American slaves, and cash to his daughter when she married Huger, and criticizing Huger's management of the property and treatment of his daughter. Civil War materials include thirty-two letters, 1861-1863, of Langdon Cheves, Jr., relating primarily to his work as an engineer with the Confederate States of America Corps of Engineers on coastal fortifications, particularly on Hilton Head Island and at Battery Wagner on Morris Island; andletters, June and July 1862, referring to his work on the design and construction of gas balloons for military observation. Reconstruction and later-era correspondence includes letter, 28 Mar. 1868, from Russell McCord at Quissaman, Brazil, to his sister, Mary, describing life as a Confederate emigre living with a slaveholding family in Brazil; letter, 6 Feb. 1869, Mont[gomer]y, [Ala.], R. P. McCord to "Dear Charlotte," re the situation of various family members in Ala. and re planting activities; and letter, 25 Jan. 1896, Charleston, Langdon Cheves, to Cha[rle]s N. West, Savannah, commenting on West's "Courts and Judges of Georgia".
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