Box 4

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Letters (1977) between various employees of the National Trust and L. W. G. Drayton regarding a visit to the Draytons to consult their family papers to determine if there is information about Drayton Hall and its builder. With related article and attachments.

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Bookplates featuring arms and heraldic devices of T. Drayton Grimke, Barnard Elliott (differing versions), George Cavendish, John Hamilton, Esq. and the Boissier and Pengwern families. With some related heraldic notes.

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Leather bound album and leather portfolio of Theodore Drayton Grimke, with many missing images, but with two pencil sketches (one loose) of Thomas Smith Grimke (?), photographs and clippings re Magnolia Plantation, a watercolor of a cottage, and full color renderings of the arms of various members of the Grimke, Drayton, Drayton-Grimke, and Smith families with information on the lineage of the Grimke family.

Scope and Contents Silhouettes (1811-1828, undated) of Mary Ann Frost, E. C. Grimke, Mary Smith Grimke (with painted embellishments), Dr. John Grimke, Henry Grimke, Julius Walker, Elisabeth Webb, Dr. Caspar Morris, Hannah Elliott, Isaac W. Morris and Catherine W. Morris, as well as a pencil sketch of an unidentified gentleman. Some silhouettes are mounted on white paper, while other cuts are laid in against black paper. With a loose unidentified photograph of an English mansion and a photograph (circa 1886),...

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Scraps of papers, one (circa 1860) re rice bearing signature of Keating Simons; an undated letter in German from a Grimke Drayton family member mentioning his garden and asking for a favor; a Solid Sketch book of blank paper; and English and South Carolina newspaper clippings, including a circa 1880 map of Charleston and the harbor showing areas of farm and truck produce; and an 1881 English clipping re the Charleston statue of William Pitt.

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Included are photocopies of some of the manuscript materials, calendars of items, and labels re the loan of collection materials to the American Museum in Britain in Bath.