Box Special Collections Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection Box 1
Contains 20 Results:
G. W. Aimar and Co. broadsides, approximately 1869-approximately 1880
The collection consists of two printed broadsides which date from the period 1869 to 1880. One broadside is an advertisement for Aimar's "Neurotic Oil", an analgesic tonic, and "Pearl Cement". The second broadside is an advertisement for "The Physician's Rheumatic and Neuralgia Remedy". G. W. Aimar compounded and bottled his own remedies.
Rules of the Appeal Court Library (Charleston, S.C.), 1850
The collection consist of two copies of the rules of the Appeal Court Library.
Appointment of arbitrators to open South Street (Charleston, S.C.), 1867 July 2
The collection consists of a document naming Louis D. DeSaussure, J. Fraser Mathewes, and I.M. Shackelford arbitrators on behalf of the Charleston (S.C.) City Council in the matter of opening South Street from Hanover to America Streets. The document is signed by Mayor P.C. Gaillard.
Gertrude Atherton letter, 1929 April 23
The letter is from Atherton and is addressed to "Miss Baker." It thanks her for articles she had sent to Atherton.
Comments on lectures given by Orestes A. Brownson, 1856
The collection consists of five newspaper clippings of letters to the editor of the Charleston Standard. The letters were written in 1856 and were in response to a series of lectures by Orestes Augustus Brownson. They attack the "Catholicity" of Brownson's theology. Each is signed "Protestantism."
Alexander Carns slave bill of sale, 1803 December 29
Bill of sale dated "29th December 1083" (1803) for a Negro girl named Luce sold by Alexander Carns of North Carolina to John Foster of Lancaster District, South Carolina. Witnessed by Catherine Carns.
John's Island-Wadmalaw Island Citizens' Council records, 1955-1956 (photocopies), undated
"Pans to Tote" typescript, 1933 August
The collection consists of a typescript copy of an article written by Miriam Pope Cimino entitled "Pans to Tote." The article appeared in the August 1933 edition of Scribner's. It describes the life of African-Americans in Georgia during the Great Depression. Cimino argues that African-Americans who remained in the south faired better than those who migrated north.
Request for passage north, 1865
The document is a request from Major General W.B. Hazen that "four ladies be permitted to pass through the lines of his army to proceed north."
Civil War era letters, 1861, 1862, 1864
The collection consists of three Civil War era letters. The first letter was written by James E. Wilkins of Virginia to Colonel John Preston on January 23, 1861. In the letter Wilkins pledges his services to South Carolina. The second letter, written September 11, 1862 to John H. Easton, was from a Mr. Helton. In the letter Helton discusses his recovery from injuries suffered during the war. In the third letter, "C.A. Strange" discusses war time conditions to her brother.