Papers consist of plantation and medical papers, correspondence, and other items. Plantation papers include an account book (1851-1864) containing a general cash account; accounts for bonds and notes; and accounts for sales of lumber, rice, and bricks, as well as for plantation and personal expenses. The book also contains a few journal entries (1863-1865) mainly pertaining to shipments of lumber (mostly pine) by boat. In addition, there are clippings and receipts pasted into the book. Other plantation papers include loose accounts; receipts; papers (1836-1845) relating to the purchase of the Grove, Brabant, and Moreland plantations including a mortgage and other legal documents, receipts, and related correspondence; and slave records, including receipts, a slave bill of sale (1854), an abstract of title (1854) to a slave named Caesar, and a handbill (1849) advertising the sale in Charleston (S.C.) of "72 Rice Field Negroes" (listing their names and qualifications). Medical papers consist of reports on cases of yellow fever, bilious remittent fever, and gastritis on Sullivan's Island (S.C.) in 1858; "General directions about the Cholera" (instructions for diagnosis and treatment) which were "sent to Mr. Lamb at the Grove [Plantation] in September 1836"; prescriptions for medicines for cholera; a receipt (1858) for rent of a house on Sullivan's Island used for a hospital; and accounts of Dr. Edmund Ravenel with the U.S. Hospital at Fort Moultrie. Correspondence includes a letter (1854) from Edmund Ravenel to his wife concerning cases of yellow fever on Sullivan's Island and the devastation wrought by a hurricane there (describing damage to his plantation, also); letters (1858) concerning a dispute over the location of a hospital; and a draft of a letter (n.d.) concerning an epidemic of bilious remittent fever and cases of yellow fever on Sullivan's Island. Other items include a fragment of a devotional book (1857?) containing prayers and meditations, and a bond (1863).
