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A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of
Southern
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Cover: Portrait of a sitting young woman. Courtesy of The Florida State Archives.
Research Collections in Women's Studies
General Editors: Anne Firor Scott and William H. Chafe
Southern Women and Their
Families in the 19th Century:
Papers and Diaries
Series H,
Holdings of the Rare Book, Manuscript,
and Special Collections Library,
Duke University
Part 1: South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida
Consulting Editor: Anne Firor Scott
Guide compiled by
Ariel W. Simmons
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Southern women and their families in the 19th century, papers and diaries [microform].
Series H, Holdings of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke
University / consulting editor, Anne Firor Scott.
microfilm reels.--(Research collections in women's studies)
Accompanied by a printed guide compiled by Ariel W. Simmons.
Contents: pt. 1. South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida
ISBN 1-55655-813-9 (pt. 1)
1. Women--Southern States--History--19th century--Sources. 2. Family--South
States--History--19th century--Sources. I. Scott, Anne Firor, 1921- II. Simmons, Ariel W.,
1978-- III. Duke University. Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library.
IV. University Publications of America (Firm) V. Series.
HA 1438.S63
305.42'0975'09034--dc21
00-043542
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
v
Scope and Content Note
xi
Note on Sources
xiii
Editorial Note
xiii
Reel Index
Reel 1
Sarah (Eve) Adams Diary, 1813-1814
Anonymous Commencement, Undated
Huldah Annie (Fain) Briant Papers, 1846-1888
John Emory Bryant Papers, 1851-1907
1
1
1
2
Reels 2-7
John Emory Bryant Papers, 1851-1907 cont
3
Reel 8
John Emory Bryant Papers, 1851-1907 cont
Valeria G. Burroughs Album and Commonplace Book, 1830-1872
Rachel Susan (Bee) Cheves Papers, 1846-1911
6
6
7
Reel 9
Ann Pamela Cunningham Papers, 1857-1874
Kate Edmond Papers, 1835-1886
Mary (De Saussure) Fraser Papers, 1780-1886
Mary Jane Fraser Notebook, 1842
Mary Zilpha Giles Papers, 1846-1942
Greenville Ladies Association Minutes, 1861-1865
7
7
8
8
8
8
Reel 10
Mary E. Baxter Gresham Commonplace Book, 1836-1882
John McIntosh Kell Papers, 1785-1921
9
9
Reels 11-19
John McIntosh Kell Papers, 1785-1921 cont
10
Reel 20
Kirby Family Papers, 1831-1876
Susan McDowall Diary and Scrapbook, 1856-1880
Clara Victoria Dargan MacLean Papers, 1849-1920
18
18
18
Reels 21-22
Clara Victoria Dargan MacLean Papers, 1849-1920 cont
19
Reel 23
Clara Victoria Dargan MacLean Papers, 1849-1920 cont
William S. Nicholson Papers, 1852-1853
Elizabeth Lucas Pinckney Papers, 1741-1763
Ann Louise Salmond Papers, 1870-1912
Mrs. Charles Spalding Recipe Book, 1871
Missouria H. Stokes Papers, 1856-1924
21
21
21
21
22
22
Reel 24
Sullivan Family Commonplace Books, 1835-1864
William Eliza Rhodes Terrell Papers, 1838-1866
Kate Thomson Autograph Album, 1876-1880
George W. West Papers, 1785-1910
22
22
23
23
Reel 25
Sallie and Ellen C. Whitaker Diary, 1867-1868
Elvira Withrow Papers, 1864
Isabella Anna (Roberts) Woodruff Papers, 1768-1869
24
24
24
Reel 26
Isabella Anna (Roberts) Woodruff Papers, 1768-1869 cont
25
Reels 27-29
Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas Diaries, 1848-1889
25
Principal Correspondents Index
29
Subject Index
33
INTRODUCTION
The creation of history as a scholarly discipline has always depended on the discovery,
preservation, and accessibility of primary sources. Some of the leading figures in the first generation of
academic historians in the United States spent much of their time and energy on this endeavor and in so
doing made possible the work of their colleagues who wrote monographs and general histories. The
inventions of microfilm and photocopying have vastly improved access to such sources.
At any given time the prevailing conceptions of what is significant in the past will determine which
sources are sought and valued. When politics and diplomacy are the center of historians' concern,
government documents, treaties, newspapers, and correspondence of political leaders and diplomats
will be collected and made accessible. When intellectual history is ascendant, the works of philosophers
and reflective thinkers will be studied, analyzed, and discussed. Economic historians will look for
records of trade, evidence of price fluctuations, conditions of labor, and other kinds of data originally
collected for business purposes. The propensity of modern governments to collect statistics has made
possible whole new fields for historical analysis.
In our own time social historians have flourished, and for them evidence of how people of all
kinds have lived, felt, thought, and behaved is a central concern. Private diaries and personal letters are
valued for the light they throw on what French historians label the mentalite of a particular time and
place. The fact that such documents were usually created only for the writer, or for a friend or relative,
gives them an immediacy not often found in other kinds of records. At best the writers tell us--directly
or by implication--what they think and feel and do. Even the language and the allusions in such
spontaneous expression are useful to the historian, whose inferences might surprise the writer could she
know what was being made of her words.
This microfilm series focuses on a particular group (women) in a particular place (the South) in a
particular time (the nineteenth century). The fact that many of these documents exist is a tribute to the
work of several generations of staff members at the leading archives of the South such as the Southern
Historical Collection at Chapel Hill, North Carolina; the William R. Perkins Library at Duke University;
the Alderman Library at the University of Virginia; the South Caroliniana Library; the Louisiana and
Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, Louisiana State University; the Swem Library at the College of
William and Mary, Colonial Williamsburg; and several state historical societies. The legend of Southern
Historical Collection founder J. G. DeRoulhac Hamilton who, in his effort to preserve the evidence of
the southern past, traveled about in his Model A Ford knocking on doors, asking people to look in their
attics and cellars for material, is well known. The result of his labors and those of his counterparts and
successors is a vast collection that includes thousands of letters from women of all ages and hundreds of
diaries or diary fragments. Only a small part of this material has been studied by professional historians.
Some family collections cover decades, even several generations. Others are fragmentary: diaries
begun in moments of enthusiasm and shortly abandoned; letters sporadically saved.
The years of the Civil War are particularly well documented, since many women were
convinced that they were living through momentous historical events of which they should make a
record. After the war ended and the "new South" began to take shape, other women wrote
memoirs for their children and grandchildren, hoping to preserve forever their memories of a better
time "before the war" or to record the sacrifices and heroism they had witnessed. The United
Daughters of the Confederacy made a special effort to persuade women to record their wartime
memories. In the best of circumstances--and each collection included in this edition was chosen
precisely with this consideration in mind--the collections preserve the voices of one or more
women through letters or diaries that cover many years.
Although women's letters to soldiers were often lost in the mud and carnage of battlefields,
soldiers' letters were treasured and have survived in abundance. If it is true, as Virginia Woolf
once wrote, that in writing a letter one tries to reflect something of the recipient, then these letters,
too, may add to our understanding of the lives of women and families.1 Moreover so many of the
soldiers' letters respond to women's questions, give hints or instructions on managing property,
and allude to family life and routine at home, that they can be used to draw valid inferences about
the activities of their female correspondents, even when the woman's side of the correspondence is
altogether lost.
Seen through women's eyes, nineteenth-century southern social history takes on new
dimensions. Subjects that were of only passing interest when historians depended on documents
created by men now move to center stage. Women's letters dwell heavily on illness, pregnancy,
and childbirth. From them we can learn what it is like to live in a society in which very few
diseases are well understood, in which death is common in all age groups, and in which infant
mortality is an accepted fact of life. A woman of forty-three, writing in 1851, observed that her
father, mother, four sisters, three brothers, and two infants were all dead, and except for her father,
none had reached the age of thirty-six.2
Slavery has been a central concern of southern historians, generally from the white male
perspective. Seen through the eyes of plantation mistresses, the peculiar institution becomes even
more complex. We can observe a few women searching their souls about the morality of the
institution, and many more complaining bitterly about the practical burdens it places upon them.
We can find mothers worrying about the temptations slave life offers to husbands and sons--and
even occasionally expressing sympathy for the vulnerability of slave women. Some claim to be
opposed to the institution but do not take any steps to free their own slaves. Others simply agonize.
There is, unfortunately, no countervailing written record to enable us to see the relationship from
the slaves' point of view.
Until late in the century the word feminism did not exist, and in the South "women's rights"
were often identified with the hated antislavery movement. "Strong-minded woman" was a term of
anathema. Even so we find antebellum southern women in their most private moments wondering
why men's lives are so much less burdened than their own and why it is always they who must, as
one woman wrote, provide the ladder on which a man may climb to heaven. Very early in the
nineteenth century women's letters sometimes dwelt on the puzzling questions having to do with
women's proper role. After the Civil War a Georgia diarist reflected, apropos the battle over black
suffrage, that if anyone, even the Yankees, had given her the right to vote she would not readily give it
up.3 As early as the 1860s a handful of southern women presented suffrage arguments to the state
constitutional conventions. After 1865 a surprising number of women spoke out in favor of suffrage
and a larger number were quiet supporters. There were, of course, equally ardent opponents, and
until 1910 or so, organizing suffrage associations was uphill work. As one goes through these
records, however, suffragists and advocates of women's rights emerge from the dim corners in
which they tended to conceal themselves when they were alive.
1NigelNicholson and Joanne Trautmen, eds. The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. IV: 1929-1931 (New York and London:
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979), p. 98. "It is an interesting question--what one tries to do, in writing a letter--partly of course
to give back a reflection of the other person...."
2
Anne Beale Davis Diary, February 16, 1851, Beale-Davis Papers, Southern Historical Collection.
The conventional view that southern women eschewed politics will not survive a close
reading of these records. In 1808 one letter writer regretted the fact that a male literary society
would have no more parties since she enjoyed listening to the men talk politics.4 As early as the
1820s there is evidence for women's participation in political meetings and discussions. Such
involvement continued through the secession debates and the difficult days of reconstruction. A
South Carolina memoir offers a stirring account of the role of women in the critical election of
1876.5 By the 1870s southern women were already using their church societies to carve out a
political role, and by the end of the century they had added secular clubs, many of them focused
on civic improvement.
Reading women's documents we can envision the kinds of education available to the most
favored among them. Many women kept records of their reading and much of it was demanding:
Plutarch's Lives, for example, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. A very young
woman who recorded reading Humboldt's Kosmos, Milton's Paradise Lost, Madame De Stael's
Corinne, and Guizot's History of Civilization was not altogether unique. Others castigated
themselves for reading novels and resolved (sometimes over and over) to undertake more serious
study. At the very beginning of the nineteenth century a young woman from southwest Virginia
had gone to Williamsburg to school, presumably to a female academy or seminary.6 There are
many examples of strenuous efforts at self-education, and in the privacy of their diaries some
women admitted to a passionate longing for knowledge (reading clubs, for example, were
described as "a peace offering to a hungry mind").7 Of course one of the limitations of sources
such as these is precisely that they come principally from the minority who had some education. It
is up to the perceptive historian to extrapolate from these documents to the poorer women, the
slave women, and all those who seldom left a record at all. (There are occasional letters from
slaves in these voluminous collections, but they are rare.)
Papers that cover a considerable period provide us with many real-life dramas. Courtship
patterns and marriage and family experience emerge. We see the widow left with children to
support as she tries various options to earn a living--and in some cases takes to drink to ease her
burdens. We see the single woman cast on her own resources as she tries teaching or housekeeping
for a widower to keep body and soul together. Single sisters of wives who died young were likely
to wind up first taking care of the bereft children and then marrying the widower. Other single women
bemoan their fate and reflect that it might be better to be dead than to live single. The Majette Family
Papers from the holdings of the Virginia Historical Society provide one good example among many in
the series where a husband and wife corresponded as he moved a slave force into new western lands (in
Arkansas) while she managed an established plantation in the old southeast.8 Married or single, rich or
poor, many women inadvertently reveal the socialization that has persuaded them that they should
never complain, that they must be the burden bearers of family life.
Through the whole century, while the rest of the country was restlessly urbanizing, the South
remained predominantly an agricultural society. Women's records allow us to see the boredom of
rural life in which almost any bit of news, any adolescent wickedness, any youthful romance is
subject for comment. We see also the profound religious faith that supported many women through
poverty, childbirth, widowhood, and the other trials that filled their lives. The religious history of
3
Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas Diary, November 2, 1868, William R. Perkins Library, Duke University.
Jane C. Charlton to Sarah C. Watts, Sarah C. Watts Papers, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
5
Sally Elmore Taylor Memoir, Franklin Harper Elmore Papers, Southern Historical Collection.
6
Sarah C. Watts Papers.
7Hope Summerell Chamberlain, "What's Done and Past," unpublished autobiography, William R. Perkins Library, Duke
University.
4
the Civil War emerges as we see faith challenged by defeat, and many women beginning to
question things they had always believed. In an act of stoical determination, the mortally ill Ann
(Randolph) Fitzhugh penned a comprehensive essay of advice to her pre-teen daughters
bequeathing them her ethics on the importance of religion in personal deportment, on the choosing
of husbands, and even on sexual relations.9
No reader of these documents can any longer doubt that plantation women, in addition to
supervising the work of slaves, worked very hard themselves. Depending on their level of affluence,
women might take care of livestock and chickens, plant and harvest gardens, card, spin and weave,
make quilts, sew clothes, and perform many other specific tasks. The Soldiers' Aid Societies that formed
so quickly after secession rested on just these skills developed in the previous years.
One of the most interesting aspects of southern culture that emerges from papers such as these
is the views women and men had of each other. No matter how much a woman admired any
particular man, she often viewed men in general with extreme skepticism and sometimes with
outright bitterness. Men were often described as selfish, authoritarian, profligate, given to drinking
too much, and likely to judge women as a class, not in terms of their individual attributes. Many
women found their economic dependence galling. In spite of the rather general chafing at the
confines of patriarchy, individual women were devoted to and greatly admired their own
husbands, sons, and fathers. Women who traveled spoke with admiration of the independence
exhibited by northern women (this both before and after the Civil War). Discontent with their own
lot included a good deal of private railing against constant childbearing and the burdens of caring
for numerous children.
The concept of a woman's culture is borne out by much of what can be read here. Women
frequently assume that they say and feel things that only other women can understand.
It would be difficult to exaggerate the significance of this microfilm publication. Historians of
women have been making use of many of these collections for three decades or more. Now it is
gradually becoming clear that they are useful to the student of almost any aspect of southern
culture and society. In a recent example, Clarence Mohr, writing about slavery in Georgia, realized
that women's records were virtually his only source for testing the well-established southern myth
that all slaves had been docile, helpful workers when men went to war and left their wives and
children to supervise plantations. Years earlier Bell Irwin Wiley had suggested that the story was
more complicated than that, but it did not occur to him to look for evidence in women's papers.
The description of such docility never seemed reasonable, but it was believed by many people,
even some who had every reason to know better. In a close examination of women's diaries and
letters, Mohr found a quite different picture, one of slaves who, when the master departed, became
willful and hard to direct and who gave the mistress many causes for distress. To be sure, they did
not often murder families in their beds, but they became lackadaisical about work, took off without
permission, talked back, and ran away to the Yankees when opportunity presented itself. They
made use of all the thousand and one ways of expressing the frustration bondsmen and women
must always feel.10
Wartime documents are revealing in other ways. We can see rumors flying, as victories and
defeats were created in the mind, not on the battlefield. We sense the tension of waiting for word from
men in the army. We see the women gradually losing faith that God will protect them from the invaders.
For some, religion itself is called in question by the experience of invasion and defeat.
As we move into the remaining decades of the nineteenth century, these records allow us to trace
some of the dramatic social changes of the postwar world. In one family we see a member of the
8
Majette Family Papers, Virginia Historical Society.
9George Boiling Lee Papers, Virginia Historical Society.
generation of post-Civil War single women earning her living in a variety of ways and then beginning a
full-time career as a teacher at the age of fifty-eight. She continued to teach well into her eighth decade.
This particular set of papers is especially valuable since it goes through three generations--a wonderful
exposition of social change as revealed in the lives of women.11
We must be struck by the number of men in the immediate postwar years who chose suicide
over the challenges of creating a new society without slaves. In records from the second half of the
century we can see lynching from the white perspective, observe the universal experience of
adolescence, watch the arrival of rural free delivery of mail and the coming of the telephone, and
many other evidences of change. Reading these personal documents the historian may be
reminded of Tolstoy's dictum that all happy families are alike, while unhappy families are each
unhappy in their own way. One may be tempted to revise the aphorism to say that every family is
sometimes happy and sometimes unhappy--the balance between the two states makes for a
satisfactory or unsatisfactory life. Reading family papers one may also be forcefully reminded of
Martha Washington, writing about the difficulties she faced as first lady. She was, she said,
"determined to be cheerful and to be happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned
from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions,
and not upon our circumstances."12
From the larger perspective of the social historian, records such as these will help us develop
a more comprehensive picture of life as it was experienced by the literate part of the southern
population over a century. They help us understand the intricate interaction of individual lives and
social change. We can see the world through eyes that perceive very differently from our own and
understand better the dramatic shifts in values that have occurred in the twentieth century. Like
any other historical data these must be used with care, with empathy, with detachment, and with
humility. But given those conditions they will add significantly to our understanding of a world
that in one sense is dead and gone, and in another sense lives on in the hearts and minds and
behavior patterns of many southern people.
Anne Firor Scott
W. K. Boyd Professor of History Emerita
Duke University
10Clarence L. Mohr, On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia (Athens: University of
Georgia Press, 1986).
11MarySusan Ker Papers, Southern Historical Collection.
12
John P. Riley, "The First Family in New York." Mount Vernon Ladies Association Annual Report, 1989, p. 23.
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
This microfilm publication consists of thirty manuscript collections filmed from the holdings
of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University. These records
focus on the experiences of women in Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida between 1850 and
1900, though the earliest documents date back to 1741 and some collections extend to 1942. Many
voices are represented in the following pages, including the compelling accounts of Emma
Spaulding, wife of carpetbagger and newspaperman John Emory Bryant; Julia Blanche Munroe,
wife of U.S. and Confederate naval officer John McIntosh Kell; author Clara Victoria Dargan
MacLean; schoolteacher Isabella Anna Roberts Woodruff; and wealthy plantation owner and wellknown diarist Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas. The papers include letters, journal entries, scrap and
commonplace books, financial ledgers and receipts, wills and legal documents, fiction and biographical manuscripts, genealogical records, report cards, recipes, and medical information.
Though the subjects of these collections share the common experience of being white, educated women living in the nineteenth-century South, their perspectives are far from homogeneous.
The authors are schoolgirls and grandmothers, working women and those supported by husbands
or families, women who seem scarcely aware of slavery and others who agonize about its morality
while enjoying its advantages. These papers follow women as they travel the social arch of their
lives, from close female friendships, courtship, and marriage to motherhood, and encounter the
issues of their times: the Civil War, slavery, religious faith, education, and descent into poverty.
Combined with the constant threat of disease and child mortality, the collections often present
women in states of crisis, searching for the means to hold themselves and their families together.
The most carefree days for young women were during their school years, but those too were
fraught with angst as girls formed close friendships that were prone to drama. Julia Blanche Munroe
Kell's youthful correspondence contains numerous declarations of love followed by despair that the
recipient does not feel the same, and perhaps could never love a person with so many faults as the
author (Reel 11). Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas began her school journal in the midst of a furious
feud with a classmate that carried such emotional weight that she revisited the events in another
journal over a decade later (Reel 27, Frames 0069, 0669). The papers of Eugenia Josephine West,
Jane W. Sullivan, Kate Thompson, and Clara Victoria Dargan MacLean, among others, also contain
valuable insight into the relationships of young women. Female friendships cooled as women came
of age and transferred their energies to courting relationships with men.
Military service and business travel separated husbands from wives, opening windows into
their relationships. Few marriages were better documented than that of Emma Spaulding Bryant and
John Emory Bryant (Reels 1-8), who were frequently apart during their first thirty years together.
Many events were recorded in their letters, the most dramatic of which played out in a series written
when Emma sought treatment for an ongoing gynecological condition, and John accused her of
having an affair with her physician. Emma's fiery defense of her actions illuminates her lonely
marriage with John and results in a surprisingly frank discussion of reproductive health and medical
procedure (Reel 3, Frame 0158). Other separated wives include Julia Blanche Munroe Kell, who
did not see her husband for three years during the Civil War; Clara Victoria Dargan MacLean; and
William Eliza Rhodes Terrell.
Perhaps most prominent in women's writings is discussion of children. Letters and journal
entries are filled with descriptions of appearance and temperament, anecdotes and expectations of
their sons and daughters. Though the high incidence of infant and child mortality may have been
acknowledged, the agony experienced by grieving mothers makes apparent that deaths were not
taken lightly. Friends often awkwardly write that they have not known what to say and cannot
imagine the pain of the family. It is a time when women turn to their religious faith, either to find
solace or to reconsider their beliefs. Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, Julia Blanche Munroe Kell, and
Emma Spaulding Bryant each wrote about their response to the deaths of their infants and children,
and the impact of death on the surviving siblings.
The connecting cord of the Civil War runs through most of the collections. Some women were
courting men in the service, others had enlisted sons or husbands, while a few, like members of the
Greenville Ladies Association, undertook nearly full-time support of the Confederate Army.
Isabella Anna Roberts Woodruff had no relations in the service at the opening of the war, but she
received daily eyewitness accounts of the fighting from her teenaged brother in Charleston (Reels
25 and 26). Women's feelings evolved over the course of the fighting, and many who were happy
to send their husbands off to certain victory came to privately wish the war was lost and over so
long as their men survived. With the exception of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, women often
appear barely aware of African Americans prior to the Civil War. If not for the occasional "say
howdy to the Negroes" postscript, some families might have left no indication that they owned
slaves. During the war women wrote more about their relationship to slavery, and self-congratulatory but benevolent feelings turned hostile as fortunes reversed and war devastation spread.
Thomas, who had pondered the morality of owning people, reflected that she had not previously
considered how much of her wealth was invested in slaves until after the war when she was
plunged into debt (Reel 27).
The Civil War, African Americans, children, marriage, and friends are only a few of the topics
addressed by the remarkable women in this publication. Descriptions of each collection, and a list
of major topics, can be found in the Reel Index of this user guide. An alphabetical list of major
topics and prominent persons can be found in the Subject and Principal Correspondents indexes of
this user guide. Related collections on these states include Southern Women and Their Families in
the 19th Century, Series A, Part 5, and Series D, Part 4. Other collections from the Rare Book,
Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University, were filmed in Records of Southern
Plantations from Emancipation to the Great Migration, Series A, and also Records of Antebellum
Southern Plantations from the Revolution to the Civil War, Series F.
NOTE ON SOURCES
The collections microfilmed in this edition are from the holdings of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University, Box 90185, Durham, North Carolina
27708-0185. Descriptions of the collections in this user guide are adapted from inventories compiled by the library.
EDITORIAL NOTE
The collections selected for this edition have been chosen under criteria established by series
Consulting Editor Anne Firor Scott.
REEL INDEX
The following is a listing of the collections and folders comprising Southern Women and Their
Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries, Series H, Holdings of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and
Special Collections Library, Duke University, Part 1: South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. This edition
consists of thirty manuscript collections. Each of these collections is identified by its title followed by the
entire date span of the collection. Dates in brackets indicate the span of each collection as microfilmed for
this edition by UPA. Geographical locations in the collection titles indicate the primary geographic area
associated with a particular collection. Following the collection title there is a brief description of the
collection and a folder listing. The four-digit number on the far left is the frame at which a particular file
folder begins. This is followed by the file title, the date(s) of the file, and the total number of frames.
Substantive subjects are highlighted under the heading Major Topics, as are prominent correspondents
under the heading Principal Correspondents.
Reel 1
Frame No.
Sarah (Eve) Adams Diary, 1813-1814,
Richmond County, Georgia
Sarah Eve Adams writes of her relationship with her deceased husband and her desire to join him in
heaven. The entries include references to the Eve family, her church, and her children.
0001
Sarah (Eve) Adams Diary, 1813-1814. 28 frames.
Major Topics: Christ Presbyterian Church; widows and widowers; Christmas; diseases
and disorders.
Anonymous Commencement, Undated
An address on the education of women, delivered to a female educational institution.
0029
Anonymous Commencement, Undated. 27 frames.
Major Topics: Education; gender roles.
Huldah Annie (Fain) Briant Papers, 1846-1888,
Santa Luca (Gilmer County), Georgia
The papers of Huldah A. Fain Briant feature courtship letters between Huldah and two Confederate
Army soldiers, J. S. Slemmons and M. C. Briant, the latter of whom she married in 1864, to Slemmons'
consternation. The collection also includes letters of the Fain family and legal correspondence of
Ebenezer Fain, Huldah A. Fain Briant's father. The letters contain accounts of the Battle of Manassas,
enthusiasm for the Confederacy in Texas, and refugee families from Georgia.
0056
Huldah Annie (Fain) Briant Papers, 1846-1888. 306 frames.
Major Topics: Diseases and disorders; Civil War; Confederate Army; war casualties;
courtship; education; farms and farmland.
Principal Correspondents: Ebenezer Fain; M. C. Briant; J. S. Slemmons; Stephen Lee;
J. M. Fain; A. G. Butts.
John Emory Bryant Papers, 1851-1907,
Union (Lincoln County), Maine; and Georgia
The collection includes correspondence and papers of Emma Spaulding Bryant and John Emory
Bryant. Emma Spaulding met John Bryant in 1860 in Maine, where she was his pupil in one of the
"subscription schools" he taught to earn money for his own education. John Bryant served in the Union
Army during the Civil War, and during a leave of absence from his military duties in 1864 they were
married. After the war John moved to Georgia to join the Freedmen's Bureau, supporting the cause of
freed slaves by setting up schools, providing them with land, and giving legal assistance. He began a
political career in the Republican Party there, and edited a series of newspapers that promoted his political
causes. Emma joined him in Georgia in 1866 and aided him in his work, including filling in as editor of
his newspapers during his absences. John traveled often to support his political ambitions and frequently
left Emma to fend for herself without money or companionship in difficult times, including the deaths of
two infant children and at least one miscarriage. In 1871, once again with her husband absent, she gave
birth to a daughter, Emma Alice Bryant. Now with her daughter in tow, she traveled often to spend time
with family and friends in the North to escape her isolation in Georgia. On one such journey Emma
sought medical treatment for chronic gynecological difficulties and John, misinterpreting her relationship
with the physician, threatened to dissolve their marriage.
John Bryant held a number of important posts in the Georgia Republican Party and Reconstruction
governments there, but he was often in conflict with others within his party. He eventually gave up
Georgia politics and moved to New York in the late 1880s, where he established a business selling bonds
and mortgages and was active in the national Union League. Emma Spaulding Bryant and their daughter,
Alice did not move to New York with John but instead went to Tennessee, where Emma took a position
teaching mathematics at East Tennessee Wesleyan University in Athens while Alice studied there. The
family was reunited after Alice's graduation, and they lived together in Mount Vernon, New York, where
John and Emma ran a Methodist mission. John died of cancer in 1900, and Emma died at Alice's home
the following year.
The collection contains correspondence, published writings, and other papers relating to Bryant's
Civil War service with the 8th Maine Volunteers, his activities in politics, and his work as an agent of the
Freedmen's Bureau in Augusta, Georgia. Also included in the collection is the letterbook and scrapbook,
1875-1879, of William Anderson Pledger, an African American editor, and clippings from Georgia
newspapers illustrating Reconstruction and African American life.
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Letters, 1851-1859. 135 frames.
Major Topics: Education; teachers; religion and religious organizations; courtship;
personal and household finance.
Principal Correspondents: G. B. Spaulding; D. Spaulding; Samuel M. Jennings.
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Major Topics: Politics and politicians; teachers; education; Sons of Temperance.
Principal Correspondents: Samuel M. Jennings; D. Spaulding; S. C. Tuck; Amosa
Bryant; Emma Spaulding.
Letters, 1862. 118 frames.
Major Topics: Civil War; courtship; military personnel.
Principal Correspondents: Emma Spaulding.
Major Topics: Courtship; Civil War; military campaigns and battles; African Americans.
Principal Correspondents: Emma Spaulding; Louise Bryant.
Major Topics: Courtship; Civil War; emancipation; marriage; military personnel;
obstetrics and gynecology.
Principal Correspondent: Emma Spaulding Bryant.
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John Emory Bryant Papers, 1851-1907 cont.
Major Topics: Military personnel; personal and household finance; violence; African
Americans; Reconstruction; politics and politicians; infant mortality; parents;
education; newspapers; marriage; Republican Party.
Principal Correspondents: Henry McNeal Turner; J. G. Spaulding; Emma Spaulding
Bryant; E. E. Howard.
Major Topics: Republican Party; marriage; violence; African Americans; newspapers;
infant mortality; postal service.
Principal Correspondents: Emma Spaulding Bryant; J. G. Spaulding; Alexander
Ramsey; Charles R. Edwards.
Major Topics: Postal service; Republican Party; newspapers; African Americans; voting
rights.
Principal Correspondents: Emma Spaulding Bryant; Horace Porter.
Letters, 1871, January-May. 212 frames.
Major Topics: Personal and household finance; newspapers; Republican Party; children.
Principal Correspondent: Emma Spaulding Bryant.
Letters, 1871, June-December. 132 frames.
Major Topics: Health conditions; African Americans; employment; Republican Party;
Democratic Party; newspapers; marriage; children.
Principal Correspondents: Emma Spaulding Bryant; Edwin Belcher.
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Major Topics: Reconstruction; marriage; children; lawyers and legal services; African
Americans; Republican Party.
Principal Correspondents: Emma Spaulding Bryant; C. H. Prince.
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Major Topics: Marriage; obstetrics and gynecology; adultery; Republican Party; politics
and politicians; government officials; Treasury Department.
Principal Correspondents: Emma Spaulding Bryant; W. L. Clift.
Major Topics: Republican Party; politics and politicians; Treasury Department; African
Americans; government officials; marriage.
Principal Correspondents: Volney Spalding; W. L. Clift; Emma Spaulding Bryant;
David Porter.
Major Topics: Politics and politicians; Ulysses S. Grant; Treasury Department;
Republican Party.
Principal Correspondents: W. L. Clift; Volney Spalding; Emma Spaulding Bryant; C. H.
Prince; E. C. Wade.
Major Topics: Parents; children; infant mortality; Republican Party; marriage;
newspapers.
Principal Correspondents: Emma Spaulding Bryant; Volney Spalding; Emma Alice
Bryant.
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Major Topics: Marriage; Republican Party; personal and household finance; children.
Principal Correspondents: Emma Spaulding Bryant; Volney Spalding.
Major Topics: Personal and household finance; marriage; Republican Party; children;
African Americans; voting rights.
Principal Correspondents: Emma Spaulding Bryant; Volney Spalding; Emma Alice
Bryant; E. D. Fuller.
Major Topics: Education; children; teachers; marriage; employment; personal and
household finance.
Principal Correspondents: Emma Spaulding Bryant; Emma Alice Bryant.
Major Topics: Personal and household finance; politics and politicians; teachers.
Principal Correspondents: Emma Spaulding Bryant; Emma Alice Bryant.
Major Topics: Republican Party; African Americans; education; Reconstruction.
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Letters, 1890-1907 and Undated. 109 frames.
Major Topics: Higher education; religion and religious organizations.
Principal Correspondents: Emma Alice Bryant; Emma Spaulding Bryant.
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Official Papers and Writings: Methodist Episcopal Church, 1878-1887. 212 frames.
Major Topics: Republican Party; education; African Americans; missions and
missionaries.
Miscellany: Writings, April 1873-July 1, 1875, and Undated. 80 frames.
Major Topics: Reconstruction; religion and religious organizations.
Legal Papers, January 1, 1866-1899 and Undated. 33 frames.
Major Topic: Personal and household finance.
Miscellaneous Papers and Writings, 1852-1864. 79 frames.
Major Topics: Education; temperance; Revolutionary War; Independence Day.
Financial Papers, July 2, 1864-July 25, 1887. 39 frames.
Major Topic: Insurance and insurance industry.
Journal of John Emory Bryant, Nos. 1, 3, 5 Copies, 1853-1859. 82 frames.
Major Topics: Education; courts.
Bryant, Emma F. (Spaulding) Diary, 1866, 1876. 64 frames.
Major Topics: Diseases and disorders; religion and religious institutions; children.
Autobiography of Alice E. (Bryant) Zeller [Emma Alice Bryant Zeller], Undated.
20 frames.
Major Topics: Emma Spaulding Bryant; John Emory Bryant; parents; children; voting
rights; religion and religious organizations; diseases and disorders; lawyers and legal
services.
Official Papers and Writings: Political, 1865-1869. 70 frames.
Major Topics: Voting rights; education; Republican Party.
Official Papers and Writings: Political, 1870-1874. 80 frames.
Major Topics: Senate; elections.
Official Papers and Writings: Political, 1875-1885 and Undated. 170 frames.
Major Topics: Republican Party; African Americans; race relations; education.
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Official Papers and Writings: Political, 1888, J. E. Bryant, "The Southern Problem."
98 frames.
Major Topics: African Americans; race relations; lynching; voting rights; Republican and
Democratic Parties; elections.
Official Papers and Writings: Political, 1892, G.A.R. Memorial Day Address,
Mt. Vernon, N.Y. 16 frames.
Major Topic: Civil War.
Official Papers and Writings: Miscellaneous Political [Undated]. 24 frames.
Major Topic: Republican Party.
Typescript of Letterbooks of John Emory Bryant, September 29, 1876-February 15,
1878.931 frames.
Major Topics: Republican and Democratic Parties; elections; Treasury Department.
Principal Correspondents: L. M. Morrill; Volney Spalding.
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William A. Pledger Scrapbook, 1874-1889: Scrapbook of a Black Republican in
Georgia. 19 frames.
Major Topics: Personal and household finance; voting rights.
William A. Pledger Letterpress Book [and Bryant Papers], 1875-1879. 916 frames.
Major Topics: Republican and Democratic Parties; African Americans; education;
employment; elections; race relations; Civil War; voting rights; Confederate Army;
military personnel.
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William A. Pledger Letterpress Book [and Bryant Papers], 1875-1879 cont.
340 frames.
Major Topics: Military personnel; wages and salaries; personal and household finance.
Clippings, 1883. 29 frames.
Major Topics: African Americans; race relations; lynching; education.
Clippings, 1884-1885. 85 frames.
Major Topics: Republican and Democratic Parties; African Americans; education; race
relations.
Printed Materials: Pamphlet, Freedmen's Convention, 1866. 22 frames.
Major Topics: African Americans; religion and religious organizations; voting rights.
Printed Materials: Broadsides, Freedmen's Convention, Union Republican Party,
January 22, 1868. 3 frames.
Printed Materials: Broadsides and Leaflets, etc. Miscellany, 1874-1899. 17 frames.
Major Topics: Politics and politicians; Women's Christian Temperance Union.
Printed Materials: Broadsides and Leaflets, 1880-1882. 11 frames.
Major Topic: Politics and politicians.
Printed Materials: Pamphlet, 1877, Letter to the President of the United States.
5 frames.
Major Topics: Republican Party; African Americans; Reconstruction; newspapers.
Printed Materials: Pamphlet, Republican State Central Committee, 1877. 6 frames.
Printed Materials: Leaflets, 1877. 5 frames.
Major Topic: Republican Party.
Printed Materials: Pamphlet, The South, November 5, 1879. 11 frames.
Major Topics: African Americans; lynching.
Printed Materials: Pamphlet, The Southern Problem, June 10, 1879. 5 frames.
Major Topics: Republican Party; African Americans.
Printed Materials: Pamphlet, Philadelphia Union League of America, December
1880. 4 frames.
Valeria G. Burroughs Album and Commonplace Book, 1830-1872,
Savannah, Georgia
The collection includes an album and commonplace book containing diary entries and copies of
poems, which concern religion and the death of Valeria G. Burroughs' child. A later commonplace book
includes the minutes, correspondence, and constitution of the Female Seamen's Friend Society of
Savannah, 1844-1861, as well as household accounts, lists, and recipes.
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Valeria G. Burroughs Album and Commonplace Book, 1830-1872. 116 frames.
Major Topics: Religion and religious organizations; child mortality; personal and
household finance; Female Seamen's Friend Society.
Rachel Susan (Bee) Cheves Papers, 1846-1911,
Savannah, Georgia
The collection primarily consists of personal and family correspondence concerning day-to-day life
during the Civil War and Reconstruction, including a description of the burning of Columbia, South
Carolina. There are a number of letters from Joseph Cheves Haskell regarding his experiences in the Civil
War, including camp life, aftermath of the battle of Gettysburg, and the campaigns around Chattanooga
and Knoxville in 1863.
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Rachel Susan (Bee) Cheves Papers, 1846-1911. 423 frames.
Major Topics: Diseases and disorders; education; fires; Civil War; slaves and slavery;
military personnel; war casualties; marriage; physicians; Reconstruction.
Principal Correspondents: M. E. Richardson; M. E. Hampton; Langdon Cheves;
Alexander Marshall; Joseph Cheves Haskell; Edward Cheves; Sophia Lovell Cheves
Haskell; Joseph Heatly Dulles.
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Ann Pamela Cunningham Papers, 1857-1874,
Laurens (Laurens County), South Carolina
These papers comprise letters relating to the collection of money for the Mount Vernon Ladies'
Association.
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Ann Pamela Cunningham Papers, 1857-1874. 48 frames.
Major Topics: Deaths; personal and household finance; slaves and slavery; Mount
Vernon Ladies' Association.
Principal Correspondents: Joseph K. Brunson; Sally Chestnut.
Kate Edmond Papers, 1835 (1881-1883) 1886,
Selma (Dallas County), Alabama
The collection contains letters written to Kate Edmond by Carrie McCord, who went with her family
to Brazil in 1881 to join her physician father. The letters discuss Brazilian social life and customs, floods
and landslides in Campos, and a visit of Emperor Pedro II and Princess Teresa to celebrate the arrival of
electricity.
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Kate Edmond Papers, 1835-1886. 146 frames.
Major Topics: Health conditions; Brazil; floods; clothing and clothing industry;
education; Latin America; courtship; marriage.
Principal Correspondent: Carrie McCord.
Mary (De Saussure) Fraser Papers, 1780-1886,
Charleston, South Carolina
The collection features the papers of three generations of the Fraser family, centered on the
correspondence of Mary De Saussure Fraser (1772-1853) with her husband, Frederick Fraser, and their
children. Her son, Frederick Grimke Fraser, writes of his life as a planter and slave owner in Beaufort,
South Carolina, while letters from her daughter, Mary Fraser Daniel, describe a tour of Europe in 1844.
Also contained in the collection are business papers of Mary F. Fraser Davie, wife of politician Frederick
William Davie and daughter-in-law of William R. Davie, governor of North Carolina, as well as account
books, estate papers, and newspaper clippings.
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Mary (De Saussure) Fraser Papers, 1780-1886. 491 frames.
Major Topics: Diseases and disorders; France; African Americans; deaths; slaves and
slavery; infant mortality; Europe; travel and tourism; personal and household finance.
Principal Correspondents: Frederick Fraser; Mary Finley; Frederick Grimke Fraser;
Mary Fraser Daniel.
Mary Jane Fraser Notebook, 1842,
The collection comprises notes on Christianity in the form of questions and answers.
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Mary Jane Fraser Notebook, 1842. 39 frames.
Major Topic: Religion and religious organizations.
Mary Zilpha Giles Papers, 1846-1942,
Greenwood (Abbeville County), South Carolina
The letters and papers of Mary Z. Giles concern her education at Trinity College in the 1870s, her
experiences as a schoolteacher and administrator, and atrip abroad with her sister, Persis Giles. The
collection includes tuition receipts; a charter from 1889 authorizing the Giles sisters (Theresa, Persis,
Mary, and Susan) and their mother, Nancy Giles, to establish Greenwood Female College; and letters
from missionaries in India, China, and Guatemala.
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Mary Zilpha Giles Papers, 1846-1942. 187 frames.
Major Topics: Higher education; Trinity College; Greenwood Female College; travel and
tourism; children; orphanages; teachers; personal and household finance.
Principal Correspondent: Persis Giles.
Greenville Ladies Association Minutes, 1861-1865,
Greenville (Greenville County), South Carolina
The minutes of the Greenville Ladies Association detail clothing and other supplies produced and
delivered to fighting Confederate Army soldiers, and they indicate mounting difficulties and desperation
toward the close of the war.
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Greenville Ladies Association Minutes, 1861-1865 [transcription]. 195 frames.
Major Topics: Confederate Army; military personnel; military supplies and property;
health conditions; food assistance; clothing and clothing industry; personal and
household finance.
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Mary E. Baxter Gresham Commonplace Book, 1836-1882,
Athens and Macon, Georgia
The commonplace book kept by Mary E. Baxter Gresham includes transcribed letters, poems, essays,
and quotations expressing religious and cultural values. Interspersed with these entries are occasional
brief diarylike entries relating to her life as a wife and mother. Also included are notes and drawings
concerning the Gresham family children.
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Volume of Family Notes, 1836-1882. 104 frames.
Major Topics: Diseases and disorders; deaths; marriage; children; religion and religious
organizations.
John McIntosh Kell Papers, 1785-1921,
Darien (McIntosh County), Georgia
The collection contains the correspondence, writings, and professional papers of Julia Blanche
Munroe Kell and John McIntosh Kell. Julia Blanche Munroe Kell, called Bannie, was born in 1836 to
Tabitha Napier and Nathan Munroe of Macon, Georgia. Much of the early collection consists of
correspondence with her sisters and friends while a student at Montpelier Institute, focusing on their
friendships, religious fervor, and who would abandon her friends first for a husband. John McIntosh
Kell's correspondence begins in 1841, an eighteen year old on his first absence from home, embarking on
a career in the U.S. Navy that would take him to Africa, Asia, and South America. His mother, Marjory
Baillie Kell, was a widow who passionately favored Kell over his three sisters and younger brother. After
Julia Blanche Munroe Kell and John McIntosh Kell married in 1856, John returned to sea immediately,
settling Bannie in Marjory Kell's house, far from her family in Macon. With John absent on long trips, a
subtle tug-of-war began between the Kells and Munroes for possession of Bannie and her children. The
collection includes many letters written between Macon and Darien during this time, illustrating aspects
of Bannie's newly married life.
During the Civil War John McIntosh Kell resigned from the U.S. Navy and enlisted with the
Confederate Navy, in which he served as executive officer on the Sumter and Alabama. While he was
away Julia Blanche Munroe Kell's oldest son, favored by the Kells as John was, and her toddler daughter
died of diphtheria. Though she sheltered John from her feelings, Bannie confided to her father the pain of
their deaths, and the impact on her relationship with her surviving son. They corresponded almost daily
during the war, with Nathan Munroe reporting up to the moment events on the battlefield and in local
news. After the war John returned home to take up farming, and in 1886 he was appointed adjutant
general of Georgia. In between, he and Bannie raised a large family, their lives recorded in
correspondence with her friends and sisters-in-law. The collection contains many published and
unpublished writings of Julia Blanche Munroe Kell, including short stories, recollections of her
childhood, and The Life and Letters of John McIntosh Kell, an unpublished biography of her husband.
Also included are account books and financial papers, John McIntosh Kell's ship logs, and newspaper
clippings of Confederate leaders.
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Major Topics: Religion and religious organizations; health conditions; children.
Principal Correspondents: Tabitha Napier Munroe; Sarah Munroe; Nathan Munroe.
Major Topics: Courtship; children; slaves and slavery; cotton; U.S. Navy; navy
personnel; diseases and disorders.
Principal Correspondents: E. B. Napier; Nathan Munroe; Tabitha Napier Munroe;
Hendley Varner; Marjory Baillie Kell; Rowena Munroe.
Major Topics: U.S. Navy; navy personnel; politics and politicians; duels; personal and
household finance.
Principal Correspondents: Nathan Munroe; Marjory Baillie Kell; Charles Spalding;
Thomas Butler King; Rowena Munroe; Julia Blanche Munroe.
Major Topics: Education; Montpelier Institute; navy personnel; slaves and slavery.
Principal Correspondents: Julia Blanche Munroe; Rowena Munroe; Nathan Munroe;
Hendley Varner; Tabitha Napier Munroe; Marjory Baillie Kell; Harriet (Hattie)
Munroe.
Letters, 1849 and Undated. 149 frames.
Major Topics: Montpelier Institute; navy personnel; religion and religious organizations.
Principal Correspondents: Nathan Munroe; Julia Blanche Munroe; Harriet (Hattie)
Munroe; Marjory Baillie Kell; Rowena Munroe.
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Major Topics: Montpelier Institute; friendship and platonic relationships; gender roles;
navy personnel.
Principal Correspondents: Nathan Munroe; Julia Blanche Munroe; Rowena Munroe;
Tabitha Napier Munroe; Harriet (Hattie) Munroe; Sarah Munroe; Hendley Varner;
Mary Lucas; Emma Wray; Marjory Baillie Kell.
Major Topics: Slaves and slavery; Montpelier Institute; friendship and platonic
relationships; navy personnel; travel and tourism.
Principal Correspondents: Julia Blanche Munroe; Nathan Munroe; Harriet (Hattie)
Munroe; Tabitha Napier Munroe; Marjory Baillie Kell; Mary Lucas; Emma Wray.
Major Topics: Montpelier Institute; friendship and platonic relationships; navy personnel;
travel and tourism; Asia; marriage.
Principal Correspondents: Julia Blanche Munroe; Mary Lucas; Emma Wray; Tabitha
Napier Munroe; Harriet (Hattie) Munroe; Nathan Munroe.
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Major Topics: Montpelier Institute; friendship and platonic relationships.
Principal Correspondents: Julia Blanche Munroe; Mary Lucas; Tabitha Napier Munroe;
Nathan Munroe; Emma Wray.
Major Topics: Marriage; friendship and platonic relationships; courtship; children;
diseases and disorders.
Principal Correspondents: Julia Blanche Munroe Kell; Mary Jane Kell; Tabitha Napier
Munroe; Hester (Hettie) Kell; Nathan Munroe; Evelyn Kell Spalding; Marjory Baillie
Kell; Mary Lucas.
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Major Topics: Marriage; slaves and slavery; African Americans; agriculture; navy
personnel.
Principal Correspondents: Julia Blanche Munroe Kell; Tabitha Napier Munroe; Nathan
Munroe; Harriet (Hattie) Munroe; Marjory Baillie Kell; Hester (Hettie) Kell; Emma
Wray; Nathan Munroe Jr.
Major Topics: Births; breastfeeding; medicine; navy personnel; travel and tourism; Latin
America; religion and religious organizations; deaths.
Principal Correspondents: Julia Blanche Munroe Kell; Evelyn Kell Spalding; Hester
(Hettie) Kell; Marjory Baillie Kell; Nathan Munroe; Emma Wray.
Major Topics: Children; diseases and disorders; navy personnel; travel and tourism; Latin
America; housing construction.
Principal Correspondents: Julia Blanche Munroe Kell; Nathan Munroe; Marjory Baillie
Kell; Hester (Hettie) Kell; Emma Wray; Mary Jane Kell; Evelyn (Evy) Kell Spalding;
Harriet (Hattie) Munroe; Nathan Munroe Jr.
Letters, 1850s. 84 frames.
Major Topics: Friendship and platonic relationships; marriage; Montpelier Institute.
Principal Correspondents: Emma Wray; Hester (Hettie) Kell.
Major Topics: Children; diseases and disorders; pets.
Principal Correspondents: Julia Blanche Munroe; Nathan Munroe; Alexander Baillie
Kell; Hester (Hettie) Kell; Harriet (Hattie) Munroe; Marjory Baillie Kell.
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Major Topics: Children; diseases and disorders; deaths; navy personnel.
Kell; Hester (Hettie) Kell; Emma Wray.
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Major Topics: Navy personnel; U.S. Navy; slaves and slavery; Civil War; military
personnel; secession of Southern states; marriage; deaths; military campaigns and
battles.
Principal Correspondents: Julia Blanche Munroe Kell; Nathan Munroe; Evelyn (Evy)
Kell Spalding; Marjory Baillie Kell.
Major Topics: Civil War; navy personnel; slaves and slavery; children; military
personnel; military campaigns and battles; naval vessels; shortages; agriculture;
African Americans.
Principal Correspondents: Julia Blanche Munroe Kell; Hester (Hettie) Kell; Marjory
Baillie Kell; Nathan Munroe; Hendley Varner; Alexander Baillie Kell; Emma Wray;
Elizabeth (Lizzie) P. Fahs.
Major Topics: Civil War; shortages; slaves and slavery; African Americans; diseases and
disorders; personal and household finance; clothing and clothing industry; children;
medicine; child mortality; parents.
Principal Correspondents: Nathan Munroe; Julia Blanche Munroe Kell; Evelyn (Evy)
Kell Spalding; Marjory Baillie Kell; Hester (Hettie) Kell; Elizabeth (Lizzie) P. Fahs.
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Major Topics: Children; slaves and slavery; child mortality; Civil War; shortages;
military campaigns and battles; navy personnel; deaths.
Kell; Evelyn (Evy) Kell Spalding; Elizabeth (Lizzie) P. Fahs; Alexander Baillie Kell;
C. F. Fahs.
Major Topics: Navy personnel; Civil War; personal and household finance;
Reconstruction; African Americans.
Kell.
Major Topics: Diseases and disorders; agriculture; African Americans; Reconstruction;
North-South relations; children.
Kell Spalding.
Major Topics: Children; diseases and disorders; property value; deaths.
Kell Spalding; Nathan Munroe Jr.; Hendley Varner.
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Major Topics: Diseases and disorders; personal and household finance; religion and
religious organizations.
Principal Correspondents: Julia Blanche Munroe Kell; Nathan Munroe; Hester (Hettie)
Kell; Emma Wray.
Letters, 1867, May-December. 102 frames.
Major Topics: Personal and household finance; livestock; diseases and disorders;
children; parents.
Principal Correspondents: Julia Blanche Munroe Kell; Nathan Munroe; Nathan Munroe
Jr.; Evelyn (Evy) Kell Spalding.
Major Topics: Diseases and disorders; personal and household finance; marriage;
children; housing construction; North-South relations; child mortality; parents.
Principal Correspondents: Julia Blanche Munroe Kell; Nathan Munroe; Tadie Sims;
Evelyn (Evy) Kell Spalding; Marjory Baillie Kell; Charles Spalding; F. W. Sims.
Letters, Partially Dated, 1860s. 152 frames.
Major Topics: Children; diseases and disorders; medicine; pets.
Principal Correspondents: Emma Wray; Evelyn (Evy) Kell Spalding; Hester (Hettie)
Kell; Mary Jane Kell; Tadie Sims; John (Johnny) Kell Jr.; Marjory Baillie Kell;
Nathan Munroe.
Major Topics: Children; livestock and livestock industry; diseases and disorders;
agriculture; African Americans; child mortality.
Principal Correspondents: Julia Blanche Munroe Kell; Hester (Hettie) Kell; Nathan
Munroe; Marjory Baillie Kell; John Kell Jr.; Emma Wray; Evelyn (Evy) Kell
Spalding.
Major Topics: Diseases and disorders; cotton; children; vaccination and vaccines;
personal and household finance; education; births; infant mortality.
Principal Correspondents: Julia Blanche Munroe Kell; Tadie Sims; Elizabeth (Lizzie) P.
Fahs; Evelyn (Evy) Kell Spalding; Hester (Hettie) Kell; John (Johnnie) Kell Jr.;
Timmie Kell; Emma Wray.
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Major Topics: Agriculture; education; children; vaccination and vaccines; medicine;
wills and probate; deaths; funerals; diseases and disorders.
Principal Correspondents: Julia Blanche Munroe Kell; Evelyn (Evy) Kell Spalding;
Tadie Sims; Emma Wray; Hester (Hettie) Kell; Mary Jane Kell; Helen M. Ward.
Major Topics: Children; diseases and disorders; education; agriculture; births; Honduras;
Christmas; pets; African Americans.
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Principal Correspondents: Julia Blanche Munroe Kell; Tadie Sims; Evelyn (Evy) Kell
Spalding; Helen M. Ward; Hester (Hettie) Kell; John Kell Jr.; Charles Spalding.
Major Topics: Marriage; infant mortality; children; personal and household finance;
education.
Tadie Sims; Charles Spalding; Emma Wray.
Major Topics: Children; higher education.
Mary Jane Kell; Hester (Hettie) Kell; Semmes (Semzie) Kell; Hendley Kell; John
(Johnnie) Kell Jr.
Major Topics: Employment; diseases and disorders; health facilities and services;
assassination; James A. Garfield; arts; wills and probate; education; children;
government officials.
Principal Correspondents: John (Johnnie) Kell Jr.; Julia Blanche Munroe Kell; Tadie
Sims; Sarah Tabitha Kell; Charles Spalding; Hendley Kell.
Major Topics: Employment; personal and household finance; education; government
officials; religion and religious organizations; courtship.
Principal Correspondents: Julia Blanche Munroe Kell; Hendley Kell; Evelyn (Evy) S.
Kell; Sarah Tabitha (Tadie) Kell; Evelyn (Evy) Kell Spalding.
Major Topics: Financial institutions; marriage; flags; African Americans; military
personnel; land ownership and rights; Confederate veterans.
Principal Correspondents: Evelyn (Evy, Dudu) S. Kell; Julia Blanche Munroe Kell;
Lachland H. McIntosh; Evelyn (Evy) Kell Spalding.
Major Topics: Confederate veterans; land ownership and rights; Rafael Semmes;
marriage.
Principal Correspondents: Charles Spalding; Julia Blanche Munroe Kell; Evelyn (Evy)
Kell Spalding; Anna Semmes Bryan; Evelyn (Evy) S. Kell; Tadie Sims; Richard
(Dick) F. Armstrong.
Major Topics: Deaths; Confederate veterans; printing and publishing; politics and
politicians; William McKinley; Theodore Roosevelt; African Americans; medicine.
Principal Correspondents: Julia Blanche Munroe Kell; Alexander Baillie Kell; Sarah
Tabitha (Tadie) Kell; Richard (Dick) F. Armstrong.
Major Topics: Deaths; diseases and disorders; politics and politicians; Canada; race
relations; Booker T. Washington; African Americans; Confederate veterans; printing
and publishing.
Principal Correspondents: Julia Blanche Munroe Kell; Richard (Dick) F. Armstrong;
Evelyn (Evy) S. Kell; A. d'Antignac; Alexander Baillie Kell; Tadie Sims; Nathan
(Bud) Munroe Jr.
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Major Topics: Deaths; aged and aging; military personnel; pensions and retirement
benefits; religion and religious organizations; children; World War I; higher education.
Principal Correspondents: Julia Blanche Munroe Kell; Evelyn (Evy) S. Kell;
A. d'Antignac; Elizabeth P. Fahs; John Kell d'Antignac; Hendley Kell.
Letters, Undated. 178 frames.
Major Topics: Marriage; slaves and slavery; violence; children; Montpelier Institute;
personal and household finance; Civil War; births out of wedlock.
Principal Correspondents: Julia Blanche Munroe Kell; Emma Wray; Evelyn (Evy) Kell
Spalding; Nathan Munroe; Tabitha Napier Munroe; Harriet (Hattie) Munroe; Rowena
Munroe; Marjory Baillie Kell; Mary Jane Kell; Elizabeth P. Fahs.
Major Topics: Montpelier Institute; religion and religious organizations; children;
marriage.
Principal Correspondents: Tabitha Napier Munroe; Julia Blanche Munroe Kell; Hester
(Hettie) Kell; Mary Lucas; Emma Wray; Evelyn (Evy) Kell Spalding; Charles
Spalding.
Major Topics: Children; diseases and disorders; education; physicians; medicine; infant
mortality.
Principal Correspondents: Julia Blanche Munroe Kell; Nathan Munroe; Hester (Hettie)
Kell; Evelyn (Evy) Kell Spalding; Helen M. Ward; Anvergne d'Antignac; John
(Johnny) Kell Jr.
Major Topics: Diseases and disorders; children; Montpelier Institute.
Principal Correspondents: Julia Blanche Munroe Kell; Helen M. Ward; Nathan Munroe;
Mary Jane Kell; Hester (Hettie) Kell; Marjory Baillie Kell; Emma Wray; Evelyn (Evy)
Kell Spalding.
Major Topics: Diseases and disorders; children.
Principal Correspondents: Tadie Sims; Julia Blanche Munroe Kell; Emma Wray;
Lachland H. McIntosh; Mary Jane Kell; Evelyn (Evy) Kell Spalding; Semmes Kell;
Elizabeth P. Fahs; Hester (Hettie) Kell.
Major Topics: Children; diseases and disorders; physicians; education; marriage.
Principal Correspondents: Evelyn (Evy) Kell Spalding; John Kell Jr.; Julia Blanche
Munroe Kell; Hester (Hettie) Kell; Mary Jane Kell; Evelyn (Evy) S. Kell; Carrie Kell;
Hepsie Sims; Timmie Kell; Semmes Kell.
Major Topics: Children; diseases and disorders; marriage.
Principal Correspondents: Evelyn (Evy) Kell Spalding; Julia Blanche Munroe Kell;
Emma Wray; Hester (Hettie) Kell; Mary Jane Kell; Elizabeth P. Fahs.
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Bills and Receipts, 1785-1835. 27 frames.
Major Topics: Personal and household finance; slaves and slavery.
Principal Correspondents: Nathan Munroe; John Kell (Sr.)
Bills and Receipts, 1840s. 43 frames.
Major Topics: Personal and household finance; education.
Principal Correspondent: Nathan Munroe.
Bills and Receipts, December, 1840s. 35 frames.
Major Topics: Personal and household finance; insurance and insurance industry.
Principal Correspondents: Nathan Munroe; Marjory Baillie Kell.
Bills and Receipts from Educational Institutions, 1844-1862. 24 frames.
Major Topics: Personal and household finance; Montpelier Institute.
Salem Academy, Accounts with, 1841-1844. 6 frames.
Accounts for Education and Tours in Europe, 1845-1847. 28 frames.
Legal Papers, 1743-1848. 41 frames.
Major Topics: Personal and household finance; land ownership and rights; courts; slaves
and slavery; African Americans; insurance and insurance industry.
Principal Correspondents: Charles Spalding; Thomas Spalding.
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Legal Papers, 1851-1 [8]77 and Undated. 55 frames.
Major Topics: Wills and probate; slaves and slavery; courts; Panama Canal.
Principal Correspondents: Nathan Munroe; Julia Blanche Munroe Kell.
Printed Material, 1842-1901 and Undated. 33 frames.
Major Topics: Virginia Institution for the Blind; cotton; Montpelier Institute; higher
education.
Principal Correspondents: Nathan Munroe; Julia Blanche Munroe.
Clippings, 1889 and Undated. 5 frames.
Writings and Notes, November 1826-March 24, 1850, and Undated. 87 frames.
Major Topics: Education; navy personnel; literature; deaths; slaves and slavery; African
Americans; Brer Rabbit.
Genealogical Material, September 22,1895-March 1917 and Undated. 15 frames.
Miscellany, 1850-1917. 170 frames.
Major Topics: Literature; naval vessels; navy personnel; Confederate Constitution;
military campaigns and battles.
"Life and Letters of J. M. Kell," Chapters 1-6,1908. 87 frames.
Major Topics: Navy personnel; travel and tourism; Hawaii.
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General Watch and Quarter Bill of the U.S. Frigate Savannah, Undated. 41 frames.
Major Topics: Naval vessels; navy personnel.
Logbook of the U.S.S. Savannah and the U.S.S. Shark, 1843-1847. 208 frames.
Major Topics: Naval vessels; navy personnel.
Major Topics: Naval vessels; navy personnel; travel and tourism.
Major Topics: Naval vessels; navy personnel; travel and tourism; courtship; marriage;
children.
"Life and Letters of J. M. Kell," Chapters 20-25, 1908. 99 frames.
Major Topics: Navy personnel; travel and tourism; Latin America; deaths.
Major Topics: Navy personnel; naval vessels; children; Civil War.
Major Topics: Navy personnel; Civil War; military campaigns and battles; deaths.
"Life and Letters of J. M. Kell," Chapters 36-40 and Tributes, 1908. 128 frames.
Major Topics: Children; African Americans; North-South relations; education;
Confederate veterans; deaths.
Julia Blanche Munroe Kell Album, 1853-1855 [1866]. 28 frames.
Major Topics: Literature; Civil War.
Julia Blanche Kell, 1863-1883 and Undated. 97 frames.
Major Topics: Literature; navy personnel; military personnel; Civil War; marriage.
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Kirby Family Papers, 1831-1876,
Spartanburg (Spartanburg County), South Carolina
The collection contains the financial papers of John T. Kirby and A. H. Kirby, including student
accounts with the Spartanburg Female College.
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Kirby Family Papers, 1831-1876. 301 frames.
Major Topics: Personal and household finance; education; Spartanburg Female College.
Susan McDowall Diary and Scrapbook, 1856-1880,
Camden (Kershaw County), South Carolina
The diary of Susan McDowall (1840-1923) describes school and social life at Patapsco Institute,
Ellicott's Mills, Maryland, and includes clippings of poems and biographical notes.
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Susan McDowall Diary and Scrapbook, 1856-1880. 66 frames.
Major Topics: Education; friendship and platonic relationships; literature.
Clara Victoria Dargan MacLean Papers, 1849-1920,
Columbia (Richland County), South Carolina
The collection of Clara Victoria Dargan MacLean (1841-1923), known as Clara V. Dargan, author of
romantic fiction and poetry and wife of Joseph Adams MacLean, includes her personal diaries,
correspondence, and published writings. Her correspondents include many Southern literary figures,
including the artist James Wood Davidson, known as Forte Crayon. The letters contain discussion of
literature, the effect of the Civil War on literary effort and remuneration, and other aspects of her career.
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Correspondence and Papers, 1849-1856. 14 frames.
Major Topics: Agriculture; children.
Correspondence and Papers, 1857. 26 frames.
Major Topic: Education.
Major Topics: Education; dentists and dentistry.
Major Topics: Civil War; diseases and disorders; deaths; literature.
Principal Correspondent: James Wood Davidson.
Major Topics: Civil War; military personnel; military campaigns and battles; literature;
war casualties.
Major Topics: Literature; Civil War.
Major Topics: Civil War; literature; military personnel; courtship.
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Major Topics: Civil War; courtship; Germany; printing and publishing.
Principal Correspondent: Emile Sternberg.
Major Topic: Courtship.
Principal Correspondents: Emile Sternberg; James Wood Davidson.
Correspondence, 1867. 132 frames.
Major Topics: Courtship; lawyers and legal services; printing and publishing.
Principal Correspondents: Alex McAlexander; James Wood Davidson.
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Major Topics: Printing and publishing; phrenology; literature.
Major Topics: Teachers; courtship.
Principal Correspondent: Alex McAlexander.
Major Topics: Courtship; marriage.
Principal Correspondents: Alex McAlexander; Joseph Adams MacLean.
Major Topics: Marriage; printing and publishing; genealogy.
Principal Correspondents: Paul Hamilton Hayne; David Hunter Strother.
Major Topics: Genealogy; literature; printing and publishing.
Principal Correspondents: David Hunter Strother; J. O. B. Dargan; Paul Hamilton
Hayne.
Major Topics: Alcohol use; government employees; Civil Service Commission.
Principal Correspondents: John R. Strother; Joseph Adams MacLean; Ro. D. Graham;
M. C. Butler.
Major Topics: Civil Service Commission; government employees; violence;
employment; age and aging; personal and household finance.
Principal Correspondents: Ro. D. Graham; Joseph Adams MacLean; M. C. Butler;
James Wood Davidson.
Major Topics: Literature; marriage; employment; personal and household finance;
Confederate veterans; genealogy.
Principal Correspondents: Joseph Adams MacLean; Stuart MacLean; James Wood
Davidson; P. W. Strother.
Major Topics: Genealogy; printing and publishing; travel and tourism.
Principal Correspondents: W. F. Dargan; Emil Oberhoffer; Stuart MacLean.
Correspondence, Undated. 55 frames.
Major Topics: Genealogy; education; Daughters of the Confederacy.
Correspondence, July 25, 1842-May 1897 and Undated. 16 frames.
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Diary, January 24, 1892-January 21, 1893. 76 frames.
Major Topics: Literature; employment; religion and religious organizations.
Diary, January 2, 1893-January 18, 1894. 62 frames.
Major Topics: Religion and religious organizations; literature.
Newspaper Clippings, 1893-1916 and Undated. 21 frames.
Major Topics: Confederate veterans; James Wood Davidson; war casualties; literature;
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Newspaper Clippings, October 23, 1908. 5 frames.
Major Topic: Literature.
Writings--"Philip My Son" (probably published in the Crescent Monthly), May 1866.
14 frames.
Writings--"Edge Tools," May 1881. 8 frames.
Writings--"The Dumb Devil," Undated. 5 frames.
Writings--"The Frozen Heart," Undated. 8 frames.
Writings--"My Son. An Old-Fashioned Story," Undated. 8 frames.
Pictures and Miscellany, March 6,1886-October 25,1935, and Undated. 22 frames.
Major Topic: Deaths.
Principal Correspondents: M. C. Butler; L. H. Pickens.
Poetry and Prose, December 1887-October 15, 1916, and Undated. 18 frames.
Poetry and Prose, April 27, 1857-1902 and Undated. 139 frames.
Ambrotypes, Undated. 3 frames.
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Diary, 1860. 66 frames.
Major Topics: Literature; courtship; deaths; friendship and platonic relationships; Civil
War.
Diary, 1860-1861. 78 frames.
Major Topics: Friendship and platonic relationships; courtship; Civil War.
Diary, 1861-1862. 17 frames.
Major Topics: Marriage; Civil War; friendship and platonic relationships; courtship.
Diary, 1862-1863. 152 frames.
Major Topics: Courtship; friendship and platonic relationships; Civil War.
Major Topics: Courtship; Civil War; friendship and platonic relationships; deaths.
Diary, 1863-1864. 146 frames.
Major Topics: Teachers; education; courtship; deaths; Civil War.
Diary, 1864-1865. 80 frames.
Major Topics: Courtship; Civil War; philosophy.
Diary, 1865-1866. 91 frames.
Major Topics: Courtship; Civil War.
Diary, 1866-1867. 164 frames.
Major Topics: African Americans; Civil War; courtship.
Major Topic: Courtship.
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Diary, 1870-1871. 93 frames.
Major Topics: Arts; teachers.
Diary, 1872-1911. 73 frames.
Major Topics: Marriage; religion and religious organizations; children.
Autograph Album, 1873. 48 frames.
Scrapbook, 1880. 59 frames.
Major Topics: Literature; travel and tourism.
Diary, 1891-1892. 114 frames.
Major Topics: Employment; personal and household finance; children; diseases and
disorders.
Major Topics: Religion and religious organizations; children; diseases and disorders.
Journal, 1896-1920. 140 frames.
Major Topics: Religion and religious organizations; personal and household finance;
employment; aged and aging; World War I.
William S. Nicholson Papers, 1852-1853,
Sumter County, Alabama, and Florida
The collection consists of letters between William S. Nicholson and his sister, Louisa Gibbs,
documenting a feud over money and Gibbs' unpleasant personality.
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William S. Nicholson Papers, 1852-1853. 23 frames.
Major Topics: Diseases and disorders; infant mortality; land ownership and rights;
alcohol use.
Principal Correspondents: Louisa Gibbs; Edwin Gibbs.
Elizabeth Lucas Pinckney Papers, 1741-1763,
Charleston, and Belmont (York County), South Carolina
The collection of Elizabeth Lucas Pinckney, wife of Charles Pinckney and promoter of indigo culture
in South Carolina, includes personal, business, and legal papers.
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Elizabeth Lucas Pinckney Papers, 1741-1763. 21 frames.
Major Topics: Personal and household finance; marriage.
Ann Louise Salmond Papers, 1870-1912,
The collection of Ann Louise Salmond includes personal papers and the constitution, membership
list, and minutes of the Ladies Sewing Society of the Presbyterian Church.
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Ann Louise Salmond Papers, 1870-1912. 45 frames.
Major Topics: Religion and religious organizations; clothing and clothing industry;
literature; music.
Mrs. Charles Spalding Recipe Book, 1871 [Evelyn Kell Spalding],
Sapelo Island (McIntosh County), Georgia
A book of recipes, medicines, and home remedies kept by Evelyn "Evy" Kell Spalding, sister of John
McIntosh Kell.
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Mrs. Charles Spalding Recipe Book, 1871 [Evelyn Kell Spalding]. 50 frames.
Major Topics: Food and food industry; diseases and disorders; medicine.
Missouria H. Stokes Papers, 1856-1924,
Decatur (De Kalb County), Georgia
The correspondence of Missouria H. Stokes concerns religion and her activism in the temperance
movement. The letters discuss Stokes's involvement with the Women's Christian Temperance Union,
efforts to pass temperance legislation, and the difficulties of temperance work. Also included are letters
from the author Mary Ann Harris Gay, regarding her travels in the South selling The Pastor's Story
(Nashville: 1860), and letters concerning Southern schools and Northern schoolteachers.
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Missouria H. Stokes Papers, 1856-1924. 435 frames.
Major Topics: Marriage; religion and religious organizations; education; printing and
publishing; personal and household finance; pets; children; diseases and disorders;
temperance; higher education; Women's Christian Temperance Union; African
Americans; teachers; North-South relations.
Principal Correspondents: Mary M. Stokes; Tommie Stokes; Mary Ann Harris Gay;
Mary H. Hunt; T. H. Stokes.
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Sullivan Family Commonplace Books, 1835-1864,
Laurens County, South Carolina
The autograph books of Jane W. Sullivan contain messages and verse from relatives and friends.
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Sullivan Family Commonplace Books, 1835-1864. 98 frames.
Major Topics: Education; friendship and platonic relationships; infant mortality.
Principal Correspondent: Jane W. Sullivan.
William Eliza Rhodes Terrell Papers, 1838-1866,
Savannah, Georgia
The collection contains correspondence between William Eliza Rliodes Terrell and her husband
written while he was on a business trip in Europe. Also included are letters describing a troubled young
woman's upbringing and rebellious marriages.
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William Eliza Rhodes Terrell Papers, 1838-1866. 173 frames.
Major Topics: Marriage; African Americans; children; travel and tourism; Europe; land
ownership and rights; literature; pardons.
Kate Thomson Autograph Album, 1876-1880,
"Bonnywood," Hampton County, South Carolina
The album contains autographs of friends and relatives, with verse conveying sentiments of affection.
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Kate Thomson Autograph Album, 1876-1880. 36 frames.
Major Topic: Friendship and platonic relationships.
George W. West Papers, 1785-1910,
Cedartown (Polk County), Georgia
The collection of George W. West and his family includes the correspondence of his daughter,
Eugenia Josephine "Joe" West, concerning her social life, friendships, and the legal and political career of
her husband, Joseph Blance. The collection also includes the war correspondence of West's sons,
discussion of the difficulties of slave ownership in wartime, and newspaper clippings.
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Papers, 1785-1839. 106 frames.
Major Topics: Aged and aging; land ownership and rights; personal and household
finance; agriculture.
Principal Correspondents: Jane C. West; Matilda P. West; Francis West.
Major Topics: Deaths; personal and household finance; wills and probate; land
ownership and rights; genealogy; cotton.
Principal Correspondents: Francis West; William E. West.
Major Topics: Personal and household finance; diseases and disorders; slaves and
slavery; agriculture; marriage; courtship; friendship and platonic relationships.
Principal Correspondents: Francis J. West; Sallie Prior; Eugenia J. (Joe) West.
Major Topics: Genealogy; courtship; marriage; friendship and platonic relationships;
slaves and slavery; agriculture; Civil War; military personnel; deaths.
Principal Correspondents: Eugenia J. (Joe) West; John West.
Major Topics: Agriculture; personal and household finance; marriage; wills and probate.
Principal Correspondents: A. J. Prior; Josephine E. Blance.
Major Topics: Children; deaths; education.
Principal Correspondents: Joseph A. Blance; M. L. West.
Papers, Undated. 165 frames.
Major Topics: Travel and tourism; food and food industry; Civil War; clothing and
clothing industry; children; deaths; personal and household finance.
Principal Correspondents: Frank J. West; John R. West; Sallie Prior; Eugenia J. (Joe)
West.
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Sallie and Ellen C. Whitaker Diary, 1867-1868,
The journal discusses personal, business, and agricultural affairs, particularly commodity prices,
crops, and weather. Includes maps of the continents drawn by Sallie and Ellen Whitaker.
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Sallie and Ellen C. Whitaker Diary, 1867-1868. 35 frames.
Major Topics: Personal and household finance; agriculture; cartography.
Elvira Withrow Papers, 1864,
Banks County, Georgia
The Civil War letters of Elvira Withrow concern the evacuation of women from Cass Station,
Georgia, to Atlanta, then Athens, and finally to Banks County, Georgia.
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Elvira Withrow Papers, 1864. 5 frames.
Isabella Anna (Roberts) Woodruff Papers, 1768-1869,
The correspondence of Isabella Roberts Woodruff (b. 1837) describes her life as a schoolteacher and
the difficulties she encountered during the Civil War. Her brother, Samuel C. Roberts, was initially too
young to enlist and wrote frequent, detailed accounts of Civil War battles he witnessed or about which he
had news. The bulk of the collection consists of letters from Woodruffs friend and eventual suitor,
Charles F. A. Hoist, which describe the period during and after Sherman's march through South Carolina.
Only two letters survive from their unhappy marriage.
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Miscellany, 1768-1863. 15 frames.
Major Topic: Literature.
Correspondence, 1856-1860. 168 frames.
Major Topics: Teachers; clothing and clothing industry; courtship; children; education;
orphanages; Civil War; slaves and slavery.
Principal Correspondents: Elira S. Roberts; Charles F. A. Hoist; Samuel C. Roberts.
Correspondence, 1856-1865 (Undated and Fragments). 77 frames.
Major Topics: Travel and tourism; slaves and slavery; teachers; courtship.
Principal Correspondents: Louisa Roberts; Charles F. A. Hoist.
Correspondence, 1861-1862. 194 frames.
Major Topics: Courtship; slaves and slavery; Civil War; slave rebellions; teachers;
military campaigns and battles; naval vessels; military personnel; war casualties;
African Americans; military bases, posts, and reservations; deaths.
Principal Correspondents: Charles F. A. Hoist; AmilaN. Pinkird; Samuel C. Roberts;
Elira S. Roberts; Louisa Roberts; Josephus Woodruff.
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Major Topics: Civil War; currency; deaths; military campaigns and battles; military
personnel; clothing and clothing industry; shortages; naval vessels; military bases,
posts, and reservations; military weapons; land ownership and rights.
Principal Correspondents: Samuel C. Roberts; Charles F. A. Hoist; Elira S. Roberts;
Louisa Roberts; Sallie McMichael.
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Major Topics: Civil War; teachers; slaves and slavery; religion and religious
organizations; military campaigns and battles; military personnel; courtship; war
casualties; marriage.
Principal Correspondents: Charles F. A. Hoist; AmilaN. Pinkird; Elira S. Roberts;
Samuel C. Roberts; Louisa Roberts.
Major Topics: Courtship; marriage; Civil War.
Principal Correspondent: Charles F. A. Hoist.
Correspondence and Papers/Information Sheet, 1857-1859. 143 frames.
Major Topics: Genealogy; Civil War; teachers; naval vessels.
Principal Correspondents: Charles F. A. Hoist; Louisa Roberts; Samuel C. Roberts;
Catherine Woodruff; Jeanette C. Hoist.
Major Topics: Transportation and transportation equipment; employment; agriculture;
slaves and slavery; Civil War; teachers; astronomy; military campaigns and battles.
Principal Correspondents: Charles F. A. Hoist; W. D. Williams; Jeanette C. Hoist; Elira
S. Roberts; AmilaN. Pinkird.
Correspondence and Papers, 1862-1869 and Undated. 222 frames.
Major Topics: Civil War; medicine; martial law; military personnel; teachers; slaves and
slavery; courtship; marriage; infant mortality; personal and household finance.
Principal Correspondents: Charles F. A. Hoist; Jeanette Hoist; Samuel C. Roberts; Elira
S. Roberts; Louisa Roberts; Lizzie Hays; Sallie McMichael.
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Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas Diaries, 1848-1889,
Augusta (Richmond County), Georgia
The collected diaries of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, born in 1834, document her life from age
fourteen to age fifty-five. Thomas was born to wealthy parents and began her journal as a young student,
writing of her favorite books, apparel, friendships, and feuds. Following her marriage in 1852 to Jefferson
Thomas, a plantation owner, her thoughts often turned to her frequent companions, the slaves who
worked for her in the house. She took great interest in African Americans and recorded snapshots of her
slaves' lives, including their relationships and marriages, conversations, and working habits. During the
Civil War Thomas struggled to reconcile her support for the Confederacy with her uncertainty about the
morality of slavery. Though she ultimately determined slavery was wrong, her attitude toward African
Americans somewhat hardened as the Civil War left Jefferson Thomas bankrupt, their investment in
slaves evaporated, and they lived in constant fear of violence by freedmen. After the war, Thomas's
entries focused more on her children, observing that she had not been so interested in them during easier
times. Eventually she took a job as a schoolteacher to bring in income, and she relished being able to
purchase things for her children, particularly her daughters as they reached marrying age. In 1879, her
youngest son Clanton died suddenly at the age of seven, sending Thomas into a lengthy mourning.
Though three of her children had died as infants, none affected her so greatly. In the decade following his
death, Thomas's entries were sparse, commenting on her poverty, declining health, and a series of
earthquakes that plagued the region. The collection includes typed transcripts of the thirteen journals, with
the journal for 1870-1871 out of chronological order, followed by the original manuscripts. The first
volume, 1848-1849, is in a different hand than the other journals and may be a transcription.
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Journal, September 20, 1848-February 6, 1849 [transcription]. 68 frames.
Major Topics: Children; literature; clothing and clothing industry; diseases and disorders;
deaths; education; friendship and platonic relationships.
Journal, April 4-May 27, 1851 [transcription]. 45 frames.
Major Topics: Macon Female College; clothing and clothing industry; friendship and
platonic relationships; religion and religious organizations; infant mortality.
Journal, January 5-March 26, 1852 [transcription]. 50 frames.
Major Topics: Christmas; friendship and platonic relationships; courtship.
Journal, April 1-June 14, 1852 [transcription]. 43 frames.
Major Topics: Courtship; friendship and platonic relationships; clothing and clothing
industry.
Journal, June 20-November 5, 1852 [transcription]. 30 frames.
Major Topics: Courtship; friendship and platonic relationships; clothing and clothing
industry; crime and criminals; presidential elections.
Journal, April 1855-June 1856 [transcription]. 153 frames.
Major Topics: Marriage; slaves and slavery; African Americans; children; deaths;
religion and religious organizations; friendship and platonic relationships; premarital
sex; diseases and disorders; vaccination and vaccines; clothing and clothing industry;
infant mortality; literature; rape; births.
Journal, July 1856-March 1859 [transcription]. 86 frames.
Major Topics: Pregnancy; literature; slaves and slavery; African Americans; miscarriage;
slave rebellions; children; infant mortality; deaths; births; interracial marriage and
procreation.
Journal, July 1861-September 18, 1864 [transcription]. 193 frames.
Major Topics: Civil War; military personnel; slaves and slavery; children; military
campaigns and battles; war casualties; marriage; diseases and disorders; deaths;
African Americans; Christmas; cemeteries and funerals; health facilities and services.
Journal, September 22, 1864-October 1866 [transcription]. 145 frames.
Major Topics: Civil War; Jefferson Davis; slaves and slavery; military personnel;
religion and religious organizations; African Americans; pregnancy; North-South
relations; emancipation; cotton; wages and salaries; Macon Female College; marriage.
Journal, October 22, 1868-November 13, 1870 [transcription]. 201 frames.
Major Topics: Reconstruction; African Americans; John Quincy Adams; race relations;
slaves and slavery; riots and disorders; elections; voting rights; personal and household
finance; bankruptcy; children; wages and salaries; marriage; friendship and platonic
relationships; education; courtship; diseases and disorders; medicine; clothing and
clothing industry; interracial marriage; deaths; travel and tourism.
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Journal, December 31, 1878-December 1880 [transcription]. 140 frames.
Major Topics: Teachers; children; wages and salaries; personal and household finance;
taxation; deaths; parents; land ownership and rights.
Journal, November 29, 1870-May 28,1871 [transcription]. 148 frames.
Major Topics: Personal and household finance; bankruptcy; children; land ownership and
rights; African Americans; clothing and clothing industry; race relations; Klu Klux
Klan; Jefferson Davis.
Journal, January 2, 1881-August 1889 [transcription]. 93 frames.
Major Topics: Personal and household finance; teachers; children; aged and aging;
elections; politics and politicians; race relations; employment; religion and religious
organizations; deaths; earthquakes; diseases and disorders.
Journals (5): September 20, 1848-February 6, 1849; April 4, 1851-May 27,1851;
January 5, 1852-March 26, 1852; April 1, 1852-June 14,1852; June 20, 1852November 5, 1852 [original text]. 114 frames.
Journal, April 1855-June 1856. Number 1 [original text]. 78 frames.
Journal, July 1856-March 1859 [original text]. 60 frames.
Journal, July 1861-September 18, 1864 [original text]. 86 frames.
Journal, September 22, 1864-October 1866 [original text]. 77 frames.
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Journal, October 22, 1868-November 13, 1870 [original text]. 102 frames.
Journal, November 29, 1870-May 28,1871 [original text]. 77 frames.
Journal, December 31, 1878-December 1880 [original text]. 74 frames.
Journal, January 2, 1881-August 1889 [original text]. 56 frames.
PRINCIPAL CORRESPONDENTS INDEX
The following index is a guide to the principal correspondents in this microform publication. The first
number after each entry refers to the reel, while the four-digit number following the colon refers to the
frame number at which a particular file folder containing information on the subject begins. Hence,
16: 0722 directs the researcher to the folder that begins at Frame 0722 of Reel 16. By referring to the Reel
Index, which constitutes the initial section of this guide, the researcher will find the folder title, inclusive
dates, and a list of Major Topics and Principal Correspondents, arranged in the order in which they appear
on the film.
Armstrong, Richard (Dick) F.
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Belcher, Edwin
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Blance, Joseph A.
24:0831
Blance, Josephine E.
24:0790
Briant, Huldah Annie Fain
1: 0056
Briant, M. C.
1: 0056
Brunson, Joseph K.
9: 0001
Bryan, Anna Semmes
16:0722
Bryant, Amosa
1:0497
Bryant, Emma Alice
3: 0811; 4: 0226-0799; 5: 0001
Bryant, Emma Spaulding
1: 0939; 2:0001-0824; 3: 0001-0811;
4: 0001-0799; 5: 0001
see also Spaulding, Emma
Bryant, John Emory
1: 0362-0939; 2: 0001-0824; 3:0001-0811;
4: 0001-0966; 5: 0001; 6:0139
Bryant, Louise
1:0775
Butler, M. C.
21:0265-0314,0810
Butts, A. G.
1: 0056
Chestnut, Sally
9: 0001
Cheves, Edward
8: 0660
Cheves, Langdon
8: 0660
Cheves, Rachel Susan (Bee)
8: 0660
Clift, W. L.
3: 0158-0642
Cunningham, Ann Pamela
9: 0001
Daniel, Mary Fraser
9:0195
d'Antignac, A.
16: 0912; 17:0001
d'Antignac, Anvergne
17:0414
d'Antignac, John Kell
17:0001
Dargan, J. O. B.
21:0177
Dargan, W. F.
21:0515
Davidson, James Wood
20: 0464-0561, 0843-0898; 21: 0314-0381,
0532
Dulles, Joseph Heatly
8: 0660
Edmond, Kate
9:0049
Edwards, Charles R.
2:0246
Fahs, Elizabeth P. (Lizzie)
13:0447-0710;14:0001;15:0773;
17: 0001, 0082, 0717, 0943
Fain, Ebeneezer
1: 0056
Fain, J. M.
1: 0056
Finley, Mary
9:0195
Fraser, Frederick
9:0195
Fraser, Frederick Grimke
9:0195
Fraser, Mary De Saussure
9:0195
Fuller, E. D.
4:0226
Gay, Mary Ann Harris
23: 0732
Gibbs, Edwin
23:0593
Gibbs, Louisa
23:0593
Giles, Mary Zilpha
9: 0725
Giles, Persis
9: 0725
Graham, Ro. D.
21:0265-0314
Hampton, M. E.
8: 0660
Haskell, Joseph Cheves
8: 0660
Haskell, Sophia Lovell Cheves
8: 0660
Hayne, Paul Hamilton
21: 0144-0177
Hays, Lizzie
26:0701
Hoist, Charles F. A.
25:0056-0495; 26: 0001-0701
Hoist, Jeanette C.
26:0309-0701
Howard, E. E.
2:0001
Hunt, Mary H.
23: 0732
Jennings, Samuel M.
1: 0362-0497
Kell, Alexander Baillie
12: 0809; 13:0447; 14:0001; 16:0790-0912
Kell, Carrie
17:0835
Kell, Evelyn (Evy)
16: 0520-0722, 0912; 17:0001, 0835
Kell, Hendley
16:0307-0520; 17: 0001
Kell, Hester (Hettie)
11: 0882; 12:0001-0809; 13: 0001, 04470710;15:0001, 0396-0773; 16: 00010115,0307; 17:0260-0943
Kell, John, [Sr.]
18:0001
Kell, John (Johnny), Jr.
15:0396-0773; 16: 0115, 0307, 0346;
17:0414,0835
Kell, John McIntosh
11:0105-0882; 12: 0001-0809; 13: 00010710; 14: 0001-0741; 15: 0001-0773;
16: 0001-0912; 17: 0001-0943; 18: 0951;
19:0001-0743
Kell, Julia Blanche Munroe
11: 0882; 12:0001-0414; 13: 0001-0710;
14: 0001-0741; 15: 0001-0237, 05480773; 16: 0001-0912; 17: 0001-0943;
18:0586
see also Munroe, Julia Blanche
Kell, Marjory Baillie
10:0287-0823; 11:0001-0250, 0882;
12:0001-0414, 0809; 13: 0001-0710;
14:0001-0300; 15: 0237-0548;
17:0082,0586;18:0284, 0375-0430
Kell, Mary Jane
11:0882; 12:0414; 15:0396;
16: 0001, 0307; 17: 0082, 0586-0943
Kell, Sarah Tabitha (Tadie)
16:0346-0520, 0790
Kell, Semmes
16:0307;17:0717-0835
Kell, Timmie
15: 0773; 17:0835
King, Thomas Butler
10:0500
Lee, Stephen
1: 0056
Lucas, Mary
11:0001-0882; 17:0260
MacLean, Clara Victoria Dargan
20: 0368-0898; 21: 0001-0587
MacLean, Joseph Adams
21:0111,0265-0381
MacLean, Stuart
21:0381-0515
Marshall, Alexander
8: 0660
McAlexander, Alex
20: 0898; 21:0039-0111
McCord, Sarah
9:0049
McIntosh, Lachland H.
16: 0640; 17:0717
McMichael, Sallie
25:0495; 26:0701
Morrill, L. M.
6:0139
Munroe, Harriet (Hattie)
10:0632-0823; 11: 0001-0480;
12: 0001, 0414, 0809; 17: 0082
Munroe, Julia Blanche
10:0500-0823; 11: 0001-0675; 12: 0809;
18:0641
see also Kell, Julia Blanche Munroe
Munroe, Nathan
10:0105-0823; 11: 0001-0882; 12: 00010414,0809; 13: 0001-0710; 14: 00010741; 15:0001-0548;17:0082, 04140586; 18:0001-0641
Munroe, Nathan, Jr.
12: 0001, 0414; 14: 0741; 15: 0135;16:0912
Munroe, Rowena
10:0287-0823; 11: 0001; 17: 0082
Munroe, Sarah
10:0105; 11:0001
Munroe, Tabitha Napier
10:0105-0287, 0632; 11: 0001-0882;
12:0001;17:0082-0260
Napier, E. B.
10:0287
Nicholson, William S.
23:0593
Oberhoffer, Emil
21:0515
Pickens, L. H.
21:0810
Pinckney, Elizabeth Lucas
23:0616
Pinkird, Amila N.
25: 0301; 26: 0001, 0452
Porter, David
2:0508
Porter, Horace
3:0361
Prince, C. H.
3: 0001, 0642
Prior, A. J.
24:0790
Prior, Sallie
24:0452,0870
Ramsey, Alexander
2:0236
Richardson, M. E.
8: 0660
Roberts, Elira S.
25:0056,0301-0495; 26: 0001, 0452-0701
Roberts, Louisa
25:0224-0495; 26:0001, 0309, 0701
Roberts, Samuel C.
25:0056, 0301-0495; 26: 0001, 0309, 0701
Salmond, Ann Louise
23:0637
Sims, F. W.
15:0237
Sims, Hepsie
17:0835
Sims, Tadie
15:0237-0396, 0773; 16: 00010214, 0346, 0722, 0912; 17:0717
Slemmons, J. S.
1: 0056
Spalding, Charles
10: 0500; 15: 0237; 16: 0115-0214, 0346,
0722; 17: 0260; 18:0545
Spalding, Evelyn (Evy) Kell
11: 0882; 12:0185-0414; 13:0231, 0710;
14:0001,0522-0741; 15: 0135-0773;
16: 0001-0307, 0520-0722; 17: 00820943; 23:0682
Spalding, Thomas
18:0545
Spalding, Volney
3:0361-0811; 4:0001-0226; 6:0139
Spaulding, D.
1: 0362-0497
Spaulding, Emma
1: 0497-0775
see also Bryant, Emma Spaulding
Spaulding, G. B.
1: 0362
Spaulding, J. G.
2:0001-0246
Sternberg, Emile
20:0727-0843
Stokes, Mary M.
23: 0732
Stokes, Missouria H.
23: 0732
Stokes, T. H.
23: 0732
Stokes, Tommie
23: 0732
Strother, David Hunter
21: 0144-0177
Strother, John R.
21: 0265
Strother, P. W.
21:0381
Sullivan, Jane W.
24:0001
Terrell, William Eliza Rhodes
24:0099
Tuck, S. C.
1:0497
Turner, Henry McNeal
2:0001
Varner, Hendley
10: 0287, 0632; 11: 0001; 13: 0447; 14: 0741
Wade, E. C.
3: 0642
Ward, Helen M.
16:0001-0115; 17:0414-0586
West, Eugenia J. (Joe)
24:0452-0604, 0870
West, Francis
24:0308-0414
West, Francis J. (Frank)
24:0452, 0870
West, George W.
24:0308-0870
West, Jane C.
24:0308
West, John R.
24:0604, 0870
West, M. L.
24:0831
West, Matilda P.
24:0308
West, William E.
24:0414
Williams, W. D.
26:0452
Withrow, Elvira
25:0036
Woodruff, Catherine
26:0309
Woodruff, Isabella Anna Roberts
25:0041-0495; 26: 0001-0701
Woodruff, Josephus
25:0301
Wray, Emma L.
11: 0001-0675; 12: 0001-0725;
13: 0001, 0447; 15: 0001, 0396-0773;
16: 0001, 0214; 17: 0082-0260, 05860717, 0943
SUBJECT INDEX
The following index is a guide to the major topics in this microform publication. The first number
after each entry refers to the reel, while the four-digit number following the colon refers to the frame
number at which a particular file folder containing information on the subject begins. Hence, 27: 0814
directs the researcher to the folder that begins at Frame 0814 of Reel 27. By referring to the Reel Index,
which constitutes the initial section of this guide, the researcher will find the folder title, inclusive dates,
and a list of Major Topics and Principal Correspondents, arranged in the order in which they appear on
the film.
Adams, John Quincy
27:0814
Adams, Sarah Eve
1:0001
Adultery
3:0158
African Americans
1: 0775; 2: 0001-0508, 0824; 3: 0001, 0361;
4: 0226, 0966; 5: 0110, 0869; 6: 0001;
7: 0020; 8: 0341-0455, 0508, 0524-0535;
9: 0195; 12: 0001; 13:0447-0710;
14:0300-0522; 15: 0548; 16: 0115,
0640, 0790, 0912; 18: 0545, 0679;
19: 0743; 22: 0715; 23: 0732; 24:0099;
25: 0301; 27:0237-0669, 0814; 28: 0141
see also Race relations
see also Slaves and slavery
Aged and aging
17: 0001; 21: 0314; 23: 0453; 24: 0308;
28: 0289
see also Pensions and retirement benefits
Agriculture
12: 0001; 13: 0447; 14: 0522; 15: 0548;
16:0001-0115; 20: 0390; 24: 0308,
0452-0790; 25: 0001; 26: 0452
see also Cotton
see also Farms and farmland
see also Food and food industry
Alabama
Selma 9: 0049
Sumter County 23: 0593
Alcohol use
21: 0265; 23: 0593
see also Temperance
American Revolution
5: 0435
Arts and the humanities
16: 0346; 23:0001
see also Literature
see also Music
see also Philosophy
Asia
11:0480
Assassination
16:0346
Astronomy
26:0452
Athens, Georgia
10:0001
Augusta, Georgia
27:0001-0814; 28: 0001-0720; 29: 00010254
Bankruptcy
27: 0814; 28: 0141
Banks County, Georgia
25: 0036
Belmont, South Carolina
23:0616
Births
12:0185;15:0773; 16:0115; 27: 0237-0390
out of wedlock 17: 0082
see also Infant mortality
see also Miscarriage
see also Obstetrics and gynecology
see also Pregnancy
Brazil
9:0049
Breastfeeding
12:0185
Brer Rabbit (folktale)
18:0679
Briant, Huldah Annie Fain
1: 0056
Bryant, Emma Spaulding
5:0699
Bryant, John Emory
1: 0362-0939; 2: 0001-0824; 3:0001-0811;
4: 0001-0966; 5: 0001-0869; 6: 00010139; 7:0001-0020; 8:0001-0540
Burroughs, Valeria G.
8: 0544
Camden, South Carolina
20: 0302; 23:0637; 25:0001
Canada
16:0912
Carpetbaggers
see Bryant, John Emory
see North-South relations
Cartography
25:0001
Cedartown, Georgia
24:0308-0870
Cemeteries and funerals
16: 0001; 27: 0476
9:0195-0686; 23:0616;25:0041-0495;
26:0001-0701
Cheves, Rachel Susan (Bee)
8: 0660
Child mortality
8: 0544; 13: 0710; 14: 0001; 15: 0237, 0548
Children
2:0612-0824; 3: 0001, 0811; 4: 0001-0547;
5: 0635-0699; 9: 0725; 10:0001-0287;
11: 0882; 12: 0414, 0809; 13: 0001, 0447,
0710; 14: 0001, 0522-0741; 15:01350773; 16: 0001-0346; 17: 0001-0943;
19: 0364, 0556, 0743; 20: 0390;
23: 0094, 0274-0388, 0732; 24: 0099,
0831-0870; 25:0056;27:0001, 02370476, 0814; 28: 0001-0289
see also Births
see also Breastfeeding
see also Child mortality
Christmas
1:0001; 16: 0115; 27: 0114, 0476
Christ Presbyterian Church
1:0001
Civil Service Commission
21:0265-0314
Civil War
6: 0099; 7: 0020; 8: 0660; 13:0231-0710;
14:0001-0300; 17:0082;18:0674;
19:0556-0644-0899; 20: 0464-0727;
22:0001-0715; 24: 0604, 0870;
25:0036,0056, 0301-0495; 26: 00010701; 27:0476-0669
see also Confederate Army
see also Reconstruction
see also Secession
Clothing and clothing industry
9: 0049, 0912; 13: 0710; 23: 0637; 24:0870;
25: 0056, 0495; 27:0001-0069, 01640237, 0814; 28:0141
Colleges and universities
Greenwood Female College 9: 0725
Macon Female College 27: 0069, 0669
Montpelier InstitutelO: 0632-0823;
11:0001-0675; 12: 0725; 17: 00820260, 0586; 18: 0641, 0487
Salem Academy 18: 0511
Spartanburg Female College 20: 0001
Trinity College 9: 0725
Columbia, South Carolina
20:0368-0898; 21: 0001-0989; 22: 00010879;23:0001-0453
Confederate Army
1: 0056; 7: 0020; 9: 0912; 27: 0476
Confederate Constitution
18:0781
Confederate veterans
16:0640-0912; 19: 0743; 21: 0381, 0741
Cotton
10: 0287; 15: 0773; 18: 0641; 24: 0414;
27:0669
Courts
5:0553; 18:0545-0586
see also Wills and probate
Courtship
1: 0056-0362, 0657-0939; 9:0049;
10: 0287; 11: 0882; 16: 0520; 19: 0364;
20: 0630-0898; 21: 0039-0111;
22:0001-0879; 24:0452-0604;
25: 0056-0301; 26: 0001-0214, 0701;
27:0114-0207,0814
see also Marriage
Crime and criminals
27:0207
see also Assassination
see also Courts
see also Rape
see also Violence
Cunningham, Ann Pamela
9: 0001
Currency
25:0495
Darien, Georgia
10: 0105-0823; 11:0105-0882; 12:00010809; 13: 0001-0710; 14: 0001-0741;
15: 0001-0773; 16: 0001-0912;
17: 0001-0943; 18: 0001-0951;
19: 0001-0871
Daughters of the Confederacy
21:0532,0741
Davidson, James Wood
21:0741
Davis, Jefferson
27: 0669; 28: 0141
Deaths
9: 0001, 0195; 10: 0001; 12: 0185;13:00010231; 14: 0001, 0741; 16: 0001, 07900912; 17: 0001; 18: 0679; 19: 0457,
0644-0743; 20: 0464; 21: 0810;22:0001,
0314-0398; 24:0414,0604, 0831-0870;
25: 0301-0495; 27: 0001, 0237-0476,
0814; 28: 0001, 0289
see also Child mortality
see also War casualties
see also Wills and probate
Decatur, Georgia
23: 0732
Democratic Party
2: 0824; 6: 0001, 0139; 7: 0020; 8: 0370
Dentists and dentistry
20:0430
Diseases and disorders
1: 0001, 0056; 5: 0635-0699; 8: 0660;
9:0195; 10:0001,0287; 11:0882;
12:0414,0809; 13:0001,0710;
14: 0522-0741; 15: 0001-0773;
16: 0001-0115, 0346, 0912; 17: 04140943; 20: 0464; 23: 0274-0388,
0593,0682-0732; 24: 0452; 27: 0001,
0237, 0476, 0814; 28: 0289
see also Health conditions
see also Medicine
see also Vaccination and vaccines
Duels
10:0500
Earthquakes
28:0289
Edmond, Kate
9:0049
Education
1:0029-0497;2:0001;4:0547, 0966;
5: 0110, 0435, 0553, 0719, 0869; 7: 0020;
8: 0341-0370, 0660; 9: 0049; 10: 0632;
15: 0773; 16:0001-0214, 0346-0520;
17:0414-0835;18:0028,0517, 0679;
19: 0743; 20:0001-0302, 0404-0430;
21: 0532; 22: 0398; 23: 0732; 24: 0001,
0831; 25: 0056; 27: 0001, 0814
see also Colleges and universities
see also Higher education
see also Teachers
Elections
5: 0789; 6: 0001, 0139; 7: 0020; 27: 0607,
0814; 28:0289
see also Voting rights
Emancipation
1:0939; 27: 0669
Employment
2: 0824; 4: 0547; 7: 0020; 16:0346-0520;
21:0314-0381, 0603;23:0274, 0453;
26: 0452; 28:0289
see also Government employees
see also Pensions and retirement benefits
see also Wages and salaries
Europe
9: 0195; 24:0099
Farms and farmland
1: 0056
Female Seaman's Friend Society
8: 0544
Finance, personal and household
1: 0362; 2: 0001, 0612; 4: 0001-0799;
5: 0402; 7: 0001; 8: 0001, 0544; 9: 0001,
0195, 0725, 0912; 10: 0500; 13:0710;
14: 0300; 15:0001-0237, 0773;
16: 0214, 0520; 17: 0082; 18: 0001-0545;
20: 0001; 21: 0314-0381; 23: 0274, 0453,
0616, 0732;24:0308-0452, 0790, 0870;
25: 0001; 26: 0701; 27: 0814; 28: 00010289
see also Bankruptcy
see also Financial institutions
see also Insurance and insurance industry
Financial institutions
16:0640
Fires
8: 0660
Flags
16:0640
Floods
9: 0049
Florida
23:0593
Food and food industry
23:0682; 24:0870
see also Food assistance
see also Livestock and livestock industry
Food assistance
9:0912
France
9:0195
Fraser, Mary De Saussure
9:0195
Fraser, Mary Jane
9: 0686
Friendship and platonic relationships
11:0001-0882; 12: 0725; 20: 0302;
22:0001-0314;24:0001, 0272, 0452,
0604;27:0001-0237, 0814
Garfield, James A.
16:0346
Gender roles
1:0029; 11:0001
Genealogy
18: 0766; 20: 0368; 21: 0144-0177, 03810532; 24:0414, 0604; 26: 0309
Georgia
Athens 10: 0001
Augusta 27: 0001-0814; 28: 0001-0720;
29:0001-0254
Banks County 25: 0036
carpetbagger activities 2: 0001-0824;
3:0001-0811; 4: 0001-0966; 5: 00010869;6:0001-0139; 7: 0001-0020;
8:0001-0540
Cedartown 24: 0308-0870
Darien 10: 0105-0823; 11: 0105-0882;
12:0001-0809; 13: 0001-0710;
14:0001-0741; 15: 0001-0773;
16:0001-0912; 17: 0001-0943;
18:0001-0951; 19:0001-0871
Decatur23: 0732
Macon 10: 0001
Richmond County 1: 0001
Santa Luca 1: 0056
Sapelo Island 23: 0682
Savannah 8: 0544-0660; 24: 0099
Germany
20:0727
Giles, Mary Zilpha
9: 0725
Government employees
21:0265-0314
see also Government officials
see also Military personnel
Government officials
3: 0158-0361; 16: 0346-0520
Grant, Ulysses S.
3: 0642
Greenville Ladies Association
9:0912
Greenville, South Carolina
9:0912
Greenwood Female College
9: 0725
Greenwood, South Carolina
9: 0725
Gresham, Mary E. Baxter
10:0001
Hampton County, South Carolina
24:0272
Hawaii
18:0951
Health conditions
2: 0824; 9: 0049, 0912; 10: 0105
see also Diseases and disorders
Health facilities and services
16: 0346; 27:0476
Higher education
5: 0001; 9: 0725; 16: 0307; 17: 0001;
18: 0641; 23:0732
see also Colleges and universities
Honduras
16:0115
Housing construction
12: 0414; 15:0237
Independence Day
5:0435
Infant mortality
2:0001-0246; 3:0811;9:0195;15:0773;
16: 0214; 17: 0414; 23: 0593; 24: 0001;
26: 0701; 27: 0069, 0237-0390
Insurance and insurance industry
5:0514; 18:0241,0545
Interracial marriage
27:0390,0814
Kell, John McIntosh
11:0105-0882; 12: 0001-0809; 13: 00010710; 14: 0001-0741; 15: 0001-0773;
16: 0001-0912; 17: 0001-0943;
18:0001-0951; 19:0001-0871
Kirby, A. H.
20:0001
Kirby, John T.
20:0001
Klu Klux Klan
28:0141
Ladies Sewing Society of the Presbyterian
Church
23:0637
Land ownership and rights
16:0640-0722;18:0545;23:0593;
24:0099, 0308-0414; 25: 0495;
28:0001-0141
see also Property value
Latin America
9: 0049; 12:0185-0414; 19: 0457
Laurens County, South Carolina
24:0001
Laurens, South Carolina
9: 0001
Lawyers and legal services
3: 0001; 5: 0699; 20: 0898
Literature
18:0679,0781; 19:0871-0899;
20: 0302, 0464-0630; 21: 0001,
0177, 0381, 0603-0762; 22: 0001;
23: 0215, 0637; 24: 0099; 25:0041;
27: 0001, 0237-0390
see also Brer Rabbit
see also Writers and writings
Livestock and livestock industry
15:0135,0548
Lynching
6: 0001; 8: 0341, 0524
MacLean, Clara Victoria Dargan
20:0368-0898;21:0001-0989; 22:00010879; 23: 0001-0453
Macon Female College
27:0069, 0699
Macon, Georgia
10:0001
Maine
Union 1: 0362-0939
Marriage
1: 0939; 2:0001-0246, 0824; 3: 00010361, 0811; 4: 0001-0547; 8: 0660;
9: 0049; 10: 0001; 11: 0480, 0882;
12: 0001, 0725; 13: 0231; 15:0237;
16: 0214, 0640-0722; 17: 00820260, 0835, 0943; 19:0364, 0899;
21: 0111-0144, 0381; 22: 0145; 23: 0094,
0616,0732;24:0099,0452-0790;
26: 0001-0214, 0701; 27: 0237, 0476-
0814
see also Adultery
see also Births
see also Interracial marriage
see also Widows and widowers
Martial law
26:0701
McDowall, Sarah
20:0302
McKinley, William
16:0790
Medicine
12:0185; 13:0710; 15:0396;
16: 0001, 0790; 17: 0414; 23: 0682;
26: 0701; 27: 0814
see also Dentists and dentistry
see also Diseases and disorders
see also Health facilities and services
see also Phrenology
see also Vaccination and vaccines
Membership organizations
Daughters of the Confederacy 21: 0532, 0741
Female Seaman's Friend Society 8: 0544
Greenville Ladies Association 9: 0912
Klu Klux Klan 28: 0141
Ladies Sewing Society of the Presbyterian
Church 23: 063 7
Mount Vernon Ladies' Association 9: 0001
Women's Christian Temperance Union
23:0036
Methodist Episcopal Church
5:0110
Military bases, posts, and reservations
25:0301-0495
Military campaigns and battles
1: 0775; 13:0231-0447; 14:0001;18:0781;
19:0644; 20:0511; 25:0301-0495;
26: 0001, 0452; 27: 0476
see also Civil War
Military personnel
1: 0657, 0939; 2: 0001; 7: 0020; 8: 0001,
0660; 9:0912; 13:0231-0447; 16: 0640;
17: 0001; 19: 0899; 20: 0511, 0630;
24: 0604; 25: 0301-0495; 26: 0001, 0701;
27:0476-0669
see also Navy personnel
Military supplies and property
9: 0912
Military weapons
25:0495
Miscarriage
27:0390
Missions and missionaries
5:0110
Montpelier Institute
10:0632-0823; 11:0001-0675; 12: 0725;
17: 0082-0260, 0586; 18: 0641, 0487
Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
9: 0001
Music
23:0637
Natural disasters
earthquakes 28: 0289
floods 9:0049
Naval vessels
13: 0447; 18: 0781; 19: 0001-0364, 0556;
25:0301-0495; 26: 0309
Navy, U.S.
10:0287-0500; 13:0231
Navy personnel
10: 0287-0823; 11:0001-0480; 12:00010414; 13:0001-0447; 14: 0001-0300;
18:0679, 0781-0951; 19: 00010644, 0899
Newspapers
2:0001-0824; 3:0811; 8:0508
Nicholson, William S.
23:0593
North Carolina
9: 0725
North-South relations
14: 0522; 15: 0237; 19: 0743; 23: 0732;
27:0669
Obstetrics and gynecology
1:0939; 3: 0158
see also Pregnancy
Orphanages
9: 0725; 25:0056
Panama Canal
18:0586
Pardons
24:0099
Parents
2: 0001; 3: 0811; 5: 0699; 13:0710;
15:0135, 0237; 28: 0001
see also Children
Patapsco Institute
20:0302
Pensions and retirement benefits
17:0001
Pets
12: 0809; 15: 0396; 16:0115;23:0732
Philosophy
22:0544
Phrenology
21:0001
Physicians
8: 0660; 17: 0414, 0835
Pinckney, Elizabeth Lucas
23:0616
Pledger, William A.
7:0001-0020
Politics and politicians
1: 0497; 2: 0001; 3:0158-0642; 4:0799;
8: 0480-0497; 10: 0500; 16:0790-0912;
28: 0289
see also Democratic Party
see also Elections
see also Reconstruction
see also Republican Party
see also Secession
see also Voting rights
Postal service
2: 0246-0508
Pregnancy
27: 0390, 0669
see also Births
Premarital sex
27:0237
Printing and publishing
16: 0790-0912; 20: 0727, 0898; 21: 0001,
0144-0177, 0515; 23: 0732
see also Newspapers
see also Writers and writings
Property value
14:0741
Race relations
5: 0869; 6: 0001; 7: 0020; 8: 0341-0370;
16:0912; 27:0814; 28: 0141-0289
see also African Americans
see also Slaves and slavery
Rape
27:0237
Reconstruction
2: 0001; 3: 0001; 4: 0966; 5: 0322; 8: 0508,
0660;14:0300-0522; 27: 0814
Religion and religious organizations
1: 0362; 5: 0001, 0322, 0635-0699; 8: 0455,
0544; 9:0686; 10:0001-0105, 0823;
12: 0185; 15: 0001; 16: 0520; 17: 0001,
0260; 21:0603-0679; 23:0094, 03880453, 0637, 0732; 26: 0001; 27: 0069,
0237,0669; 28: 0289
see also Christ Presbyterian Church
see also Ladies Sewing Society of the
Presbyterian Church
see also Methodist Episcopal Church
see also Women's Christian Temperance
Union
Republican Party
2:0001-0824; 3:0001-0811; 4:0001-0226,
0966; 5: 0110, 0719, 0869; 6: 0001,
0115-0139; 7: 0020; 8: 0370, 0508, 0519,
0535
Richmond County, Georgia
1:0001
Riots and disorders
27:0814
Roosevelt, Theodore
16:0790
Salem Academy
18:0511
Salmond, Ann Louise
23: 0637
Santa Luca, Georgia
1: 0056
Sapelo Island, Georgia
23:0682
Savannah, Georgia
8:0544-0660; 24: 0099
Secession
13:0231
see also Civil War
Selma, Alabama
9:0049
Semmes, Rafael
16:0722
Senate, U.S.
5:0789
Shortages
13:0447-0710; 14: 0001; 25: 0495
Slave rebellions
25: 0301; 27: 0390
see also Riots and disorders
Slaves and slavery
8: 0660; 9: 0001, 0195; 10: 0287, 0632;
11: 0250; 12: 0001; 13:0231-0710;
14: 0001; 17: 0082; 18: 0001, 05450586,0679; 24: 0452-0604; 25: 00560301; 26: 0001, 0452-0701; 27: 02370814
see also Emancipation
Sons of Temperance
1:0497
see also Temperance
South Carolina
Belmont23: 0616
Camden 20: 0302; 23: 0637; 25: 0001
Charleston 9: 0195-0686; 23: 0616;
25:0041-0495; 26: 0001-0701
Columbia 20: 0368-0898; 21: 0001-0989;
22:0001-0879; 23: 0001-0453
Greenville 9: 0912
Greenwood 9: 0725
Hampton County 24: 0272
Laurens 9: 0001
Laurens County 24: 0001
Spartanburg20:0001
Spartanburg Female College
20:0001
Spartanburg, South Carolina
20:0001
Stokes, Missouria H.
23: 0732
Sumter County, Alabama
23:0593
Taxation
28:0001
Teachers
1:0362-0497; 4: 0547-0799; 9: 0725;
21: 0039; 22: 0398; 23: 0001, 0732;
25: 0056-0301; 26: 0001, 0309-0701;
28: 0001, 0289
see also Education
Temperance
5: 0435; 23:0732
see also Alcohol use
see also Sons of Temperance
see also Women's Christian Temperance
Union
Terrell, William Eliza Rhodes
24:0099
Thomas, Ella Gertrude Clanton
27:0001-0814; 28: 0001-0720; 29: 00010254
Thomson, Kate
24:0272
Transportation and transportation
equipment
26:0452
Travel and tourism
9: 0195, 0725; 11: 0250-0480; 12:01850414; 18: 0517, 0951; 19: 0250-0457;
Travel and tourism cont.
21: 0515; 23: 0215; 24:0099, 0870;
25: 0224; 27:0814
Treasury Department, U.S.
3:0158-0642; 6: 0139
Trinity College
9: 0725
Union, Maine
1: 0362-0939
Vaccination and vaccines
15:0773; 16: 0001; 27: 0237
Veterans
Confederate Army 16: 0640-0912; 19: 0743;
21:0381,0741
Violence
2: 0001, 0246; 17: 0082; 21: 0314
see also Assassination
see also Crime and criminals
see also Duels
see also Lynching
see also Rape
see also Riots and disorders
see also Slave rebellions
Voting rights
2: 0508; 4: 0226; 5:0699-0719; 6: 0001;
7: 0001-0020; 8: 0455; 27: 0814
Wages and salaries
8:0001;27:0669-0814; 28: 0001
War casualties
1: 0056; 8: 0660; 20: 0511; 21: 0741;
25: 0301; 26: 0001; 27: 0476
Washington, Booker T.
16:0912
West, George W.
24:0308-0870
Whitaker, Ellen C.
25:0001
Whitaker, Sallie
25:0001
White supremacy groups
see Klu Klux Klan
Widows and widowers
1:0001
Wills and probate
16: 0001, 0346; 18: 0586; 24: 0414, 0790
Withrow, Elvira
25: 0036
Women's Christian Temperance Union
8: 0480; 23:0732
see also Temperance
Woodruff, Isabella Anna Roberts
25:0041-0495; 26: 0001-0701
World War I
17: 0001; 23:0453
Writers and writings
5: 0110-0322, 0435, 0699-0869; 6: 00010115; 18:0679; 19:0250-0743;
21: 0767-0802
RESEARCH COLLECTIONS IN
WOMEN'S STUDIES
Grassroots Women's Organizations
Records of the Women's City Club of New York, 1916-1980
Women's Suffrage in Wisconsin
Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association Records, 1894-1923
The Margaret Sanger Papers
National Woman's Party Papers
New England Women and Their Families
in the 18th and 19th Centuries
The Papers of Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933-1945
Papers of the League of Women Voters, 1918-1974
Records of the Bureau of Vocational Information,
1908-1932
Records of the Women's Bureau of the
U.S. Department of Labor, 1918-1965
Southern Women and Their Families in the
19th Century
Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College

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