Robert Woodward Barnwell (1801-1882) papers, 1833-1879.

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Robert Woodward Barnwell (1801-1882) papers, 1833-1879.

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Chiefly records and reports written to the Board of Trustees at South Carolina College, while serving as President, Chairman of the Faculty, and faculty member; correspondence includes letters from S.C. College President William Campbell Preston, and S.C. Governors George McDuffie, Pierce Mason Butler, John Peter Richardson and James Lawrence Orr, re conditions at the college, academics, students, student conduct. Including letter, 16 Jan. 1833, from Robert Woodward Barnwell, to Gov. Robert Y. Hayne, re politics in Washington, D.C., anger over Presidential proclamation re enforcement of cotton tariff in S.C., speech by [John Caldwell] Calhoun, and South Carolina politics. Also including four letters, 6 June 1837 and 12 June 1837, of Gov. Pierce Mason Butler, re voluntary military corps at S.C. College; letter, 29 Nov. 1837, re erection of new buildings; letter, 9 May 1866, re conditions at S.C. College during the first post-Civil War session. Letter, 11 May 1866, Columbia, S.C., from D[avid] L[ewis] Wardlaw, to Board of Trustees, S.C. College, Columbia, S.C., re election of Robert Woodward Barnwell and Joseph Brevard Kershaw as Board members; and letter, 10 Feb. 1874, New York, N.Y., from J.W. Scheimerhom, re encouraging S.C. College graduates to apply at American School Institute for teaching positions.

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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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