Frederick A. Porcher papers [addition], 1855-1899.

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Frederick A. Porcher papers [addition], 1855-1899.

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Addition of papers, 1855 and 1862-1899 and undated, re social life in Charleston, S.C., the Porcher family's association with the Episcopal church, sales of art work, and other matters. Two letters, 1862 and 1863, of F.A. Porcher, Charleston, S.C., addressed to his wife, Caroline Smith Parker Porcher, who had refugeed from Charleston to Abbeville District, S.C.; letter, 2 Aug. 1862, Porcher sympathizes over the death of a child and advises that only time can heal such a wound; he also relates military news, including "indications of the breaking up of the regiment." Letter, 14 Sept. [18]63, after admonishing his wife to steel her will for better health, Porcher calls upon her "to reform your opinion of Yankee superiority and Southern Imbecility." Porcher goes on to explain why Confederate troops were removed from Morris Island, S.C., near Charleston, "I do not believe that there has been any mismanagement on the part of Genl. Beauregard. The government at Richmond was positive that no attempt would be made against the city and therefor[e] stripped him of his army." Letter, 7 Apr. 1868, written by F.A. Porcher to the vestry of the Church of the Holy Communion following the dismissal as church organist of his wife, Caroline Porcher, who in turn, wrote on 23 Oct. 1870 to tell her daughter that the family was attending church services at St. Paul's, even though it entailed a twenty-minute walk. Includes papers re sales of portraits and other paintings out of the family, including letter, 24 Aug. 1875, from Porcher to his wife notes that former Governor Aiken had forwarded a letter from Mr. [William Wilson] Corcoran concerning the purchase of a portrait owned by Caroline Porcher for the Corcoran Washington Gallery. Corcoran, it suggests, was offering liberal prices to Southerners willing to sell privately owned works of art to his gallery; later correspondence from 1899 with Judge T.W. Snagge, of London, England, concerns a 1786 portrait of Mrs. Roger Smith painted by George Romney. Several letters of Reconstruction-era dating from 1876 mention public events in Charleston relating to "laying the corner stone of the Fort Moultrie Monument" (31 May and 9 June 1876); and letter, 28 June 1876, re the centennial of the Declaration of Independence, and account of a tragedy on the Ashley River when two boats collided and comments on the needs of "the suffering poor of Beaufort" and Charleston and the shortage of the corn crop. Also including genealogical information from the family Bible of Thomas Rhett Smith.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Romney, George, 1734-1802

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