James Henry Hammond papers, 1774-1875 (bulk 1823-1864).
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 8,000 items; 38 containers plus 3 oversize; 20 microfilm reels; 10 linear feetSubject(s): - Aldrich, A. P. -- Correspondence
- Alvord, Bert -- Correspondence
- Ayer, Lewis M. -- Correspondence
- Boyce, Ker -- Correspondence
- Brisbane, A. H. (Abbott Hall), 1804-1861 -- Correspondence
- Butler, Pierce Mason, 1798-1847 -- Correspondence
- Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 -- Correspondence
- Clark, James L. -- Correspondence
- Felder, John Myers, 1782-1851 -- Correspondence
- Gadsden, James, 1788-1858 -- Correspondence
- Hamilton, James, 1786-1857 -- Correspondence
- Hayne, Isaac W. (Isaac William), 1809-1880 -- Correspondence
- Hayne, Robert Young, 1791-1839 -- Correspondence
- Keitt, Lawrence M. (Lawrence Massillon), 1824-1864 -- Correspondence
- McDuffie, George, 1790-1851 -- Correspondence
- Patterson, Angus -- Correspondence
- Pemberton, A. H. -- Correspondence
- Pickens, F. W. (Francis Wilkinson), 1805-1869 -- Correspondence
- Porter, Wm. D. (William Dennison), 1810-1883 -- Correspondence
- Preston, William C. (William Campbell), 1794-1860 -- Correspondence
- Quattlebaum, Paul, 1812-1890 -- Correspondence
- Rhett, Robert Barnwell, 1800-1876 -- Correspondence
- Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870 -- Correspondence
- Trescot, William Henry, 1822-1898 -- Correspondence
- Tucker, Ben -- Correspondence
- Walker, James M. (James Murdock), 1813-1854 -- Correspondence
- Southern Convention (1850 : Nashville, Tenn.)
- Banks and banking -- Southern States
- Business records
- Nullification (States' rights)
- Plantations
- Secession
- Slavery -- United States
- States' rights (American politics)
- Tariff -- United States
- South Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1815-1861
- Governors -- South Carolina
- Plantation owners
- Senators, U.S. Congress -- South Carolina
- Microfilm edition, with the exception of the printed material in container 50, available, no. 8,066 (13,253).
Open to research.
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.
Microfilm edition, with the exception of the printed material in container 50, available, no. 8,066 (13,253).
Microfilm produced from originals in Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congresss Photoduplication Service, 1945.
U.S. senator from and governor of South Carolina and plantation owner.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
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