Chiefly correspondence re Civil War and Reconstruction; including letter, 18 Jan. 1860, Greenville, S.C., Mrs. N.W. Arthur, to her cousin, Mary Harth, Newberry, S.C., re family news and Harth's selling slaves; letter, 22 Nov. 1860, Mary R. Seely, Washington, Tex., to Harth, Greenville, S.C., re politics, and prospects for war; letter, 29 Nov. 1860, Columbia, S.C., Edward J. Arthur, to Mary Harth, re secession; letter, 8 Feb. 1861, Avon, N.Y., from Carrie B. Taylor, re secession and northern public opinion. Letters, 22 Aug. and 2 Oct. 1861, Limestone Springs [Female High School], Gaffney, S.C., Sallie Fort, to Harth, re traveling by train, visiting Harth's son Willie, her situation as a teacher at Limestone, and school life; letter, 23 Jan. 1863, Columbia, S.C., Sophie Sosnowski, to Mary Harth, re accepting Harth's daughter at Barhamville; letter, 1 Oct. 1863, from M.A. Howell, re economic conditions; letter, 3 Mar. 1864, Augusta, Ga., from her niece Julia E. Errenputsch, re economic conditions in Augusta. Letter, 23 June 1864, M.A. Howell, to Mary Harth, re anguish of war and advising her against allowing her son to join the Army; letter, 26 Aug. 1864, Palmetto Light Battery, Va., from Hugh R. Harden, re taking care of her son Willie during the war; letter, 27 Mar. 1865, Newberry, S.C., from D.A. Ring, re provisions, Confederate victory, and execution of deserters in Lexington, S.C. Letter, 26 Nov. 1865, Lexington, S.C., Harth to Mrs. Watson, re destitute condition of Harth's family, poor health, and unfair treatment by Mrs. Watson re payment for slaves sold in 1860; letter, 6 Sept. 1867, Lexington, S.C., Harth to Rev. J.B. Smith, re death of her aunt, Mrs. J.W. Simmons, who taught freedmen, and Harth's willingness to accept the vacant position; and letter, 20 July 1868, Charleston, S.C., Caroline J. Greer, to Mary Harth, re economic conditions.
