Carrie writes for news of Alex's trip and complains how little information had been received about him while he was away. Includes a passing reference to the Charleston earthquake
In this astronomical chart Gibbes provides a diagram and the elements for constructing the diagram. Those elements are hourly motion, declination, hourly motion in declination, horizontal parallax and semidiameter. Gibbes also provides the result times of the eclipse including the beginning, total, opposition, middle, end of total, general and duration of eclipse. The diagram shows the central path for the moon during the eclipse.
Letter from Fannie Heyward to her father (father-in-law?) asking him to send a recipe for "putting up butter for winter use." Fannie comments on aftershocks of the 1886 Charleston earthquake and writes that she is happy to hear "the Legare St. house pronounced safe." 4p. September 27, 1886.
Illustrations of Charleston buildings from 1886 with accompanying article. The buildings shown are the Old Charleston Jail, the Marine Hospital, the Charleston Orphan House, Citadel Square Church, and the Roper Hospital. The article gives a detailed description about the interior of the Charleston Orphan House.
![151. Trapier [Marshall?] to Alex Marshall? -- Sept. 12, 1886](https://iiif.library.cofc.edu/iiif/2/25038/full/200,/0/default.jpg)
![150. Carrie H. M. [Marshall?] to Alex Marshall -- Sept. 12, 1886](https://iiif.library.cofc.edu/iiif/2/24853/full/200,/0/default.jpg)
