Theodore Drayton Grimke-Drayton letters, 1888-1890

Loosely "bound" volume titled "American Letters" consists of letters (1888-1890) of Theodore Grimke Drayton-Grimke from his siblings visiting in the United States and from some of his American cousins, with a few copies of his replies. Letter writers include his sister, Emma (Aimee) re her visit to the graves of Sarah Grimke and Angelina Weld Grimke, mentioning their nephew Archibald Grimke; visit to Boston, where she met Oliver Wendell Holmes; visits to New York, Richmond and Charleston, including Magnolia Plantation, Drayton Hall, and then Summerville, where she attended a family wedding of Ellie Grimke to Edward Memminger, with a comparison of Charleston to Bombay and many references to family; letters from his brother John re Charleston family, his purchasing of land and building a house in Flat Rock, North Carolina (with drawing of a floor plan) for use of family, sailing on the Ashley River and getting family wills and possibly family miniatures copied; letters from his uncle (?) John Grimke Drayton-Grimke but signed as ("half" and affectionate) father, his uncle's daughter Ellie about her upcoming marriage, cousin Will Hastie, Sachtleben family members, noting copying of family portraits by [John or Johan] Stolle, and from relatives in Philadelphia and elsewhere including Henrietta Day in Evansville, Illinois, desiring to sell family heirlooms. There are loose letters from some of these writers, as well as from a cousin W. Alston Pringle describing the return of a childhood memory.