Box 2

Scope and Contents Letters (1823-1846) to Catherine Osborn Barnwell from various family members re social, family, and health matters, with one letter (1841) describing the joys of botany and painting. Letters (1846) of Catherine Osborn Barnwell to her husband William W. H. Barnwell, with notes from their children, Edward and Catherine as well. Other letters to Catherine Osborn Barnwell include one (1847) from her sister-in-law, Eliza Barnwell, wife of Senator Robert W. Barnwell, another (1858) from a sister...

Scope and Contents Letters from Barnwell to his daughter, Catherine, son-in-law William and to a grandson re family, social and religious matters, gardening, with mention (1827) of orange trees. With an undated letter to Barnwell from Alexander Garden re the difficulty of publishing and distributing his book, probably Anecdotes of the Revolutionary War in America: With Sketches of Character of Persons the Most Distinguished, in the Southern States, for Civil and Military...

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Letters to her granddaughter and other family members touch on matters of health, religion, family and social life.

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Letters of Barnwell to her brother, William H. W. Barnwell and her sister-in-law Catherine re family, heath, and religious matters, conversion of Tom Fuller, Beaufort being a "hornet's nest" due to elections, visit of a mesmerizer, high and low church, Negroes needing religious instruction, etc.

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Letters of Barnwell to his brother-in-law and cousin, Rev. William H. W. Barnwell, re business, selling cotton, etc.

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Letters of Barnwell to her brother, Rev. William H. W. Barnwell and sister-in-law and others re family, religion, social engagements and travel to Salt Sulphur and Red Sulphur Springs.

Scope and Contents Letters to his parents and siblings detail life in Beaufort and at South Carolina College in Columbia, South Carolina, with mentions of temperance societies and speeches in both places. With descriptions of college life, food, expenses, treatment of freshmen, joining and participating in the Euphradian Society, thoughts of joining a military society, with mentions of Rev. James Henley Thornwell and an analysis of one of his sermons. One letter describes the "Edisto fashion" of playing cards,...

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Letters to family members from Barnwell at South Carolina College in Columbia, South Carolina, describe a visit to the dentist, college life and discipline, new buildings, progression of his studies, a student revolt against an unpopular professor, a military maneuver and mock battle, references to procuring various books, a mention of the Apprentice Library Society in Charleston and many visits to and from Rev. James Henley Thornwell, with analyses of some of his sermons.

Scope and Contents Letters of Barnwell to various family members, mostly written from South Carolina College, Columbia, South Carolina, document family life, his experiences in school, with mentions of his illness, and that of Col. Preston, requiring Dr. Francis Lieber to assume the presidency of the College; his brother Ted's (Edward's) and his sister Catherine's educations, chastising her for her use of puns, and advising his sisters on how to converse intelligently and not prattle; with mentions of his...

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Letters of Barnwell to family members mostly re life at South Carolina College, with mentions of his brother Ted (Edward) also in school there, his preparation for and successful delivery of a speech on science and religion, college fees, finishing his examinations and graduating, Rev. James Henley Thornwell, and many references to various South Carolina College faculty members. With a South Carolina College Senior Class Monitor's bill for May 1850.