Caroline Petigru Carson papers, 1853-1892.

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Caroline Petigru Carson papers, 1853-1892.

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Papers consist of personal and family correspondence, estate papers, diaries, journals, notes, and other items pertaining to Caroline Petigru Carson. Correspondence of Caroline P. Carson is mainly with her father, James L. Petigru, and her sons, William A. and James Petigru Carson, from New York (N.Y.), and from Italy and elsewhere in Europe. Other correspondents include Gen. J.J. Pettigrew, Henry Ward Beecher, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Gen. William T. Sherman, and Orville Dewey. Letters concern family, legal, and financial matters, the French spoliation claims, Dean Hall Plantation, and social, political, and cultural affairs in Rome (Italy). Estate papers include an estate inventory, lists of personal belongings, Carson's will, and accounts. Other items include suggestions for the epitaph of James Louis Petigru, invitations, address books, a poem, a list (1861) of items lost in a fire, and notes on painting and photography techniques. Diaries (1872-1892) concern personal, family, and social matters and travels. Journals include a travel journal (1861-1875) noting expenses.

ca. 730 items.

South Carolina Historical Society

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South Carolina Historical Society

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Petigru, James Louis, 1789-1863

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Lawyer of Charleston, S.C.; Union Party supporter and opponent of nullification and secession; Attorney General of S.C., 1822-1830; unsuccessful Unionist candidate for the S.C. Senate, 1830; code commissioner, 1859-1863; graduate, S.C. College, 1809; son of William Pettigrew (1758-1837) and Louise Guy Gibert Pettigrew; husband of Jane Amelia Postell; father of artist Caroline Petigru Carson (b. 1820-1892). From the description of James Louis Petigru papers, 1822-1948. (University of ...

Carson, Caroline, 1820-1892

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Caroline Petigru Carson, daughter of James Louis Petigru (1789-1863), a South Carolina attorney, writer, and politician, was an artist and poet. She married William Augustus Carson (1800-1856), a South Carolina rice plantation owner, in 1841. She died in Rome, Italy, where she had moved during the Civil War. From the description of A walk in the pine forest : poem, 1848. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32144344 Charleston, South Carolina artist a...

Carson, James Petigru, 1845-

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New York and South Carolina engineer, mineralogist, author, and inventor. A graduate of the Columbia College School of Mines, he was the son of Caroline Petigru Carson (1820-1892), and the grandson of James Louis Petigru (1789-1863). From the description of James Petigru Carson papers, 1822-1922. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 35953672 ...

Petigru family.

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Carson, William A., 1842-1904.

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William A. Carson was the son of Caroline Petigru Carson, the daughter of South Carolina politician James Louis Petigru. From the description of William Carson papers, 1857-1858. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32144367 ...