Frederick Grimke correspondence, 1819-1863

Letter (1819) of Frederick Grimke to his brother Thomas Smith Grimke re their father's death, with an assessment of his character, and mentions of Sarah Grimke nursing him. With a legal note (1828) to Frederick Grimke in Chillicothe, Ohio. Later correspondence (1860-1863) from Grimke in Philadelphia and Chillicothe to family members focuses on war news and politics, the usurping of power by the Federal government, postal relations between the Confederacy and the USA, his writings, etc. Of note is a letter (July 19, 1861), giving a description of Walterboro, South Carolina circa 1815, and mentioning his meeting decades earlier with Richard Anderson, father of the commander of Robert Anderson of Ft. Sumter, who had served in the Revolutionary War in Charleston and had been imprisoned with Grimke's father, John F. Grimke.