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Perry, Elizabeth Frances. Elizabeth Frances Perry diary, 1837-1888.

Title: Elizabeth Frances Perry diary, 1837-1888.

Diary of Perry, containing scattered entries, some reflecting on her earlier life, including details of family and social life in Greenville, S.C. The diary includes a four-page "Preface" by Perry's husband, Benjamin Franklin Perry (1805-1886).

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Perry, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1805-1886. B.F. Perry papers, 1822-1960.

Title: B.F. Perry papers, 1822-1960.

Writings, correspondence, and other papers of Perry, including a full diary, 1832-1863; autobiographies written in 1849 and 1874; manuscript sketches, 1834-1835, of incidents in the Revolutionary War; scattered personal and political correspondence, chiefly 1850-1868; three scrapbooks of articles by and about Perry; and other items.

ArchivalResource: ca. 200 items (1.0 linear ft.)

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Norton, Joseph Jeptha, 1835-1896. Joseph Jeptha Norton papers 1791-1978 ; (bulk, 1845-1897).

Title: Joseph Jeptha Norton papers 1791-1978 ; (bulk, 1845-1897).

Correspondence, receipts, and other papers document the activities of the Norton family and friends in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas, including letters written by Miles Moore Norton while traveling with his partner, Samuel Reid, through the lower South and old Southwest region to sell enslaved African-Americans. Other antebellum papers document participation in the Temperance movement by the Norton family and others, including Joseph Grisham of Canton, Ga., father-in-law of Miles Norton; efforts to attract Germans and other white farmers to the upcountry; volume, 1847, documenting cost of trip fromPickens, S.C. to Pontotoc, Miss.; a pocket diary, 1853, re the family's move to Athens, Ga., and Joseph Jeptha Norton's freshman year at Franklin College, now University of Georgia. Civil War items reflect Norton's Confederate military service in [James L.] Orr's Regiment of Rifles on Sullivan's Island, S.C., and in Virginia, including letters of Joseph Norton to his wife re daily activities of garrison duty, and letter, 14 Nov. 1861, Sullivan's Island, S.C., re arrest of "a supposed spy" at Fort Sumter. Account book, 1861-1862, contains Norton's accounts with officers and enlisted men in Company C, including account with William Jones, "free man of color"; pocket diary, May-Dec. 1862, documents Norton's service in Virginia, including an account of the Second Battle of Manassas; descriptive book of Orr's Regiment of Rifles, 1861-1865, 1891, contains a regimental history, an historical sketch, and a record of casualities. Reconstruction and post-war era materials discuss social conditions, race relations, debts, land for sale, widespread hopes for railroad expansion, and politics, including Norton's ideas to promote free schools, election reforms and suffrage, including letters from Benjamin Franklin Perry. Norton describes social life as circuit judge, ca. 1880s-1890s, including descriptions of Abbeville, Aiken, Barnwell, Beaufort, Bennettsville, Charleston, Chester, Colmbia, Edgefield, Florence, Georgetown, Greenville, Greenwood, Hampton, Kingstree, Lancaster, Laurens, Lexington, Manning, Mt. Pleasant, Newberry, Orangeburg, Pickens, Spartanburg, Sumter, Union, Walterboro, Winnsboro, and York. Collection also includes materials re the tobacco industry in Oconee County and the Ohalga Tobacco Company; genealogical data and correspondence of Mrs. W.L. Norton and others includes information re Norton, Watt, Lesley, Burdine, Grisham, Lawrence, Dowlin, Cason, Mills, Moore, Holbert, and Hill families.

ArchivalResource: 1,086 items and 13 v.

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Yeadon, Richard, 1802-1870. Richard Yeadon papers, 1845.

Title: Richard Yeadon papers, 1845.

Papers consist of letters to Yeadon, copies of wills, and a handwritten tribute to Richard Yeadon by Benjamin F. Perry. Letters to Richard Yeadon at Charleston, South Carolina from Elizabeth Cater Richbourg (Warm Springs, N.C.) and Robert W. Ervin (Lancaster, S.C.) concern the genealogy of the Marion family. Wills include a copy (1845) of the will (1735) of Benjamin Marion (written in French), and a copy (1845) of the will (1780) of John Marion. Tribute (ca. 1880) to Yeadon is entitled "A Sketch of the Life of Richard Yeadon, copied from Reminiscences by B.F. Perry."

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

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Perry, Mr. (William Hayne), 1839-1902. William Hayne Perry papers, 1860 May 14-1864 June 29.

Title: William Hayne Perry papers, 1860 May 14-1864 June 29.

Consisting chiefly of Civil War letters, 1860-1864 (bulk, 1861 May-Dec.) penned by W.H. Perry from various camps in South Carolina and Virginia to his parents in Greenville, S.C. Also including antebellum letter, 14 May 1860, written from Washington, D.C., while en route home from Annapolis, Md., with his brother Frank. Letters, 5 May- 28 June 1861, describe conditions at Camp Hampton near Columbia, S.C.; topics include deployment of various units, mess arrangements; assembly of units forming Hampton Legion; distribution of arms; scarcity of feed for cavalry horses; preparations to leave for Virginia, ca. June 1861; and letter, 11 July 1861, re relocation from Richmond to Ashland, Va., where the men were billeted at a former race track. Several letters mention Wiley, Perry's African American slave who lived with Perry throughout the war; letter, 14 July 1861, requests that Perry's father procure slaves for Confederate officers in Virginia; letters, 19 and 29 July 1861, re battle at Manassas, Va., and Perry's visit to the battlefield. Other topics represented include an account of a visit from Perry's father, B.F. Perry; details of a cavalry excursion to attack Yankee posts near Pohick church (Fairfax County, Va.); and comment on presence of the Federal troops in coastal South Carolina. Later material includes letters, 11 and 19 July 1863, reporting Confederate retreat from Gettysburg and assessment of Hampton Legion casualties; and letter, 29 June 1864, Chisolmville, S.C., re sickness in camp and the need for mosquito netting.

ArchivalResource: 33 items.

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Cumming, Alfred, 1802-1873. Papers : 1792-1889.

Title: Papers : 1792-1889.

Family and political correspondence, mainly of the 1850s, with material on Mormon history, including the "Mormon War," and on frontier and pioneer life. Includes journals, scrapbooks, letter books, and proceedings pertaining to councils and negotiations with the Blackfoot Indians and other tribes (1855). Letters of Cumming's wife, Elizabeth Wells Randall Cumming, describe incidents on her trip to Utah with her husband when he was named governor with details of frontier conditions and Indian troubles. Cumming's official letter books contain correspondence to James Buchanan, Lewis Cass, Howell Cobb, John B. Floyd, Albert S. Johnston, Brigham Young, and others. Additional correspondents include W.W. Bibb, J.S. Black, William Medill, B.F. Perry, Franklin Pierce, Alexander H. Stephens, and G.M. Troup. Includes papers of William Clay Cumming, a brother, pertaining to his studies at Princeton University (1805) and at the Litchfield Law School; his accounts of opposition to Federalism in New England; his experiences in the War of 1812; travels in the Mississippi Valley and the South; and a few comments on Brazil and Uruguay (1816). The collection also contains the papers of Thomas Cumming.

ArchivalResource: 760 items.

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Perry, B. F. Letter, July 14, 1846.

Title: Letter, July 14, 1846.

Letter to his brother in Woodford County, Illinois tells the amount of pay for various ranks, describes the uniforms and insignia and gives their cost. Describes the barracks and gives a hand drawn map of it. Describes the funeral of Captain Page who was shot at Matamoros. Gives news of soldiers known to his brother.

ArchivalResource: 7 p.

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Kay family. Kay family papers, 1784-1945.

Title: Kay family papers, 1784-1945.

Consisting chiefly of land grants, deeds, and surveys showing the ownership of property on the east side of Broad Mouth Creek of Saluda River. Initial land grants were given to John Hallum (Allum), William Swift, and William Honey. In 1848, the Kay family sold its cotton to Dunbar & Burnside of Hamburg (now in Aiken County, S.C.); receipts in the collection show that William Pleasant ("Ples") Kay traded with Honea Path merchants D.V. Garrison, Brock-Armstrong & Company, and Wright, Wilson & Company; other topics include W.P. Kay's last will and testament, probated in 1869, identifying eleven children by name; collection includes several items generated following the death of his wife, Elizabeth, in 1891, consisting of lists recording how the estate was sold and disbursed. Other papers include letter, 2 July 1839, from B.F. Perry, Greenville, S.C., to William Kay, Sr., Gentsville Post Office, S.C., thanking Kay for selling his land for him and promising to send Kay's compensation by Mr. Townes, who planned to look at a horse while there. In 1904 and 1906 Milton A. Kay took the Rural Carrier Exam and was entered on the list of eligible carriers; and resolution, 1945, passed by the 3-H Bible Class of the Baptist Church in Honea Path, honoring M.A. Kay. Also includes personal correspondence of Albert and Laura Dodson Kay, of Bradenton, Florida, and the Dodson family of Nebraska. Letters pertaining to the Kay family's cotton farming illustrate the hardships faced by cotton farmers in the 1920s and 1930s following arrival of the boll weevil into South Carolina by 1921, with mention of declining prices, weather conditions, and disappointing harvest seasons. Similar information regarding diminishing returns from farming of wheat is found in the Dodson family letters. Letter from C.M. Kay dated 9 Sept. 1934 includes a detailed description of the strike at Chiquola Mills in Honea Path, SC., which was part of the national general textile strike of 1934. Efforts by management to suppress the strike at Chiquola Mills ended in several deaths and injuries. The letter also describes the mass funeral for the victims attended by more than ten thousand people. After the strike, 130 militia men were stationed at the mill, according to the letter. Letter also describes C.M. Kay's work as a Special Duty officer at the mill and his resignation following the riot. A 20 Aug. 1913 letter to Devona Robinson from Anderson College discusses attempts to recruit female students. Other correspondence includes World War II letters from Kay family members in military service (Frank Parker Kay, William Kay, C.C. "Cam" Kay, Henry Wayne Kay, Charles Robinson), including a letter dated 27 Feb. 1945 which contains information regarding a midnight curfew for establishments serving beer and liquor until the end of the war in Germany. Letters from Delta Easton describe her sons' experiences in medical school in the late 1930s and the opening of their osteopath practices in Missouri and Leadville, Nebraska in 1940. There is also reference to her husband's work in the Leadville mines. Additional postcards and photographs include depictions of various scenes from the southeastern United States, assorted greeting cards and a World War II collection of photographs of women from Hawaii and New Guinea. Family history information includes Bible records, wedding invitations (ca. 1880s-1890s), and details of descendants of Abram Bolt (1839-1910) and Mary Clark Bolt (1841-1923) among the Kay, Milford, Bolt and related families.

ArchivalResource: 252 items.

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Yeadon, Richard, 1802-1870. Richard Yeadon papers, 1841-1870.

Title: Richard Yeadon papers, 1841-1870.

Chiefly letters from clients re legal matters, newspaper clippings, and land papers; including letter, 9 Dec. 1841, Charleston, S.C., to William Gilmore Simms, re Simms' letter of condolence, declining health of his mother, efforts to acquire stock in Charleston Library Society, and failure of the legislature to provide funds for Simms' state history. Oversize scrapbook, ca. 1857-1870 (bulk dates, 1857-1858 with a dozen pages of clippings ca. Jan.-Mar. 1870), consisting of newspaper clippings, editorials and news reports published in various newspapers around S.C. and elsewhere [Annex]; topics discussed include politics and elections, including justifications for secession (a thread beginning in early 1857); news of "Bleeding Kansas" and efforts to make the territory a free state; speeches and appearances of politicians, such as Edwared Everett, Edmund Ruffin, and others; candidates for state and national offices, Oct. 1858, listed by various "tickets"; social and charitable organizations, including various news items about fund-raising by the Mount Vernon Ladies Association; clippings, ca. Mar. 1858, re the Charleston Marine School Ship; memorials and obituaries to political and public figures who died during 1857-1858 (Jonathon Bryan, Thomas Hart Benton, and others) or earlier, such as Hugh Swinton Legaré (1797-1843), who was reinterred in Charleston in 1859. Small number of clippings from late 1869 and early 1870 reflect economic and social conditions in Charleston during Reconstruction years, with entries re unpaid debts and taxes, efforts to rebuild the Circular Congregational Church, and a series of nostalgic historical essays on city development, "The Streets of Charleston." Editorial correspondence, 18 Apr. 1857, re Yeadon's stay at Cedar Grove Plantation, Dorchester, S.C.; letter, 18 Aug. 1862, Richmond, Va., from Steven R. Mallory [Confederate Secretary of the Navy], reporting naming of new steam sloop "The Palmetto State" and funds collected to build ships; letter, 13 Sept. 1865, Columbia, S.C., from provisional governor Benjamin F. Perry, re Yeadon's application for pardon.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (at Annex)

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Kibler, Lillian Adele, 1894-1978. Lillian Adele Kibler papers, ca. 1937-1978 ; (bulk, 1937-1949).

Title: Lillian Adele Kibler papers, ca. 1937-1978 ; (bulk, 1937-1949).

Correspondence, notes, drafts, newspaper clippings, 4 volumes, and other papers relating chiefly to the research and publication of Kibler's dissertation on Benjamin F. Perry, South Carolina Unionist, including letters from her advisor, Prof. Allan Nevins, Columbia University, together with responses to Kibler's published work, including text of review, 5 Feb. 1947, broadcast over radio by R[obert] L[ee] Meriwether, and letter, 3 Mar. 1947, from Charles Beard. Contains Columbia University materials, including lecture notes for classes taught by European historian Carlton J.H. Hayes; master's thesis, 1937, "Unionist Sentiment in South Carolina in 1860" (221 pp.); and undated seminar paper written for "Professor Nevins," "Unionist Sentiment in Mississippi, 1850-1856" (142 pp.). Also includes "The Diplomatic Career of William Henry Trescot;" "The History of Converse College, 1889-1971," published in 1973; and several research papers of Kibler's students.

ArchivalResource: 3.75 linear ft. (3 cartons)

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Rice, James Henry, 1868-1935. Paladins of South Carolina collection, 1911-1933.

Title: Paladins of South Carolina collection, 1911-1933.

Biographical series of newspaper columns, "Paladins of South Carolina", 14 items, 1911-1933 and undated, re Charles Petigru Allston, Capt. John Hampden Brooks, Eugene W. Dabbs, Henry William De Saussure, Thomas Jefferson Goodwyn, William Gregg, Charles W. Kollock, John McLaurn McBryde, Gen. Samuel McGowan, Benjamin Franklin Perry, William Mazyck Porcher, LeRoy Franklin Youmans, and description of a visit with Col. James T. Bacon of Edgefield County, S.C.

ArchivalResource: 14 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38490922 View

McBee, William Pinckney, 1820-1860. William Pinckney McBee papers, 1819-1937.

Title: William Pinckney McBee papers, 1819-1937.

Family letters, primarily from W.P. McBee to his wife Harriet written from various locations due to McBee's career developing the South Carolina Railroad Co., conducting his political campaigns, and serving in the General Assembly, including receipt, 1 Jan. 1833, for slave, William, from Behethland and W[illiam] P. Butler to Harriet McBee; and letter, 9 June 1846, [Lincolnton, N.C.], from J.T.] Alexander, re visit of Gen. [Waddy] Thompson. Including 2 letters, ca. 30 Apr. and 7 May [1848, Greenville, S.C.] to [Harriet McBee], Edgefield C.H., who was caring for her dying aunt, Emmala Butler Thompson [Mrs. Waddy Thompson, Jr.], reporting Charles Elford's purchase of a "Melodion" for the [First?] Baptist church; 26 Jan. [1849], Greenville, S.C., to V[ardry] A[lexander] McBee, Lincolnton, N.C, relating news of the Sons of Temperance and William B. Leary's organization of a division in Greenville, S.C., and expressing concern re a law suit filed by a local hotel owner against Greenville's new anti-liquor ordinance. Items re McBee's interests in the S.C. Railroad Co. and his political career include 3 letters, 6, 9, and 22 Apr. 1851, various "Engineers Camps" in Newberry County, S.C., to wife Harriet, re living conditions and work "running line"; and text of speech, [1852], made during campaign for election to Legislature replying to attacks made by [Benjamin Franklin] Perry in his newspaper. Letters, 1852-1856, Columbia and Greenville, S.C., to his wife at Greenville and Barnwell, re his work as a legislator, the bank, the Blue Ridge Railroad bill, popular election of electors, and common schools; and reports of local news, including 8 Dec. 1854, re a fire at the office of Dr. [Robert Wilson] Gibbes; a visit to [Trinity] Episcopal Church and impression of a sermon by [Peter J.] Shand; and letter, [1856] re attendance at the [Democratic National] Convention in Charleston, S.C. Letter, 4 Feb. 1857, "Senate Chamber," A.P. Butler to Benson [John] Lossing, New York, N.Y., re his History of the United States; and 8 letters, 1852-1857, Greenville, S.C., Alex McBee to W.P. McBee, Columbia and Aiken, S.C., re financial arrangements, plans by his father, [Vardry A. McBee], to build a stone and brick mill, and mention of [William] Gregg as president of the railroad; and letter, 4 Apr. 1901, Norfolk, Va., V[ardry].E. ["Bunch"] McBee, to Susanne, re rise of Seaboard Railroad stock and his activities in the stock market.

ArchivalResource: 108 items.

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Cunningham, Robert. Robert Cunningham letters, 1847; 1868 [manuscript].

Title: Robert Cunningham letters, 1847; 1868 [manuscript].

Letter, January 1847, from Joel R. Poinsett to Capt. Robert Cunningham, "Rose Mount," Laurens District, S.C., about family, business, personal, and horticultural activities; and letter, 22 August 1868, from Benjamin Franklin Perry (1805-1886) to Mrs. Robert Cunningham, Laurens District, S.C., telling of a recent visit to Washington, D.C., and Mount Vernon.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Perry, B. F. Letter, 1833 May 14, Greenville, S.C., to Daniel Webster, Boston.

Title: Letter, 1833 May 14, Greenville, S.C., to Daniel Webster, Boston.

Mr. Calhoun has not united the South against the Federal Government. The slave question might lead to a confederacy of slave-holding states. Appeals to the North not to interfere with the domestic policy of the South.

ArchivalResource: 3 p. on 1 fold. leaf 25 cm.

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Cumming, Alfred, 1802-1873. Alfred Cumming papers, 1792-1889.

Title: Alfred Cumming papers, 1792-1889.

Family and political correspondence, mainly of the 1850s, with material on Mormon history, including the "Mormon War," and on frontier and pioneer life. Includes journals, scrapbooks, letter books, and proceedings pertaining to councils and negotiations with the Blackfoot Indians and other tribes (1855). Letters of Cumming's wife, Elizabeth Wells Randall Cumming, describe incidents on her trip to Utah with her husband when he was named governor with details of frontier conditions and Indian troubles. Cumming's official letter books contain correspondence to James Buchanan, Lewis Cass, Howell Cobb, John B. Floyd, Albert S. Johnston, Brigham Young, and others. Additional correspondents include W.W. Bibb, J.S. Black, William Medill, B.F. Perry, Franklin Pierce, Alexander H. Stephens, and G.M. Troup. Includes papers of William Clay Cumming, a brother, pertaining to his studies at Princeton University (1805) and at the Litchfield Law School; his accounts of opposition to Federalism in New England; his experiences in the War of 1812; travels in the Mississippi Valley and the South; and a few comments on Brazil and Uruguay (1816). The collection also contains the papers of Thomas Cumming.

ArchivalResource: 760 items.

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Kibler, Lillian Adele, 1894-1978. Papers, ca. 1937-1978 ; (bulk 1937-1949).

Title: Papers, ca. 1937-1978 ; (bulk 1937-1949).

Correspondence, notes, drafts, newspaper clippings, and other papers, relating chiefly to the research and publication of Kibler's dissertation, Benjamin F. Perry, South Carolina Unionist, including letters from her adviser, Prof. Allan Nevins, Columbia University, and a draft of his introduction to the biography, and the radio broadcast text of Robert Lee Meriwether's review of it. Includes diplomas and certificates; drafts of other works, including The History of Converse College; her master's thesis, Unionist Sentiment in South Carolina in 1860; ms. of Unionist Sentiment in Mississippi, 1850-1856; lecture notes for classes taught by Carlton J.H. Hayes, Columbia University; addresses, and several papers of Kibler's students.

ArchivalResource: 3 ft.

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Thompson, Waddy, 1798-1868. Waddy Thompson papers, 1799-1978.

Title: Waddy Thompson papers, 1799-1978.

Papers, 1799 - 1869 and 1933, 1963, 1977-1978; chiefly correspondence, commissions and certificates re Thompson's diplomatic mission as minister to Mexico, 1842-1844, including papers re claims against, treaty with, and prisoners held by Mexico; political correspondence re national and state affairs; and commissions of Thompson and of his father, Waddy Thompson, Sr.; places represented include Washington, D.C.; Columbia and Greenville, S.C.; Georgia; Virginia; Frankfort (Kentucky); Mexico; and elsewhere. Family papers discuss household and plantation expenses. Correspondents include Robert W. Barnwell, Andrew Pickens Butler, Pierce Mason Butler, John J. Crittenden, Warren R. Davis, Robert H. Hayne, Charles Lanman, Brantz Mayer, George McDuffie, Abraham Nott, Benjamin F. Perry, James Louis Petigru, Francis W. Pickens, Joel R. Poinsett, John Tyler, and others. Accounts, 15 Oct. 1824 and 2 Sept. 1837, listing expenses for plantation and household supplies; letter, 5 July 1842 (Washington, D.C.), from W[illiam] B[erkeley] Lewis, [Second Auditor of the U.S. Treasury], to WT in Mexico, enclosing letter to be translated into Spanish applying to the Mexican government for indemnity "in relation to our claim upon the Texan Government," commenting on friction between President [John] Tyler and Congress over proposed distribution of the land fund; letter, 11 Dec. 1842 (Washington, D.C.), from Brantz Mayer [Secretary of U.S. Legation to Mexico], to WT re his return "through the South" to settle his father's estate, reports on interview with [Daniel] Webster and his dissatisfaction with the proposed treaty with Mexico, possible change in status of minister, Mayer's chances of appointment to Denmark, Thompson's popularity in Mexico, resignation of [William C.] Preston and [John C.] Calhoun, appraisal of presidential candidates: [Martin] Van Buren, [Thomas H.] Benton, [James] Buchanan, [Lewis] Cass, [John C.] Calhoun, and [Henry] Clay, "I think it highly probably that Tyler or Cass will be the man, - tho' Calhoun's stock is rising...." Letter, 18 Mar. 1843 (Demopolis, Ala.), from F[rancis] S[trother] Lyon, requesting Thompson's aid in providing comfort to David S. Kornegay, taken prisoner in Texas; letter, 2 July 1843, from T[homas] J[efferson] Green, "Castle of Perote," to Santa Anna, stating conditions of his health since his imprisonment with a medical certificate, discussing "medical assistance necessary for my restoration... I have not been trusted upon parole"; draft of a letter, 17 Oct. 1843 (U.S. Legation, Mexico) to Jose M. de Bocanegra, presenting a counter project for settlement of "claims pending between the Government and citizens of the U.S. States and the Government & citizens of the Mexican Republic." Also includes small amount of genealogical information on the Thompson, Chotard, Gould family, and Williams families.

ArchivalResource: 95 items.

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Ducom, Edward Lewis, fl. 1907. Edward Lewis Ducom papers, 1837-1907.

Title: Edward Lewis Ducom papers, 1837-1907.

Chiefly courtship correspondence between Edward Lewis Ducom and his fiance, Catherine Ann DeLoach Dowell; including letter, 12 Mar. 1865, near Ninety Six, S.C., to C.A.D. Dowell, Camden, S.C., re burning of Columbia, S.C., and his unit's work to protect against freedmen; including letter, 28 July 1865, New Orleans, La., to C.A.D. Dowell, re conduct of freedmen in South Carolina and New Orleans, and anger at southern abolitionists. Letter, 8 Aug. 1865, from C.A.D. Dowell, re African-Americans, fear of insurrection, planters meeting at Matthews Bluff, and hoping for withdrawal of African-American troops; letter, 10 Nov. 1865, from C.A.D. Dowell, re their future as husband and wife, waiting for inheritance from father in France, land investment opportunities near Savannah, Ga., affairs at Lawtonville, Hampton County, S.C., and complimenting Gov. Benjamin F. Perry. Letter, 1865, New Orleans, La., to C.A.D. Dowell, re migration of blacks to New Orleans and fearing election troubles; letter, c. Jan. 1866, New Orleans, La., to C.A.D. Dowell, reporting arrival of many foreigners, African-Americans, and northerners starting businesses.

ArchivalResource: 70 items.

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Perry, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1805-1886. B.F. Perry papers, 1760-1981; (bulk, 1832-1910)

Title: B.F. Perry papers, 1760-1981; (bulk, 1832-1910)

Consisting of correspondence, editorials, speeches and other papers re Perry's political career, unionist views, and appointment as first provisional governor of South Carolina during Reconstruction. Includes letters with his wife, Elizabeth Frances McCall, re state and national politics, including Mrs. McCall's frequent suggestions on ways to promote and protect his career, and Perry's reports of life in Columbia during legislative sessions. Letters, 1840-1867, discuss unpopularity of the Mexican War, the Secession Crisis of 1851, the national Democratic convention of 1860, where delegate Perry's unionist sentiment found little support, Perry's efforts at political reform, including popular election of presidential electors and the governor, establishment of equitable representation for all sections of the state, creation of a penitentiary, railroad expansion and improvements, and increased manufacturing. Collection also documents social life in Greenville and Columbia, S.C., with letters written during Perry's years as trustee of South Carolina College (ca. 1845-1865) and detailing his efforts to change the institution to the University of South Carolina (1865-1869); other letters concern a quarrel between William Gilmore Simms and Ann Pamela Cunningham, Perry's opportunities to meet Dorothea Dix, President Andrew Johnson, John LeConte, and Daniel Webster, and Perry's opinion of James Henry Hammond. Also includes letters re domestic life and slavery; letters exchanged with sons William Hayne Perry and Benjamin Franklin Perry in college at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md, and at Harvard, Cambridge, Mass.; and manuscript, "Sketch of the Life of Gov. B.F. Perry. Written by His Wife."

ArchivalResource: 1, 432 items and 7 volumes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28410926 View

Perry, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1805-1886. Papers, 1849-1867.

Title: Papers, 1849-1867.

Letters from Perry to Armistead Burt of Abbeville, S.C., dealing with sequestration of property in 1863; passage of civil rights bills; and private lawsuits.

ArchivalResource: 9 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20071508 View

Bliss, Robert Lewis. Miscellaneous microfilm collection, undated, [microform].

Title: Miscellaneous microfilm collection, undated, [microform].

This collection contains microfilm copies of account books, organizational records, state records, church records, genealogical notes, diaries, letters, cemetery records, county records, C.S.A. records, scrapbooks, land records, Mississippi Territory records, miscellaneous records from other Southern States, and printed materials. Of special interest are the records of the Baptist Church, the Freedman's Bureau, records concerning the Scottsboro Boys case, C.S.A. soldiers letters, and the W.P.A., Federal Writers' Project on Folklore, Ex-slave tales, Life, Histories, and Stories.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 560 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122442460 View

B.F. Perry Papers, 1822-1933

Title: B.F. Perry Papers, 1822-1933

B.F. Perry, of Greenville, S.C., was a lawyer and editor, and anti-secessionist, and governor of South Carolina during Reconstruction. The collection includes writings, correspondence, and other papers of B.F. Perry, including a full diary, 1832-1835; autobiographies written in 1849 and 1874; manuscript sketches, 1834-1835, of incidents in the Revolutionary War; scattered personal and political correspondence, chiefly 1850-1868; three scrapbooks of articles by and about Perry; and other items.

ArchivalResource: 200; 1.0

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McKay, Robert, d. 1889. Robert McKay papers, 1865-1887.

Title: Robert McKay papers, 1865-1887.

Illustrated volume, 1865-1887, including "South Carolina Redeemed," a history of Reconstruction written in rhyme; letter, 21 Feb. 1885, from Benjamin Franklin Perry, re Perry's appointment as provisional governor; misc. contemporary newspaper clippings of S.C. Reconstruction scenes, portraits of James L. Orr, and African-American politicians in the S.C. General Assembly, including Robert Brown Elliott. Also including photographs of the unfinished S.C. State House, Columbia, S.C.; Democratic Headquarters on Main Street (Columbia, S.C.) decorated for Wade Hampton's reception from Washington, D.C., 7 Apr. 1877, Columbia, S.C.; residence of Robert Brown Elliott; images of the Radical Legislature and Wallace House; and pencil and ink sketches of S.C. blacks during Reconstruction done by C[harles] A. David.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Perry, Elizabeth Frances. Letter : Greenville, S.C., 1887 Jan. 11.

Title: Letter : Greenville, S.C., 1887 Jan. 11.

Letter to an unknown individual concerns a eulogy for Perry's husband for publication in a memorial.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32140194 View

Janney, James C., d. 1869. James C. Janney papers, 1856-1880.

Title: James C. Janney papers, 1856-1880.

Chiefly bills, promissory notes, and letters recommending that James C. Janney be advanced funds to rebuild his hotel after the Civil War. Including bills of guests, 27 Jan. 1860-6 Sept. 1860, Columbia, S.C., re payments due to Janney as proprietor of the Congaree Hotel; letter, 10 Oct. 1865, from Gen. William Richardson, vouching for Janney's character, and recommending that Northern investors loan Janney money to rebuild his hotel; letter, 12 Oct. 1865, from J.M. Howell, Columbia, S.C., re Janney's attempt to secure funds from Northern investors. Letter, 12 Oct. 1865, from George W. Williams, New York, N.Y., to Janney, Columbia, re loaning Janney money to rebuild hotel; letter, 30 Oct. 1865, from Benjamin Franklin Perry, Provisional Governor of South Carolina, re Janney's pardon; seven letters, 1866-1868, re leases for Janney's Hall; three playbills, c. 1867, re minstrel and concert programs at Janney's Hall; letter, 13 Sept. 1869, re value of unsold lots and buildings formerly the site of Janney's Hotel.

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Furman, Charles James McDonald, 1863-1904. Charles James McDonald Furman papers, 1804-1903.

Title: Charles James McDonald Furman papers, 1804-1903.

Correspondence, research notes, clippings, and diary, 1878-1903, (11 vol.) reflecting Furman's research in Native American archaeology, etymology, ethnology, education, Southern literature, and S.C. history, including that of African Americans, Catawba Indians and others. Letters, 21 Feb. and 24 Mar. 1881, Georgia, from poet Paul Hamilton Hayne and his wife, Mary Middleton Michel Hayne, re lack of appreciation for Southern authors; letter, 22 Oct. 1882, Greenville, S.C., from B.F. Perry, re politics of the Greenback Party and of James B. Campbell; 58 letters, 6 Jan. 1883-2 June 1885, Columbia, S.C., to his parents in Sumter County, S.C., re life as a student at USC; letter, 15 Aug. 1887, Camden, S.C., from John L. Manning re purchase of art works in Europe; letter, 13 Dec. 1891, Sewanee, Tenn., from Shirley Carter Hughson, re author and editor William Peterfield Trent. Letter, 19 Mar. 1892, [York, S.C.], from M.M. Ross, inviting Furman to publish essay re Catawba Indians in his magazine, Ross' Monthly.; 4 letters, 15 Feb. 1893-11 Jan. 1895, from Mrs. Virginia Durant Young, president of the S.C. Equal Rights Association, re women's suffrage; letter, 22 July 1895, Abbeville, S.C., from S[amuel] M. McGowan re the SC state constitutional convention. Series of letters re history of S.C. government and its promotion and preservation, including letter, 8 Mar. 1897, Newry, S.C., from William Ashmead Courtenay re proposal to establish a state historical society to publish state records and promote related projects; letter 26 Jan. 1898, Greenville, S.C., from James Alfred Hoyt, re biennial legislative sessions; 2 letters, 26 Apr. and 11 May. 1900, Washington, D.C., from James William Stokes re bill proposing preservation of S.C. government records of the colonial era; and 2 letters, 15 Feb. and 6 Mar. 1902, Charleston, S.C., re sale of McCrady's S.C. history books. Ethnographical / anthropological papers include essays re an endogamous group of Sumter County residents popularly known as "Redbones," "Turks," or "Old Issues"; these tri-racial isolate groups were thought to descend from Native American Indians, whites, free people of color, and other members of the African American community. Family names represented include the Goins, Chavis, and Oxendine families and others; ethnographical topics discussed in correspondence with Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology, and Bureau members Albert Gatschet and James A. Mooney. Newspaper clippings document Furman's interests and provide insight into his research; examples include, "The Privateer [S.C.] Redbones," published, 27 May 1896, in the Sumter Watchman and Southron newspaper; and Furman's biographical sketch of Redbone patriarch James Edward Smiling (published in The State, 27 May 1897). Smiling represented Sumter County during Reconstruction in the "radical Republican General Assembly," of 1868 to 1870. Correspondents include African American poets Mary F. Weston Fordham and George C. Rowe; historians James Mooney and Colyer Meriwether, and others; places represented include Abbeville, Anderson, Charleston, Greelyville, Stateburg, S.C.; and elsewhere. Journals, 1878-1903, consist of 11 volumes documenting Furman's life as a teenager at Cornhill Plantation in Sumter County (1878-188); attendance at Greenville Military Institute (S.C.), 1880-1882, re student life and events in Greenville, including the arrival of a circus, 4 Nov. 1881; a return to Sumter County, in 2 vol. titled "A Year at Home," re visits with former classmates, local events, trip to Charleston, S.C., to visit his brother at The Citadel, and attendance at a music festival; enrollment at U.S.C., 1883-1885, and his later life. The journals include 3 photographs of Furman and Sumter County scenes: house and outbuildings at Cornhill Plantation (1878 vol.); view of "Bethel Church, so often mentioned in the diary" 1896 (1879 vol.); and portrait, ca. 1902, "McDonald Furman, about two years before his death" (vol. 1883-1884)

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