Charles Stuart Vedder papers, 1848-1912.

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Charles Stuart Vedder papers, 1848-1912.

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Correspondence and diaries re Vedder's career as a student, bank clerk, and pastor; topics addressed include religion; fellow clergy; duties as chaplain during Civil War; secession; reconstruction; social activities; establishing a home for Confederate widows and orphans; French Huguenot Church; and New England Society of Charleston, S.C. Including entry, 26 Apr. 1870, re meetings with Gen. [Robert E.] Lee, and the Adger, Howe, Bennet, Leland, Woodrow, McMaster, Tupper, Middleton, Ravenel, DeSaussure, Pringle, Burkmeyer, Simonton, Gailland, Prioleau, and Richardson families; volume, 1864-1904, Vedder's sermons and scripture book; 5 volumes, 1851-1912, newspaper clippings re Vedder's sermons and activities; activities of other Charleston clergy; obituaries; and 1912 history of French Huguenot Church on its 225th anniversary. Nineteen manuscripts, June 1851-21 May 1912 and undated, New York, N.Y., New Rochelle, N.Y., and Charleston, S.C., re activities of Charleston Presbytery, New England Society, 225th anniversary of the French Huguenot Church, John Howard Association re prison reform, and Vedder's travels in Europe, and miscellaneous sermons, addresses, and verse. Also including copy of sermon, 1677, by Simon Prioleau, delivered at Pons, France; contract, 20 July 1882, between Julia Graves and A.L. Bayer, Women's Christian Temperance Union re sale of business equipment; certificate, 22 Dec. 1881, re membership in the New England Society; poem, 1899, by C.S. Vedder, re Confederate reunion; invitation, 14 Apr. 1912, Charleston, S.C., for 225th anniversary celebration of the French Huguenot Church.

28 items and 17 v.

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