Mitchell King papers, 1814-1911.

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Mitchell King papers, 1814-1911.

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Chiefly letters to Hugh Swinton Legare and letters from J[ames] G[ettys] M[cGready] Ramsey discussing political climate in South Carolina re nullification controversy and publication of Ramsey's The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Correspondence from Charleston, S.C., and Savannah, Ga., to Legare in Brussels include letters, 5 Mar. 1833 (incomplete), re political manueverings of John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster and rumors of Duff Green being appointed printer; 5 May 1833, detailing the ascendency of the nullifiers at the recent election, their recklessness, expressing fear of the possibility of war, commenting re [Thomas Smith] Grimke, [James Louis] Petigru, [William] Drayton and Drayton's mistreatment by the "dominant party" in the state convention; 14 Sept. 1833, re his son's educational experience in Germany and Grimke's withdrawal from society since the nullification ordinance; and 15 Dec. 1834 re the abatement of nullifcation furor in South Carolina. King's other correspondence includes letters, 10 Oct. 1853, from J[ames] G[ettys] M[cCready] Ramsey, Mecklenburg, Tenn., discussing problems with his Charleston publisher re sale and distribution of his The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century, and inquiring if King could suggest a Presbyterian minister to take the church; and 27 Feb. 1862, Charleston, to King's grandaughters at Flat Rock, N.C., re moving from Charleston due to expected attack, efforts to secure a plantation near Augusta, Ga., and "desertion of great number of negroes to our enemies."

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