2. Catherine Osborn Barnwell (1809-1886) correspondence, 1823-1880, undated

Letters (1823-1846) to Catherine Osborn Barnwell from various family members re social, family, and health matters, with one letter (1841) describing the joys of botany and painting. Letters (1846) of Catherine Osborn Barnwell to her husband William W. H. Barnwell, with notes from their children, Edward and Catherine as well. Other letters to Catherine Osborn Barnwell include one (1847) from her sister-in-law, Eliza Barnwell, wife of Senator Robert W. Barnwell, another (1858) from a sister mentioning the beginning of a pregnancy, and another (1862) from Catherine Jordan mentioning hard times, sewing, etc., and others re the death of her husband in 1863. With blank envelopes, a prescription from a Boston pharmacy and a letter (1865) from Eliza Fludd re conditions in Charleston and her conviction that God is punishing the Confederacy for its sins.