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Hampton, Sally Baxter, 1833-1862. Sally Baxter Hampton papers, 1853-1899.

Title: Sally Baxter Hampton papers, 1853-1899.

Chiefly correspondence of Sarah (Sally) Strong Baxter Hampton with her family in Boston, Mass., with observations re antebellum and Civil War life in South Carolina and her 1855 marriage to Frank Hampton. Includes 10 letters, 1853-1862, by British writer W[illiam] M[akepeace] T[hackery] written from London, Paris, Scotland, and various places; and 51 letters, 1887-1897, from historian Henry Adams to Mrs. Hampton's sister, Lucy Wainwright Baxter, of Quincy, Mass., discussing his writing and his disapproval of the McKinley administration. Contains letters of Sally Hampton, written from Millwood and Woodlands plantations and various places and describing social activites with the Lieber, Preston, Hampton and other prominent families; travel accounts, together with her father's description, 3 Mar. 1854, of his first tour of a rice plantation and its slave cabins; 2 letters, Mar. 1859, relating her visit to a sugar plantation in Cuba, and her impressions of Cuban slavery; and antebellulm and Civil War-era letters re the political situation in South Carolina, her support of slavery and opposition to abolitionists, her concern over the secession crisis, the sending of letters through the blockade, and her decision to remain in South Carolina, where she died in 1862. Also includes 6 letters, 1885-1899, of Sally Hampton's youngest daughter, Caroline Hampton, to her aunt, Lucy Wainwright Baxter (1836-1922), describing festivities surrounding her marriage in 1890 to Baltimore physician William Stewart Halsted (1852-1922).

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