Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Collection Summary
| Title | James Henry Hammond papers, 1774-1875 |
|---|---|
| Span Dates | 1774-1875 |
| Bulk Dates | (bulk 1823-1864) |
| ID No. | MSS24695 |
| Creator | Hammond, James Henry, 1807-1864 |
| Extent | 8,000 items |
| Extent | 38 containers plus 3 oversize |
| Extent | 10 linear feet |
| Extent | 20 microfilm reels |
| Language | Collection material in English |
| Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
| Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009169 |
| LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm75024695 |
| Summary | Senator, governor, and plantation owner. Correspondence, diaries, speeches, plantation manuals, account books, and scrapbooks pertaining chiefly to South Carolina and national politics in the three decades preceding the Civil War. Subjects include nullification, secession, slavery, the Southern Convention at Nashville, Tennessee (1850), state banks, states' rights, and the tariff. Also includes a mercantile letterbook, 1774-1780, of Andrew McLean. |