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Conner, Henry Workman, 1797-1861. Henry Workman Conner papers, 1843-1850.

Title: Henry Workman Conner papers, 1843-1850.

Miscellaneous letters to Conner from Armistead Burt, John Caldwell Calhourn, and Francis Wilkinson Pickens. Also letters from John C. Calhoun to F.H. Elmore and Henry Gourdin.

ArchivalResource: 45 items.1 container.

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Elmore, F. H. (Franklin Harper), 1799-1850. F. H. Elmore papers, 1833-1936 [manuscript].

Title: F. H. Elmore papers, 1833-1936 [manuscript].

A small part of this collection consists of original items of Franklin Harper Elmore: family letters, correspondence from friends and associates relating to his political activities, and letters relating to his activities as president of the State Bank of South Carolina and his involvement in cotton marketing in England. There are also newspaper clippings about Elmore; memoirs and reminiscences of his daughter, Sally Canty (Elmore) Taylor, describing her experiences in Washington, D.C., in the 1830s, in Charleston, S.C., in the 1840s, and in Columbia, S.C., from the late 1850s through Reconstruction; genealogical information on the Elmore and the related Marshall, Martin, Nesbitt, and Taylor families; and copies of Elmore family documents held by the South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina.

ArchivalResource: About 130 items (0.5 linear ft.).

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Elmore family. Elmore family papers, 1837-1865.

Title: Elmore family papers, 1837-1865.

Business account, Sept. 1837-6 Apr. 1838, of Nesbitt Manufacturing Company, Union District, S.C., with South Boston Iron Company, Boston, Mass.; letter, 21 Nov. 1841, J.B. Horton, to Franklin Harper Elmore, Charleston, S.C., re land transactions, legal affairs, and plantation activities; letter, 27 Apr. 1844, Columbia, S.C., W[illiam] Nesbitt, to F.H. Elmore, re operation and management of Nesbitt Manufacturing Company, production ideas, and financial difficulties. Stock certificate, 26 Mar. 1853, of Harriet C[hesnut Taylor] Elmore, re shares in Greenville and Columbia Railroad Company; letter, 22 May 1854, Montgomery, Ala., Abram Martin, administrator of F.H. Elmore's Alabama estate, to John T. Goodwin, Columbia, S.C., re payment on account with estate. Undated proposal, Richmond, Va., James Hunter, to the President and Directors of the Nesbitt Manufacturing Company, Coopersville, Union District, S.C., re cost estimates for production of iron products; also including two volumes, 1843-1936, re letters and papers pertaining to F.H. Elmore and his family including genealogical information re Taylor family.

ArchivalResource: 23 items and 2 v.

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Rhett, Robert Barnwell, 1800-1876. Papers, 1838-1874.

Title: Papers, 1838-1874.

Papers containing routine business and political letters; letter, 1846, from Rhett to Franklin Harper Elmore concerning the elections of 1846; and a letter, 1858, from William H. Branch to R.B. Rhett, Jr., expressing the hope that the elder Rhett would be returned to the U.S. Senate. Also, accounts, 1853-1866, from Rhett's plantation in Altamaha, Ga.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

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F. H. Elmore Papers, 1795-1858, (bulk 1839-1850)

Title: F. H. Elmore Papers 1795-1858 (bulk 1839-1850)

Lawyer, banker, and United States representative from South Carolina. Chiefly business correspondence and financial papers relating to Elmore's manufacturing interests and his presidency of the Bank of South Carolina, Charleston.

ArchivalResource: 1,750 items; 12 containers; 3.6 linear feet

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Memminger, C. G. (Christopher Gustavus), 1803-1888. C.G. Memminger papers, 1830-1880.

Title: C.G. Memminger papers, 1830-1880.

Personal and business records of legal practice in Charleston, re politics, education, and Memminger's tenure as Sec. of Confederate Treasury; including 2 letters, 7 Mar. 1830 and 2 Dec. 1847, Washington, D.C., and Columbia, S.C., to Franklin Harper Elmore, re politics, railroad finances, and Elmore's joining a secessionist group in Walterboro, S.C.; letter, 16 June 1832, Charleston, S.C., to Gidion Higgins, East Haddam, Conn., re verdict in Higgins' legal case. Letter, 12 Nov. 1839, Charleston, to James M. Adams, Emory College, Covington, Ga., re membership in educational society; report, c. 1860, re public schools and teachers in Charleston; letter, 4 Apr. 1862, Richmond, Va., to Gen. William W. Harllee, Columbia, S.C., re defense of Georgetown and keeping slaves away from enemy; letter, 20 Jan. 1863, Confederate States Army Treasury Department, Richmond, Va., to Rev. James Petigru Boyce, Columbia, S.C., re issuing bonds to bolster Confederate treasury. Two letters, 20 Apr. 1863 and 12 Nov. 1863, Richmond, Va., to Robert Woodward Barnwell and George Frederick Holmes, re reaction to Confederate taxes and labor problems within Confederate Treasury; 4 letters, 23 Aug. 1876, 3 Sept. 1878, 6 Sept. 1880, and 17 Sept. 1881, Flat Rock, N.C., and Charleston, S.C., to Edward McCrady, re election campaign of 1876 and Protestant Episcopal Church; and volume, 1857, Charleston, S.C., by Marcus Lafayette Byrn, "The repository of wit and humor ..." Also including microfilm (R-240), of papers, 1803-1915, held at UNC with guide, 1966, to film, including letters, 1803-1812, from members of Memminger family in Germany; and letters, 1854, to his wife, Mary Wilkinson Memminger, from Europe; topics include secession; Confederate Treasury; papers of Thomas B. Memminger, Confederate surgeon; Reconstruction; and account book, 1838-1855, of expenses at summer home at Flat Rock, N.C.; and personal letters of Tracy family of Macon, Ga.

ArchivalResource: 34 items and 1 volume.

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Seabrook, Whitemarsh B. (Whitemarsh Benjamin), 1795-1855. Whitemarsh B. Seabrook correspondence, 1849-1852.

Title: Whitemarsh B. Seabrook correspondence, 1849-1852.

Correspondence relating to South Carolina and national politics. Correspondents include A. P. Butler, H. W. Collier, William DuBose, F. H. Elmore, Maxcy Gregg, Isaac W. Hayne, Thomas Lehre, John H. Leland, C. G. Memminger, W. D. Moseley, Henry William Peronneau, John Anthony Quitman, Robert Barnwell Rhett, George Washington Bonaparte Towns, and Daniel Wallace.

ArchivalResource: 29 items.

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Seabrook, Whitemarsh B. (Whitemarsh Benjamin), 1795-1855. Whitemarsh B. Seabrook papers, 1840-1859 [manuscript].

Title: Whitemarsh B. Seabrook papers, 1840-1859 [manuscript].

Letters, 1849-1852, to and from Whitemarsh Seabrook written mainly during his terms of office as South Carolina governor; most of the letters are marked "Private and Confidential." Included are letters of governors W. D. Moseley of Florida, George W. Towns of Georgia, and J. A. Quitman of Mississippi, in answer to a circular letter sent Setpember 1850 calling for organized resistance to the North. There are also letters from F. H. Elmore regarding the work of the central committee; on the eligibility of General James Hamilton for U.S. senator; and from William Gregg on manufacturing in Southern states. Also included are bills for slaves and deeds relating to Edisto Island, S.C., and St. Luke's Parish, S.C., 1840 and 1854-1859.

ArchivalResource: 35 items (2 reels of microfilm).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35733774 View

Sims, Joseph Starke. Joseph Starke Sims papers, 1819-1903 and undated

Title: Joseph Starke Sims papers, 1819-1903 and undated

Correspondence, financial records, legal documents, clippings, account books, commissions, addresses and speeches, and a diploma. Correspondence concerns chiefly cotton growing, trade and prices; slaves who worked in cotton fields; financial matters; Washington, D.C. politics, with references to Henry Clay and John Calhoun; state and national politics; descriptions of newly settled areas of Mississippi and California; and a cholera outbreak in Charleston (1832). Civil War letters detail problems at Fort Sumter (1861), and often refer to economic difficulties and shortages in South Carolina. Other Civil War letters are also written from Manassas, Alabama, and Mississippi. One letter from Mississippi details the desperation of women left alone and unable to flee before the advancing Union Army. Post-war letters reveal the problems of Reconstruction in South Carolina. Many of the letters are to Sim's wife Jane Emily Sims (Farnandis). Includes an autobiographical letter from J.K. Paulding, author and statesman, and an essay by the same, entitled "The history of Uncle Sam and his boys." Some of Sims' addresses and one of the legal documents concern Nullification, which Sims' strongly supported. Other documents include an obituary for Franklin H. Elmore, plantation and general account books, and some material on Sims' student days at South Carolina College (ca. 1817-1819), which includes a letter to his brother in 1819 "in defence of General Jackson," and his "treatment of the Indians."

ArchivalResource: 295 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32878773 View

Richardson, John Peter, 1801-1864. John Peter Richardson papers, 1837-1844.

Title: John Peter Richardson papers, 1837-1844.

Letter, 9 Oct. 1837, to publishers Gales & Seaton requesting copes of General [Waddy] Thompson's speech in Congress. Letter, 14 Mar. 1838, (Washington, D.C.), to Col. James Chesnut (Camden, S.C.), reporting [Franklin Harper] Elmore's service on a committee to investigate a duel between Jonathan Cilley and William Jordan Graves; the premeditated and personal attack of [Henry] Clay and [Daniel] Webster on [John C.] Calhoun re currency question and their abuse of Nullification Doctrine; failure of [William C. Preston] to aide Calhoun; the dangerous situation re the Abolition question; plans to decline re-election, and enclosing receipt for subscription to the U.S. Magazine, and reporting his liberal contribution to the establishment of the Washington Chronicle. Letter, 13 Apr. 1844, sent from "Sand-hills" in Sumter District, S.C., to John L[aurence] Manning requesting that Dr. [Robert W.] Gibbes be sent to provide treatment to Richardson's ailing mother.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

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Wood, William W., 1816-1882. Papers of William W. Wood and Thomas Newton Wood, 1836-1906.

Title: Papers of William W. Wood and Thomas Newton Wood, 1836-1906.

Papers of William W. Wood consist of correspondence, including three letters from F. H. Elmore; indenture of Wood's apprenticeship to West Point Foundry Association; and printed matter. Papers of his son Thomas Newton Wood consist of correspondence with Anderson C. Quisenberry and Edwin Longnecker; diary kept as a student at the U.S. Naval Academy; notebook (1873) describing the East Indies, Morocco, and Japan; unpublished article (1891) entitled The Marines; commissions; and scrapbook (1872-1884) containing newspaper clippings, photographs, telegrams, and visiting cards.

ArchivalResource: 28 items.1 container.

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F. H. Elmore Papers, 1833-1936

Title: F. H. Elmore Papers, 1833-1936

F. H. Elmore, of Walterboro, Columbia, and Charleston, S.C., was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1836-1839; president of the State Bank of South Carolina, 1839-1850; and U.S. Senator, appointed to succeed John C. Calhoun, from 11 April 1850 until his death on 29 May 1850. He married Harriet Chesnut Taylor (fl. 1819-1865) in 1827. A small part of this collection consists of original items of Franklin Harper Elmore: family letters, correspondence from friends and associates relating to his political activities, and letters relating to his activities as president of the State Bank of South Carolina and his involvement in cotton marketing in England. There are also newspaper clippings about Elmore; memoirs and reminiscences of his daughter, Sally Canty (Elmore) Taylor, describing her experiences in Washington, D.C., in the 1830s, in Charleston, S.C., in the 1840s, and in Columbia, S.C., from the late 1850s through Reconstruction; genealogical information on the Elmore and the related Marshall, Martin, Nesbitt, and Taylor families; and copies of Elmore family documents held by the South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina.

ArchivalResource: 130; 0.5

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Rhett, Robert Barnwell, 1800-1876. Robert Barnwell Rhett papers, 1752-1953.

Title: Robert Barnwell Rhett papers, 1752-1953.

Correspondence of Robert Barnwell Rhett and the Rhett family re politics, family news, first secession crisis of 1850, the Civil War, military leaders, and social and military events. Letter, 10 Feb. 1832, to Waddy Thompson (Greenville, S.C.), offering to serve the State as Attorney General if "Mr. [Hugh Swinton] Legare accepts the mission to Belgium"; 4 Apr. 1842, to Hiland Hall, re the claim of children of Capt. Wilkins, who was killed, 1779, at the Battle of Beaufort during the Revolutionary War; 4 letters, 19 Jan. 1843, 11 June 1851, 22 Nov. 1852, and undated to Oresties Brownson and others requesting certain government publications, suggesting the appointment of [Franklin H.] Elmore as commissioner to build the U.S. Custom House in Charleston, and attempts to publish a political pamphlet; and 3 letters, ca. 1847-25 July 1848, re the appointment of midshipmen, including letter, 25 July 1848, to Secretary of the Navy, John Y[oung] Mason, requesting that he appoint William H. Duncan of Barnwell, S.C., to the U.S. Naval Academy. Letter, 1 Mar. 1849, to Daniel Webster, ackowledging receipt of a book, miniature portrait, and gifts to his daughter and declaring "altho' I have differed with you on questions of International policy - I have not differed at all with you in your administration of the State Department.... The high and catholic spirit which pervaded your whole course - vindicating with an ability certainly unsurpassed by any of your predecessors in this distinguished office - the honor of the union - and the rights and interests of all of its sections equally - entitle you to the admiration of all Statesmen at home or abroad." Letter, 20 July 1850, Charleston, S.C., to Col. H[enry] L[ewis] Benning, Columbus, Ga., in which Rhett sends a copy of his speech reporting on the Nashville Convention during the first secession crisis, delivered, 21 June 1850, at Hibernian Hall in Charleston; this speech was published in the Charleston Daily Courier (20 July 1850), "It was quite extempore.... But a cunning and malicious whig, travestied it, under the signature of 'Curtius,' and I have been obliged to publish it.... It excited more applause & enthusiasm here than any speech I ever delivered" [Letter signed "Curtius" published, 25 June 1850, in Charleston Daily Courier]. Seven letters, 13 Jan 1851 - 27 Mar. 1852 (from Charleston, S.C. [Ashepoo Ferry], and Washington, D.C.) to sons Andrew Burnett Rhett and Edmund Rhett, both enrolled as students at S.C. College, offering fatherly advice, commenting on their studies, advising Andrew on the care of his eyes, and sending them money, commenting on national politics, including letter, 13 Jan. 1851, re potential of S.C's secession, others "are looking with intense interest at the course of things in South Carolina.... of course you will volunteer, if there is any prospect of the Gov't coercing South Carolina"; his difficult financial situation and sending copy of "The Address" to Columbia for publication (13 Apr. 1851); letter, 27 Feb. 1852, re necessity of his replying to Jeremiah Clemens and Lewis Cass, and finding it a disagreeable task, "I abhor contention of any kind, and fear it, for my temper is I fear far from being moderate or good"; and autobiographical sketch [1858] prepared for Charles Lanman's Dictionary of the U.S. Congress. Civil War items include 13 letters, 12 Feb. 1861 - 10 Mar. 1863 (from Montgomery, Ala., and Richmond, Va.) to son R.B. Rhett, Jr., the editor of Charleston Mercury newspaper, re organization of the Confederate states, comments on Gen. [Bushrod] Johnson, and P.G.T. Beauregard, office seekers, [Christopher Gustavus] Memminger and a cabinet post, criticism of Jefferson Davis, inflation and exhorbitant prices, internal improvements law, behavoir of African American slaves and free people of color, personal finances, a speech for publication, and request for information and publications re the pension question.

ArchivalResource: 3.75 linear ft. (3 cartons)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41442327 View