Alexander Hume Ford papers, 1884-1930.

ArchivalResource

Ford, Alexander Hume, 1868-1945. Alexander Hume Ford papers, 1884-1930.

Alexander Hume Ford papers, 1884-1930.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/716123387

Collection chiefly consists of letters, 1884-1891, to Alexander Hume Ford from his relatives, friends, and employers. Other items include calling cards, genealogical data, receipts, and some printed material such as a constitution of the New York Southern Society, and two issues of the "Mid-Pacific Magazine" (1930), edited by Alexander Hume Ford. Correspondence of 1884 and 1885 mostly consists of letters to "Aleck" from Henry P. Williams at Nacoochee (Ga.) and elsewhere. Letters of 1886 include several from M. F. Middleton in Savannah (Ga.), who signs as "Yum Yum" and addresses Ford as "Nankipoo," letters from "Aunt Ella" in Brevard (N.C.) and other relatives, and a letter (17 July) from Clelia McGowan in Abbeville (S.C.), who advises Ford against flirting: "Do not fritter away the best emotions of the human heart...." Letters of 1886 also include references to the Charleston earthquake in September of that year, and in one dated November 28, his sister in Charleston writes to Ford: "It makes one vexed when I am walking of an afternoon to see all the horrid Yankees spying out all the poverty of the land." Correspondents of 1887 and 1888 include Ford's sister Maria, Aunt Ella, and J. Edwards Hasell in Charleston, who mentions the "Mikado Club." Other topics of these years include the sudden death of a relative named Emily, Ford's teaching of a Sunday school class, and affairs at St. Philip's Church (Charleston). Two letters of January 1888 from female relations reprove Ford for a practical joke he played on his sister. Correspondence of 1889 includes a letter (March 31) from "Aunt E" (Aunt Ella?) about the death of Aunt Emma, a typed letter (July 5) from John C. Calhoun regarding some property in Orange (N.Y.?), and a letter (August 14) from M. DeLisle Haig in Charleston which is accompanied by a hand-drawn map and describes Morris Island and environs, the erosion of the area, and a creek that no longer exists. Correspondence of 1891 includes a letter soliciting contributions for a Confederate monument in Luray (Va.). In the undated correspondence, there is an invitation from the Mikado Club to a picnic on Sullivan's Island, and one letter from Alexander Hume Ford to "Miss Sheridan."

1 linear ft.

South Carolina Historical Society