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Box 1

 Container

Contains 9 Results:

Georgetown County manuscript, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Series: Includes several typed and handwritten manuscripts by Pringle. Handwritten holographs include a partial draft of Chonicles of Chicora Wood, an untitled manuscript about "Pompey Green," notes about rice plantations in Georgetown County including White House, Pee Dee, and Waccamaw. Also includes typescripts for proposed series signed "Patience Pennington," and a rejection letter from publisher George Brett at the Macmillan Company. Detailed...
Dates: undated

"Peaceville Happenings, No. 1: The Innocents at Home and the Furniture Fiend Abroad" by Patience Pennington, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Series: Includes several typed and handwritten manuscripts by Pringle. Handwritten holographs include a partial draft of Chonicles of Chicora Wood, an untitled manuscript about "Pompey Green," notes about rice plantations in Georgetown County including White House, Pee Dee, and Waccamaw. Also includes typescripts for proposed series signed "Patience Pennington," and a rejection letter from publisher George Brett at the Macmillan Company. Detailed...
Dates: undated

Letter from Charles Cotesworth Pinkney to Governor Vanderhorst, 1795 August 21

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Includes one bound manuscript volume and three manuscripts relating to the Vanderhorst family. The manuscript volume includes two works of fiction relating to Charleston. The individual manuscripts include the will of John Vanderhorst, a letter from Charles Cotesworth Pinckney to Governor Vanderhorst about Fort Johnson, and a newspaper clipping of the obituary of "Lewis Vander Horst" (Lewis Morris Vanderhorst). Detailed information about each item included with collection.

Dates: 1795 August 21

Printed letter from Gabriel Manigault to Governor Francis W. Pickens, 1861 August 9

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5, Item: 2
Scope and Contents

Recommends the creation of a flotilla of rowboats to transport soldiers from Charleston to both Santee and Savannah Rivers.

Dates: 1861 August 9

"Battle of Manassas" newspaper clippings, 1861 August 12-1861 August 19

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 2
Scope and Contents

Include poetry about the Battle of Manassas and Hampton's Legion.

Dates: 1861 August 12-1861 August 19

Typewritten account of the war in Virginia, fragment (3 pages), undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8, Item: 2
Scope and Contents

Fredericksburg and Richmond are mentioned.

Dates: undated

"Bill of Sale" for 19 named slaves, Daniel Ravenel to Elias Vanderhorst, 1828 January 4

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes slave sales and lists between South Carolina families, a printed report from the Committee on Colored Population regarding sentiments about slavery, and a pen-and-ink sketch of "Negroes picking cotton." Detailed information about each item included with collection.

Dates: 1828 January 4

"For cleaning and making navigable Edisto River" broadside, 1787 January 29

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 14, Item: 2
Scope and Contents

With subscriber's names and shares itemized.

Dates: 1787 January 29

Miller's Planters' & Merchants' State Rights Almanac title page, 1864

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 15, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes broadsides, clippings, correspondence, and financial materials assembled by the Allston family. Detailed information about each item included with collection.

Dates: 1864