About the Collection
The Rose P. Ravenel Family Papers, 1857-ca. 1920 Collection contains a notebook (ca. 1920) containing reminiscences by Rose P. Ravenel, the daughter of William Ravenel and Eliza Butler Pringle Ravenel. Rose Ravenel writes about her girlhood, her relationship with her “mammy” and her French nurse. She describes life at Farmfield Plantation during the Civil War, knitting socks for Confederate soldiers, making paper and envelopes, salt production, molasses candy, flower dolls, and the family’s hardships after the Civil War.
