Papers, 1860-1874 and 1889-1890, and six volumes, 1869-1922, re education and business interests of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1839-1909). Chiefly family correspondence written to Pinckney while a student in Germany at Bonn, Prussia, beginning Feb.1860 and continuing until his arrival in S.C. during first half of 1863 in midst of the Civil War; consisting of letters written by his father, the Rev. C.C. Pinckney; his mother, Anne Randolph McKenna Pinckney; his grandmother, Phoebe Carolina Pinckney; his grandfather, C.C. Pinckney; his sisters, Caroline and Mary Pinckney, and his cousin, Pinckney Seabrook, with comments on social, political, and family life, and news of the attack on Fort Sumter and other developments during early months of Civil War. A number of papers reflect the Civil War service of Capt. C.C. Pinckney, including an exam for military service [ca 1863] with questions related to arithmetic, an essay testing language, "write in English 20 lines on temperance," and third section on specifics of ordnance, firearms and ammunition: "How is slow match prepared?... What are rockets?... Give the parts and uses of signal rockets... what is the proper proportion of infantry to artillery? and what proportion of the artillery should be guns and what Howitzers?" Papers dating to Reconstruction and late 19th century eras include legal notices, financial concerns, and correspondence, 1889-1890, reflecting Pinckney's mining and sales of phosphate rock to the Ashley Phosphate Company. Six volumes, 1869-1922 [stored offsite], consist of personal, legal, and phosphate mining accounts dating to Reconstruction era and late 19th-early 20th century decades. Account book (10 Feb. 1869 - 31 Dec. 1874), of legal transactions and personal expenses listing expenditures for labor, construction, and reference to phosphate extraction and suggesting that workers ship less mud with the fertilizer, "The phosphate at Magnolia mines is dry..." (p. 346); law account book (8 Oct. 1870 - 20 May 1878). Cash book (1 Jan. 1874 - 17 Dec. 1915), listing daily household, business, and farming expenditures; two volumes related to the phosphate fertilizer mining business: account book (Apr. 1884 - 26 June 1893) phosphate accounts [and undated child's drawings and watercolor of horses and buggies]; Phosphate account book, 31 Dec. 1887 - 30 Dec. 1891 Account book, 26 Nov. 1898 - 15 Nov. 1922, titled "Receipts," listing vegetable and fruit crops (beans, peas, potatoes, carrots, strawberries, etc.) harvested at Runnymede plantation, where Pinckney operated a truck-farming enterprise.
