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One holograph bound volume containing Wells's recollections of a trip she made from Charleston, S.C. to London, via New York in 1778. She and her fellow passengers were largely Loyalists fleeing the colonies for England. Her ship was captured in July…

Jack Alterman was born here in Charleston and has had a long career as a professional photographer. Mr. Alterman reflects on his family’s life and their dress shops on King Street, along with all of the changes he’s seen downtown during the last…

Criticism of Mecklenburg voters for their actions in the election of Nov. 1776.

An address from Badger and other representatives of the Cherokee Nation to Richard Winn, superintendant to Andrew Pickens. Badger discusses a prisoner exchange that fell through. The Cherokee object to the negotiations at French Broad River, and…

William Bull, Lt. Governor of the province of South Carolina, sent this letter on November 29, 1740, to Thomas Penn, Proprietor of Pennsylvania, from Charles Town, South Carolina. The letter was written after the fire that occurred in the city eleven…

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. Two volumes for 1862 and 1863 document the city's capitation tax which was levied on free people of…

Anne Walker Cleveland was born in New Haven, Connecticut, where her father served as a professor at Yale University. She studied at Smith College, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa for her work in history. She married Will Cleveland, an attorney,…

Transcription available below.Anne Walker Cleveland was born in New Haven, Connecticut, where her father served as a professor at Yale University. She studied at Smith College, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa for her work in history. She married…

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 allegiance and obedience with the King and Great Britain. The document was originally written and signed…

LibGuide on this item available. The Clionian Debating Society formed in Charleston in 1847 by Free Blacks with the goals of "promotion of their connection [to each other] and the improvement of their intellect." During the society's 10-year history,…