Scope and Contents The Mell scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and printed material document primarily the period when Patrick Hues Mell served as Clemson College president, 1902-1910. There are clippings from the major state newspapers as well as some smaller local and out-of-state newspapers. A variety of invitations to commencements, dances, lyceum programs, dramatic offerings, presentations, and the various programs of the College's literary societies are also included in the scrapbooks. The clippings deal...

Scope and Contents This collection documents the legal, financial, personal, and family affairs of Richard Wright Simpson, Thomas Green Clemson, Anna Calhoun Clemson, and Gideon Lee, for his deceased wife Floride and their daughter, Isabella Lee, who was Clemson's only grandchild. The Lee's contested Clemson's will. The papers, and original documents, are resources Simpson and other legal representatives used to prepare for the court cases and estate settlement following Thomas Greene Clemson's death on April...