Reed family papers, 1855-1953.

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Reed family papers, 1855-1953.

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Manuscripts generated and/or collected by the family of James Otey Reed (1846-1922), civic leader, educator, and businessman, of St. George, S.C., and his wife, Elinor Murry Reed; including personal and business correspondence, manuscript verse and prose, contracts, bills, and receipts. Items of interest include juvenile letters, 1855-1857, written by J.O. Reed as a schoolboy in Peekskill, N.Y., and Columbia, S.C.; letter, 14 Feb. 1918, from Ambrose E. Gonzales, Columbia, thanking J.O. Reed for his expression of pleasure with Gonzales' Gullah tales and indicating his desire to compile them in book form; letter, 3 Nov. 1921, from Mrs. Henry F. Dimock, Washington, D.C., re plans for laying the cornerstone of the National Victory Memorial Building, a project chaired in South Carolina by Elinor M. Reed. Later items include papers, 1931-1934, re the biographical sketch of J.O. Reed appearing in Wallace's History of South Carolina. Also documenting J.O. Reed's membership in the National Song Society of America, an organization advocating adoption of a national anthem for the United States; and Elinor M. Reed's role as state chairman, Woman's Division, Council of National Defense. Other correspondents include U.S. Representative George S. Legare, and Clemson horticulturalist C.C. Newman.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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