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Essie Boggs Collection (Hester Prince Boggs Collection)

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0106
Scope and Contents

A card memorializing William Pinckney Starke who died October 12, 1886 and a typed copy of "Reminiscences of Mrs. Prince ... March 9, 1928".

Dates: 1886-1928

Ethel Mitchell collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0005
Scope and Contents Carbon typescripts (38 pages) of the manuscript, The Romance of Fort Hill, written by Mrs. Mitchell in 1938. A photograph of a drawing of Fort Hill, the plantation of John C. Calhoun, drawn to Mrs. Mitchell's specifications, given by Jack Tuttle to the Library in 1961. This photograph is filed in the Mss Negatives and Photographs file. November 23, 1940, copy of A.G. Holmes letter to Mrs. Mitchell concerning the restoration of Fort Hill, witnessed by Muriel...
Dates: 1938, 1940, 1955, 1961

Floride Clemson Diary

 Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0111
Scope and Contents Diary entries are sporadic. In the preface to A Rebel Came Home: The Diary and Letters of Floride Clemson, 1863-1866, editors Charles M. McGee, Jr. and Ernest M. Lander, Jr. note that "the diary contains three sustained narratives: Floride's trip to Niagara in the summer of 1863; the journey from Beltsville, Maryland, to Pendleton, South Carolina, that she and her mother made in the last days of 1864; and the final illness of Floride's grandmother, Mrs....
Dates: 1863 - 1866

Holmes Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss-0001
Introduction This collection consists mainly of material created and assembled by Professors Alester Garden Holmes and George Raymond Sherrill while they were writing Thomas Green Clemson: His Life and Work. It includes research notes, copies of correspondence related to Clemson and manuscript versions of the book. Holmes' correspondence documents various aspects of his career as a teacher at Clemson College and a historian in South Carolina. There is also material...
Dates: 1789-1977

John C. Calhoun Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss-0200
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...
Dates: 1784 - 1980; 1802 - 1850

Richard Newman Brackett Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0102
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...
Dates: 1859-1934; 1926 - 1934

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Fort Hill Plantation (S.C.) 4
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Clemson, Thomas Green, 1807-1888 3
Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 2
Holmes, Lila Speer Pennel, 1891-1977 2
Boggs, Hester Prince 1
Buchanan, James M. 1