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Brooks, Whitfield, 1790-1851. Whitfield Brooks travel diary, 1845 Nov. 14-1846 Jan.

Title: Whitfield Brooks travel diary, 1845 Nov. 14-1846 Jan.

This volume is entitled "A book for entry of daily occurrences in the form of a diary by Whitfield Brooks, commencing on the 14th of November 1845." The entries, which always note the day's weather, run through Jan. 1846. Brooks describes a winter trip to Florida for the "restoration of my health." He leaves from Aiken, S.C., and passes through Charleston, S.C., and then Savannah, Ga., where he describes social activities, mostly in the company of Judge John MacPherson Berrien and family of Savannah. Brooks travels down the Georgia coast by boat to Jacksonville, Fla., and describes the town, its people, and environs. Other Florida places he describes include St. Augustine; Palatka ("a dirty place"); Volusia; and Blue Springs (a place of "transparent" waters). Brooks also makes observations on the climate, wildlife, and agriculture (including cotton growing) of east Florida. Traveling down the St. Johns River, he arrives at the inn of Major Taylor (Cornelius Taylor, a first cousin of Zachary Taylor) on Lake Monroe (Enterprise, Fla.), where his health temporarily improves. On one of Brooks' excursions on the lake he sees Fort Mellon. In December he begins a return trip home on the St. Marys River. By Jan. 1846 he is travelling back up the Georgia coast, and after a brief stop in Beaufort, S.C., he arrives in Charleston.

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Wigfall, Louis Trezevant. Wigfall, Louis Trezevant Papers, 1833-1874

Title: Wigfall, Louis Trezevant Papers, 1833-1874

A secessionist and staunch believer in slavery and the chivalric code, Louis Trezevant Wigfall was active in Texas politics, taking part in the Galveston County Democratic convention, 1848, and serving in the Texas House of Representatives, 1850-1857.

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Brooks, Preston S. (Preston Smith), 1819-1857. Preston S. Brooks papers, 1828-1938.

Title: Preston S. Brooks papers, 1828-1938.

Correspondence and other papers re Brooks' service in the Palmetto Regiment during the Mexican War, and items re the aftermath of his altercation with U.S. Senator Charles Sumner. Includes letters of James Hopkins Adams, Whitfield Brooks, Pierce Mason Butler, James Lawrence Orr, and others. Printed chemistry textbook, 1835, with manuscript notations, 1839 and undated, in the hand of P.S. Brooks on a flyleaf at the back of the volume. The notations, which appear to be practice drafts of financial notes, are dated 1 Nov. 1839 and labeled "Form of a 'Due Bill'" and "Form of a Note." Scrapbook, 1836-1933, re newspaper clippings chiefly re P.S. Brooks' career in the Mexican War and in Congress, his altercation with and attack on Sen. Charles Sumner and public reaction; obiturary notices and editorial tributes at the time of his death, information re descendants and genealogy; and printed broadside, 1857, "Arrangements for the Reception of the Remains of Hon. Preston S. Brooks."x`

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Wigfall (Louis Trezevant) Papers 1934; 1935., 1839-1874

Title: Wigfall (Louis Trezevant)Papers 1839-1874

A secessionist and staunch believerin slavery and the chivalric code, Louis Trezevant Wigfall was active in Texaspolitics, taking part in the Galveston County Democratic convention, 1848, andserving in the Texas House of Representatives, 1850-1857. Photostats and transcriptsof correspondence, a speech, legal documents, genealogy and family history,newspaper accounts, and literary productions comprise the papers.

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