Volume Two in the Cote Bas and Mepkin Plantations Collection is a Miller's Interleaved Almanac for 1886 repurposed as a journal by Peter Gourdin. Entries pertain to rice planting, livestock and social activities. Other information includes newspaper clippings on various topics such as General Order No. 1, January 1, 1866, issued by Federal authorities to govern the employment of freedmen as plantation laborers as well as other rights and liberties given to freedmen.
Six handwritten letters from South Carolina constituents written in response to a newspaper clipping concerning the Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education. The constituents request Senator Maybank's support in preventing the desegregation of public schools in South Carolina.
Handwritten essay by Septima P. Clark "about the need for compassion for alienated groups in the country; it served as Clark's Yuletide greeting, 1970."
Correspondence from Robert E. Perdue, Acting Chairman for South Carolina State College, to Septima P. Clark regarding the future of Clark's personal papers.
