Robert Woodward Barnwell (1831-1863) papers, 1856-1862.

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Robert Woodward Barnwell (1831-1863) papers, 1856-1862.

Chiefly correspondence from Robert Woodward Barnwell reporting conditions at South Carolina College, students' progress, conduct, and spiritual wellbeing. Correspondents inlcude Board of Trustees, college presidents Charles F. McKay and Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Faculty Chairman Maximilian LaBorde, and Gov. Francis Wilkinson Pickens. Including three letters, 28 Sept. 1861, 2 Dec. 1861, and 22 Nov. 1862, re Barnwell's work as superintendent of Confederate hospitals in Virginia; also including journal, Aug.-Oct. 1854, re travels through Switzerland, Italy, Tyrol, Germany, and Austria with cousin Nathaniel Barnwell Fuller including correspondence to his sisters re his studies at Heidelberg, Berlin, and Erlangen, Germany; weather conditions, scenery, accommodations, people, travels, local folklore, and historical events.

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