Scope and Contents Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings; most appear to be from Charleston newspapers such as the Courier, the Evening News, the Mercury and the Southern Standard, although there are reports from other South Carolina newspapers and articles from the Washington, D.C. Southern Press. The clippings present both sides of the debate over secession for the period...

Scope and Contents The papers consist of daybooks, miscellaneous papers and scrapbooks, including an oversize scrapbook. Among the daybooks is one that contains "Collections on account of Melton and Clark from 1871-1875," but most of the daybooks contain information pertaining to cattle breeding for the period 1879-1910. The miscellaneous papers contain notes for a talk to be given November 6, 1928, to the South Carolina Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at the unveiling of a tablet...