Correspondence, receipts, accounts of corn and wheat, a business ledger, clippings, and genealogical information re Davis family of Newberry County and Columbia, S.C. Early papers include letter, 2 Mar. 1847, Columbia [S.C.], Sarah Anne Davis re "proper way of spending time"; Civil War papers include "Contributions to the hospital in Virginia," 12 July 1862; letter, 28 Dec. 1863, "The Grove," C. Reid to "Cousin Callie," re sending seed of black tea grown in her garden, and report that Pat was camped at Orange [Va.] for winter; several letters document family efforts to determine fate of James Davis, who was wounded ca. 14 Sept. 186[2?] at Boonsboro, Maryland, and taken to Frederick, Md. Bound ledger, 1882-1888, recording accounts at the Columbia, S.C., boarding house of Mrs. W.M. Davis, listing expenses for tobacco, food, and other items; this volume was printed for use by the Greenville and Columbia Railroad Company and recycled for use by the lodging house; some residents of the boarding house are men identified as employees of the CRC train line and of the South Carolina Railroad; later entries include names of women. Eleven items, 1886-1896, chiefly business receipts including two letters, 19 June 1894 and 10 Nov. 1896, from Quincy A. Davis to his mother, Mrs. W.M. Davis, in Columbia, S.C. Published volume, 1897 book, titled Sermons Preached in his Diocese, by W.B.W. Howe (1823-1894) includes genealogical information of the Davis family, ca. 1856-1964, of Columbia, S.C., and Savannah, Ga.; this copy was originally owned by Bishop Thomas R. Davis; annotations list dates of birth, confirmation, marriage and death, and identify location of the family's boarding house and claim as the "oldest Lodg[e] House in Columbia S.C. [at] Cor[ner] of Bull & Calhoun St."
