John Drayton papers, 1757-1943.

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John Drayton papers, 1757-1943.

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Chiefly business and political correspondence, personal writings, and illustrations; including letter, 19 Dec. 1779, Dorothy Drayton, to Henry Laurens, Charleston, S.C., re treatment of her son by Laurens and Dr. Alexander Garden; decree, 25 Sept. 1794, re disposition of John Drayton's property; letter, 10 Mar. 1795, Charleston, S.C., John Drayton to Elbridge Gerry, re Gerry's friendship and writings; 2 microfiche, re 1798 adaptation of Thomas Walter's "Flora Caroliniana" (1788), illustrated by John Drayton. Letter, 1 Feb. 1800, Charleston, S.C., Drayton to S.C. judges, re gubernatorial duties, pardons, fines, and imprisonment; letter, 1 Feb. 1800, Charleston, S.C., to Judge John Faucheraud Grimke, re offenders and guilty verdicts; letter, 8 Dec. 1800, to S.C. Senate, re conditions of fortifications in Charleston Harbor, S.C.; letter, 28 Nov. 1803, Columbia, S.C., John Drayton, to S.C. Senate, re presentation of state map identifying district court houses and other information. Letters, 28 Aug. 1809 and 21 May 1810, to Paul H. Perrault, re N.C. boundary dispute; letter, 23 Apr. 1810, Hopeland, S.C., to Elbridge Gerry, Boston, Mass., re Gerry's election as governor; three letters, 31 July 1821, 8 Aug. 1821, and 27 Dec. 1821, Charleston, S.C., John Drayton, to Stephen Van Rensselaer, John Quincy Adams, and the Duke of Dorset, re gift copies of Drayton's "Memoirs of the American Revolution." Volume, Virgil's "Publi Virgillii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis," 1757, and "Flora Boreali-Americana," 1803, by Andreas Michaux, including notes of presentation to S.C. College; notes and correspondence, 1798-1943, of Margaret Babcock Meriwether, re editing "The Carolinian florist of Governor John Drayton of South Carolina ... With water-color illustrations from the author's original manuscript and an autobiographical introduction."; and volume, "The Carolinian Florist," 1807.

33 items and 4 v.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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