Thomas S. Grimke correspondence, 1827-1828

Letter of Grimke to the South Carolina Comptroller General references purchasing books for a [law?] library and mentioning a fund for the court house administered by his father. A letter from Langdon Cheves, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, replies to Grimke's thoughts on the codification of laws, and Grimke's thoughts on the Reformation. With Grimke's reply to Cheves. A letter from Rev. Jasper Adams, Geneva, New York, expresses his views on classical education, especially for the upper class; constitutional history; the new Southern Review; and the improvements at the College of Charleston in which, and for the city, Adams expresses his continuing interest. With an 1828 broadside re a committee appointed by the South Carolina Bar Association to collect books for a library; and an 1828 letter from Grimke, with annotations by Alfred Huger, as chairman of the Congressional Delegation, about Grimke's refusal to be part of the committee to cast a ballot for President, not agreeing with either Andrew Jackson ("an unfit Man for the Presidency") or John Quincy Adams.