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Bacot, Daniel Huger, 1847-1920. Daniel Huger Bacot papers, 1948-1905.

Title: Daniel Huger Bacot papers, 1948-1905.

Daniel Huger Bacot's papers consist of correspondence, business and legal papers, writings, and other items. Correspondence (1848-1905) of Daniel Huger Bacot and Bacot family members and relations including Josephine Rhett Bacot, Robert Barnwell Rhett (1800-1876), Robert Barnwell Rhett II (1828-1905), and Julius Motte Bacot, concerns family matters, politics, social life, business affairs, the writings of Josephine Rhett Bacot, and other subjects. Business and legal papers (1870-1893) include documents concerning Bacot v. Horseshoe Mining Company and other cases. There are materials concerning South Carolina militia including a muster roll (1878) of a battalion of the Sumter Guards, military commissions, orders, and a return of ordnance and ordnance stores. Also included are notes, minutes, by-laws, receipts, and lists pertaining to the College of Charleston Alumni Association. Writings (1869) of Daniel Huger Bacot consist of handwritten manuscripts of speeches or essays, one of which is entitled "A Brief Outline of the History of Coffee," and another, "Our Banner."

ArchivalResource: ca. 345 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35923192 View

Bacot, Josephine Rhett, 1859-1932. Bacot family papers, 1860-1938.

Title: Bacot family papers, 1860-1938.

Papers of Josephine Bacot contain correspondence with family and friends including letters (one describes the Charleston earthquake of 1886) from Daniel Huger Bacot (1847-1920), Daniel Huger Bacot (b. 1888), and Walter Rhett Bacot. Letters (1888-1904) from her father Robert Barnwell Rhett at Huntsville, Alabama concern family matters. Papers (1891-1896) concern Munster Plantation (Ashepoo, S.C.). Genealogical information relates to the Bacot, Horton, Walton, Leftwich, Rhett, and Huger families. Includes clippings, ephemera, and photographs of Josephine Bacot and others. Papers related to Josephine Bacot's writings include rejection letters from newspaper and magazine editors, an unfinished holograph autobiography (1930), edited typescripts, several holograph manuscripts, notes, and copies of her articles. Papers of Daniel Huger Bacot (1847-1920), Daniel Huger Bacot (b. 1888) and Walter Rhett Bacot include correspondence with family members and others. Papers include a biography of Josephine Horton Rhett (1830-1860) and the correspondence of various family members. Of note is the correspondence (1862) of Robert Barnwell Rhett with family members and others discussing the Civil War and what is to be done with his children in the event of his death.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (1.75 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31740833 View

Cotton factor records, 1870-1914 [microform].

Title: Cotton factor records, 1870-1914 [microform].

Letterpress copy book, 1870-1914, consisting of business and financial records of a firm buying and selling cotton and rice in Charleston, S.C.; this business operated by Robert Dewar Bacot, and later by Daniel Huger Bacot. Accounts record values and weight of bales of both sea island and upland cotton; final portion of volume used as a letterbook, apparently for both business and some family correspondence.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (1 roll microfim)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/664803585 View