Consisting of personal copies of land conveyance, 1841; will, 1859; account book, 1869-1872, and two undated letters of members of this upstate family. Document, 15 Mar. 1841, conveying portion of land on Rudy River in Greenville District, S.C., from Robert S.C. Foster to Nathan and Elizabeth Davis. Will, 12 May 1858-9 Mar. 1859 in which Robert S.C. Foster makes bequests of eight African-American slaves identified by name and tract of land on south fork of Saluda River to his wife, Susan P. Foster, and his sons, Richard and John S. Foster, and daughters, Susan E. Hawthorn and Patsy L. Foster. Also including teacher's account book, 1869-1872, [probably kept by Patsy Foster at town of Bachelor's Retreat in Pickens County, S.C.], listing accounts for students, children, school, and expenses for 1869, and accounts for siblings R. Foster and Sue E. Hawthorn.with clippings on recipes and how to cure a ham, etc.; includes index on back page. Undated letter [1869?] to "Miss Patsy" [Foster], from her brother, R[obert] F[oster] in which he requests her assistance in cooling the undesired affections of a teacher with whom he had begun a correspondence, a Miss Metzler who was identified as living far from her home and teaching his children in the village of "Bachelors Retreat." Foster reports that "she said she always preferred a Male Friend ... they will listen to our little cares and troubles, speak some words of consolation, laugh off our cares, etc., whilst our own sex, as a general thing, would rather as it were, Hurl them on." Undated incomplete letter, [187u?], from a distant cousin in Kentucky, answering her request for news of her Young family relatives, in which correspondent reports that he and his brothers did not serve in the Army; correspondent identifies himself as "what this part of the Country calls Rebel sympathizers or Breckinridge democrats, our other relatives were Union men ... I had a brother tried for treason, because he went to see the Confederate Army; but he beat the case."
