Box Special Collections Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection Box 2
Contains 12 Results:
Alexander Garden correspondence, 1776
"T'engk'Gawd fuh Chaa'stun" (Thank God for Charleston), 1995
The collection consists of two copies of Geraty's Gullah language poem, "T'enk'Gawd fuh Chaa'stun, and the English translation of the work. The poem was a gift from Geraty to College of Charleston President Alex Sanders. Each poem is two pages. The first page contains the Gullah poem, and the second page contains the English translation. The poem is dated 1995.
Clarence Graeser letter, 1869-1953
The letter from Clarence Graeser to "D.O.M." mentions a hurricane that occurred in 1940 and briefly mentions the College of Charleston. Graeser was a graduate of the College of Charleston, and a professor of modern languages at the college during the 1930s.
Isaac Child Harleston letters, 1780 (typescript copies), 1935-1936
"Ideals of the Old South" (typescript), 1940s
The collection consists of a typescript of a speech given at a meeting of the Harvey Mathes Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy during the 1940s. The speech is an idyllic look at the manners and customs of the "Old South."
J. F. R. papers, 1849-1855
Keating Simons & Sons (Charleston, S.C.) letters, 1821-1822
The Ku Klux Klan and Mer Rouge, 1920s
The Ku Klux Klan and Mer Rouge is a printed propaganda piece from the 1920s that defends the organization's ideology, and promotes an anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic political position. It is written by an anonymous author.
Thomas B. Macaulay letter, 1857 (typescript copy), undated
The collection consists of a typescript copy of an 1857 letter written to Congressman H.S. Randall of New York in which Macaulay discusses his ideas on Jeffersonian democracy.