A letter from Theodore Drayton-Grimke to his father, Thomas S. Grimke, written from New Haven, Connecticut while attending Yale. Drayton-Grimke writes about his aspiration to become valedictorian and requests that his father send several school books.
A letter from Theodore Drayton-Grimke to his father, Thomas S. Grimke, written from New Haven, Connecticut while attending Yale. Drayton-Grimke writes about traveling to New York and getting into (financial?) trouble.
A letter from Theodore Drayton-Grimke to his father, Thomas S. Grimke, describing his "foolish" behavior in New York City (wasting money on wine for "other gentlemen," tickets to plays, and clothing) and the subsequent debt he fell into.
A letter from Theodore Drayton-Grimke to his father, Thomas S. Grimke, written from New Haven, Connecticut while attending Yale. Drayton-Grimke writes about studying algebra and geometry and describes a recent English composition prize that he won (a work of Shakespeare's).
A letter from Thomas S. Grimke in response to Langdon Cheves in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Grimke references ideas about the rule of law and philosophers that influenced the Reformation.
A letter to Thomas S. Grimke from Reverend Jasper Adams from Geneva, New York expressing his views on classical education, especially for the upper class; constitutional history; the new Southern Review; and the improvements at the College of Charleston in which Adams expresses his continuing interest.
A letter from Langdon Cheves, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, replies to Grimke's thoughts on the codification of laws, and Grimke's thoughts on the Reformation.
A letter from Thomas Grimke to the South Carolina Comptroller General references purchasing books for a [law?] library and mentions a fund for the court house administered by his father.