Holmes, Lila Speer Pennel, 1891-1977
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1891 - 1977
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Floride Clemson Diary
Item — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0111
Scope and Contents
Diary entries are sporadic. In the preface to A Rebel Came Home: The Diary and Letters of Floride Clemson, 1863-1866, editors Charles M. McGee, Jr. and Ernest M. Lander, Jr. note that "the diary contains three sustained narratives: Floride's trip to Niagara in the summer of 1863; the journey from Beltsville, Maryland, to Pendleton, South Carolina, that she and her mother made in the last days of 1864; and the final illness of Floride's grandmother, Mrs....
Dates:
1863 - 1866
Fort Hill Mansion registers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0003
Scope and Content
Registers listing visitors to the home of John C. Calhoun (1782-1850), located on the Clemson University campus. From 1893-1932 no register was kept. Mrs. A.G. Holmes reintroduced the register beginning March 31, 1932.
Dates:
1888-1893, 1932-1937
Holmes Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0001
Introduction
This collection consists mainly of material created and assembled by Professors Alester Garden Holmes and George Raymond Sherrill while they were writing Thomas Green Clemson: His Life and Work. It includes research notes, copies of correspondence related to Clemson and manuscript versions of the book. Holmes' correspondence documents various aspects of his career as a teacher at Clemson College and a historian in South Carolina. There is also material...
Dates:
1789-1977