Letters to Della Torre from family and friends in Charleston, S.C., chiefly his mother and his sister Rose; including letter, 22 Sept. 1834, Charleston, S.C., from his mother to PDT in Boston, Mass., relating news of an outbreak of "Strangers Fever" in Charleston and cholera and the impact on the enslaved African American community, including along the Savannah River where the "loss of Negroes and Crops is immense....Many of the Planters hurried their people into the Pine Lands where the disease seems divested of its fatality and a great many Negroes have of themselves fled for their lives to the woods." Della Torre was in [West] Virginia with Col. Wade Hampton, III (1818-1902) at a resort in White Sulpher Springs, when his mother wrote on 6 Sept. 1837, with news of the Charleston mayoral election. Letter, 8 Dec. 1845, Columbia, S.C., from sister Rose, re the reception of two young women into the nunnery at the Catholic cathedral in Charleston; letter, 29 Nov. 1846, from Henry W. Wienges contends that "the Chivalry of Charleston is rapidly improving" due to the number of officers enrolling in the volunteer corps [presumably the Washington Light Artillery, of which Della Torre served as captain]. Letter, 14 Feb. 1847, Charleston, S.C., from John Bauskett, Edgefield, S.C., re a judgment against the estate of James H. Poag, which was represented by Della Torre; letters re legal affairs, 3 July 1854 and undated, both written from Charleston, S.C.
