SPC. Special Collections

This collection consists of items related to Frances Milward Pogson Wigfall Deas and includes correspondence, poems, magazines, and photocopies of photographs.

This collection consists of items related to the Sinkler family and includes correspondence, clippings, family histories, notes, portraits, and other miscellaneous biographical materials.

This collection consists of items related to the Horry family, its descendants, and the Huguenot Society of South Carolina. It includes miscellaneous genealogical, biographical, and primary sources.

This collection consists of a photocopy of a poem entitled "The old house on Thadd St." The title refers to the John Rutledge House, a historical house museum in Charleston, S.C. The author is not mentioned on the photocopy but is identified as Miss Nelson by Alston Deas, compiler of the collection.

This collection consists of items related to William Algernon Alston and includes miscellaneous biographical, genealogical, and primary sources.

This collection consists of items related to the Inglis family and its connections to the Deas family. It includes articles, correspondence, genealogies, and other miscellaneous biographical materials.

This collection consists of items related to the Gibbs, Stanyanne, Washington, Peronneau, Finley, Broun, DuBose, Moore, and Vanderhorst families. All of these families were early immigrants to the Charleston, S.C. area. The collection includes miscellaneous genealogical, biographical, and primary sources.

This collection consists of items related to the Milward family of South Carolina and includes correspondence, clippings, and other miscellaneous biographical materials.

One journal, written in French, serving as a copybook for letters written to family members and to record several "thème dicté" (short entries on religious themes). The first two pages of the journal are missing. Not all entries are dated; those entries which are dated are exclusively from November of 1803.

A first communion certificate for Emily Mary Joseph England in the Cathedral of St. Finbar, dated April 22nd, 1849. Two Bible verses (Deut. XXXII and Revelations ii, 10) are printed on the certificate; it is unsigned by the pastor. The certificate is a mass-produced form from either Baltimore, Philadelphia, or Pittsburgh. The original certificate has been pasted on to more durable paper for preservation purposes.