Albert Sidney Thomas papers, 1883-1973.

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Albert Sidney Thomas papers, 1883-1973.

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Correspondence, telegrams, and other papers plus 49 volumes (account books, sermons, etc.) re Thomas's career in the Protestant Episcopal Church including service at St. Matthew's (Darlington, S.C.), with registers (1901-1922) of marriages, baptisms, confirmations, and burials. Correspondence with Charles Edward Thomas, re biography of his father, John Peyre Thomas; letters re publication of Thomas's History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in South Carolina; other items re genealogy of Thomas family, and genealogical information on Gibbes, Broun, and other families. Papers include 32 school notebooks (1892-1917); correspondence and other papers (1960-1964) relating to operation of Porter Military Academy (Charleston, S.C.); and scrapbooks, re Dalcho Historical Society, Huguenot Society, and Thomas' political activities; church history materials include 4 v. (1892-1968) compiled by Charles Edward Thomas containing news stories about career of A.S. Thomas and others, and religious events; other scrapbooks cover the Citadel, University of the South, and social issues, including civil rights, race relations, segregation, and integration. Church history materials include 4 v. (1892-1968) compiled by Charles Edward Thomas re Bishop Thomas's career, the Citadel, University of the South, and social issues, including civil rights, segregation, and integration; other corrspondents include Stanley F. Morse, Gen. Mark Clark, Eleanor Walter Thomas, and Harold Thomas; places represented include Columbia, Greenville, Rockville, Darlington, Society Hill, Marion, Hartsville, Wadmalaw Island, and Fairfield County, S.C., and Sewanee, Tenn. Also including bound volume of two panphlets written by Samuel Dubose and one by Frederick A. Porcher, (published 1850, 1852, and 1858; filed in Box 3) re history of St. Stephens Parish and Berkeley County, S.C., with Thomas' annotations [for details, select TITLE search in catalog for Thomas Albert Sidney papers]. Reproduction of map, 1934, attributed to William H. Johnson, M.D., identifying plantations, churches, settlements, taverns, etc., of the Santee, Ashley, and Cooper River basins, including note, "places mostly from Sam Dubose and Prof. F.A. Porcher's addresses about 1860."

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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