Correspondence, 1839-1853

Containers:

Box 2

Scope and content:

Letters during the last years of the 1830s and into the 1840s mention the following subjects: attempts to link Charleston with Cincinnati by rail; the presidential campaign of 1840; Catholic support of Temperance in Philadelphia in 1840, and other aspects of the Temperance movement; movement of John Hemphill to Texas in 1838 and his appointment to the Supreme Court of that state in 1840; John Hemphill's role in an expedition against Mexico in 1843; encounter with Sam Houston and his wife in 1845; sending of missionaries to Liberia; African Colonization Society; American Colonization Society; and the establishment of a mail steamship line from Charleston to Havana; Calhoun and Clay in 1849.

There is correspondence from 1851 describing Erskine College and Erskine Theological Seminary; the city of Stockton, California, and vicinity, as described by Robert King Reid (he and John Y. Lind had gone to California from South Carolina; Reid was elected resident physician at the California State Hospital, and Lind was elected to the California Senate).

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