Ellison S. Keitt papers, 1847-1900.

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Ellison S. Keitt papers, 1847-1900.

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Business papers, military commissions, and correspondence, including manuscript, 14 Jan. 1853, re agreement with James B. Magill foroperating a school at Union Church [Newberry Co., S.C.?] with a list of subscribers; 2 letters, 13 Dec. 1853 and 1 Jan. 1854, Washington, D.C., L[awrence] M. Keitt, re life in Washington, probable hostilities in upcoming session of Congress over slavery in the Nebraska, Kansas and Cherokee Territories, and reporting large numbers of South Carolinians in Florida. Letter, 4 Mar. [18]54, St. Matthews, S.C., from J[ohn] J[acob]Wannamaker, re area marriages and fire in Orangeburg, S.C.; 2 letters, 5 Sept. 1859 and 27 Mar. 1861, Branchville, S.C., D.W. Cameron, to Felicia Canfield, Maine, commenting on Branchville's new school and Methodist and Presbyterian Churches; letter 2 June [18]64, Chicora Academy, re death of Lawrence [M Keitt]; and letter, 29 Feb. 1867, Charleston, S.C., from Sue Sparks Keitt, cautioning Ellison Keitt against running for Congress prematurely. Also includes letter, 19 Jan. 1869, New York, N.Y., Edward Ham, to "Dear Gov." [Robert K. Scott?], re favorable impression of Ellison Keitt, Reconstruction in the South, motives of certain Northerners for waging war, and evaluation of Robert E. Lee, T.J. Jackson, Gen. [John Brown?] Gordon, and Wade Hampton; and manuscript, 10 July [18]76], "To the Editor [of the] News and Courier," with note to [Francis W.] Dawson, re supporting J[oseph] B. Kershaw and Johnson Hagood in coming election. Also including 2 letters, 19 and 20 Dec. 1879, Enoree Plantation, to F.W. Dawson, suggesting nomination of [U.S.] Grant and [Thomas F.] Bayard for president and vice-president; 2 manuscripts, ca. 1900, re Keitt's reminiscences, genealogical information, Keitt's childhood, education, Civil War service in Charleston, S.C., provisional government under Benjamin F. Perry, relations with freedmen, Northern travels, participation in political campaigns, Reconstruction, Wade Hampton's election, and Keitt's role in establishing the "Wallace House" in 1876 [refering to Hon. William Henry Wallace, who presided over the lower house of the General Assembly at the end of Reconstruction]; undated letter to his son, J[oseph] L. Keitt, requesting him to attend to some plantation business; and scrapbook, 1867-1876, with newspaper clippings re Reconstruction in South Carolina and activities of the Ku Klux Klan.

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