This collection contains correspondence, David McCord Wright's writings on economics and law, genealogies, clippings, printed materials, scrapbooks and photographs. The correspondence, arranged in chronological order, includes immediate family and connecting lines and David McCord Wright's business, personal and economic correspondence. Of note in the family correspondents are Langdon Cheves, John Bennett, Samuel Gaillard Stoney and H.W. Fellden of Burwash, Sussex, England, whose wife was Julie McCord of Charleston, South Carolina. David Wright's correspondence on economic and political affairs is with well-known persons in America, England and Kikera Yamaoka of Japan. The correspondence covers the years 1908 - May 1978. The family correspondence concerns personal matters, and social life in Charleston and Pendleton, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia. There are many letters from David Wright to his mother while he was a student at the Citadel, at the University of Pennsylvania, at the University of Virginia and at Harvard; also from Oxford University while he was a Fulbright lecturer. In 1930 he went to the Double S Ranch, Cliff, New Mexico, to recover from arthritis and his letters of that period relate his experiences there. There are letters to David Wright from notable politicians and economists; e.g., Walter F. George, Richard B. Russell, Herman Talmadge, Carl E. Sanders, Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., Walter W. Heller, Arthur F. Burns, J.A. Schumpeter, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Paul A. Samuelson, Milton Friedman, C.S. Lewis, Virginius Dabney, Eugene Rostow, Harry Byrd, J.K. Galbraith, John F. Kennedy, Leverett F. Saltonstall, William F. Buckley, Henry R. Luce, John Foster Dulles, et al. (See contents listing). Some speeches and essays of Anton Pope Wright and the memoirs of Mrs. Anton Pope Wright are in the collection. There are 8 boxes of genealogical materials collected by David McCord Wright, arranged alphabetically by name of family, 3 boxes of David Wright's writings on economics and 2 boxes of photographs.
