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 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.
An annotation by Frost's granddaughter to Anna Rutledge Grimke Frost's anecdote concerning a witty exchange between South Carolina lawmakers, W. D. Martin and William Crafts.
A letter from Glen Drayton to his brother (Thomas Drayton?) asking him to protect and care for his children whom he has put under the care of a Mrs. Foster, with a mention of advice from General Pinckney.
An unaddressed letter from Theodore Drayton-Grimke requesting that borrowed money be returned to him. Drayton-Grimke writes that he needs the sum at once to pay the post office, his fencing instructor, and to purchase a mathematics book.
![Letter from Glen Drayton to his brother [Thomas Drayton?], undated](https://rspace.library.cofc.edu/iiif/image/36412/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)
