SPC. Special Collections

Collection Overview The collection consists of materials gathered by the staff of the Robert Scott Small Library at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. It includes three issues of The Christian Confederate Star. It was a conservative newsletter published in Fletcher, Missouri. The file includes the April to May, 1969, September to October 1970, and June-July 1971 editions of the paper. Each of the issues support the cause of "states' rights" and the creation of...

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The collection consists of two copies of Geraty's Gullah language poem, "T'enk'Gawd fuh Chaa'stun, and the English translation of the work. The poem was a gift from Geraty to College of Charleston President Alex Sanders. Each poem is two pages. The first page contains the Gullah poem, and the second page contains the English translation. The poem is dated 1995.

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The letter from Clarence Graeser to "D.O.M." mentions a hurricane that occurred in 1940 and briefly mentions the College of Charleston. Graeser was a graduate of the College of Charleston, and a professor of modern languages at the college during the 1930s.

Collection Overview Papers include ten letters (1923 Jan. 20-1937 Sept. 21, TLS) from Dard Hunter at The Mountain House, Chillicothe, Ohio, to Frank S. Hatch of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, thanking Hatch for his orders and payments for (Hunter's) books, calling his attention to new books being published (by Hunter), and answering Hatch's questions about which books might be available for sale. Hunter also discusses his travel plans and his failing eyesight. One unsigned draft of a letter (1923 Jan. 23, carbon)...

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The collection consists of a typescript of a speech given at a meeting of the Harvey Mathes Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy during the 1940s. The speech is an idyllic look at the manners and customs of the "Old South."

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Two journals containing holograph entries kept by Confederate Civil War officer, William Aiken Kelly. Also contains a photograph of Kelly in uniform (1862). Volume 1 (1864 Jan. 1-Dec. 31) contains brief daily entries concerning the weather, promotions, camp locations, transfers of men, and other activities. In the back of the volume are brief accounts for amounts received and paid. Volume 2 (1864 July 27-Aug 31) provides more detailed accounts of Kelly's activities.

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The Ku Klux Klan and Mer Rouge is a printed propaganda piece from the 1920s that defends the organization's ideology, and promotes an anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic political position. It is written by an anonymous author.

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A pencil original score showing melody lines with three verses and a chorus. Alma Mater for the College of Charleston written by Edward McCrady, Jr. (Class of 1927). A musical score with three verses and a chorus handwritten in pencil. Possibly written in response to a contest posted in "The College of Charleston Magazine" (Dec. 1934) sponsored by the Cliosophic Literary Society at the College of Charleston.

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The collection consists of materials gathered by the staff of the Robert Scott Small Library at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. It includes numerous documents published by the Citizens' Councils of America between 1973 and 1986.

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The folder contains two slave passes written by Sarah H. Savage and dated 1843. One pass gives an enslaved person named Mack permission to sleep in Bedon's Alley. The other pass, which has been penned through, gives an enslaved person named Ellack permission to sleep in Stoll's alley for three months.