Henry Workman Conner papers, 1818-1861.

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Henry Workman Conner papers, 1818-1861.

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Papers consist of financial and business records, family correspondence, a diary, and other items. Business and financial records include correspondence, conveyances, receipts, stock certificates (for shares in the Charleston Sugar Refining Co., the Georgia Railroad and Banking Co., and other companies), tax returns, mortgages, and other items. Correspondence mainly concerns real estate transactions and debt collections. Correspondents include George R. Fairbanks and Peter B. Boutan of St. Augustine, Fla., and others. Family correspondence consists of two letters (1825,1833) from Conner to his mother and sister regarding family financial affairs and the Marquis de Lafayette's visit to Charleston, and a letter (16 July 1838) to his wife Julia A.M. Conner about his travels in England and Europe. A commonplace book (1850s) contains passages on economics, tensions between the non-slaveholding states and the South, states' rights, U.S. commerce, and other subjects; a few clippings are pasted into the book. Other items include copies of the will (1834) of James Conner (1751-1835) and the will (1861) of Henry W. Conner; a legal opinion (1845) regarding surety bonds on clerks employed by the Bank of Charleston; and inventories of Henry W. Conner's properties, inlcluding real estate in several states, slaves and other personal property, and investment and business interests.

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