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Contains 26 Results:
Benjamin Grimke materials, 1826-1828
File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
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A letter from Benjamin King (Ft. Moultrie, 1826) describes the wreck of the ship Harvest off the coast of North Carolina in which Lieutenant Benjamin Grimke and his infant daughter were drowned, but which his wife and King survived; with details on their shipwreck on Boddy's Island, wreckers salvaging the ship, burial of the dead and travel to Roanoke. With a copy of his lengthy tombstone inscription; a scrap of a French lesson, apparently written by Grimke;...
Dates:
1826-1828
Thomas S. Grimke correspondence, 1813-1821
File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
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An anonymous (name blotted out) letter (1813) postmarked Richmond, Virginia to Grimke notes the author's legislative and public duties and describes British attacks on Virginia and the effect it will have on the state's raising troops and weakening confidence in the federal government. Letters (1819-1820) to Grimke re his father's death are from Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Thomas Pinckney, and Revolutionary War soldier, John Wickly and an unknown correspondent giving biographical details...
Dates:
1813-1821
Thomas S. Grimke correspondence, 1827-1828
File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
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Letter of Grimke to the South Carolina Comptroller General references purchasing books for a [law?] library and mentioning a fund for the court house administered by his father. A letter from Langdon Cheves, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, replies to Grimke's thoughts on the codification of laws, and Grimke's thoughts on the Reformation. With Grimke's reply to Cheves. A letter from Rev. Jasper Adams, Geneva, New York, expresses his views on classical education, especially for the upper class;...
Dates:
1827-1828
Thomas S. Grimke correspondence, 1831-1832
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
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A letter (1831) of Grimke to Rev. Louis Dwight, Boston, replies to a printed questionnaire, giving his approval to the idea of abolishing imprisonment for debt, and a letter of Nathaniel Sargent (1831) informs Grimke of his election as Vice President of the American Lyceum, noting other officers and essay topics assigned to them. With correspondence (1831) among Grimke, President of the South Carolina Temperance Society, J. F. Heilman, President of the Charleston Temperance Society and the...
Dates:
1831-1832
Letters to and about Thomas S. Grimke, 1833-1834
File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
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A letter (1833) of Benjamin Elliott to Grimke discusses Virgil, education, Grimke's literary output and Elliott's desire for a list of certain materials in the library of College of Charleston. Two letters (1834) from William Drayton in Philadelphia discuss family and some tracts of land; with a plat attached. A letter (1834) from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio encourages Grimke to address the Erodelphian Society's annual meeting. Grimke made the visit to Ohio, and died from cholera...
Dates:
1833-1834
Thomas S. Grimke correspondence, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
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Rough notes (circa 1834) for a reply by Thomas S. Grimke to an article in the May/June 1834 issue of the Calumet about the merits (or not) of defensive war, the fair copy of which was lost and never published. The notes are on the reverse of a letter (1796) in French to Grimke's father, John F. Grimke, from his daughter's tutor. With a note from B. D. Heriot passing on an extract from a letter re the Sumter, South Carolina (?) Temperance Society, with a...
Dates:
undated
Thomas S. Grimke legal materials, circa 1790s-1824
File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
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Legal papers (1824) re Grimke, as an attorney, appealing a decision regarding a debt of the estate of Glen Drayton (d. 1796) with a letter from Glen Drayton to his brother (Thomas Drayton?) asking him to protect and care for his children whom he has put under the care of a Mrs. Foster, with a mention of advice from General Pinckney; and a letter (1804) from Glen Drayton, Jr., Newport, Rhode Island, to his uncle Thomas Drayton regarding his education.
Dates:
circa 1790s-1824
Thomas S. Grimke legal materials, 1811-1831
File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
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Legal papers include two wills and small fragments re bequests and bond (1811) of Thomas Drayton, father-in-law of Thomas S. Grimke, with notations re questions and answers of a case (1825) in the Court of the Ordinary and a copy of a decree (1826) in the same court deciding which version of the will would be accepted as the legal one.
Dates:
1811-1831
Thomas S. Grimke legal materials, 1765-1820
File — Box: 1, Folder: 19
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Materials dealing with estate and debt matters of John Wilson, Thomas Wilson and Algernon Wilson include a 1765 purchase of a pew in St. Philip's church; a 1787 letter from Simon Theus re poor condition of John Wilson's shipments of rice; a disputed 1807 receipt of bond and mortgage of enslaved Negroes of Thomas Wilson, with a related list of mortgaged slaves, with a note from Thomas Smith Grimke seeking more information; an 1809 letter re commission of William Wilson as a second lieutenant...
Dates:
1765-1820
Thomas S. Grimke (?) autograph collection, 1779-1831, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
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Letters, cut out signatures and fragments of letters apparently collected by Thomas S. Grimke. They include a partial "Free" franked cover from Louis McLane (1786-1857), United States Secretary of the Treasury, 1833-1834; a printed circular (1831) regarding Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, signed by Philander Chase (1775-1852), founder and President of the College; signature of Governor of Connecticut Charles Thompson (1729-1824), earlier secretary of the Continental Congress and designer of...
Dates:
1779-1831, undated