Box 1

Scope and Contents 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...

Scope and Contents 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...

Scope and Contents 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...

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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.

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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.

Scope and Contents 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...