Long humorous letter written by Theodore Drayton Grimke-Drayton from Offenbach, Germany (1840s?) to his mother describing taking a break from his studies, visiting small towns, castle ruins, going fishing and the dangerous prank he undertook scaling a tower in the duchy of Walsaw, the village of Falkenstein.
A copy of Thomas S. Grimke's petition to the South Carolina Senate asking to be excused from the responsibility of bearing arms due to his religious beliefs.
Loosely "bound" volume titled "American Letters" consists of letters (1888-1890) of Theodore Grimke Drayton-Grimke from his siblings visiting in the United States and from some of his American cousins, with a few copies of his replies.
A page from a manuscript essay mentioning John Rutledge and the American Revolution, attributed to William Cobbett (1763-1836), an English and American pamphleteer and reformer
A newspaper clipping announcing an "Anniversary Meeting" of the Literary and Philosophical Society of South Carolina, to take place in Charleston on Chalmers Street at the "Depository." The clipping lists the elected officers of the Society.
![Letter to Thomas Drayton from his nephew Glen Drayton, April 20, [1801?]](https://rspace.library.cofc.edu/iiif/image/40389/full/200,/0/default.jpg)
![Letter from Theodore Drayton-Grimke from Offenbach, Germany, 1840s[?]](https://rspace.library.cofc.edu/iiif/image/24242/full/200,/0/default.jpg)
![Thomas S. Grimke Autograph Collection, autograph of J.Q. [John Quincy] Adams, Sixth President of the United States, undated](https://rspace.library.cofc.edu/iiif/image/35701/full/200,/0/default.jpg)
