Charles Duke Stanley papers, 1872-1926.

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Charles Duke Stanley papers, 1872-1926.

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Chiefly consisting of courtship correspondence between Charles Duke Stanley and future wife, Sallie N. Rives, re social and political conditions in Columbia, S.C., during Reconstruction; letter, 21 Mar. 1872 (Columbia, S.C.), to "Miss Sallie," re daily activities, visiting Collirene (Lowndes County, Ala.), his Confederate Army service, and founding of business, Stanley's China Hall, with his uncle. Letter, 26 Apr. 1872 (Columbia, S.C.), to Sallie Rives, re Ku Klux Klan, building construction, visit of a Cherokee chief to Columbia, anticipated rebuilding of the Jewish synagogue, and the local political situation: "Here in the political world there is so much of the novelty and ridiculous, and... so much trouble.... Out of his grows the Ku Klux [Klan] trials," reporting the arrest and incarceration of a Sunday School teacher while visiting a dying relative, mentioning improvement and buildings under construction, and noting "a remarkable visit... made us by Bushy Head, the Indian Chief of the Cherokees and withal minister of the gospel"; letter, 3 May 1872 (Collirene, Ala.), from Sallie Rives, re local news, recent activities and mutual friends. Letter, 11 Nov. 1872, Columbia, S.C., to Sallie Rives, re local and national politics following elections, "The great political contest has been decided & adversely, too to the wishes of... all the intelligent people of the South"; letter, 30 July 1873, Columbia, S.C., to Sallie Rives, re Reconstruction and rebuilding in Atlanta, Ga., observing the "immense improvements... since the war" noticed on his trip home to S.C. from Alabama; and letter, 2 Oct. 1873, Columbia, S.C., to Sallie Rives, re business affairs and recent election news from Charleston indicates that the radical "fraudulent triumph in electing their nominees" and noting refurbishment of the S.C. State House, reporting his being "engaged a part of the day in furnishing the capitol."

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Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.)

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Stanley, Charles Duke, 1846-1926.

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Merchant and soldier, of Columbia, S.C.; owner of Stanley's China Hall; treasurer of Oliver Gospel Mission (Columbia, S.C.); son of Robert Hendricks Stanley and Emma Stone Stanley; brother of John Calhoun Stanley and James B. Stanley; husband of Sallie N. Rives Stanley, Lily Herbert Stanley, and Mary Julia Phillips Price Stanley (b.1875); father of William Byrd Stanley, Leonard Phillips Stanley, Lily Herbert Stanley, and two other children. From the description of Charles Duke Stanle...

Stanley's China Hall (Columbia, S.C.)

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South Carolina State House (Columbia, S.C)

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Stanley, Sallie N. Rives, 1848-1889

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