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Peace, Washington. Washington Peace papers, 1849-1850.

Title: Washington Peace papers, 1849-1850.

Letter, 3 Mar. 1849, Columbia, S.C., to Anna M. Peace, re the arrival of spring, a communal garden established by students at the Columbia Theological Seminary, planning a vacation in the Georgia mountains with a fellow student. Letter, 9 Apr. 1850, Columbia, S.C., to Anna M. Horner, Warrenton, Va., re lectures by Louis Agassiz, recent weather, meeting the Hampton family and Dr. Robert W. Gibbes, "who has not a large practice but is a scientific man. He however doubts 'the unity of the race' ," and discussing the likely selection of James Henry Hammond to succeed the late John C. Calhoun in the United States Senate, since Hammond was considered "in point of talent the equal of Dr. [James Henly] Thornwell (the Chaplain of the College) they... being ranked next to Calhoun."

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Wailes, Benjamin L. C. (Benjamin Leonard Covington), 1797-1862. Papers, 1843-1862.

Title: Papers, 1843-1862.

Correspondence and diaries, chiefly during the years of Wailes' professorship at the University of Mississippi. Includes diaries (1852-1862) containing detailed accounts of Wailes' planting operations and his fossil collection and over a hundred letters from notable scientists, such as Louis Agassiz, John James Audubon, Peter Force, Robert W. Gibbes, John and Joseph LeConte, and Henry Wheatland. Other topics include Mississippi and southern politics in the ante-bellum period, economic conditions, railroads, agriculture, secession, and the Civil War until November, 1862.

ArchivalResource: 155 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20273418 View

Gibbes, Robert W. (Robert Wilson), 1809-1866. Robert W. Gibbes papers, 1803 - 1931; bulk, (1803-1873).

Title: Robert W. Gibbes papers, 1803 - 1931; bulk, (1803-1873).

Chiefly business and legal papers, 1803-1873 and 1931, consisting of bills, receipts, land and estate papers, including several items related to sales of African-American slaves, with a list, ca. 1815, of slaves from the estate of Peter Horry and receipt, 12 Oct. 1838, for sale of two slaves, Mary and Ben; and settlement of estates of the Raoul family and others; and land papers and real estate. Other topics include reports to the Board of Trustees of S.C. College; papers re attempts to secure compensation from France for damages, cited as "French spoilations prior to July 31, 1801"; medical certificates, 1827-1834, and oversize diploma, 1827, from the Philadelphia Alms House and Infirmary certifying that RWG had completed one year of instruction, illustrated with large lithographic print of the institution; correspondence with Daniel Webster, Francis Markoe and James H. Causten relating to collection of a "Bond of the Republic of Colombia" due the estate of his father, William Hasell Gibbes. Letter of naturalist and anatomist Josephy Leidy re Gibbes' scientific research; letter, 12 Mar. 1840, Montpellier, Va., from Dolly Madison re R.W. Gibbes' rental of her house; letter, 26 Feb. 1846, to C[arlton] Edwards Lester, re misfortunes of S.C. artist James DeVeaux, who died in Italy in 1844 and breach of trust by U.S. Consul in Rome, "our consular system needs reform sadly, but our wise legislators are too much occupied with President making to act upon the wants of the government." Letters and papers in his position as Surgeon General of SC during the Civil War, correspondents include Francis Wilkinson Pickens, Charles Bell Gibson, Judah P. Benjamin, and pamphlet, 1 Feb. 1864, issued by RWG, "Special Order: Instructions For the Examination of Applicants For Discharge On Account of Physical Disability"; information on the burning of Columbia in 1865, and publication of the Documentary History of the American Revolution. Volume, 1839-1863, chiefly used to record accounts of the estate of Gibbes' father, W.H. Gibbes, and other family members along with a few notes kept while visiting Cuba; pocket volume used as executor's account book, 1866-1867, for estate of RWG; a Catalogue of Paintings, Marbles and casts in the Collection of R.W. Gibbes, M.D. [compiled ca. 1850] with a handwritten notation - "Burned in his residence in Columbia, S.C. when the city was destroyed by Sherman's Army", and Autograph Book of the Revolution, 1770-1836, consisting of 197 signatures cut from letters and documents, plus 99 additional signatures included on letters, documents, and manuscripts. Other correspondents include George H. Moore, Andrew F. DeSaussure, Israel K. Tefft, Franklin J. Moses, Lewis R. Gibbes, and others, including letter, 14 July 1860, to George H. Moore, referring him to Alexander Garden's book, Anecdotes of the Revolution re observations on Charles Lee and William Henry Drayton and sending a letter of Charles Lee; and notes, 1931, re Gibbes compiled by Yates Snowden.

ArchivalResource: 5 v.

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Campbell, James Butler, 1808-1883. James Butler Campbell papers, 1826-1901.

Title: James Butler Campbell papers, 1826-1901.

Business and legal papers re Campbell's law practice, settlement of estates of John White and Robert W[ilson] Gibbes, Savannah and Charleston Railroad Company, W.E. Carrere's interest in a steamship line, and correspondence of Robert Adger, Geo[rge] W[ashington] Seabrook, Augustine T. Smythe, and William E. Earle, re tax cases and land purchases; including inventory, 20 May 1826, recording French assets in America seized by S.C. prior to 1801. Letter, 23 Mar. 1847, Charleston, S.C., to [Daniel] Webster, re his plans to visit S.C., Campbell's eargerness to play host, and offering tour of a rice plantation; 2 letters, 28 Sept. 1865 and 30 Sept. 1865, Charleston, S.C., from Henry Seabrook to U.S. Direct Tax Commission, Washington, D.C., and Edward S. Philbrick, Boston, Mass., re 1863 sale of Capt. John Fripp's property at St. Helena Island, S.C. Letter, 10 Oct. 1865, from E.S. Philbrick, re purchases of land seized by government and plans for Northern business associates to sell joint land holdings; letter, 8 Dec. 1865, Beaufort, S.C., E.G. Dudley to Henry Seabrook, re Seabrook's purchase of John Fripp's property from Captain Niles G. Parker of the U.S. Army, present state of the plantation, living conditions for slave families, hardships of the war to North and South, and settlement of the question of titles by U.S. Supreme Court. Letter, 26 June 1871, Charleston, S.C., to W.E. Wooding, re death of [Clement Laird] Vallandigham, and comments on [James Rood] Doolittle and [Thomas Andrews] Hendricks; letter, 28 June 1882, Norfolk, Va., from C.O. Boutelle, re Campbell's report on the U.S. tax law in S.C., authorities' refusal to accept tax payments in 1865, and Rev. A[mory] D[wight] Mayo's educational mission to Charleston, S.C. Letter, 1 Feb. 1882, Washington, D.C., from Mrs. R.H.W. Seabrook to J.B. Campbell, re Sen. Wade Hampton, and requesting aid in regaining her position in Agriculture Department; letter, 3 June 1884, New York, N.Y., from M[argaret] J[ane] M[ussey] Sweat, requesting advice on finances of [Lucy H.] Pickens and mortgage on Edgewood Plantation; letter, 8 Dec. 1893, Charleston, S.C., [Cecil Campbell Higgins] to Richard Olney, re policies of Gov. [B.R.] Tillman, and connection of William E. Earle with Higgins' father.

ArchivalResource: 98 items.

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Samuel George Morton papers, 1832-1862

Title: Samuel George Morton papers 1832-1862

Samuel George Morton (1799-1851) of Philadelphia was a physician and natural scientist whose work focused on the craniometric studies of humans with conclusions regarding the relative intellectual capacities of the “five races.” His work had a profound influence on the development of physical anthropology in antebellum America. He also made contributions in the fields of geology, mineralogy, paleontology and natural history. Morton served as a professor of medicine at Pennsylvania College (now, the University of Pennsylvania). This collection contains mainly the papers of Samuel George Morton, which date from 1832 to 1851, when Morton devoted his research efforts almost exclusively to ethnology and to the collecting of human skulls for comparative studies. The bulk of the papers consist of incoming correspondence, from 1832 to 1851, relating to ethnology and other related interests such as anthropology, craniology, paleontology and Egyptology. The remainder of the collection contains the papers of Samuel George Morton’s son, James St. Clair Morton, who served as an engineer during the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 3.2 Linear feet; 5 containers, 13 volumes

http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/pacscl/ead.html?id=PACSCL_LCP_LCPMorton View

Richardson, John Peter, 1801-1864. John Peter Richardson papers, 1837-1844.

Title: John Peter Richardson papers, 1837-1844.

Letter, 9 Oct. 1837, to publishers Gales & Seaton requesting copes of General [Waddy] Thompson's speech in Congress. Letter, 14 Mar. 1838, (Washington, D.C.), to Col. James Chesnut (Camden, S.C.), reporting [Franklin Harper] Elmore's service on a committee to investigate a duel between Jonathan Cilley and William Jordan Graves; the premeditated and personal attack of [Henry] Clay and [Daniel] Webster on [John C.] Calhoun re currency question and their abuse of Nullification Doctrine; failure of [William C. Preston] to aide Calhoun; the dangerous situation re the Abolition question; plans to decline re-election, and enclosing receipt for subscription to the U.S. Magazine, and reporting his liberal contribution to the establishment of the Washington Chronicle. Letter, 13 Apr. 1844, sent from "Sand-hills" in Sumter District, S.C., to John L[aurence] Manning requesting that Dr. [Robert W.] Gibbes be sent to provide treatment to Richardson's ailing mother.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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Pickens, F. W. (Francis Wilkinson), 1805-1869. Papers, 1798-1900; (bulk 1809-1886).

Title: Papers, 1798-1900; (bulk 1809-1886).

Political and personal correspondence (chiefly 1809-1886) of Pickens and of his family, concerning secession, the outbreak of the Civil War, and other matters. Includes one volume of plantation records (1839-1864). Correspondents include P.G.T. Beauregard, M.L. Bonham, Braxton Bragg, Joseph E. Brown, Armistead Burt, Lewis Cass, W.M. Churchwell, Jefferson Davis, R.W. Gibbes, Isaac W. Hayne, J.L. Orr, and William H. Seward.

ArchivalResource: 446 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20019813 View

LeConte, John L. (John Lawrence), 1825-1883. Papers, 1812-1897

Title: John L. (John Lawrence) LeConte papers, 1812-1897

This collection contains mostly entomological material, with much information on the description and identification of particular insects, entomological collections, and the study of entomology in Europe and the United States. In addition, there are materials on medicine and hospitals during the American Civil War, on the Corps of Topographical Engineers, the United States Army, on natural history in the United States, and on the LeConte's family. Some letters are written to President Rutherford B. Hayes and concern the Commissionership of Agriculture, for which LeConte was considered, but not appointed. Letters of John Eatton LeConte and Joseph LeConte are included.

ArchivalResource: 7.7 Linear feet, Ca. 1900 items

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Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk)

Title: Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk)

Letters to American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

ArchivalResource: 36 linear feet (73 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00355/catalog View

Russell, Robert E. Robert E. Russell papers, 1845 Jan. 1-1857 Oct. 17.

Title: Robert E. Russell papers, 1845 Jan. 1-1857 Oct. 17.

Chiefly bills and receipts, 1 Jan. 1845-17 Oct. 1857, Columbia, S.C., documenting various expenses including clothing; taxes; a piano; pew rent at Trinity Episcopal Church, Columbia, S.C.; South Carolina Railroad freight expenses; children's school expenses; subscription to the "South Carolinian"; medical services provided by Dr. R[obert] W[ilson] Gibbes; and payment of wages to African-American slaves identified by name.

ArchivalResource: 29 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42402497 View

Gibbes, Robert W. (Robert Wilson), 1809-1866. Prescription for eyes.

Title: Prescription for eyes. [ca. 1850]

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19365451 View

Waring family. Waring family papers, 1837-1939.

Title: Waring family papers, 1837-1939.

Chiefly business ledgers, bills, receipts, and other papers re payments for hire of African American slaves identified by name who were skilled as carpenters or bricklayers hired by Clark Waring for various construction projects. Letter, 16 Nov. 1857, Columbia, S.C., from W[illia]m Martin to Col. Frank Hampton, instructing him to make payment to C[lark] Waring, "builder of the Columbia Female College"; manuscript, 4 Feb. 1859, re Thomas, an African American male slave, authorizing "Thomas... to hire himself out to any one who may wish to do so"; medical account, 13 Aug. - 6 Oct. 1861, documenting Clark Waring's account with Dr. R.W. Gibbes, Jr., for medical services provided to slaves in his employ. Receipt, 10 Sept. 1901, showing $650 paid to G.A. Guignard for 100,000 bricks; and biographical sketch, 1935, re life of Mrs. Malvina Sarah Black Waring, written by Helen Kohn Hennig, re Waring's education at Limestone College her work as a young widow in the printing of Confederate currency during the Civil War, and various contributions to civic life in Columbia, S.C.

ArchivalResource: 92 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/190963990 View

Gibbes, Robert W. (Robert Wilson), 1809-1866. Papers, 1851 and undated.

Title: Papers, 1851 and undated.

ALS. Joseph Leidy writes regarding the prices of various anatomical preparations; Samuel George Morton sends a book with an autograph of J. Locke; and John Edwards Holbrook inquires whether the library owns a particular volume of the "Transactions of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Boston".

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35074207 View

Medical College of the State of South Carolina. Commencement exercise, 1895.

Title: Commencement exercise, 1895. 1895.

Invitation to Commencement exercises, 14 March 1895 (with envelope), sent by Robert W. Gibbes to Col. James G. Gibbes.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Gibbes, Robert W. (Robert Wilson), 1809-1866. Robert W. Gibbes papers, 1803 - 1931; bulk, (1803-1873).

Title: Robert W. Gibbes papers, 1803 - 1931; bulk, (1803-1873).

Chiefly business and legal papers, 1803-1873 and 1931, consisting of bills, receipts, land and estate papers, including several items related to sales of African-American slaves, with a list, ca. 1815, of slaves from the estate of Peter Horry and receipt, 12 Oct. 1838, for sale of two slaves, Mary and Ben; and settlement of estates of the Raoul family and others; and land papers and real estate. Other topics include reports to the Board of Trustees of S.C. College; papers re attempts to secure compensation from France for damages, cited as "French spoilations prior to July 31, 1801"; medical certificates, 1827-1834, and oversize diploma, 1827, from the Philadelphia Alms House and Infirmary certifying that RWG had completed one year of instruction, illustrated with large lithographic print of the institution; correspondence with Daniel Webster, Francis Markoe and James H. Causten relating to collection of a "Bond of the Republic of Colombia" due the estate of his father, William Hasell Gibbes. Letter of naturalist and anatomist Josephy Leidy re Gibbes' scientific research; letter, 12 Mar. 1840, Montpellier, Va., from Dolly Madison re R.W. Gibbes' rental of her house; letter, 26 Feb. 1846, to C[arlton] Edwards Lester, re misfortunes of S.C. artist James DeVeaux, who died in Italy in 1844 and breach of trust by U.S. Consul in Rome, "our consular system needs reform sadly, but our wise legislators are too much occupied with President making to act upon the wants of the government." Letters and papers in his position as Surgeon General of SC during the Civil War, correspondents include Francis Wilkinson Pickens, Charles Bell Gibson, Judah P. Benjamin, and pamphlet, 1 Feb. 1864, issued by RWG, "Special Order: Instructions For the Examination of Applicants For Discharge On Account of Physical Disability"; information on the burning of Columbia in 1865, and publication of the Documentary History of the American Revolution. Volume, 1839-1863, chiefly used to record accounts of the estate of Gibbes' father, W.H. Gibbes, and other family members along with a few notes kept while visiting Cuba; pocket volume used as executor's account book, 1866-1867, for estate of RWG; a Catalogue of Paintings, Marbles and casts in the Collection of R.W. Gibbes, M.D. [compiled ca. 1850] with a handwritten notation - "Burned in his residence in Columbia, S.C. when the city was destroyed by Sherman's Army", and Autograph Book of the Revolution, 1770-1836, consisting of 197 signatures cut from letters and documents, plus 99 additional signatures included on letters, documents, and manuscripts. Other correspondents include George H. Moore, Andrew F. DeSaussure, Israel K. Tefft, Franklin J. Moses, Lewis R. Gibbes, and others, including letter, 14 July 1860, to George H. Moore, referring him to Alexander Garden's book, Anecdotes of the Revolution re observations on Charles Lee and William Henry Drayton and sending a letter of Charles Lee; and notes, 1931, re Gibbes compiled by Yates Snowden.

ArchivalResource: 5 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49302404 View

DeSaussure, William Ford, 1792-1870. William Ford DeSaussure papers, 1825-1868.

Title: William Ford DeSaussure papers, 1825-1868.

Including letter, 8 Sept. 1828, Columbia, S.C., to James Y. Jones, Palmers Springs, Va., re notice of new trial, enclosed with letter, 25 Sept. 1828, James Y. Jones to Robert Leckie, Washington, [D.C.], calling attention to letter and his poor health; letter, 31 Jan. 1829, Columbia, S.C., to John M. DeSaussure, Camden, S.C., re death of [Henry G.] Nixon in a duel and public sentiment regarding the incident and the practice of dueling. Collection also includes facsimile of battle map from Mexican War, 26 Apr. 1847, drawn by "J.D.B architect," depicting rugged topography in vicinity of Tower Hill and Bluff River, Mexico, identifying breastworks, four Mexican forts, and U.S. troop movements; includes description of military maneuvers, noting sites where "Tennessee Reg[imen]t ... was cut to pieces- & [Gideon Johnson] Pillow wounded & Pennsylvanians flinched"; and noting that "Santa Anna was at a hill some 3 miles up the road ... [General Winfield] Scott was at Plan del Rio." Also including letter, 21 May 1848, Columbia, S.C., to Robert Bradford, Sumterville, S.C., re legal actions undertaken by DeSaussure against estate of I. Pitts to recover a debt; and letter, 26 Sept. 1853, Columbia, S.C., To his Excellency the President of the United States [Franklin Pierce], recommending Edward J. Means for post of Purser in the Navy. Other papers document DeSaussure's connection with S.C. College, including letter, 3 Apr. 1856, Columbia, S.C., to Dr. R[obert] W[ilson] Gibbes, invitation to meet a kinsman from Geneva; letter, 24 July 1867, to Prof. John LeConte, official notice authorizing him to deliver lectures on "Botany and Materia Medica in the Medical School"; and 12 letters, 1862- 1867, to C. Bruce Walker, Librarian, requesting him to allow various people to use the library.

ArchivalResource: 31 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35124187 View

Pickens, F. W. (Francis Wilkinson), 1805-1869. F. W. Pickens papers, 1785-1929.

Title: F. W. Pickens papers, 1785-1929.

Chiefly political correspondence and business papers re the sale of cotton and plantation supplies; bound items consist of account books, a scrapbook, and a notebook . Pickens; letters to members of his family discuss plantation affairs and family and social life. Letters to his brother-in-law James Edward Calhoun, contain frequent comments on political topics, especially those affecting John C. Calhoun. Correspondence (1855- 1859) is chiefly that of Pickens' third wife, Lucy Holcombe Pickens with her family and friends. Correspondents include James Buchanan, Pierce M. Butler, Robert Wilson Gibbes, James H. Hammond, George McDuffie, Ogden Niles, James K. Polk and John P. Richardson. Letter, 6 Sept. 1837, from F.W. Pickens (Washington, D.C.) to Frances L. Greene (Lanesborough, Massachusets), concerns a letter sent to Miss Greene by Judge [Abel Parker] Upshur "on the subject of taking a situation in my family &c.... Since then (or rather before I knew he had written), I have met with a young lady here ready to go on with me, and under the very highest recommendations. Before any expectations may be created in your mind I write to inform you of the fact & regret that the Judge was put to the trouble of writing."

ArchivalResource: 5 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/777406974 View

Gibbes, A. Mason (Alexander Mason), 1914-. Three Robert Gibbes : typescript, 1984 May 3 / by A. Mason Gibbes.

Title: Three Robert Gibbes : typescript, 1984 May 3 / by A. Mason Gibbes.

ArchivalResource: 12 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36873254 View

Downey, Tom, 1965-. Confederate hospitals research files, 1861-1991.

Title: Confederate hospitals research files, 1861-1991.

Copies and research notes for Downey's 1992 M.A. thesis, A Call to Duty: Confederate Hospitals in South Carolina. Includes files on medical care and various supporting organizations, persons, places, and related topics; topics include North Carolina regiments in Charleston hospitals; Wayside, Rikersvilee, Marine, Roper, Adams Run and other hospitals including those at colleges; Aiken, Branchville, Georgetown, Summerville, Fairfield, Camden, Coosawhatchie, and other places. Persons discussed include physician Robert W. Gibbes and Louisa McCord, as recalled by her daughter, Louisa Smythe; topical files include information re distilleries, fundraising, religion, refugees, African Americans, transportation, supplies, maps, prisoners of war, citations to references in S.C. newspapers, and other topics.

ArchivalResource: 0.75 linear feet (1 carton)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50706582 View

Augustus A. (Augustus Addison) Gould papers, 1831-1866, 1831-1866 (inclusive), 1838-1852 (bulk).

Title: Augustus A. (Augustus Addison) Gould papers, 1831-1866, 1831-1866 (inclusive),1838-1852 (bulk).

Papers of American naturalist and physician Augustus A. Gould.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00940/catalog View