Scope and Contents This collection documents the personal, political, and family life of Richard Franklin Simpson. His letters, both written and received, are a rich source of primary information concerning grass-roots politics and issues in Upstate South Carolina and also issues that drove national events and policies at Washington, DC, some of which eventually lead to secession and the Civil War. Simpson was so astute and far-sighted as to mention this possibility in many of his letters to his wife and...