Scope and Contents Note The papers consist of correspondence and other materials documenting the career of Calhoun, the Calhoun and Clemson families, and United States politics during the early to mid-nineteenth century. Included are agreements, articles, clippings, correspondence, lists, notes, maps, microfilm, photographs, poems, receipts, speeches, statements, a survey book, an autograph draft and a photocopy of the South Carolina Exposition and other material.Most of...

Scope and Contents Commonplace book; there is also a carbon copy of the typed transcription of the book created by Addie S. Vance in 1936 under Works Progress Administration project #65-33-118, which was sponsored by the University of South Carolina and supervised by Dr. Anne K. Gregorie and Flora B. Surles, as well as a January 17, 1968 memo from Mary Stevenson, Clemson University Libraries, concerning the authorship of the book. The transcription is entitled "Common Place Book of John Ewing Colhoun," but...