William Pinckney Starke Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0062
This collection consists of three copies of Theodore F. Shuey's transcription of Starke's shorthand, an aborted biography of Calhoun. One of the copies is annotated, the other two corrected typescripts. Also included is correspondence from Elinor G. Bankhead, Nov. 9, 1978, enclosing a newspaper article from The News and Herald, May 25, 1910 (Winnsboro, S.C.), by Hanna Rion in the Woman's World, on Colonel W. Pinckney Starke's background and experiences when he spent 6 months of the year with the Clemsons as he wrote Calhoun's biography.
Thomas Green Clemson wanted a Calhoun biography written and employed William Pinckney Starke of Beech Island, S.C. to write it. Starke was a friend of the Calhouns, Rions, Hamptons and Hammonds and spent time at Fort Hill as guest of Clemson. When Starke died in 1886 he left an aborted biography written in his private shorthand. Theodore F. Shuey, United States Senate stenographer and shorthand expert, transcribed 105 pages. J. Franklin Jameson, for the American Historical Association's edition of Calhoun's letters, prepared an account of Calhoun's early life, abridged from the manuscript of Colonel W. Pinckney Starke. The whereabouts of the original shorthand notes are unknown.
0.25 Cubic Feet
English
Typescripts mailed to P.H.E. Sloan,,Clemson College, S.C.,Senator B.R. Tillman in Washington, D.C.,,1898 April 21.
A photocopy of the Starke biography (transcription) and copy of an envelope from Senator B.R. Tillman, Washington, D.C. April 21, [1898?] addressed to Dr. P.H.E. Sloan, Clemson College, S.C., were taken October 13, 1978 by J.W.G. Gourlay to Dr. Clyde Wilson, c/o E.L. Inabinet, Librarian, South Caroliniana Library.
Formerly cataloged A/.C152
Part of the Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Repository