Box 8

Correspondence and invitations concerning various dedication ceremonies honoring L. Mendel Rivers including the new Naval Hospital in Charleston and the U.S.S. L. Mendel Rivers.

Lists of furnishings, appliances, and other items in the Rivers' family home appraised for insurance purposes.

Invitations for a change of command ceremony for the U.S.S. L. Mendel Rivers, an invitation for the dedication of a new Naval Hospital Building in honor of L. Mendel Rivers, and Marion Rivers Ravenel's marriage reception with Wayland Henry Cato, Jr.

Correspondence with, newspaper clippings concerning, and photographs of Rivers family friend Frank G. Jameson and his wife Eva Gabor.

Correspondence concerning an anti-communist association frequented by Margaret Middleton Rivers on topics including the steering committee, meetings, recruiting, campaigns, and syllabuses for teaching "Americanism."

Correspondence between Grace E. Jordan and Margaret Middleton Rivers.

Two letters concerning the donation of L. Mendel Rivers' papers to the Library of Congress. These papers now reside at the College of Charleston.

E-mails, letters, and newspaper clippings concerning attempts by Margaret Rivers Eastman (Peg) to preserve the L. Mendel Rivers Federal Building in Charleston and

Correspondence, news clippings, pamphlets, and meeting minutes from the L. Mendel Rivers Memorial Association concerning an effort to establish the L. Mendel Rivers Boyhood Home and Museum.

Correspondence concerning the planned relocation of the L. Mendel Rivers Monument at the County Office Building on Meeting Street in Charleston, South Carolina, to Riverfront Park in North Charleston. Also included is a courtyard landscape plan and a photocopied picture of the monument.