Glass family papers, 1758-1938; (bulk, 1840-1887).

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Glass family papers, 1758-1938; (bulk, 1840-1887).

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Correspondence, clippings, and legal records documenting the life of John Glass (1794-1878) as newspaper editor in Columbia and Fairfield, S.C., and as railroad bookkeeper in Talbot County, Ga. Includes letters written to his son, Peter Bryce Glass (1834-1888), discussing Columbia politics; public opinion re James Hopkins Adams; slavery; abolitionists; Glass' relief at the 1851 defeat of the secessionists in South Carolina; his views re life in Georgia, and ethnic relations among Irish and native railroad workers; and Civil War letters re social conditions and race relations in Columbia and Charleston, S.C., and Marietta, Ga., and various places. Other primary correspondents include Ella Tradewell Glass, Elizabeth Faust Tradewell, Annie Snead, and Lavinia Snead Dunwoody Volumes include notebook, 1843-1849, 1887, kept by Peter Bryce Glass as a student at Cokesbury, with addresses, poetry, essays, and a list of books in his library. Other family papers include document, 9 May 1820, granting conveyance of slaves within the Waring family, Charleston District; 26 typed copies, 1846-1860, of bills of sale of slaves in Florida; original poetry, medicinal labels for prescriptions filled by Glass's Pharmacy, Columbia; various broadsides and circular lettters; and genealogical information re the Beard, Boatwright, Dunn, Faribanks, Faust, Gooch, Massey, Snead, and Tradewell families.

199 items and 8 volumes.

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7258564

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Gooch family.

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