Sally Baxter Hampton papers, 1853-1899.

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Sally Baxter Hampton papers, 1853-1899.

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Chiefly correspondence of Sarah (Sally) Strong Baxter Hampton with her family in Boston, Mass., with observations re antebellum and Civil War life in South Carolina and her 1855 marriage to Frank Hampton. Includes 10 letters, 1853-1862, by British writer W[illiam] M[akepeace] T[hackery] written from London, Paris, Scotland, and various places; and 51 letters, 1887-1897, from historian Henry Adams to Mrs. Hampton's sister, Lucy Wainwright Baxter, of Quincy, Mass., discussing his writing and his disapproval of the McKinley administration. Contains letters of Sally Hampton, written from Millwood and Woodlands plantations and various places and describing social activites with the Lieber, Preston, Hampton and other prominent families; travel accounts, together with her father's description, 3 Mar. 1854, of his first tour of a rice plantation and its slave cabins; 2 letters, Mar. 1859, relating her visit to a sugar plantation in Cuba, and her impressions of Cuban slavery; and antebellulm and Civil War-era letters re the political situation in South Carolina, her support of slavery and opposition to abolitionists, her concern over the secession crisis, the sending of letters through the blockade, and her decision to remain in South Carolina, where she died in 1862. Also includes 6 letters, 1885-1899, of Sally Hampton's youngest daughter, Caroline Hampton, to her aunt, Lucy Wainwright Baxter (1836-1922), describing festivities surrounding her marriage in 1890 to Baltimore physician William Stewart Halsted (1852-1922).

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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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Adams, Henry, 1838-1918

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Henry Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, was educated at Harvard and served as secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams, when he was Minister to England. He rejected a political career to teach history at Harvard and edit The North American review, 1870-1877, then returned to Washington. He wrote prolifically on many subjects and is best known for his Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres (1904) and The education of Henry Adams (1907). From the description of Henry Adam...

Hampton, Frank, 1829-1863

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Hampton family.

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Halsted, William, 1852-1922

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Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863

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Amy Crowe (1831-1865) was a family friend who lived with Thackeray as his adopted daughter and later married Thackerays̓ cousin Edward Talbot Thackeray. From the description of [Letter] to Amy Crowe, 27 September [1854], 36 Onslow Sqr. Brompton. [1854] (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 35091085 Thackeray was an English novelist and satirist. J. Pearson and Co. and George William Childs were booksellers in London. Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchi...

Hampton, Caroline, 1861-1922

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Thackery, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.

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Hampton, Sally Baxter, 1833-1862

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New York City native and wife of planter Frank Hampton of Woodlands plantation, Columbia, S.C.; died from tuberculosis, 1862, in South Carolina; full name Sarah Strong Baxter Hampton. From the description of Sally Baxter Hampton papers, 1853-1899. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 30317138 ...

Baxter, Lucy Wainwright, 1836-1922

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