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Richard Franklin Simpson Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Mss-0221

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...

Dates: 1971 and 2015; Bulk 1806 - 1863

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

Richard Wright Simpson Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Mss-0096

Scope and Contents This collection documents the legal, financial, personal, and family affairs of Richard Wright Simpson, Thomas Green Clemson, Anna Calhoun Clemson, and Gideon Lee, for his deceased wife Floride and their daughter, Isabella Lee, who was Clemson's only grandchild. The Lee's contested Clemson's will. The papers, and original documents, are resources Simpson and other legal representatives used to prepare for the court cases and estate settlement following Thomas Greene Clemson's death on April...

Dates: 1981 and 2015; Bulk 1864-1910

Found in: Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives

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Names: Simpson, Richard Franklin, 1798-1882 X

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