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Title

A Columbia reader, 1786-1986 / preface by Walter B. Edgar ; introduction by John C. Roberson ; photographs by Charles E. Gay ; edited by the staffs of the South Caroliniana Library and the Institute for Southern Studies.

Publication

[Columbia, S.C.] : The Library : The Institute, [c1986].

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Additional Authors

• South Caroliniana Library
• University of South Carolina. Institute for Southern Studies.

Description

xii, 158 p. : ill., facsims; 28 cm.

Subject

Columbia (S.C.) > Sources

Genre/Form

• History
• Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. xii.

Contents

• Cover; "A view of Columbia, 1860" / Gustavus Grinewald --Letter of William Thomson, 1775 -- Act to appoint commissioners to purchase land for building a town, 1786 / Thomas Cooper -- Excerpt from George Washington's diary, 1791 -- Letters of Samuel Green, 1793-1794 -- Calling a minister for the First Presbyterian Church, Thomas Taylor and Benjamin Waring, 1794 -- Excerpt from John Drayton's "A view of SC, as respects her natural and civil concerns" Charleston, 1802 -- Excerpt fr Francois Andre Michaux, "Travels to the Westward fo the Alleghany Mountains" 1805 -- Correspondence of George Waring, 1809-1810 -- Letter of Harriet Hyrne Simons, 1811 -- Letters of J. Rapelye, 1815-1816 -- Letter of Thomas Cooper, 1820 -- Letter of William Campbell Preston, 1824 -- Letter of James S. Guignard, 1824 -- Letter of Benjamin T. Elmore, 1825 -- Letter of William Campbell Preston, 1825 (and later dueling letters) -- Excerpt fr Auguste Levasseur "Lafayette in America, 1824, 1825" -- Letter of Zalmon Wildman, 1825 -- Letter of William Ford DeSaussure, 1826 -- Excerpt fr Robert Mills "The statistics of SC" 1826.
• Petition for construction of the Broad River Bridge and response, 1827 -- Excerpt fr Margaret Hunter Hall "The aristocratic journey: being the outspoken letters of Mrs. Basil Hall Whitten during a 14 months' sojourn in America, 1827-1828" -- Letter of Hardy Bryan Croom, 1830 -- Letter of John Leighton Wilson, 1832 -- Invitation of James Sanders Guignard and replies, 1837 -- Minute book of the Society for Orphan and Destitute Children, 1838 -- Letter of William Scarborough, 1840 -- Excerpt from James Silk Buckingham "The Slave states of America, 1842" -- Letter of Edward Noble, 1844 -- Letter of Miranda Scarborough, 1848 -- Excerpts fr the diary of Samuel Wells Leland, 1851-1856 -- Letter of David J. McCord, 1852 -- Letter of Matilda Lieber, 1853 -- Letter of Benjamin F. Perry, 1855 -- Letter of John MacQueen, 1856 -- Letter of James Wood Davidson, 1856 -- Letter of James Jones, 1856 -- Letter of Marion S. DeVeaux, 1857.
• Excerpt from Joseph LeConte "Autobiography" 1903 -- Letter of Bruce B. Griggs, 1859 -- Letter of James Sanders Guignard II, 1859 -- Excerpt fr Edward G. Mason "A visit to SC in 1860" -- Obit of Mitchell Smith 1860 -- Excerpt fr Charles S. Vedder diary, 1861 -- Letter of Johnson M. Mundy, 1861 -- Letter of Lizzie Wingate Waring 1861 -- Letter of Eliza C. Ball 1863 -- Letter of Sarah Ciples Goodwyn 1865 -- Letter of Henry McFarland Mood 1865 -- Letter of Thomas Jefferson Goodwyn 1865 -- Excerpt of George Whitfield Pepper's "Personal recollections of Sherman's campaigns in GA and the Carolinas" 1866 -- Excerpt fr George Ward Nichols "The story of the great march from the diary of a staff officer" 1865 -- Diary of Charles Ward, 1865 -- Excerpt fr William Gilmore Simms "The sack and destruction of the city of Columbia to which is added a list of the property destroyed" 1865 -- Excerpt fr Michael C. Garber Jr., "Reminiscences of the burning of Columbia" -- Excerpt fr Jacob Stroyer, "My life in the South" 1865 -- Letter of an anonymous writer to Robert Wilson, 1865 -- Letter of the Rev. Peter J. Shand 1865 -- Letter of Sister Charles 1866 -- Letter of Willam Hood 1907 -- Young Ladies Memorial Association records 1866 -- Excerpt fr Robert Somers "The Southern states since the war" w/introduction by Malcolm C. McMillan -- Letter of Charles Duke Stanley 1872 -- Minutes of the meeting of the Richland Democratic Club 1876.
• Letters of Mary Jane Macfiie McMaster and Fitz William McMaster, 1877-1898 -- Letter of Mark Reynolds, Jr. 1883 -- Excerpt fr Alexander Kelly McClure's "The South: its industrial, financial and political condition" 1886 -- Excerpt fr centennial address of Wade Hampton 1891, and "The city of Columbia annual" 1919 -- Excerpt fr John Andrew Rice, I "Came out of the eighteenth century" 1942 -- Excerpt fr James M. Eleazer, "A Dutch Fork farm boy" 1952 -- Letter of Sarah G. Buckheister 1903 -- "How Columbia has changed since 20 years ago" fr "The State" 3/10/1927 -- Student diary of James Henry Hammond 1910 and his "Big Thursday" 1964 -- Excerpt fr William Watts Ball "Columbia of Today" 1913 and "Columbia chronicles and comments, 1786-1913" -- "Kubelik cancels Columbia date" fr "The Columbia Record" 2/10/1914 -- Excerpts fr Nell S. Graydon's "Tales of Columbia" 1964 -- Letter of William Augustus Shealy, 1916 -- Beverly N. Roberts "Flashes of light upon the Richard S. Roberts scene" -- Letters of the stenographers of 1936 to the stenographers of 1986, Sesquicentennial celebration manuscripts, 1936 -- "Columbia's 150th anniversary" fr "The Palmetto Leader" 3/28/1936 -- E.C.L. Adams "Conversations with Tad" 1937 -- WPA interviews, SC Writers' Project -- Reminiscences of James C. Dozier "Camp Jackson before the Second World War."
• Kathleen Lewis "Churchill's visit to Fort Jackson "The State Magazine" 1956 -- Winston S. Churchill "The Second World War," vol. 4, "The hinge of fate" 1951 -- Banjo Smith: "Soldiers to the left, soldiers to the right: that is Columbia today" fr "The Columbia Record" 5/17/1943 -- Excerpts fr "The South into the new century; weep no more, Columbia" fr "Newsweek" 5/3/1965 -- Excerpts fr John Egerton "Columbia: a Southern center where there still may be time" fr "Osceola" 11/7/1972 -- James Dickey "The starry place between the antlers: why I live in SC" 1981 -- Robert A. Pierce "Columbia's strength lies in her diversity" fr "The State" 2/24/1985 -- Fred Monk "Columbia in shape for things to come" fr "The State" 1/5/1986.

LCCN

^^^86207231^

OCLC

• 14931550
• SCSB-11328591

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library