Browse Collections (50 total)

DuBose Heyward Collection, 1909-1939.

Documents related to DuBose Heyward, Charleston Renaissance author made famous by his 1925 novel Porgy. Porgy was later adapted into the George…

Charleston Police Records, 1855-1894.

Central or Main Station morning reports and minute books of the Charleston, S.C., police from 1855 to 1894. Two volumes specifically cover the lower…

Contributors: Cox, Danielle (digitization)

Charleston City Tax Records, 1859-1875.

Tax records for the City of Charleston, South Carolina, from 1859 to 1875. Variety of city taxes in lower and upper wards, sales tax and real estate.…

Contributors: Cox, Danielle (digitization)

William Bull Letters

William Bull, Lt. Governor of the province of South Carolina, sent this letter on November 29, 1740, to Thomas Penn, Proprietor of Pennsylvania, from…

Contributors: Penn, Thomas

Lionel Chalmers Correspondence

Three letters written to Dr. Lionel Chalmers in the 1770s. Two came from Dr. John Fothergill in London, England, and Dr. Alexander Garden wrote the…

Contributors: Chalmers, Lionel

Proclamation of Pardon for Rebels

A facsimile of a proclamation signed by Henry Clinton, M. Arbuthnot, and J. Simpson offers pardon to the rebels who are willing to realign their…

Barnard Elliott Military Records

Contains military records written by Captain Barnard Elliott of the Second Regiment of South Carolina troops; recruiting journal written in 1775;…

Notice of Court Martial of Col. Owen Roberts

The court martial of Col. Owen Roberts is written by Deputy Adjunct General Nicholas Eveleigh and dated July 7, 1777. Ms. signed.

Contributors: Roberts, Owen

Thomas Farr Letters

The letter was written by Thomas Farr in Charleston, SC on July 10, 1787. The letter is address to Reverend Robert Purcell at Shepton-Mallet in…

Contributors: Purcell, Robert

Gibbes Family Records

"The collection includes numerous letters between James Ladson Gibbes and his father, John Gibbes, while he was studying at Princeton. Other letters…