Box 4

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Barnwell's youthful letters to family about social and family events in Columbia and Beaufort, reading Byron's Bride of Abydos, and other topics. With a later (circa 1870s) letter on family matters.

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Barnwell's letters to his family refer to life at South Carolina College, requests for clothes, and his life as a soldier at Fort Johnson and Sullivan's Island in 1861.

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Barnwell's letters include a school girl exercise written in French, one regarding an illness, and later ones (1870s) to her adult family members on social and family matters. Including a letter co-written by her brother Stephen Elliott Barnwell.

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Barnwell's letters detail life at University of South Carolina (1867), work as a Charleston attorney, his travels and schooling (1869) in Germany, his view of German servants and German's views of Americans, how more frank and outspoken Germans are, Reconstruction politics, his noting that Americans abroad don't distinguish between Northerners and Southerners, his interest in Northerners and his delight in Harriet Beecher Stowe receiving bad reviews and his hope for justice regarding her.

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Documents include two report cards (1860s) from Beaufort College, an essay on ambition, certificates (1867-1868) for high grades in French and German at University of South Carolina, his 1869 diploma, and a certificate (1869) qualifying him to practice in US District Court for South Carolina.

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Barnwell's letters are to his family from Savannah, Georgia, re his working life, while saving money for his wife to join him, and from Rome, Georgia re building a house himself. With letters of his future wife Nina Graham from Edingsville Beach, South Carolina, mentioning "disgusting society" of Edistonians. With their 1873 marriage certificate.

Scope and Contents Letters of various family members and others include fragments and pieces, a typed transcription of an 1825 letter re the Marquis de Lafayette's visit to Beaufort; a description of the death of Abram, head waiter in the home of Robert Gibbes Barnwell"; with a letter (1848) from John Cole Singleton to his daughters Rebecca and Mary, who would marry Robert W. Barnwell, about a celebration in Columbia, South Carolina, honoring heroes of the Mexican War. With a letter in German and one...

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Letters of Will Barnwell, an emancipated (?) or pensioned slave in the Barnwell family, to Rev. William H. Barnwell re family matters, health, religion, etc. and gratitude for gifts. With a note regarding his death, calling him the body servant of Robert Barnwell (1761-1814)?, granted freedom at his master's death.

Scope and Contents Papers include letters (1845, 1849) to W.J. Dunwoody, Darien, Georgia, re business; list (1855) of timber cut by various workers; a return of cotton mill labor, Graniteville Manufacturing Company, for a week in 1850, showing work by men, women, children and amounts of cloth produced; a fragmentary letter (1850) re sale Negroes; a collection list (1836) for the Bank of Augusta; checks of various Southern banks; and correspondence (1860s, undated) from customers and suppliers with Messrs....

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Deed (1834) for sale of land in Beaufort to Robert W. Barnwell; and fragment of legal bundle re court case (1857) in Green County, Georgia.