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.
A Thank You letter to John C. Calhoun from Isaac Harby regarding his interests in the position of "printer of the laws," and the personal attention he had received from Calhoun regarding his application. The letter also discusses the United States government, the state of South Carolina, and Andrew Jackson.
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.
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 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.
