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Jackson, Samuel C. (Samuel Cram), 1802-1878. Samuel C. Jackson diary, 1832-1833 [manuscript].

Title: Samuel C. Jackson diary, 1832-1833 [manuscript].

The collection is a diary, 11 October 1832-9 May 1833, of Samuel Cram Jackson, covering the period of his stay in Charleston, Columbia, Camden, and Salem, S.C. Jackson, who had journeyed south for his health, commented on many topics, including the nullification controversy, slavery, and political and social conditions in South Carolina. He knew many prominent men, among them participants in the nullification debate, including William Drayton (1766-1846), Robert Y. Hayne (1791-1839), and Joel R. Poinsett (1779-1851); and others, including reformer Thomas S. Grimke (1786-1834); missionary J. W. Barr (1802-1832); judge Henry W. De Saussure (1764-1839); Irish artist William Leigh (1811-1833); planter and Democratic congressman Robert Witherspoon (1767-1837); and president of the College of Charleston Jasper Adams (1793-1841). All of these men are mentioned in the diary, as are other South Carolina politicians, educators, and clergymen. During his travels, Jackson also served for a short time as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Columbia.

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Witherspoon, Robert, 1767-1837. Robert Witherspoon papers, 1835 Feb. 25 and 1899 May.

Title: Robert Witherspoon papers, 1835 Feb. 25 and 1899 May.

Letter, 25 Feb. 1835, written by Robert Witherspoon from Coldstream to his son Thomas McFaddin Witherspoon (1817-1837) while the younger was a student at the College of New Jersey [now Princeton University]; topics discussed include the bitterly cold weather in S.C., continued health of "our family, white and black," a recent fire in Charleston, S.C., that destroyed the 1710 St. Philip's Church, and 60 houses, the election of William Capers as President of South Carolina College [a position that Capers never accepted], and the death of Isaac, a slave belonging to Thomas Gadsden McFaddin, caused by an explosion of gunpowder. Biography of Robert Witherspoon prepared, May 1899, by his granddaughter Frances "Fanny" Louise Witherspoon Harrison (1865-1900).

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