Scope and Contents

The collection consists of account books and accounts, correspondence and receipts. The three account books, which include one "farm account book", record Daniel Pope's financial activities during the period 1884-1919. The correspondence in the collection is between Daniel Pope and William Bower & Son of Savannah, GA, and Liverpool, England, regarding the sale of sea island cotton during 1891-1892. The accounts and receipts are for cotton sales and purchases of J.J.T. Pope.

Scope and Contents The records consist of two account books and one journal: one account book which covers the period 1872-1885, pertains to Clarke's accounts with Fraser and Dill through July 1880 and from August 1881 to April 1885, with Joseph T. Dill and Co., cotton merchants in Charleston, SC; the second account book is with J.T. Dill from 1880 to 1884. The journal titled "Ocean View Plantation-James Island-Cotton Selections 1894," which describes the progress made by the different types of cotton planted...