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Box 1

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Contains 9 Results:

Chronicles of Chicora Wood draft, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 3
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 George Brett to "Mrs. Pringle", 1914 April 10

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Item: 3
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: 1914 April 10

Lewis Morris Vanderhorst obituary, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4, Item: 3
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: undated

Printed message from Jefferson Davis to "The Army in Eastern Virginia", 1862 July 5

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5, Item: 3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes Civil War era documents assembled by the Allston family, including broadsides, correspondence, handwritten manuscripts, news clippings, and cartoons from Punch and Vanity Fair caricaturing personalities and issues before and during the war. Detailed information about each item included with collection.

Dates: 1862 July 5

The Charleston Mercury newspaper, 1861 July 21

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 3
Scope and Contents

Includes Jefferson Davis' message to Confederate Congress on preparations for defense in the South; includes "Yankee Accounts of the Battle at Bull's Run."

Dates: 1861 July 21

Ironclads USS Keokuk and USS Monitor ink sketch, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8, Item: 3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series includes Civil War era documents assembled by the Allston family, including broadsides, correspondence, handwritten manuscripts, news clippings, and cartoons from Punch and Vanity Fair caricaturing personalities and issues before and during the war. Detailed information about each item included with collection.

Dates: undated

"List of Negro fellows on Chichesaw Island Plantation", 1860 November 16

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9, Item: 3
Scope and Contents

List notes their work roles on rice plantation.

Dates: 1860 November 16

Testimony of parole, 1780 July 27

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 14, Item: 3
Scope and Contents

Printed parole granted by General Henry Clinton with handwritten conditions to stay in Charles Towne.

Dates: 1780 July 27

"Description of the great-gale of 1874 as seen from Sullivan's Island" holograph, 1874 October 20

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 15, Item: 3
Scope and Contents

A poetic description of the hurricane of 1874.

Dates: 1874 October 20