Richard Yeadon papers, 1841-1870.

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Richard Yeadon papers, 1841-1870.

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Chiefly letters from clients re legal matters, newspaper clippings, and land papers; including letter, 9 Dec. 1841, Charleston, S.C., to William Gilmore Simms, re Simms' letter of condolence, declining health of his mother, efforts to acquire stock in Charleston Library Society, and failure of the legislature to provide funds for Simms' state history. Oversize scrapbook, ca. 1857-1870 (bulk dates, 1857-1858 with a dozen pages of clippings ca. Jan.-Mar. 1870), consisting of newspaper clippings, editorials and news reports published in various newspapers around S.C. and elsewhere [Annex]; topics discussed include politics and elections, including justifications for secession (a thread beginning in early 1857); news of "Bleeding Kansas" and efforts to make the territory a free state; speeches and appearances of politicians, such as Edwared Everett, Edmund Ruffin, and others; candidates for state and national offices, Oct. 1858, listed by various "tickets"; social and charitable organizations, including various news items about fund-raising by the Mount Vernon Ladies Association; clippings, ca. Mar. 1858, re the Charleston Marine School Ship; memorials and obituaries to political and public figures who died during 1857-1858 (Jonathon Bryan, Thomas Hart Benton, and others) or earlier, such as Hugh Swinton Legaré (1797-1843), who was reinterred in Charleston in 1859. Small number of clippings from late 1869 and early 1870 reflect economic and social conditions in Charleston during Reconstruction years, with entries re unpaid debts and taxes, efforts to rebuild the Circular Congregational Church, and a series of nostalgic historical essays on city development, "The Streets of Charleston." Editorial correspondence, 18 Apr. 1857, re Yeadon's stay at Cedar Grove Plantation, Dorchester, S.C.; letter, 18 Aug. 1862, Richmond, Va., from Steven R. Mallory [Confederate Secretary of the Navy], reporting naming of new steam sloop "The Palmetto State" and funds collected to build ships; letter, 13 Sept. 1865, Columbia, S.C., from provisional governor Benjamin F. Perry, re Yeadon's application for pardon.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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