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Date:: 1840
Description:: A land conveyance between Peter Glover and Dr. Francis Glover for Burgess Plantation in Colleton County, South Carolina.

Date:: 1840
Description:: Hand-colored lithograph depicting a Jew with stolen goods in his pockets. Lithograph by Victor Ratier after a caricature by Charles-Joseph Traviès de Villers.

Date:: 1840
Description:: A division of the horses and mules from the estate of John Glover. The list is divided into five sections.

Date:: 1840
Description:: The sketchbook of Professor Lewis Reeves Gibbes (circa 1845). It includes mostly sketches of Drayton Hall and a sketch of Saint Andrews Parish Church.

Date:: 1840
Description:: Text of a song entitled "Victory Hymn of a Straussian," written in reaction to the appointment of theologian David Friedrich Strauss to the University of Zurich in 1839. The text, in Swiss German, reads : "Äh e chli heidnisch / Möchtid mer werde / Chönntid dänn türggisch / Läben uf Erde! / Ach e chli jüdisch / Möchtid mer sÿ / Swärid dänn gwüß / Käni Zinsli meh chlÿ!" In English, the text reads : "Oh, a bit heathen / We want to become / We could then like the Turkish (Muslims) / Live on Earth! / Oh, a bit Jewish / We want to be / Then certainly / No more would any interest (from lending money) be small!"

Date:: 1840
Description:: Black-and-white lithograph depicting five Jewish men and women driving a gaggle of geese. At the bottom, excerpts from three verses. Proverbs 12:10 : A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast. Isaiah 9:12: The Arameans on the east, and the Philistines on the west; and they devour Israel with open mouth. Sirach 5:2-3 : Don’t follow your inclination nor your strength, in order to walk in the desires of your heart. And don’t think, “Who’ll have power over me?” Then the Lord, the highest punisher, will punish. Lithograph printed Strasbourg: Oberthür et emrich.

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