Manuscripts
Bodman family papers, (bulk 1893-1938)
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Julia Bodman and Edward W. Bodman papers
Manuscripts
Collection of correspondence between Edward W. Bodman, his wife, Julia Bodman, and his mother Grace Bodman. There is also a diary by Julia Bodman, kept while traveling through France, Italy, and England in 1907. There are several journals and other manuscripts by Edward W. Bodman's father, Luther Whitney Bodman, also kept while traveling abroad.
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Nicoll family papers, (bulk 1820-1910)
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Letters, manuscripts, documents, photographs, ephemera. Family and business correspondence of John Nicoll (1756-1831), Charles Nicoll (1797-1831), Charles Edward Nicoll (1838-1916), Edward Bishop Nicoll (1868-1962), and other members of the Nicoll family regarding family affairs, political and literary news. The letters of Charles Nicoll to his wife describe construction works on canals in Montague and Greenfield, Mass., where he worked in the 1830-40's. The papers of Edward B. Nicoll include the journal of the automobile trip that he and Emma Matilda Nicoll, his wife, undertook in August of 1909 from Los Angeles to San Francisco.
mssHM 59300-59414, HM 59417
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Hastings family papers, (bulk 1560-1830)
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Accounts, deeds, legal papers, court records, household books, inventories and catalogs of family papers, estate and manorial papers, and correspondence relating to the estates, personal and financial affairs of the Hastings family. Most of the materials deal with national and local politics during the reigns of Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I and the Civil War (1641-1649), Protectorate, Restoration, and the American Revolution.
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Noble Family Papers
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Personal and professional correspondence of the Noble family, mostly Edward Noble and his son Patrick Noble, as preserved by Patrick Noble's family. The collection also includes a group of letters addressed to Edward Noble's uncle John Noble (1774-1819), and the correspondence of Floride Calhoun (1792-1866) and James Edward Calhoun (1826-1861), wife and son of John C. Calhoun, about the administration of Calhoun's estate and property. There are also several documents about slaves owned by the Calhoun, Cuningham, and Pickens families as well as legal documents used in various law suits brought about by the various family estates and property. John Noble's correspondence includes letters from his brothers Alexander, Ezekiel, and Patrick. In his letters, Alexander Noble discusses the disposition of the estate of Nicolas Cooper; his business affairs, including management of the Vienna Plantation, cotton trade, and family slaves (including news of a fire set by the enslaved woman Hannah). Ten letters by Patrick Noble (1805-1818) describe his studies at Princeton and his trip home in the fall of 1806; admission to the bar, partnership with John C. Calhoun, his legal practice, and state and national politics. Also included is the letter to Patrick Noble from John C. Calhoun (1828, Sep. 19, NBL 165), discussing the tariff controversy. Correspondence of Edward Noble includes his letters to his wife and son; his business correspondence, including communications with the Calhoun and Clemson families, and letters from his friends, family members, colleagues, and political allies, including John Bratton and Francis Wilkinson Pickens. The letters of Edward Noble and Patrick Noble (1849-1920) describe Patrick's school studies; Edward Noble's trip to New York, Washington, D.C., White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, in the summer of 1860; the South Carolina Secession Convention in Charleston (December 1860-March 1861); Noble's service in the Confederate Army (February 1862-June 1863); the politics of Reconstruction in South Carolina and particularly in Abbeville (including the activities of the local Ku Klux Klan), Patrick's life in California, news of friends and family. Other prominent participants include: Thomas W. Bacot, South Carolina lawyer and politician; Andrew Pickens Calhoun, son of John C. Calhoun; author Floride Clemson; professor R. Means Davis; businessman and Senator James G. Fair; General John T. Morgan; businessman J. Mora Moss; Mexican journalist Manuel Payno; Francis W. Pickens, South Carolina representative; Charles P. Stone, U.S. Army officer; and Major Jasper S. Whiting.
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McKelvy family papers, (bulk 1861-1910)
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Miscellaneous personal, professional, and business papers of Col. Samuel McKelvy, Samuel McKelvey, Jr., Jerome A. Quay, and other family members. Included are some letters written during the Civil War by Col. McKelvy, his children Samuel McKelvy, Jr. Hugh Roden McKelvy, and Marion Pride McKelvy Quay; dispatches, communications, and other official correspondence received by Col. McKelvy during his service as U.S. Marshall, and personal letters of various members of the extended McKelvy family and the related families of Pride, Quay, and Franks
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Family papers
Manuscripts
Diaries of Emily Dole and Clara Marie Dole, genealogy research and family biographies, and a small amount of legal and financial papers.
mssColes