Box Special Collections Oversize Box 1

Collection Overview From the Collection: The collection consists of materials relating to Charlotte A. Myers, her adopted daughter Caroline Griswold, and Caroline Griswold’s nieces and nephews from the Hartley family. Materials relating to Myers contain correspondence and a newspaper clipping about her divorce from Rufus Wilmot Griswold, including letters from her lawyers Samuel Sherman and David Paul Brown, and letters to her husband’s former brother-in-law Hamilton Randolph Searles. There is also a daguerreotype portrait of...

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A pencil original score showing melody lines with three verses and a chorus. Alma Mater for the College of Charleston written by Edward McCrady, Jr. (Class of 1927). A musical score with three verses and a chorus handwritten in pencil. Possibly written in response to a contest posted in "The College of Charleston Magazine" (Dec. 1934) sponsored by the Cliosophic Literary Society at the College of Charleston.

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A first communion certificate for Emily Mary Joseph England in the Cathedral of St. Finbar, dated April 22nd, 1849. Two Bible verses (Deut. XXXII and Revelations ii, 10) are printed on the certificate; it is unsigned by the pastor. The certificate is a mass-produced form from either Baltimore, Philadelphia, or Pittsburgh. The original certificate has been pasted on to more durable paper for preservation purposes.

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Assorted papers documenting the Yelman, Gordin, and Insel families from the 1900s to the 1960s. Materials primarily relate to the Yelman family of St. Matthews, South Carolina.

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Assorted papers and ephemera documenting the Dumas family, founders and owners of M. Dumas & Sons, from 1927 to 1957.