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Bacot family papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0003
Collection Overview
Papers of Josephine Bacot contain correspondence with family and friends including letters (one describes the Charleston earthquake of 1886) from Daniel Huger Bacot (1847-1920), Daniel Huger Bacot (b. 1888), and Walter Rhett Bacot. Letters (1888-1904) from her father Robert Barnwell Rhett at Huntsville, Alabama, concern family matters.
Papers (1891-1896) concern Munster Plantation (Ashepoo, S.C.). Genealogical information relates to the Bacot, Horton, Walton, Leftwich, Rhett, and Huger...
Dates:
1860-1938
Found in:
Special Collections
"The Black Whale Captured in Charleston Harbor, January 1880"
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-037
Collection Overview
Holograph manuscript with annotations and corrections written by Gabriel Manigault for publication in the Proceedings of the Elliott Society. In the manuscript Manigault notes that an earlier article, published in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, was based on his letter to J.B. Holder. The manuscript describes the capture of a Right whale in Charleston harbor in January 1880, a description of the...
Dates:
1885
Found in:
Special Collections
Wendell Mitchell Levi papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0079
Collection Overview
The papers of Wendell Mitchell Levi include his correspondence, biographical and genealogical information, notes, material related to his publications, and photographs.
Correspondence includes personal and business letters from various individuals and businesses and organizations, and copies of letters sent by Levi. Topics include Levi's writings, pigeons (breeding, training, racing, care, diseases, and many other related subjects), a city ordinance banning pigeon raising, the controversy...
Dates:
1827-1995
Found in:
Special Collections
Nathaniel W. Stephenson family papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0050
Collection Overview
Papers consist of Nathaniel Wright Stephenson's writings, correspondence (with Lancelot Minor Harris, among others), lecture notes, diaries, artwork, and miscellaneous items; correspondence (1888-1920) of Martha Stephenson; business records and correspondence (1845-1895) of Reuben [Henry] Stephenson; a Wright family genealogy; correspondence of various Stephenson family members and acquaintances; diaries and journals of Wright and Stephenson family members; a book of sermons (n.d.);...
Dates:
1833-1933
Found in:
Special Collections
The Story of South Carolina
Collection
Identifier: Mss 0005
Collection Overview
One complete typescript copy and one partial typescript copy of a study entitled "The story of South Carolina" with holograph corrections and annotations by the author, William Willis Boddie. Boddie highlights the leading individuals and major events in South Carolina history.
Dates:
1926
Found in:
Special Collections