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Butler, M. C. (Matthew Calbraith), 1836-1909. Signature to printed form : Washington, 1880 Dec. 23.

Title: Signature to printed form : Washington, 1880 Dec. 23.

Acknowledging receipt of the Official Register of the United States for 1879.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270132690 View

Maxwell, Russell L. (Russell Lamonte), 1890-1968. Russell L. Maxwell photograph collection.

Title: Russell L. Maxwell photograph collection. 1890-1943.

Contains the following type of materials: photographs. Covers the following war and time period: 1890-1943, World War II (WWII). Contains photographs of the following military units: 10th U.S. Cavalry Regiment; 9th U.S. Infantry Regiment; 13th U.S. Infantry Regiment. General description of the collection: The Russell L. Maxwell photograph collection consists of photographs of himself as well as early dated portrait photos of Army officers, William Auman and Matthew C. Butler, in uniform and officers' quarters at Fort Elliott, Texas. The 1921 photos are of the 10th U.S. Cavalry Band at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. The 1940's photos are of the activities of Major General Russell L. Maxwell, mostly in North Africa and Ethiopia and the dedication of Camp Ellis, Illinois (July 1943).

ArchivalResource: 1 box (284 photographs)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51865107 View

Maclean, Clara Victoria Dargan, 1841-1923. Papers, 1849-1920.

Title: Papers, 1849-1920.

Correspondence, diaries (1860-1920), scrapbooks, autograph album (1873), and other papers, containing information on Southern literature and the effect of the Civil War on literary effort and remuneration. Includes a copy of Fenélon (1888) with Mrs. Maclean's notes and comments. Correspondents inclcude John Henry Boner, Matthew Calbraith Butler, James Wood Davidson, James Nathan Ells, William Evelyn, Paul Hamilton Hayne, and Henry Timrod.

ArchivalResource: 739 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19934514 View

Jones, Allen, 1887-1975. Allen Jones (1887-1975) papers, 1903-1975.

Title: Allen Jones (1887-1975) papers, 1903-1975.

Genealogical files, ca. 1933-1975, principally re the Batte, Davie, DuBose, Iredell, Jones, and Porcher families (PU-4); and oversize scrapbook, 1903-1925, re life in Columbia, S.C. (PU-5). Scrapbook, 1903-1925, containing programs, announcements, invitations, letters, and newspaper clippings reflecting the social and cultural life of Columbia, S.C., ca. 1903-1913; topics discussed include athletics; the boll weevil; education; elections; the burning of Columbia, S.C., during the Civil War; constitutions of S.C.; prohibition and temperance; African Americans; votes for women and suffragists; child labor; cotton textile mills; and persons such as Coleman L. Blease, Matthew Calbraith Butler, Eugene B. Gary, Wade Hampton III, Duncan Clinch Heyward, and Woodrow Wilson. Volume includes letter, 11 Jan. 1913, from USC president S[amuel] C[hiles] Mitchell praising Jones as "the type man for the present South: full of initiative, liberal in thought, pulsating with public spirit, and withal endowed with great constructive ability"; and Columbia High School and University of South Carolina graduation speeches by Jones.

ArchivalResource: 30 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31523249 View

Butler family. Butler family papers, 1801-1991 (bulk, ca. 189u-192u).

Title: Butler family papers, 1801-1991 (bulk, ca. 189u-192u).

Correspondence, business papers, newspaper clippings, and photographs re activities of William Butler and family; antebellum papers documenting earlier generations include bills and receipts from estate of Maj. William Moore (1765-1818), and schoolgirl letters of Eugenia M. Ransom; extensive correspondence addressed to Lil Butler includes invitations from suitors, most of whom were enrolled at South Carolina College, to attend picnics, dances, and other social events. Letters written to his children in Columbia by William Butler from Washington, D.C., provide advice, discuss political changes, and advise financial restraint after the loss of Butler's appointment in 1888, with defeat of Grover Cleveland, as the Democrats lost the Presidency and the majority in the House; other letters discuss rise of populist Benjamin R. Tillman in 1894, as his movement challenged the career of U.S. Sen. M.C. Butler. Topics discussed include concern over Lil's living arrangements in a boarding house and her teaching career in Cedar Mountain, N.C. [Transylvania County, N.C.]; William and Raymond Perry Butler's jobs with the railroad and their preparations for the Spanish American war as members of the Savannah Volunteer Guards; also including souvenir badge,1926, commemorating the election of Wade Hampton in 1876. Priscilla Ransom Butler married Greenville, S.C., resident Charles Benjamin Stone in 1903; later parts of the collection relate to their children, William Butler Stone (1904-1914) and Agnes Theodora Stone Dawsey (1907-1997), including letters between Dawsey and members of the Butler Society concerning Butler family genealogy in Ireland and the United States. Bound volumes include family Bible, 1767, with annotations and record of births, marriages, and deaths, ca. 1774-1900s; and family Bible, 1817, with vital statistics ca. 1790s-1930s, and record of other notable events: "on Sunday the 15th April 1849, snow commenced falling, & continued to fall rapidly from 9 AM till about 3 PM...." followed by a week of frost that killed vegetables and "forest trees..."; and 29 Apr. 1874, 8 Apr. 1885, information re other episodes of unseasonal snow and frost (p. 683).

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft. (4 cartons) + 1 small oversize folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49890614 View

Hampton, Alfred, 1861-1942. Alfred Hampton papers, 1891-1964 (bulk, 1897-1943).

Title: Alfred Hampton papers, 1891-1964 (bulk, 1897-1943).

Correspondence, newspaper articles, programs, invitations (51 items: 1897-1943, 1964, and undated), and photographs (14 images: 1891, 1898, and undated) re career of Alfred Hampton and information re inventions patented by his wife, Francis Hampton, consisting of tools and labor-saving devices. Invitation, 16 Sept. 1918, for Hampton, his wife, and daughter from Ignacio Bonillas, the Mexican ambassador to the U.S., to join in the festivities celebrating the 108th anniversary of Mexican independence. In one of several business related letters, the Secretary of Labor, W.B. Wilson, wrote 2 Mar 1921, "This administration is drawing to a close... I desire to express to you my highest appreciation of the splendid services you have rendered to our country and humanity everywhere during the greatest crisis that the world has ever known." Mrs. Francis Hermson Hampton obtained patents for an improvement on funnels and wood-chopping devices. Correspondence, descriptions and drawings pertaining to her inventions are among the papers. Photographs include an exterior image of men and women in the family posing with bicycles [undated]; an image of Francis and Alfred boarding a carriage while in Mexico [undated]; and images of Hampton in Havanna, Cuba, and with Matthew Calbraith Butler as a member of the "Joint American and Spanish Commission for the Evacuation of Cuba" [some of these images published in Harper's Pictorial History of the War with Spain, and available online from New York Public Library.] Oversize group portraits of Alfred Hampton and others dressed in uniform while in camp during Spanish American War, [1898], with exterior view of tents in background and dog in foreground (photographed by J.D. Givens); and interior view of a bar in Havana, Cuba, Sept. 1898, "Salon Trotehal (Vedado), Habana, Cuba" (photographed by J. Gomez de la Carrera)

ArchivalResource: 14 photographs.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/138028222 View

Thomas F. Bayard Papers, 1780-1899, (bulk 1860-1889)

Title: Thomas F. Bayard Papers

Senator, secretary of state, and ambassador. Correspondence, letterbooks, scrapbooks, and miscellany relating to Bayard's career after the Civil War as a politician and legislator and as a cabinet official and diplomat during the presidential administrations of Grover Cleveland.

ArchivalResource: 60,000 items; 220 containers plus 18 oversize; 49.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006007 View

Butler, M. C. (Matthew Calbraith), 1836-1909. Matthew Calbraith Butler papers, 1860-1926, (bulk 1879-1898).

Title: Matthew Calbraith Butler papers, 1860-1926, (bulk 1879-1898).

Chiefly receipts, and correspondence with John L[awrence] Manning and Stephen D[ill] Lee re family and business news; including letter, 25 July 1867, Edgefield, S.C. to Col. B[enjamin] H[uger] Rutledge, Charleston, S.C. re court cases and schedules in U.S. Circuit Court, District of S.C.; letter, 21 July 1888, Department of State, Washington, D.C., from T[homas] F[rancis] Bayard, re foreign relations 1881-1886. Two letters, 20 Sept. 1889 and 24 Jan. 1890, New York, N.Y., A. Thompson, to Gen. S.D. Lee, Agricultural College, Mississippi, re expatriation of blacks, Back to Africa movement, and suggesting settlement sites in eastern South America; letter, 10 Apr. 1890, Atlanta, Ga., from H[enry] Turner to M.C. Butler, re social and economic conditions of African-Americans in the United States, and M.C. Butler's bill re establishment and funding of African-American colonies in Africa. Letter, 3 Dec. 1890, Wade Hampton, to M.C. Butler, re M.C. Butler's campaign for the U.S. Senate; letter, 26 Sept. 1898, to R[ussell] A[lexander] Alger, Secretary of War, U.S. Commission to Cuba, re annexation of Cuba to the United States; letter, 5 Nov. 1898, [Narcisco] Gonzales, re Spanish-American War. Two letters, 20 Mar. 1889 and 8 Dec. 1892, Washington, D.C. to Geo[rge] W[illiam] Daragan and D[onald] J[ohn] Auld, re Postmaster position in Sumter, S.C.; letter, 25 Apr. 1893, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. to A[lexander] R[obert] Lawton, Savannah, Ga., re recommendation of Richardson as Postmaster of Sumter, S.C.; 8 items, 18 Dec. 1901-18 Feb. 1902, re the settlement of the estate of James Edward Calhoun; letter, 23 Apr. 1902, Washington, D.C. to Lil [Butler] Edgefield, S.C., re Butler genealogy. Letters and clippings, 30 May 1857, 1863, and 16 Apr. 1909, re obituaries of Judge [Andrew Pickens] Butler, Maj. William Loudon Butler, and Gen. M.C. Butler; scrapbook, 1897-1906, containing speeches, and newspaper clippings re M.C. Butler.

ArchivalResource: 100 items and 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41867355 View

Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

Title: Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts Civil War collection, 1724-1933 (inclusive); 1861-1912 (bulk).

A collection of images, manuscripts, and printed material, mostly relating to the Massachusetts soldiers and regiments in the American Civil War. Some material relates to other Union regiments and the Confederate States of America.

ArchivalResource: 47 linear feet (143 boxes, 2 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00124/catalog View

Charles family. Charles family papers, 1821-1969.

Title: Charles family papers, 1821-1969.

Chiefly business records; bills for medical services, prescription, plantation and household supplies, and purchases and sales of slaves; receipts for school tuition; and family correspondence re social, economic, and political life of Darlington District, S.C.; including letter, 2 Dec. 1821, Platt Spring Academy, Lexington District, S.C., from John Charles, to his brother Edgar Charles, Darlington, S.C., re school life, morals of students, and school expenses. Two letters, 18 Feb. 1828 and 1 Mar. 1828, Philadelphia, Pa., from Robert and William Charles to their brother Hopkins Charles, re presidential chances of [John Quincy] Adams and [Andrew] Jackson and having to borrow money due to lack of family support; letter, 16 Dec. 1859, from [Margaret] Louisa [DuBose] Charles, to her husband Hopkins G. Charles, re unexpected arrival of William Charles and anticipation of a slave insurrection. Labor agreement, 7 Sept. 1865, between William E. Charles, Robert Kelso Charles, and various freedmen identified by name; letter, 20 Apr. 1901, Washington, D.C., from M[atthew] C[albraith] Butler, to Robert Kelso Charles, re politics in S.C., corruption of the dispensary system, and urging R.K. Charles to publish his account of the Battle of Fredericksburg, Va.; and genealogy, c. 1940, re descendents of Thomas Charles; and family Bible records, 1969, including connections with Lide, Haynsworth, Pugh, and Bacot families.

ArchivalResource: 585 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42640995 View

Butler, M. C. (Matthew Calbraith), 1836-1909. Receipt : Washington, D.C., 1879 Dec. 11.

Title: Receipt : Washington, D.C., 1879 Dec. 11.

Partly printed document. Signed by Butler. Receipt for one copy of volume one of the Official Register of the United States for 1879.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81718437 View

Lee, Stephen D. (Stephen Dill), 1833-1908. Stephen D. Lee papers, 1864-1907.

Title: Stephen D. Lee papers, 1864-1907.

Correspondence reflecting Lee's Civil War service in command of all cavalry in the department of Alabama, East Louisiana, Mississippi, and West Tennessee, and his later years as college president; including letters, 8 July 1864, Tupelo, [Miss.], to Gen. B[raxton] Bragg, re an order concerning Gen. [E. Kirby] Smith's troops; and 31 Jan. 1890, Agricultural College, Miss., to [Matthew Calbraith Butler], re the "race issue" then before the Senate, mentioning land near Costa Rica suitable for "negro colonization," and suggesting that President [Rutherford B.] Hayes favored such a plan although it was not favored by Gen. [Wade] Hampton or "any northern representative man." Also includes biographical sketch, clipped from Confederate Veteran, Apr. 1894, p. 70.

ArchivalResource: 5 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31444840 View

Dawson, Francis Warrington, 1840-1889. Francis Warrington Dawson papers, 1853-1959.

Title: Francis Warrington Dawson papers, 1853-1959.

Correspondence, telegrams, legal and business papers re Dawson's career in journalism, his political associations, his purchase and operation of the News and Courier (Charleston, S.C.), and other interests held by Riordan, Dawson and Company. Collection includes correspondence with literary figures, including James Ryder Randall, and various political figures, including diplomat James Morris Morgan, Secretary of State Thomas Francis Bayard, Sen. Matthew C. Butler, and governors Daniel Henry Chamberlain, Hugh S. Thompson, and Benjamin R. Tillman. Other topics represented include tariff reform, Tillman politics, and letter, 6 May 1885, Goshen Bridge, Va., re Robert A. Camm's description of the situation faced by Southern midshipmen enrolled at the U.S. Naval Academy in Maryland at the outbreak of the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 149 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36800283 View

John Julius Dargan papers, 1785-1965 (bulk, 1877-1940).

Title: John Julius Dargan papers, 1785-1965 (bulk, 1877-1940).

Correspondence, publications, clippings, and other papers, 1785 and 1877-1965, discussing political activities in South Carolinna, the free trade movement, pacifism and the peace movement, criticism of Gov. Benjamin R. Tillman, Dargan's support of the Democratic Party; elections and politics at state and national levels; Dargan's concept of the public defender; and a carton [offsite] of books from Dragan's library.

ArchivalResource: 0.33 linear ft. (1 document box) 1 legal size folder. 1 over size folder. 1.25 linear feet (1 carton)

https://pascal-usc.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01PASCAL_USCCOL/1oceqbt/alma991014640259705618 View

Levi P. Morton Correspondence, 1860-1912

Title: Levi P. Morton Correspondence 1860-1912

Papers of the Congressman from New York, United States minister to France, Vice-President of the United States, and Republican governor of New York State. Collection contains mostly incoming correspondence from clergymen, educators, financiers, journalists, and politicians. Some letters are addressed to Morton's executive secretary, Ashley W. Cole.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear ft.

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/m/morton_lp.htm View

Rutledge, Benjamin Huger, 1829-1893. B.H. Rutledge letterpress copybook, 1868-1889.

Title: B.H. Rutledge letterpress copybook, 1868-1889.

Much of the correspondence contained in this letterpress copybook (1868-1889) marked "Private, No. 1", reflects Rutledge's professional activities as an attorney. There are also letters concerning personal and political matters and reminiscences about his experiences in the Civil War. Some letters (including ones dated 19 July 1878, and 3 March 1880) concern Rutledge's sons Benjamin and Oliver. The bulk of the reminiscences concerning the 4th South Carolina Cavalry and Butler's Brigade in 1864, in the form of a letter to General M.C. Butler, are found on p. 300-354 of the book. These memoirs include information on the battles of Hawes Shops, Trevilian Station, Cold Harbor, Nances Shops, Gravelley Run, Reams Station, and Burgess's Mill, as well as the evacuation of Columbia, S.C. Also contains a letter (12 Oct. 1877?) from Rutledge to Col. J.F. Hunt in Greenville, S.C., concerning the possibility of Rutledge's candidacy for a state political office; a letter to "My Dear Col." (17 June 1879) concerning a "change" which has come over the nation, a pervasive social and political corruption and how it might all end; letters (3 Nov. and 8 Nov. 1880) to the governor of South Carolina (Johnson Hagood) concerning constabulary and military authority and the use of military force in a civil disturbance in Charleston or Stateburg, S.C., involving the "colored population"; a letter (24 June 1886) to Benjamin J. Williams in Lowell, Mass., justifying the South's reasons for secession and the war; and a letter (23 Dec. 1888) to "Ned" (probably Rutledge's son Edward) concerning hazing at Virginia Military Institute.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70978635 View

Butler, M. C. (Matthew Calbraith), 1836-1909. Letter : Washington, D.C., to Edward B. Butler, Chicago, 1893 Apr. 19.

Title: Letter : Washington, D.C., to Edward B. Butler, Chicago, 1893 Apr. 19.

Typed letter signed. Matthew Butler thanks Edward Butler for sending him a complimentary ticket to the World's Columbian Exposition.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52249105 View

Meighan, John, 1817-1901. John Meighan papers, 1886-1905.

Title: John Meighan papers, 1886-1905.

Letter, 17 Feb. 1886, Washington, D.C., Senate Chamber, Wade Hampton to John Meighan, requesting Meighan's recollections of a Civil War skirmish in Frederick, Md., including battle plans, and troops involved. Memorandum, 15 Nov. 1905, of Matthew Calbraith Butler, praising Meighan's faithfulness, bravery, judgement, general character, and service in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43947975 View

Butler, M. C. (Matthew Calbraith), 1836-1909. Letter : Washington, D.C., to Edward B. Butler, Chicago, 1893 Apr. 19.

Title: Letter : Washington, D.C., to Edward B. Butler, Chicago, 1893 Apr. 19.

Typed letter signed. Matthew Butler thanks Edward Butler for sending him a complimentary ticket to the World's Columbian Exposition.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83303243 View

Butler, M. C. (Matthew Calbraith), 1836-1909. Letter, 1905 May 20, Edgefield, S.C. [to Harold G. Rugg].

Title: Letter, 1905 May 20, Edgefield, S.C. [to Harold G. Rugg].

States that he was an officer in the Confederate army during the Civil War and major-general of vols. in the War with Spain.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. on fold. leaf. 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6997861 View

Tillman, Benjamin R. (Benjamin Ryan), 1847-1918. Papers, 1894-1897.

Title: Papers, 1894-1897.

Includes correspondence discussing Tillman's senatorial campaign against Matthew Calbraith Butler, the sale of whiskey, South Carolina politics, and the election of John Gary Evans as governor; letter, and memorial to be presented by the state of South Carolina to Congress, protesting the extension of the powers of the U.S. courts; and clippings concerning an altercation in Darlington, S.C., between constables and private citizens over restrictions relating to alcoholic beverages.

ArchivalResource: 9 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20400241 View

Butler, M. C. (Matthew Calbraith), 1836-1909. Papers, 1851-1920.

Title: Papers, 1851-1920.

Collection is primarily composed of Butler's personal and political correspondence. A few letters relate to his cousins in Louisiana. He sends detailed accounts of the war to his wife, Maria, daughter of S.C. Governor Pickens. Butler vividly describes battles, troop movements, and camp life. After the war, some correspondence deals with his Senate office, including his involvement in the Spanish evacuation of Cuba. Other papers concern his son's murder and legal matters. There are poems, genealogical materials, a 32-page memoir of Reconstruction in S.C. by Butler's daughter, plus an essay by her.

ArchivalResource: 171 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36547519 View

Thomas F. Bayard Papers, 1780-1899, (bulk 1860-1889)

Title: Thomas F. Bayard Papers

Senator, secretary of state, and ambassador. Correspondence, letterbooks, scrapbooks, and miscellany relating to Bayard's career after the Civil War as a politician and legislator and as a cabinet official and diplomat during the presidential administrations of Grover Cleveland.

ArchivalResource: 60,000 items; 220 containers plus 18 oversize; 49.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006007 View

Autograph File, B, ca.1500-1982

Title: Autograph File, B, ca.1500-1982

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 18.5 linear feet (37 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01425/catalog View

Brooks, U. R. (Ulysses Robert), 1846-1917. Papers, 1861-1911; (bulk 1902-1908).

Title: Papers, 1861-1911; (bulk 1902-1908).

Approximately one half of the collection consists of correspondence with Confederate veterans, including W.T. Brooker, J.W. Du Bose, and Richard I. Morris, with some contemporary Civil War letters included. Of special interest are the letters of Matthew C. Butler, Confederate cavalry commander and later U.S. Senator. Brooks used information from his correspondents in newspaper articles of Civil War reminiscences.

ArchivalResource: 86 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19313363 View