Scope and Contents

The Agnes Adger Mansfield collection contains three folders. Folder 1 contains information about the Adger family, in particular about James Adger II and his son, Dr. John Bailey Adger. Folder 2 contains information about the Ravenel family, in particular about Henry Edmund Ravenel Jr., his wife Agnes Adger Ravenel, and his mother, Selina Porcher Ravenel. Folder 3 contains two histories of Pendleton, South Carolina.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of the original letterbook and a copy of a typescript transcription of the letterbook done in 1936 as part of Works Progress Administration Project 65-33-118, sponsored by the University of South Carolina and supervised by Dr. Anne K. Gregorie and Flora B. Surles; it was copied by Lula May McNinch. The letterbook contains copies of business correspondence concerning orders and the shipping of orders from Adger to various firms mainly in Augusta and Savannah, GA, New...