Hammond, James Henry,  1807-1864. <br/><br/>
James Henry Hammond papers, 1774-1875  (bulk 1823-1864). 

 - 8,000  items. 38  3  containers plus  oversize. 20  microfilm reels. 10  linear feet. 
<br/><br/> Open to research. 
<br/><br/> Correspondence, diaries, speeches, plantation manuals, account books, and scrapbooks pertaining chiefly to South Carolina and national politics in the decades preceding the Civil War.  Subjects include nullification, secession, slavery, the Southern Convention at Nashville, Tenn. (1850), state banks, states' rights, and the tariff.  Diary notes and memoranda cover the period of Hammond's travels in America and abroad, and plantation books contain memoranda of crops to be planted, lists of blacks, and notes on management of slaves.  Also includes a mercantile letterbook (1774-1780) of Andrew McLean containing letters written from Savannah and Augusta, Ga., to Clark & Milligan, London, England.  Correspondents include A. P. Aldrich, Bert Alvord, Lewis M. Ayer, Ker Boyce, Abbot H. Brisbane, Pierce Mason Butler, John C. Calhoun, James L. Clark, John Myers Felder, James Gadsden, James Hamilton, Isaac W. Hayne, Robert Young Hayne, Lawrence M. Keitt, George McDuffie, Angus Patterson, A. H. Pemberton, Francis W. Pickens, Wm. D. Porter, William C. Preston, Paul Quattlebaum, Robert Barnwell Rhett, William Gilmore Simms, William Henry Trescot, Ben Tucker, and James M. Walker. 
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<br/><br/><br/>Microfilm produced from originals in Manuscript Division. <br/>Washington, D.C. : <br/>Library of Congresss Photoduplication Service, <br/>1945. 
<br/><br/><br/>U.S. senator from and governor of South Carolina and plantation owner. 
<br/><br/><br/>Collection material in English. 
<br/><br/> Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009169 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>mm 75024695  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Aldrich, A. P.--Correspondence.<br/>Alvord, Bert--Correspondence.<br/>Ayer, Lewis M.--Correspondence.<br/>Boyce, Ker--Correspondence.<br/>Brisbane, A. H. 1804-1861 --Correspondence.<br/>Butler, Pierce Mason, 1798-1847 --Correspondence.<br/>Calhoun, John C. 1782-1850 --Correspondence.<br/>Clark, James L.--Correspondence.<br/>Felder, John Myers, 1782-1851 --Correspondence.<br/>Gadsden, James, 1788-1858 --Correspondence.<br/>Hamilton, James, 1786-1857 --Correspondence.<br/>Hayne, Isaac W. 1809-1880 --Correspondence.<br/>Hayne, Robert Young, 1791-1839 --Correspondence.<br/>Keitt, Lawrence M. 1824-1864 --Correspondence.<br/>McDuffie, George, 1790-1851 --Correspondence.<br/>Patterson, Angus--Correspondence.<br/>Pemberton, A. H.--Correspondence.<br/>Pickens, F. W. 1805-1869 --Correspondence.<br/>Porter, Wm. D. 1810-1883 --Correspondence.<br/>Preston, William C. 1794-1860 --Correspondence.<br/>Quattlebaum, Paul, 1812-1890 --Correspondence.<br/>Rhett, Robert Barnwell, 1800-1876 --Correspondence.<br/>Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870 --Correspondence.<br/>Trescot, William Henry, 1822-1898 --Correspondence.<br/>Tucker, Ben--Correspondence.<br/>Walker, James M. 1813-1854 --Correspondence.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Meeting Names: </label><br/>Southern Convention Nashville, Tenn.)  (1850 : 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Banks and banking--Southern States.<br/>Business records.<br/>Nullification (States' rights)<br/>Plantations.<br/>Secession.<br/>Slavery--United States.<br/>States' rights (American politics)<br/>Tariff--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>South Carolina--Politics and government--1775-1865.<br/>United States--Politics and government--1815-1861.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Occupation: </label><br/>Governors--South Carolina.<br/>Plantation owners.<br/>Senators, U.S. Congress--South Carolina.