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Burt, A. (Armistead), 1802-1883. Papers, 1759-1933.

Title: Papers, 1759-1933.

Political and legal correspondence, the former dealing largely with the policies of John C. Calhoun and the question of secession. After 1860 the material relates chiefly to Burt's law practice, especially to the management of estates of Confederate soldiers, and the Calhoun estate. Other matters referred to include the political corruption and economic conditions in postwar South Carolina. Among the correspondents are Pierce M. Butler, Henry Toole Clark, Thomas Green Clemson, T.L. Deveaux, James H. Hammond, A.P. Hayne, Reverdy Johnson, Hugh S. Legaré, Augustus B. Longstreet, W.N. Meriwether, james L. Petigru, Francis W. Pickens, Robert Barnwell Rhett, Richard Rush, Waddy Thompson, and Louis T. Wigfall.

ArchivalResource: 5, 675 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19309861 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

Youmans, LeRoy Franklin, 1834-1906. LeRoy Franklin Youmans papers, 1857-1965.

Title: LeRoy Franklin Youmans papers, 1857-1965.

Consisting of Civil War correspondence and scrapbooks; including letter, 4 Jan. 1865, Buckhead Causeway, [S.C.?], to Mary Youmans, re troop movements and Sherman's army; and letter, 11 Mar. 1865, Columbia, S.C., to Mary Youmans, re troop movements, prospects, appearance of Columbia, Sherman's remarks, and disciple of soldiers in Sherman's army. Scrapbook, 1857-1965, re Youmans and his family, including newspaper clippings, photographs, pamphlets, and other printed materials and manuscripts including recommendation, c. 1882, Hugh S. Thompson on behalf of E. Rhett Youmans for a teaching position; letter, 25 July 1884, Fanny Gordon, re a speech by Youmans; commission, 24 Oct. 1903, appointing LeRoy Youmans as a special judge for Clarendon County, S.C. Also including 3 scrapbooks, 1873-1932, re people and politics in S.C.; including 2 scrapbooks, 1876-1885 and 1884-1886, containing newspaper clippings re S.C. politics. Including scrapbook, 1873-1932, compiled by LeRoy Youmans and his son Pringle Tillinghast Youmans, containing newspaper clippings re their careers and other subjects, including sections on Wade Hampton, William Henry Trescot, and Woodrow Wilson including letter, 26 Mar. 1888, J. Athens Johnson, Washington, D.C., to L. Youmans, re his speech before literary societies at Erskine College; letter, 22 July 1893, Harry Hammond, Beech Island, S.C., to LeRoy Youmans, enclosing photograph and autograph of James Henry Hammond.

ArchivalResource: 2 items and 4 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43460410 View

Davies, Thomas Jones, 1830-1902. Thomas Jones Davies papers, 1784-1907.

Title: Thomas Jones Davies papers, 1784-1907.

Primarily business records and correspondence, including deeds, plats, and tranfers of land, 1784-1863, in Georgia and South Carolina; bills, receipts and other documents, 1814-1817, re settlement of John Davies' estate; promissory notes and other financial records, 1871-1875, re Davies' railroad enterprises in Alabama and Mississippi; and bills for materials purchased by Davies and the partnership of Davies & Hammond, including letter, 1 July 1869, from M[arcus] C[laudius] M[arcellus] Hammond, B[eech] I[sland], S.C., re crop prospects, the labor shortage, and plans to employ Chinese workers on his plantation; and undated manuscript, "Estimates for the graduation, bridging[,] trestling[,] track-laying &c. of the Port Royal Rail Road." Also includes broadside, Graniteville, S.C., 22 Feb. 1862, soliciting recruits for Capt. Davies Guards, Co. F, 7th Regiment, S.C. Volunteers; and by Davies' Civil War pardon, 23 Apr. 1866, signed by Andrew Johnson and William H. Seward; and materials re Mrs. Davies' her continuation of her husband's export business after his death. Bound volumes include plantation journal documenting joint ownership, 1857-1863, of a plantation in Bolivar County, Miss., by Davies and Marcus Claudius Marcellus Hammond, and its subsequent ownership by Davies and P.L. Whitworth, 1866-1867, with information re African American slaves relocated from South Carolina to Mississippi and a list of free laborers on the plantation of Whitworth and Davies, providing names, ages, wages, and remarks re work potential; account book, Palmetto Fire Brick Works and Bath Fire Brick Works, 1862-1865, and 1870-1871, with accounts of Davies' work as contractor for the Jacksonville, Pensacola & Mobile Railroad and the Montgomery & Eufaula Railroad. Copy of genealogical information from a family Bible (filed in folder on-site) recording births, deaths, and marriages, ca. 1830 to 1865, of enslaved African American families working on properties in South Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi owned by Thomas Jones Davies. Vital statistics document eighty-two births, thirty-six deaths, and eleven marriages of enslaved individuals identified by name. Bilbe (published 1841), stored offsite. Invoice book, 1874-1880, for shipments of clay from Beech Island to New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and Savannah; and scrapbook, 1849-1903, containing newspapers articles by Davies, obituaries, autographs of Wade Hampton, M.C. Butler and Alexander H. Stephens, and newspaper clippings, 6 and 13 June 1888, disussing the operations of the "The Nonpariel Kaolin Mine," owned by a group, and the "Paragon Clay works, " owned by Davies in Aiken County, S.C. Other Correspondents include James Henry Hammond, Lawrence M. Keitt, L.M. Bickford and E.M. Sergeant.

ArchivalResource: 5 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30017414 View

Saxon, Benjamin H. Benjamin H. Saxon papers, 1830 Apr. 10-1832 Aug. 11.

Title: Benjamin H. Saxon papers, 1830 Apr. 10-1832 Aug. 11.

Family and business correspondence addressed to Col. Benjamin H. Saxon, Columbia, S.C., chiefly discussing agricultural conditions, including yield of peaches and apple crop, business transactions, the health of family, and concerns over the spread of smallpox and other infectious diseases. Correspondents include Saxon's children, Benjamin M. Saxon, Jane Noble Saxon, M.W. Saxon, and R.H. Saxon; his father, John Saxon; his nephews, Franklin Harper Elmore and J.H. Saxon; his niece, M. Louisa Crenshaw; and others: William Calhoun, James H. Hammond, James J. Pennall, James Taggart, and Moses Taggart. Places represented include The Orchards, Calhouns Mills, Willington, White Hall, Laurens, and Silver Bluff, S.C.; and Dale Town, Wilcox County, and Prairie Bluff, Ala. Letters include 30 June 1831, from M.W. Saxon, Calhoun Mills, S.C., discussing dental problems and treatments; 5 June 1832, from James H. Hammond, Silver Bluff, S.C., describing his search for "snake root plant" requested by Saxon and seeking the latter's assistance in releasing Hammond from a bond; 24 July 1832, from R[obert] H. Saxon, The Orchards, discussing the onset of his mental and emotional instability. Letter, 1 Aug. 1832, from R[obert] H. Saxon, The Orchards, further discussing his mental health, abandonment of his practice as a physician in Georgia, and efforts to reestablish himself in S.C.; and 11 Aug. 1832, from J.H. Saxon, Dale Town, [Ala.], noting that he had received a request from James C. Calhoun that he assist Saxon's son Robert and offering to help him reestablish himself as a practicing physician in Alabama.

ArchivalResource: 20 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55484107 View

Hammond, James Henry, 1807-1864. Papers, 1823-1875.

Title: Papers, 1823-1875.

These microfilm reels include thirty-eight volumes of papers, plus diary, plantation book, scrapbook, and author index.

ArchivalResource: 18 microfilm reel (reels 1-20, lacking reels 3 and 14) : positive ; 35 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191259405 View

Hammond, James Henry, 1807-1864. James Henry Hammond Papers, 1774-1875 1823-1864.

Title: James Henry Hammond Papers, 1774-1875 1823-1864.

The James Henry Hammond Papers consists of correspondence, diaries, plantation account books and manuals, scrapbooks and manuscipt and printed copies of Hammond's speeches, reflecting South Carolina and national politics in the decades before the Civil War. Topics include state's rights; slavery; state banks; the Southern Convention at Nashville, Tennessee (1850); secession; nullification; and the tariff. The plantation books give detailed lists of holdings in land and slaves from 1832 to 1858. Correspondents include A.P. Aldrich, Braxton Bragg, Pierce M. Butler, John C. Calhoun, Lewis Cass, James Gadsen, James Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, Francis W. Pickens, William C. Preston, R. Barnwell Rhett, William Gilmore Simms, Alexander H. Stephens, Martin Van Buren, and James M. Walker. Also included is a letter book (1774-1776, 1780) of Andrew McLean, a merchant from Savannah and Augusta, Georgia, to Clark and Millugan, London merchants.

ArchivalResource: 20 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122387784 View

Hammond, James Henry, 1807-1864. James Henry Hammond letters, 1831-1845 [manuscript].

Title: James Henry Hammond letters, 1831-1845 [manuscript].

The collection includes letters from Hammond to his wife, Catherine (FitzSimons) Hammond, chiefly about the politics influencing his unsuccessful bid for governor in 1840; social and household matters in Columbia; plantation life at Silver Bluff; and family affairs. Also included is a critique of the work of furniture designer Duncan Phyfe.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22757912 View

Spann, James, c. 1785-1838. James Spann papers, 1810-1864.

Title: James Spann papers, 1810-1864.

Chiefly family correspondence, promissory notes, medical bills of Dr. James Spann, and estate papers of James and Elizabeth Spann; including two letters, 18 July 1818 and 23 Oct. 1819, from John Allen, Huntsville and Courtland, Ala., to James Spann, Cambridge and Mountvintage, S.C., re crop prices, slave market, instructions for sale of Spann's slave, and informing him of sale of slave. Letter, 27 Jan. 1837, San Pedro, Fla., from Thomas Anderson, to Elizabeth Spann, Hamburg, S.C., re military activities against Seminole Indians and Nathan Chapman's return to Saluda, S.C.; letter, 19 Sept. 1840, Chuleotah, Fla., from John G. McGehee, to Elizabeth Spann, Hamburg, S.C., re Spann's possible relocation to Florida; manuscripts, 4 May 1841-6 July 1841 and 1841, re Elizabeth Spann's effort to acquire a patent for Dr. James Spann's "Ague and Cholera Pills." Letter, 25 July 1842, Aiken, S.C., from John Bauskett, to James Henry Hammond, Silverton, re debts owed James Spann's estate by the estates of Christian Breithaupt and John Moore, inviting Hammond to visit, and Hammond possibly buying property in Aiken. Also including four account books, 1834-1840, re settlement of James Spann's estate including Elizabeth Spann's account book with the Bank of Augusta, Ga., and account of estate items sold including identification of purchasers and amounts paid.

ArchivalResource: 452 items and 4 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42750866 View

James Henry Hammond Papers, 1774-1875, (bulk 1823-1864)

Title: James Henry Hammond Papers 1774-1875 (bulk 1823-1864)

Senator, governor, and plantation owner. Correspondence, diaries, speeches, plantation manuals, account books, and scrapbooks pertaining chiefly to South Carolina and national politics in the three decades preceding the Civil War. Subjects include nullification, secession, slavery, the Southern Convention at Nashville, Tennessee (1850), state banks, states' rights, and the tariff. Also includes a mercantile letterbook, 1774-1780, of Andrew McLean.

ArchivalResource: 8,000 items; 38 containers plus 3 oversize; 10 linear feet; 20 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009169 View

James Henry Hammond Letters, ., 1831-1845

Title: James Henry Hammond Letters, . 1831-1845

John Henry Hammond was a lawyer and newspaper editor of Columbia, S.C. In 1831 Hammond married Catherine E. FitzSimons, daughter of a wealthy Charleston merchant, and acquired the cotton plantation on the Savannah River in the marriage settlement. He was elected U.S. senator in 1834 and governor of South Carolina in 1842. He returned to the U.S. Senate in 1857 but resigned his seat when Lincoln was elected. Silver Bluff The collection includes letters from Hammond to his wife, Catherine (FitzSimons) Hammond, chiefly about the politics influencing his unsuccessful bid for governor in 1840; social and household matters in Columbia; plantation life at Silver Bluff; and family affairs. Also included is a critique of the work of furniture designer Duncan Phyfe.

ArchivalResource: 12

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/h/Hammond,James_Henry.html View

Ayer, Lewis M. Lewis M. Ayer papers, 1768-1870.

Title: Lewis M. Ayer papers, 1768-1870.

Chiefly business correspondence re cotton markets and embargo, and political correspondence, c.1790-c.1820, of Lewis Malone Ayer, Lewis Malone Ayer, Jr. as a Confederate congressman, and land documents; also includes correspondence of Richard Creech, Darling Peeples, Mordecai Cohen, William Stephen, Tarleton Brown, Alfred Proctor Aldrich, Robert Barnwell Rhett, James Henry Hammond, Robert E. Lee, James Chesnut, Jr., D.H. Jacques, and other individuals, and the firms of Walton and Pagan, Lee and Theus. Including letter, 3 Apr. 1797, from M. Lazarus, Charleston, S.C., to Lewis M. Ayer, Salt Ketchers [Salkehatchie?], re sending an ill slave to stay at Ayer's plantation; letter, Dec. 1802, from Darling Peeples, to Lewis M. Ayer, Little Saltcatcher, re actions of S.C. Legislature, election of constitutional officers, and importation of slaves; letter, 2 Oct. 1812, from Cohen and Lazarus, Charleston, S.C., to Lewis M. Ayer, Barnwell, S.C., re cotton market, affect of war on cotton prices, and death of Ayer's daughter. Letter, 10 Feb. 1863, Redcliffe, Aiken, S.C., from James Henry Hammand, to Lewis M. Ayer, Jr., Richmond, Va., re Confederate export taxes, import duties, and Ayer's plan for financing the war; inventory, 24 Sept. 1863, Barnwell District, S.C., of estate of Lewis Malone Ayer; and letter, 16 July 1864, Pinelands, from Lewis Malone Ayer, Jr., to Mr. Fairey, re inquiries on behalf of Elizabeth P. Carr for money due from the Confederate government.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1.33 linear ft. (1566 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43652877 View

Pickens, F. W. (Francis Wilkinson), 1805-1869. Papers, 1792-1868.

Title: Papers, 1792-1868.

Consists primarily of correspondence concerning political matters. Three lengthy letters from James Hammond to Pickens in 1839-1840 detail extensively the state of South Carolina politics, including the Unionist-Nullificationist controversy and illustrate the complexity of personal and political interactions. Also included are some of Pickens' rough drafts of letters sent to his fiancee. One such letter documents at length Pickens' feelings about his political actions and positions. Several letters from Pickens' early Civil War governorship (1860-1862) report events and observations of the conflict. Of particular interest is a letter of 1868 from the Democratic Club of Liberty Hill to Pickens as Chairman of the Democratic Central Executive Committee, which discusses the decision not to employ any Negro or member of his family who fails to bring a note from his former "employer" stating that he is a Democrat. Legal papers in the collection include deeds, court proceedings, and legal statements, many of which pertain to Arthur Simkins, Pickens' early law partner and father-in-law.

ArchivalResource: 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32458474 View

De Renne, George Wymberley Jones, 1827-1860. Papers, 1782-1916.

Title: Papers, 1782-1916.

Letters to De Renne concern the Buchanan administration; the president's nephew, Cole Baker; politics and politicians of the era; railroad building in Georgia and South Carolina; the coming of the Civil War; Reconstruction; and Negro suffrage. Correspondents include F. Dainese, Thomas F. Drayton, James H. Hammond, H.I. McIntyre, James P. Screven, and John Screven. There are also some papers of the Central Bank of Georgia. Two items concern Dr. George Jones, father of G.W. Jones (later known as G.W. Jones De Renne), consisting of an affidavit concerning his imprisonment by the British and a receipt for the sale of a slave.

ArchivalResource: 43 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19405852 View

Ruffin, Edmund, 1794-1865. Papers : of Edmund Ruffin, 1818-1865.

Title: Papers : of Edmund Ruffin, 1818-1865.

This collection consists largely of the correspondence of Edmund Ruffin with family members and political colleagues, primarily concerning agricultural reform and farming operations at "Beechwood," "Coggin's Point," and "Shellbanks" in Prince George County, "Cabin Point" in Surry County, and "Marlbourne" in Hanover County, Va. Also, includes correspondence among his children and letters written by several of his sons while serving in various units of the Confederate States Army. Also, includes Ruffin's correspondence concerning agricultural reform and experimental agriculture, African-American slavery, southern rights, and secession. Correspondents include Nathaniel Francis Cabell, Charles Campbell, John Henry Hammond, Robert Barnwell Rhett, and John Tyler. Also, includes Ruffin's 1843 diary kept as agricultural surveyor of South Carolina; autobiographical "incidents of my life" covering the period 1821-1851, in part concerning the establishment of the Farmer's Register, Shellbanks and Petersburg, Va., and the Virginia Agricultural Society; and essays and speeches concerning agriculture, slavery, and Ruffin's opposition to African colonization. Also, includes diaries, 1843-1847, of Julian Calx Ruffin, concerning farming operations at "Ruthven," Prince George County, Va.

ArchivalResource: 826 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30372757 View

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

Hammond, Bryan and Cumming families papers, 1737-1976.

Title: Hammond, Bryan and Cumming families papers, 1737-1976.

Chiefly personal correspondence of related Ga. and S.C. families re social life, politics, and economic conditions during the 19th and early 20th centuries; accounts of travels in the U.S. and in Europe; and history of Silver Bluff plantation, the Redcliffe house and plantation, and other properties owned by the Hammond family. Correspondence, ca. 1880 to 1930, provides information on domestic, economic, and social life in the vicinity of Augusta, Ga., and Beech Island, S.C., through the letters of Harry and Emily Cumming Hammond and their children. Family life in New York City during the last decade of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20th century is revealed in the letters of Katharine Hammond Billings and her husband John Sedgwick Billings. Correspondents represented in the papers include John Sedgwick Billings, Katharine Hammond Billings, Henry Harford Cumming, Julia Bryan Cumming, Emily Cumming Hammond, Harry Hammond, Henry C. Hammond, James H. Hammond, Maria Bryan Harford and Julia Hammond Richards. The papers also contain genealogical information of the Clay, Cumming, Fox, Hammond, Spann, and Woolsey families.

ArchivalResource: 45 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/760179205 View

Hamilton, James, 1786-1857. James Hamilton papers, 1820-1859.

Title: James Hamilton papers, 1820-1859.

Correspondence with Petit DeVillers, Stephen Decatur Miller, and Patrick Noble re taxes, nullification, S.C. General Assembly, and election in Abbeville, S.C.; letter, 17 Apr. 1824, Washington, D.C., to Charles K. Gardner, re War of 1812, controversy between Hamilton, John Tod, and newspaper, National Intelligencer; letter, 21 Mar. 1829, Charleston, S.C., to DeVillers, Savannah, Ga., re masonry work. Letter, 12 May 1831, Charleston, to DeVillers, re rice sales; letter, 25 June 1831, Charleston, to S.D. Miller, Camden, S.C., re State Rights party; 3 letters, 2 Jan. and 24 Nov. 1831, 19 Dec. 1833, Pennyworth Island [Savannah River, now Jasper County], to DeVillers, re selling land, shipping rice to New York; letter, 6 May 1832, Pendleton, S.C., to William C. Preston, Columbia, S.C., re nullification, possible Southern Convention, and Unionist rhetoric; letter, 3 June 1829 written from Philadelphia to Thomas Young (Savannah, Georgia), re the sale of rice and "an order in your favor for the seed rice" and an undated note requesting that Colonel Preston come "at 7 oc this Evg." as "We are going to hold a consultation on an important matter." Four letters, 8 June, 16 July, and 31 Aug. 1832 and 9 Oct. 1859, Pendleton, Charleston, and Bluffton, S.C., to Waddy Thompson, Greenville, S.C., and Col. Seabrook re meeting at Hamburg, S.C., Perry-Bynum duel, politics, Hamilton's departure for Texas, and Gov. James Henry Hammond; nullification broadside, 22 Oct. 1832, Gov. J[ames] Hamilton, Jr., "Governor's message: fellow citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives," re convention to debate S.C.'s response to Tariff Act of 1832. Letter, 28 Dec. 1832, Augusta, Ga., to W.C. Preston, Columbia, S.C., re party unity and Preston's work for party; letter, 10 Apr. 1834, Charleston, S.C., to James H. Causten, Washington, D.C., re French spoliation claims, and businessman in Philadelphia; letter, 4 Oct. 1835, New York, to David J. McCord, Columbia, S.C., requesting McCord introduce Francis Lieber to Thomas Cooper. Letter, 14 Oct. 1835, Norfolk, Va., to "Gentlemen", re nullification period, Virginia's influence in South and the Union, and wealth of South and economic place in the world; letter, 16 Jan. 1836, Charleston, to William Kemble, West Point, N.Y., re specifications, price, and shipping date of steam engine for Hamilton's mill, national politics, and possible war with France; biographical sketch, 1858, by Lewis Cruger.

ArchivalResource: 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44157359 View

Lieber, Francis, 1800-1872. Francis Lieber papers, 1808-1969.

Title: Francis Lieber papers, 1808-1969.

Chiefly family letters, many written in German; and correspondence and reports to presidents and the Board of Trustees of S. C. College with suggestions and comments on conditions; together with journals, a scrapbook of newspaper clippings, and other papers. Includes correspondence re publication of the Encyclopedia Americana. Lieber's teaching positions at S. C. College and Columbia University, the education of his son Oscar in Germany and Oscar's subsequent career as a geologist and Confederate Army officer, Oscar's views of the political, economic, and social life of S. C., the military services in the Union Army of Lieber's other sons, Hamilton and Norman, and the publication and editing of Lieber's works. Other persons represented include Lieber's wife Matilda Oppenheimer Lieber, Hamilton's wife Hetty, and his daughter Mary. Correspondents include Henry Clay, Dorothea Dix, John England, A. H. Everett, Edward Everett, Henry Hallam, James Hamilton, James H. Hammond, Wade Hampton III, Joseph Henry, George S. Hillard, Samuel Gridley Howe, Hugh Swinton Legare, Henry W. Longfellow, Benson John Lossing, James McFarlane Mathews, Joel R. Poinsett, William H. Prescott, William C. Preston, and Joseph Story. Topics discussed include state and national politics; issues related to university and campus life; antebellum sectional tensions, the secession crisis, Civil War; Copperhead movement in the North; the death of his son, Oscar, while fighting for the Confederacy, National Democratic Convention of 1866, etc. Places represented include Charleston, Columbia, and Pendleton, and York, S.C.; Boston; Charlottesville, Va.; New York; Newport, R.I.; Philadelphia; Washington, D.C.; and other U.S. locations; and Berlin and elsewhere in Germany and Europe.

ArchivalResource: ca. 4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/713642823 View

Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850. John C. Calhoun papers, 1784-1935, (bulk 1802-1850).

Title: John C. Calhoun papers, 1784-1935, (bulk 1802-1850).

The papers consist of agreements, articles, clippings, correspondence, lists, notes, photographs, poems, receipts, speeches, statements, a survey book and an autograph draft and photocopy of the "South Carolina Exposition." Basically the correspondence is to and from Calhoun, but it also includes letters to and from other members of the family. The correspondence covers in addition to information on the life of the family, thecondition of crops, the sale of rice, and mining the political concerns of the writers including the annexation of Texas, banking, construction of railroads, the war with Mexico, nullification, presidential candidates, political parties, transportation, the slavery question, state rights, tariffs, and other issues of the day. A group of miscellaneous material includes agreements, clippings, handwritten copies of documents concerning the slave trade, settlement of claims and other foreign policy matters, receipts, and statements. After Calhoun's death, correspondence and items related to Calhoun and small collections of Calhoun family members' papers were added to the collection. The posthumous correspondence includes letters of condolence to family members following the death of John C. Calhoun; there is also correspondence pertaining to the editing of Calhoun's manuscripts pertaining to his views on government as well as letters of who should write a biography of Calhoun. The "Posthumous Miscellaneous" material includes such items as lists and indexes of Calhoun letters at Clemson by William Pinckney Starke and others; Carl L. Epting's correspondence regarding John C. Calhoun; information about Dumbarton Oaks and Fort Hill; a photograph of Fort Hill c. 1880; writings of A.G. Holmes on John C. Calhoun; and an "Order of Procession for escorting the remains of the Honorable John C. Calhoun; The "Related Material" consists of small collections of papers of other Calhoun family members kept with the Papers and include a survey book (1784-1792) of John Calhoun's father, Patrick Calhoun; a list of John Ewing Colhoun's lands, 1789; correspondence to Floride Colhoun, 1802-1804; and the A. Ransom Calhoun papers, 1853-1862.

ArchivalResource: 5.5 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42242580 View

Rains, George Washington, 1817-1898. George Washington Rains papers, 1843-1949 (bulk 1843-1864) [manuscript].

Title: George Washington Rains papers, 1843-1949 (bulk 1843-1864) [manuscript].

Papers, chiefly 1843-1864, of Rains in the U.S. and Confederate armies, written from Virginia, Texas, Mexico, and Georgia, and pertaining to the War with Mexico and to Confederate ordnance. There are references to the defense of Augusta, Ga., and Charleston, S.C., to rifles and powder, and to the general progress of the war. The Civil War letters include two from James Henry Hammond (1807-1864), nine from Confederate Chief of Ordnance Josiah Gorgas (1818-1883), and one from Confederate General Benjamin Huger. Beginning in 1893, there are miscellaneous family papers, some written from New York. Also included is a biographical sketch of Rains.

ArchivalResource: About 50 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24561253 View

Hammond, Harry, 1832-1916. Harry Hammond papers, 1857-1924.

Title: Harry Hammond papers, 1857-1924.

Chiefly consisting of volumes re plantation operations, agriculture, and personal writings, including volume, 1866-1883, re estate of James Henry Hammond (1807-1864) in account with Harry Hammond; scrapbook, 1857-1913, pamphlets and clippings of speeches re S.C. agriculture and industry, and the role of black laborers. Volume, 1880, re census compilation listing names of townships, population, acres of cotton, and bales produced in Aiken, Barnwell, Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton, Hampton, Lexington, Orangeburg, and Richland Counties; two volumes, c.1895 and undated, listing essays or pamphlets dealing with Southern Agriculture; draft, c. 1895, "Culture of Cotton," by H. Hammond, published in 1895; journal, c. 1909-1913, re immortality, ethics, and religion. Two journals, c.1873-1900 and c.1900-1911, re mortality; finance; 1876 riots in Hamburg, S.C.; politics; slavery; agriculture and industry; Charleston, S.C.; 1886 earthquake; urbanization; crime; sexuality; religion; the Civil War; education; etc.; volume, 1883, "Handbook of S.C.," by H. Hammond, Jan. 1884, with annotations; letter, 20 Dec. 1883, from Johnson Hagood, re trouble with the "Handbook of S.C., " and the omission of H. Hammond. Three account books, 1889-1893, 1889-1901, and 1889-1915, re expenses for labor, supplies, and expenses for Cedar Grove and Redcliffe plantations; 2 journals, c. 1890-1891 and c. 1890-1895, re agricultural production and competition, farmer education, depression, Benjamin Tillman and politics, black labor, and statistical study of the cotton crop. Two account books, June 1866-Feb. 1876, re accounts with the Bank of Augusta; 5 account books, 1865, 1867, 1868-1872, 1870-1887, and 1891, re plantation, labor and household expenses, planting and harvesting crops, and distribution of harvest created as administrator of James Henry Hammond's estate; 5 planter's logs, 1870, 1871, 1873-1874, 1875, and 1878-1879, re crop notes, laborers identified according to task and salary, accounts held with laborers and cotton shipments. Volume, 1911-1914, re petty cash; undated volume, re chronology of S.C. history and statistics on imports, exports, and manufactures; letter, 18 July 1910, to William W. Holland, Spartanburg, S.C., re letter written for General Robert E. Lee immediately after surrender; 3 manuscripts, 1897-1924, re biographical sketch of James Henry Hammond, and biographical sketch and obituary of Harry Hammond.

ArchivalResource: 5 items and 31 volumes.

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Hammond, James Henry, 1807-1864. Plantation manual, 1857-1858 [manuscript].

Title: Plantation manual, 1857-1858 [manuscript]. [1857 and 1858]

Holograph page from the manual of James Henry Hammond in which he provides instructions for breastfeeding infants, as well as the work arrangements for the elderly and for pregnant slaves.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Hammond, James Henry, 1807-1864. Account book, 1829-1837.

Title: Account book, 1829-1837.

Account book titled "Vouchers & Accounts," chiefly a record of charges and payments for legal services provided, with financial accounts for the estate of E[lisha] Hammond. This volume did not appear in microfilm series: Records of ante-bellum Southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War (1985).

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

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Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part II: The Civil War and the Confederacy, 1832-1915.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part II: The Civil War and the Confederacy, 1832-1915.

Autograph letters and documents of officers and statesmen associated with the Confederacy in the Civil War, collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (5 linear ft.)

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Hammond family. Papers of the Hammond and Walker families, 1787-1964.

Title: Papers of the Hammond and Walker families, 1787-1964.

Correspondence of three generations of the Hammond and Walker families, including letter, 2 Aug. 1806, New York, N.Y., from E. Hammond, to Catherine Fox Hammond, Edgefield County, S.C., re his travels; 2 letters to Cadet M.C.M. Hammond, West Point, N.Y., including letter, 22 Aug. 1834, West Hill, S.C., from John F. Hammond re brotherly love; and letter, 23 Oct. 1834, [from Caroline?], re impropriety of his romance with a married woman; poem, 1834, by Wyatt W[aties] Starke re countryside of Edgefield County, S.C. Letter, 15 Mar. 1847, Lawrenceville, N.J., from T[homas] Jones Davies, to S[arah] A[nn] Starke, Savannah, Ga., re expulsion of Davies and the entire sophomore class from Princeton University for staging a mock commencement; letter, 24 Apr. 1847, Newberry, S.C., from Caroline [Hammond Hyde], to Harriette Hammond, Augusta, Ga., re Hyde's activities at school; letter, c.1849, from W. Gilmore Simms to M.C.M. Hammond, re Hammond's literary pursuits and his contributions to the "Southern Quarterly Review." Article, 1859, re secession speech given by James Henry Hammond before the U.S. Senate; letter, 15 May 1861, Camp Davies, Richmond, Va., from T[homas] J[ones] D[avies], to "Dear Brother," re military life, officers, and dismal military outlook; letter, 5 Nov. 1861, to "Amy, Dear Sister, " re troop movements, slave conditions, Gen. P[ierre] G[ustav] T[outant] Beauregard, and military camp life. Letter, 1 Aug. 1862, Milledgeville, S.C., from [Henry] Wayne, to M.C.M. Hammond, re Confederate authorities, and actions of U.S. Congress; legal document, 1866, Richmond County, Ga., re estate of John F. Hammond; land grant, 28 May 1869, for 7 acres in Edgefield County, S.C., to M.C.M. Hammond; program, 14 Feb. 1936, "Edgefield Advertiser," centennial celebration; and 23 family photographs, ca. 1867, 1904, 1940 and undated.

ArchivalResource: 195 items.

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Bailey, Henry. Henry Bailey papers, 1809-1954, (bulk 1809-1849).

Title: Henry Bailey papers, 1809-1954, (bulk 1809-1849).

Papers of Henry Bailey (1799-1849) include correspondence, legal documents, notes, a poem, a pamphlet, resolutions, and genealogical and biographical information. A letter (1844 Dec. 5) from South Carolina Governor Hammond gives instructions to Attorney General Bailey about handling the crisis over the Negro Seamen Act by carrying out the resolution of the state legislature to expel Samuel Hoar (a Massachusetts agent) from the state. A letter (1837) from Bailey to South Carolina Governor Butler answers Butler's inquiry about Major William Laval's title to Fort Sumter. An order (1839) from the state of South Carolina empowers Solomon Moses to proceed to Virginia to extradite John Diomelot and Esaquel Joaquim, charged with stealing Robert T. Chisolm's slave, Rachel. An indenture (1809) authorizes the public auction of furniture, slaves, and other goods. Additional items include Bailey's will (1849), notes (1846) from a Bible class, a copy of a poem "On conveyances at common law," a printed pamphlet (1836) of Bailey's "An oration delivered at the Medical College of Charleston, So. Ca. before the Whig Association and the State Society of Cincinnati on the 4th July, 1836," two resolutions (1849) adopted by the Charleston (S.C.) Bar upon Bailey's death, and Bailey family biographical and genealogical materials (1954).

ArchivalResource: 16 items (0.25 linear ft.)

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Bonham, Milledge L. (Milledge Luke), 1813-1890. Milledge Luke Bonham papers, 1771-1940.

Title: Milledge Luke Bonham papers, 1771-1940.

Chiefly letters and papers re Bonham's military service in the Seminole, Mexican and Civil Wars, and his public service governor and railroad commissioner, including family correspondence, genealogical information, and an unpublished biography of Milledge Lipscomb Bonham, Jr. Topics discussed include the Aztec Club of 1847, African Americans and slavery, Clariosophic Society of South Carolina College, the Whig Party, Secession, Reconstruction, politics at state, national, and international levels, and other topics; places represented include Charleston County, S.C.; Harper's Ferry, [West] Va.; Washington, D.C.; Russia; and elsewhere. Correspondents include Preston S. Brooks, William H. Gist, James Henry Hammond, Francis Wilkinson Pickens, Thomas H. Seymour, and others.

ArchivalResource: 1 large oversize file.

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Hammond, Edward Spann, 1834-1921. Edward Spann Hammond papers, 1835-1920.

Title: Edward Spann Hammond papers, 1835-1920.

Plantation account books, and diaries re politics, Elmwood Plantation, African-American slaves, Civil War, legal practice, and cotton market; telegram, 26 Apr. 1860, J.H. Hammond, Washington, D.C., to Col. B[arnett] H. Brown, Charleston, re power struggles at 1st Confederate Congress; volume, 1859-1860, listing slaves at Cowden Plantation [Aiken County, S.C.] by name and occupation; 2 scrapbooks, c. 1844-1890 and 1847-1864, newspaper clippings re agriculture and policies of Confederate government. Seven diaries, 1852-1920, re student life at Franklin College [University of Georgia], travel to Cincinnati, study of wine industry, political rallies, presidential elections, management of slaves, daily activities as planter before and after Civil War, and Kentucky carpet-baggers; entry, 4 Oct. 1856, re political relations between North and South; 2 undated plantation manuals re duties of overseer, food and clothing allowances, hours of work, and policy towards children and pregnancies. Four plantation account books, 1857-1860 and 1870, 1857-1858, 1859-1863, and 1900-1910, re agricultural experiments; land purchases; Hammond family genealogy; and lists of slaves identified by name, age, value, and capacity for work; and accounts with sharecroppers; letter book, 1861-1909, re death of James Henry Hammond; volume, 1866-1868, re efforts to sell E.S. Hammond's Va. plantation and settle his father's estate; vol., 1889-1904, S.C. politics, and agricultural depression of 1893-1894. Cotton account book, 1877-1879, re laborers; vol., 1877-1884, Barnwell County, criminal docket listing cases, witnesses, jurors, and verdicts; oversize vol., 1897-1902, U.S. Commissioner's Docket [PU-5]; vol., c.1895, re cotton seed oil industry; letter, 25 Oct. 1890, to D.W. Boon, re issues in John Cheves Haskell and Ben Tillman campaign; letter, 15 Aug. 1891, to his mother re recent speech and death of cotton trade; letters, 1889-1892, to Interstate Commerce Commission, re lawsuit of melon growers versus S.C. Railway Company. Letter, 4 Oct. 1893, to Wade Hampton, re postmaster appointment, opposition to S.A. Woodward, and support for [Grover] Cleveland; 2 letters, 28 Jan. 1896, to Stanwix G. Mayfield, and 18 Feb. 1896, to O.C. Jordan, re election of education trustees by districts; letter, 5 Feb. 1896, to Martin B[ryan] Woodward, Aiken, S.C., re Barnwell County, Carolina Midland Railway Company, and local cotton textile factory. Two journals, 1870-1875 and 1880-1907, Aiken and Barnwell Counties, S.C., re farming and tenants, legal activities, politics, and a personal account of 1886 Charleston earthquake.

ArchivalResource: 41 v.

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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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Graniteville Company. Records, 1824-1900.

Title: Records, 1824-1900.

Volumes include time books, certificates for stock, letter books, list of manchinery for a textile factory, and mechanical specifications for a 15,500 spindle mill prepared by Lockwood, Greene, and Company. Letter, 29 Apr. 1848, from George Kelly, superintendent for Graniteville Manufacturing Company, to William Mason and Company (Taunton, Massachusetts) regarding the purchase and shipping of various pieces of machinery required for Graniteville textile factory operations. Rules for Graniteville textile factory, 15 Apr. 1861, stipulating that employees of Graniteville Manufacturing Company: shall not bring any intoxicating liquors onto the premises, shall send their children to Graniteville Public School, shall not allow boarders, shall keep all hogs in their backyards, and shall keep the Sabbath as a day of rest and peace.

ArchivalResource: 1 legal sized folder.

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Quattlebaum, Paul, 1812-1890. General Paul Quattlebaum papers. 1817-1890, (bulk 1850-1880).

Title: General Paul Quattlebaum papers. 1817-1890, (bulk 1850-1880).

Most of the correspondence is between General Paul Quattlebaum (1812-1890) and his son Cephas during the decades after the Civil War. There are a few letters from Quattlebaum concerning attempts to secure promotions for two of his sons in the Confederate Army, Theodore Adolphus Quattlebaum (1842-1865) and Edwin Ruffin Quattlebaum (1844-1906). Notable correspondents include James Henry Hammond, Governor M.L. Bonham of South Carolina, and General James Conner. There is a folder documenting the settlement of the estate of John Quattlebaum, Paul's father, during the 1850's; two criminal inditements against slaves, 1853; and a financial note from John Taylor to Robert F. Withers, 1817.

ArchivalResource: .15 cubic ft. 1 box.

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Petigru, James Louis, 1789-1863. James Louis Petigru papers, 1822-1948.

Title: James Louis Petigru papers, 1822-1948.

Chiefly correspondence re Petigru's political views and legal practice; including letter, 8 July 1822, Charleston, S.C., Petigru to Richard Leake, Savannah, Ga., re legal case; inventory, 31 July 1823, Charleston, S.C., for estate of Benjamin Guerard; letter, 18 Nov. 1830, Charleston, S.C., to "Pope," re nullification and soliciting support for Hugh Swinton Legare; letters, 29 Oct. 1832 and 15 July 1833, Charleston, S.C., and Washington, D.C., Petigru to Hugh Swinton Legare, Brussels, re nullification. Letters, 1834-1843, Charleston, S.C., Petigru to Hugh Swinton Legare, re political events in S.C., including nullification, Union Party, and political leaders, including John C. Calhoun, Joel Roberts Poinsett, and James Henry Hammond; and Legare's career in Washington, D.C.; letter, 2 Oct. 1840, Bennettsville, S.C., Barnabus Kelet Henagan, to Petigru, re pardoning a slave, inability to visit Charleston, S.C., and inviting Petigru to visit. Letter, 5 Apr. 1842, Petigru to attorneys Howard and Read, Baltimore, Md., re emancipating a slave in Maryland; letter, 1 Jan. 1859, Charleston, S.C., Petigru to John Belton O'Neall, re O'Neall's book, lack of enforcement of laws against kidnapping African-Americans, and recommending C.B. Northrop for a position. Letter, 30 Mar. 1861, Petigru to Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard, re invitation to dinner to be attended by ex-Gov. [John Lawrence] Manning and Col. Drayton; petition, 4 Mar. 1862, to the President of the U.S., re consideration of Petigru for the office of Associate Justice of the U.S.

ArchivalResource: 55 items and 1 v.

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Wightman, William M. (William May), 1808-1882. William M. Wightman papers, 1844-1848.

Title: William M. Wightman papers, 1844-1848.

A letter (1844 Aug 2) to Wightman from J.H. Hammond concerns a subscription to the "Advocate." Another letter (1848 June 7) from Hammond discusses the necessity of slavery in the South, a book by Dr. Bascom which denounces an anti-slavery action by the Methodist General Conference of 1844, a "danger of a rupture in our political relations" that may lead to violence between North and South, the Methodist denomination, and Methodists' attitude of "tolerance" toward slavery. A letter (n.d.) to Wightman from W. Gilmore Simms concerns social engagements.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870. Papers of William Gilmore Simms [manuscript], 1839-1870.

Title: Papers of William Gilmore Simms [manuscript], 1839-1870.

The papers contain manuscripts of three poems by Simms : "The day after," "Dusk," and "Stanzas, written to a friend in despondency." Letters to publishers, authors and friends concern his writings and details of their publication, his home "Woodlands" at Midway, S.C., his life, and the works of others, including John Pendleton Kennedy, Peter Force, Charles Warren Stoddard, Elizabeth Ellet, George Munro, John Russell, and John Esten Cooke, and briefly Cornelius Mathews and Evert A. Duyckinck. Several letters introduce authors to publishers. Others are to autograph collectors. Letters discuss Simms' passion for the South and Southern literature as compared to the North and Northern literature. He offers both encouragement and criticism to writers and editors, and as the editor of several Southern periodicals he writes to obtain reviews and articles. Simms writes of his ill health, yellow fever in Charleston, S.C., his need for writing projects to support his family, and his efforts to publicize his books and the books of others including John Esten Cooke's "Wearing of the Gray." An autograph of Simms and three engravings are included.

ArchivalResource: 63 items.

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Hammond, James Henry, 1807-1864. Papers, 1835-1875.

Title: Papers, 1835-1875.

Letters of Hammond, including one to R.H. Wilde concerning the purchase of a slave and hiring an overseer; and one to F.W. Pickens giving his theory of government. Other letters, to William B. Hodgson, are concerned with the state of the nation, crops, prices of slaves, real estate, Hodgson's literary efforts, and religion. The collection also contains letters written to James H. Hammond's son Claudius Marcellus Hammond from members of his family commenting on the Civil War and Reconstruction.

ArchivalResource: 21 items.

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Francis Wilkinson Pickens letters from various correspondents, 1832-1834.

Title: Francis Wilkinson Pickens letters from various correspondents, 1832-1834.

Letters concerning militia affairs addressed to South Carolina congressman Francis Wilkinson Pickens.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.25 linear ft.)

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Richards, Miles S. Pierce Mason Butler: the South Carolina years, 1830-1841, [c.1985] ; [typescript] / Miles S. Richards.

Title: Pierce Mason Butler: the South Carolina years, 1830-1841, [c.1985] ; [typescript] / Miles S. Richards.

Biographical sketch of P.M Butler, a native of Edgefield District, S.C.; this essay discusses his political career in the Palmetto State, including his military service, the Nullification controversy; his term as governor of S.C., from Dec. 1836-Dec. 1838; the impact of the Panic of 1837 on the economy and the responsibility of President Andrew Jackson's policies for the crisis; his struggles with arthritis in his later years; Butler's relationships with James Henry Hammond, his disagreements with John C. Calhoun; and other topics.

ArchivalResource: 27 sheets.

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Watts, Beaufort Taylor, 1789-1869. Beaufort Taylor Watts papers, 1822-1879

Title: Beaufort Taylor Watts papers, 1822-1879

Letters re politics at state, national, and international levels, and news of friends and family, including 16 items, 1825-1829 (Bogota, Colombia) consisting of letters and papers written in Spanish to B.T. Watts in his capacity as secretary of legation. Letter, 24 July 1825, Louisville, Kentucky, from [Richard Clough Anderson, to B.T.W., Bogota, Colombia], "I think that Genl. [Andrew] Jackson & Mr. [John Quincy] Adams are considered as candidates.... leaving Mr. [John C.] Calhoun, Mr. [Henry] Clay & Mr.[DeWitt] Cl[inton] to struggle for the succession eight years hence"; 2 letters, 29 May 1828 and 25 May 1839 (Washington, D.C.) from Henry Clay, to B.T.Watts, re appointment as Secretary of Legation at Saint Petersburg, Russia, curbing the rising power of the executive branch, and dissensions in S.C. political factions. Two letters, 28 Dec. 1829 and 1 Mar. 1830 (Washington, D.C.) from B.T. Watts to Martin Van Buren (during his brief tenure as governor of New York), in which Watts lists injustices received from Henry Middleton at St. Petersburg, and answers Middleton's criticisms; letter, 5 Sept. 1833, Cherry Hill plantation (Sumter District, S.C.), George McDuffie, who had recently been a prominent member of the South Carolina Nullification Convention and would soon after serve as governor of S.C., during 1834-1836, to B.T. Watts, "On... your comtemplated periodical... the people of the South.... will be too much engrossed in... political subjects... to bestow much attention on literary productions" and noting "benefits of slavery to North and South." Letter,7 Apr. 1836 (Washington, D.C.) from H[enry] H[unt], to B.T. Watts, re the election to the Presidency of Van Buren, Henry Clay's treatment by the Democratic Party, and the controversy over the Peggy Eaton affair, "Genl. Jackson seems to have full control over this nation.... he will make little Van his successor.... I am a great favorite at the White House... family physician for several years," and inquiring "How do you think Arthur Middleton will relish Peg O'Neale as the Ministers lady?" Letter, 7 Mar. 1838 (Charleston, S.C.) John England, Bishop of Charleston, to Gov. Pierce Mason Butler, pleading for pardon of life for a sailor convicted of murder; letter, 12 July 1840 (Spartanburg, S.C.) from James Edward Henry, to B.T. Watts, re campaign for the legislature, estimation of Clay and Calhoun; letter, 20 Oct. 1841 (Edgefield, S.C.), John Belton O'Neall, to B.T. Watts, sending his refusal to accept the presidency of South Carolina College, "I am wholly unfit for the office...."; letter, 6 July 1844, J.M. Wallace, to B.T.Watts, Laurens, S.C., "I should like to know if there is any serious design to form a Southern Confederacy." Nine letters, 1843-1860, from James H. Hammond, to B.T.Watts, re directions for work, completion of journal, political position, George McDuffie's value to S.C.; letter, 21 Sept. 1846 (Edgefield, S.C.) from Col. Pierce Mason Butler, to B.T.W., re the activities of the men serving under his command in the Palmetto Regiment in the Mexican War, "The compliment paid me by the South Carolina Volunteers was indeed a handsome one.... President [James K.] Polk is scared to death....," and duration and cost of war. Eight letters, 18 Jan. 1847 - 23 Oct. 1848 (Limestone Springs, S.C.) from S.C. Governor David Johnson, to B.T. Watts, re conduct of war in Mexico, message to the S.C. legislature, vice-president and the Wilmot Proviso; letter, 29 Nov. 1850, Gov. Whitemarsh Benjamin Seabrook, to President Millard Fillmore, re the arrival of troops in Charleston Harbor following meeting of second secession convention, 11-18 Nov. 1850; letter, 7 Dec. 1850 (Washington, D.C.) Daniel Webster, to W.B. Seabrook, re his refusal to give reasons for sending additional troops to S.C. Eleven letters, 1852-1861, from F.W. Pickens, to B.T.Watts, re his position in politics, a tribute to George McDuffie, and suggesting the course for the South to pursue, "keep cool & keep united; and letter, 2 Feb. 1861 (Charleston, S.C.) R.W. Gibbes, to "Dear Gaillard," re difficulties settled with the governor, "He will not interfere with me again. Hampton now has his proper place."

ArchivalResource: 283 items.

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Ruffin, Edmund, 1794-1865. Edmund Ruffin papers, 1784-1893.

Title: Edmund Ruffin papers, 1784-1893.

Personal papers, chiefly family correspondence with a number of letters from friends and acquaintances mingled in. Most letters are arranged in hard-bound folders probably prepared by Ruffin himself. Folders are identified by unit numbers. Units 1-16 contain largely routine family letters; Units 17-20 have non-family letters on a variety of topics; Unit 21 contains letters from James H. Hammond; Unit 22 consists of 145 unbound family and non-family letters arranged chronologically; and Unit 23 consists of undated and miscellaneous materials. There are also six volumes, including a farm diary, Ruffin's autobiography, a Revolutionary War tale by Ruffin, an 1843 diary with entries relating to an agricultrual survey of South Carolina, and an account of the draining of a plantation.

ArchivalResource: ca. 200 items on 3 reels of microfilm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32040042 View