Scope and Contents 1 original letter August 24, 1864, and a typed copy of the letter from G. Ralph Smith, General Superintendent of State Works, Greenville, South Carolina, to Andrew P. Calhoun, Esq., Pendleton, S.C., needing "hands" for cutting wood near the railroad. He offered forty five dollars per month for "well-disposed and willing boys," some of whom might be kept as "tinkers" for blacksmiths or as labourers in the yard. He declined to furnish shoes for them because "they are hard to get and very high...

Scope and Contents Note The papers consist of correspondence and other materials documenting the career of Calhoun, the Calhoun and Clemson families, and United States politics during the early to mid-nineteenth century. Included are agreements, articles, clippings, correspondence, lists, notes, maps, microfilm, photographs, poems, receipts, speeches, statements, a survey book, an autograph draft and a photocopy of the South Carolina Exposition and other material.Most of...