Diary kept by Rabbi Jacob S. Raisin entitled, "My Life's Tragi-Comedy." The diary is comprised of personal entries and correspondence bound together in order to create a chronological log of events during Jacob S. Raisin's life and Rabbinical career between the years of 1892-1905.
A scrapbook by Erastus W. Everson (1837-1897) documenting his time spent serving in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861- 1865); the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands during the American Reconstruction Period (1865-1877); as a librarian at the University of South Carolina and a newspaper editor.
Meeting minutes volume kept by the town of Moultrieville's city council (later the Town of Sullivan Island City Council). This volume covers topics such as the U.S. Government's land acquisition on Sullivan's Island, the institution of building codes and public health laws, the installation of electric lights on Sullivan's Island, and the state legislature's revocation of Moultrieville's town charter.
The Susan M.L. Wales Journal (1887-1895) is a series of letters written by Wales to her sister, Annie Stratton, over the course of multiple journeys throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Northern Africa (1887-1888, 1891, 1893-1895). The letters describe the local sights and people, questions about goings-on at home, gossip about mutual acquaintances, and small drawings and watercolor paintings.
