John Berkley Grimball diaries, 1832-1883.

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John Berkley Grimball diaries, 1832-1883.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22612724

Grimball's diary discusses plantation management and cultivation of crops, especially rice; slavery and free blacks; plantation finances; social and cultural life in Charleston, S.C.; travel, especially to the Virginia springs and to New York, and the modes of transportation he used in his travels; the suffering of the civilian population during the Civil War and Reconstruction; the Episcopal church to which Grimball's wife and children belonged and the Presbyterian church where he worshipped; the education of his children, including a son who studied law, another who studied medicine, a third who went to the United States Naval Academy, and a daughter who attended Montpellier Institute in Macon, Ga.; and his own and his family's health problems, including struggles during various epidemics. The diary also contains entries about members of families to which Grimball was related, largely through his wife, including the Manigault and Lowndes families of Charleston and the Morris family of Morrisania, N.Y. There is also mention of an 1834 hot air balloon ascension and of a duel in 1856.

17 v. (1.5 linear ft.)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Grimball, Margaret Ann Meta Morris, 1810-1881

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United States Naval Academy

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Lowndes family.

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