Letter to Lieutenant William D. Wilson from the Navy granting a commission of Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps and recommending that Wilson report to Washington D.C.
An anonymous (name blotted out) letter postmarked Richmond, Virginia to Thomas S. Grimke notes the author's legislative and public duties and describes British attacks on Virginia and the effect it will have on the state's raising troops and weakening confidence in the federal government.
Letter (1819) from Frederick Grimke to his brother Thomas Smith Grimke regarding their father's death, with an assessment of his character, and mentions of Sarah Grimke nursing him.
A receipt and attached letter to Sarah Moore Grimke from William McKenny in New York City and Jacob Harvey regarding the erection, inspection, and payment for a tombstone memorial to her father, John F. Grimke.
A six-page letter from Thomas Pinckney to Thomas Grimke describing his acquaintance with Grimke's father. Pinckney attended Westminster School with the elder Grimke and also studied law at "the Temple" together. Pinckney describes his time Charleston during the Revolutionary War with Thomas Grimke's father.
Letter to Sarah Moore Grimke in Wilmington, North Carolina, from Charles Wharton responding to her request for information about her father with references to their friends in common. Wharton met John F. Grimke while he (Wharton) was in seminary school and Grimke was traveling Europe.
A letter from a Mr. [Hickly?] in response to a message by Thomas S. Grimke requesting information about his (Grimke's) father. Hickly writes that illness had kept him from writing previously. Hickly describes his acquaintance with Grimke's father: both were officers in a regiment of artillery during the Revolutionary War and both were made privates at the fall of Charleston. Hickly describes the elder Grimke as a brave officer. Hickly mentions the battle of Stono Ferry.
List of items in his estate to be surrendered by Algernon Wilson to ensure his release from jail. Wilson's "estate" includes several articles of clothing as well as a razor, box, and brush.
Legal investigation surrounding Thomas Drayton's will. Lawyers King and Petigru question Thomas Wilson, Drayton's brother-in-law, about drawing up Drayton's will, Drayton's executorship, and other issues.
Letters of Mary Smith Grimke, wife of John Faucheraud Grimke, to her daughter, Anna Rutledge Grimke Frost (1795-1882), in Philadelphia, regarding the drowning death of her son, Benjamin (1798-1825) and his child, her grieving daughter-in-law Mary Augusta Barron Grimke (1806-1843) and the return of the bodies to Charleston, to be buried in St. Paul's cemetery. With references to settling of her husband's (?) estate, a note to her granddaughter as well and references to "Sally" (Sarah) and Angelina Grimke, especially the latter's turning to religion, attending Presbyterian services, giving up fashionable company and dress and becoming more like her sister Sarah.
A letter from Benjamin King (Ft. Moultrie, 1826) describes the wreck of the ship Harvest off the coast of North Carolina in which Lieutenant Benjamin Grimke and his infant daughter were drowned, but which his wife and King survived; with details on their shipwreck on Boddy's Island, wreckers salvaging the ship, burial of the dead and travel to Roanoke.
![Letter to Thomas Grimke from a Mr. [Hickly?], January 20, 1820](https://iiif.library.cofc.edu/iiif/2/36464/full/200,/0/default.jpg)
