Scope and Contents This series contains the correspondence files of Enoch Walter Sikes. Also found within the files are minutes of directors meetings, annual reports, departmental reports and budgets, employment agreements, photographs of some employees, and partial lists of cadets. Frequent correspondents include Clemson College Officials: H. W. Barre, director of research; F. H. H.Calhoun, director of teaching; W. W. Long, director of the extension service; H. M. Stackhouse, professor and...

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This collection contains photocopies of letters to the South Carolina Attorney General concerning the use of convicts to construct Clemson College. A letter dated June 10, 1891 from Johnstone, a member of Clemson College's Board of Trustees, to Y.J. Pope; a letter dated, March 10, 1891 from W.J. Talbert, Superintendent of South Carolina Penitentiary to Pope; and a letter dated, April 14, 1896 from R.W. Simpson, President of Clemson College's Board of Trustees to W.A. Barber.

Scope and Contents The papers contain Dr. Brackett's research on Thomas G. Clemson, including evidence of presentations on Clemson before Chemical Societies, the Farmer's Institute and the S.C. Academy of Science and typed copies of Clemson's articles published in patent office. Correspondence and newspaper clippings document historically significant information about Clemson's buildings, rare agriculture books, biographical information about the original faculty, and obituaries for faculty, trustees, and...