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Salley, A. S. (Alexander Samuel), 1871-1961. A.S. Salley papers, 1849-1963.

Title: A.S. Salley papers, 1849-1963.

Correspondence, publications, clippings, and other papers relating to history, politics and culture of South Carolina, including information on individuals, and families. Topics discussed include Salley's research on the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence (1905-1912, 1915, 1921), including correspondence with Ulrich B. Phillips re the lack of evidence for such a document and other matters; politics, especially the administration of Gov. Coleman L. Blease; conservation of wildlife; meetings of the American Historical Association in Charleston and Columbia in 1913; statues of Wade Hampton, George Washington, and other aspects of the buildings and grounds of the S.C. Statehouse; genealogical research; Jamison Monument Fund; Salley's work as secretary of the S.C. Historical Society and as state historian of the S.C. Historical Commission; political leaflets and handbills; Earliest materials include family letters from 1880s and 1890s; letters discussing Salley's studies while enrolled at The Citadel; comments news of crime, murder, race relations, and law enforcement in Orangeburg County, S.C., in letters from Salley's father, A.M. Salley, sheriff, ca. 1888-1890s, including comments on the Dispensary distribution of liquor and expressing hopes for a prohibition of alcohol sales (26 Jan. 1889); growth of cotton and other crops; comments on Benjamin R. Tillman's campaign for governor in 1891, and policies during his administration. Letters relating to Salley's work as state historian of the Historical Commission of South Carolina include many brief letters representing a cross-section of the notable personalities in the fields of history and politics with whom Salley interacted during his forty-five-year career with the Historical Commission and State Archives. Correspondents include: Samuel A. Ashe, William Watts ("W.W.") Ball, Frederick Bancroft, Joseph W. Barnwell, John Bennett, Clarence S. Brigham, Armistead Burwell, James F. Byrnes, Niels Christensen, William Ashmead Courtenay, James C. Derieux, William E. Dodd, Barnett E. Elzas, Worthington C. Ford, Laurence H. Gipson, Ambrose E. Gonzales, William Gonzales, Fairfax Harrison, DuBose Heyward, W. Henry Hoyt, Marquis James, J. Franklin Jameson, Theodore D. Jervey, Lucien L. Knight, August Kohn, Waldo G. Leland, R.M. Lofton, Edward McCrady, Fitz Hugh McMaster, Dumas Malone, Colyer Meriwether, Victor Palsits, Gustavus M. Pinckney, Josephine Pinckney, Paul Quattlebaum, R.G. Rhett, James Henry Rice, Jr., Frederick Wellington Ruckstull, Archibald Rutledge, Herbert Ravenel Sass, William A. Sheppard, Katherine Drayton Mayrant Simons, Harry Worcester Smith, Yates Snowden, John P. Stratton, Charles Pelot Summerall, John P. Thomas, Reuben G. Thwaites, Mabel L. Weber, Lothrop Withington, and others. Places represented include Charleston, Columbia, Orangeburg, and elsewhere in South Carolina; Madison, Wisconsin; Augusta, Georgia.; Brenham, Texas; and other locations.

ArchivalResource: 15 linear ft. (6 cartons + ca. 22 document boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/568987747 View

Smith, Harry Worcester, 1865-1945. Papers, 1925-1935.

Title: Papers, 1925-1935.

The collection consists of a typescript, never published, titled "A Distinguished Family of Sportsmen in South Carolina." It is a narrative biography of Colonel Barnard Elliott (1740-1778), William Elliott (1788-1863), and Ambrose Elliott Gonzales (1857-1926). In addition, there is correspondence from 1925 to 1935 relating to the Elliott family and miscellaneous notes. Several photographs of Elliott portraits and other pictures which were to be included in the book are also included.

ArchivalResource: 2 folders (28 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/207170793 View

Gee, Ernest R. (Ernest Richard), b. 1878. Scrapbook, 1888-1953.

Title: Scrapbook, 1888-1953.

This scrapbook contains correspondence, clippings, photographs, and other materials compiled by E. R. Gee dealing with American sporting literature.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191915743 View

Smith, Sidney Lawton, 1845-1929. Papers, 1887-1931.

Title: Papers, 1887-1931.

This collection contains Smith's correspondence and records, 1887-1931. Several letters were addressed to his daughter and assistant, Amy G. Smith ( - ) following his death in 1929. The majority of correspondents were clients ordering book-plates to be designed and engraved by Smith in Boston. Their letters contain detailed design suggestions, drawings, and questions concerning projected costs and printing procedures. Smith's clients included several notable book and engravings collectors, such as Joseph Manuel Andreini (1850-1932) and William Loring Andrews (1837-1920) of New York, Susan Janney Allen ( - ) of Moorestown, N.J., Ruthven Deane (1851-1934) of Chicago, Ill., and Harry Worcester Smith (1865-1945) and Dr. Charles Lemuel Nichols (1851-1929) of Worcester, Mass. Also numbered among Smith's clients were many college libraries, public libraries, historical and research societies, publishing houses, bookstores, and collectors' clubs, such as the Club of Odd Volumes and the Society of Iconophiles. The collection also consists of business correspondence from editors of journals concerning publication of Smith's book-plate lists and designs, e.g.--Harry Alfred Fowler (1889- ), editor of The Ex Libran and The Miscellany of Kansas City, Mo. Box 1 contains a record book kept by Smith with brief entries describing correspondence concerning book-plate orders received by him during the period 1899 to 1928.

ArchivalResource: 6 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/207171297 View

Smith, Harry Worcester, 1865-1945. Sporting reminiscences, 1939, n.d.

Title: Sporting reminiscences, 1939, n.d.

The collection consists of a carbon typescript of Smith's sporting articles prepared for book publication with a copy of his covering letter offering the book to Scribner's and the latter's reply, together with a reply from a similar letter sent to Doubleday, Doran and Company. A long article on steeplechasing comprises half the book. Other articles concern flat racing, yearling sales, Saratoga, African American trainers and jockeys, the Meadow Brook Cup, the horse Epinard, and memoirs of various individuals connected with horseracing.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53182009 View