Box 2

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,...