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Scope and Contents Letters of Thomas Drayton Grimke (later Thomas Drayton Grimke-Drayton) son of Thomas S. Grimke and Sarah Drayton Grimke, to his father re his studies at Yale College, his requests for money, obtaining wine for others, his atonement for past misbehavior, mentioning thoughts of suicide, vows of reform, his dislike of Homer, studying trigonometry, and references to Dr. [Benjamin] Silliman. With a printed broadside re the Yale Conic Sections Rebellion of 1830, with annotations re his role in by...

Scope and Contents Long humorous letter written by Theodore Drayton Grimke from Offenbach, Germany (1840s?) to his mother describing taking a break from his studies, visiting small towns, castle ruins, going fishing and the dangerous prank he undertook scaling a tower in the duchy of Walsaw, the village of Falkenstein, and the trouble it prompted with a local magistrate, the townspeople having misinterpreted the flag he planted at the tower's top. With a juvenile letter (1838) from an unidentified brother to...

Scope and Contents Loosely "bound" volume titled "American Letters" consists of letters (1888-1890) of Theodore Grimke Drayton-Grimke from his siblings visiting in the United States and from some of his American cousins, with a few copies of his replies. Letter writers include his sister, Emma (Aimee) re her visit to the graves of Sarah Grimke and Angelina Weld Grimke, mentioning their nephew Archibald Grimke; visit to Boston, where she met Oliver Wendell Holmes; visits to New York, Richmond and Charleston,...

Scope and Contents Letters to his wife and undated letters to his son, Theodore, Jr. describe the trip by ocean liner to the United States and back again, with quick pen sketches illustrating many details. He notes ladies' hats (April 14); his impressions of New York and Philadelphia; shopkeepers acting as equals and accents of his family members versus other Americans (April 17); differences in manners of various Americans, northerners and southerners, and differences between American and British dinner...

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Ten bills of sale documenting the sale of enslaved men, women and children to and from various Drayton, Grimke, Fraser and Elliott family members.

Scope and Contents Letters (1887-1892, 1902-1911, undated) to Theodore Drayton Grimke from various family members and researchers in the United States and the West Indies re aspects of the Drayton genealogy and family tree and arms, etc. with many references to the Drayton family of Barbados. Correspondents include Langdon Cheves, III (1891); Hutson Lee, Jr. (1892); Drayton Hastie (1893) with data on the family crest, mentioning the dearth of opportunities for lawyers in Charleston; Coleman Drayton and J. Alex...

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Typed copies of wills and inventories of Drayton family members including wills of Charles Drayton (dated 1820); John Drayton (1822); John Drayton, the younger (1773); Rebecca Drayton (1837); Sara Maria Drayton (1840); Stephen Fox Drayton (1732); Thomas Drayton (1714/1716); Thomas Drayton (1760); Thomas Drayton (1820); William Drayton (1790); and William Henry Drayton (1826). With inventories of Stephen F. Drayton (1734) and Thomas Drayton (1724).

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Typed copies of wills of Fauchereaud family members include those of Charles (1765), Gideon (1753), and Mary (1766).

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Typed copies (originals and carbons) of wills of Fox family members including those of Joseph (1754), Margaret (1735), and Patt (1823); with inventories of Joseph (1735); and Margaret (1735).

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Typed copies (originals and carbons) of wills of Glen/Glenn family include those of Daniel (1758), Daniel (1792), and John (1808).