Letters and correspondence, 1955-1958

Financial records, letters and correspondence, plats, and printed materials relating to the Pinehurst Tea Plantation founded in Summerville, South Carolina, by Charles U. Shepard. Financial records include mortgages, titles, receipts, abstracts, and deeds relating to the sale, purchase, and transfer of the property and properties that would become the Pinehurst Tea Plantation, including Carew Farm and Newington Plantation. Records also include letters and correspondence between Charles U. Shepard, Harriet K. Minot, Samuel Lord, G. W. Dingle, and others relating to various surveys and lot measurements of Pinehurst, routine financial matters including payments, transfers, and agreements related to Pinehurst, Carew Farm, and Newington Plantation as well as letters and correspondence of Harold M. Sebring re the history of tea cultivation in South Carolina. Plats include a plat for a piece of land surveyed in Colleton for an A. Fogartie, a plat for a portion of "The Tea Farm," a plat showing proposed hotel site and golf links on the Pinehurst Tea Farm property, and assorted hand drawn plats. Printed materials include an oversize scrapbook of clippings compiled by Shepard relating to the Pinehurst Tea Plantation and tea production, culture and trade, the U. S. Department of Agriculture Report Tea Culture: The Experiment in South Carolina by Shepard, Shepard's obituary in The Parish Leaflet, "Growing Tea in Summerville" by Harold M. Sebring, and a postcard depicting azaleas at Pinehurst Tea Farm.