| Summary: | Manigault, Morris and Grimball family members of Charleston, S.C.; Philadelphia, Penn.; and Morrisania, N.Y. are the subjects of this collection. Principal correspondents are Margaret Izard Manigault, 1768-1834; her daughters, Elizabeth Manigault Morris, fl. 1795-1832 and Harriet Manigault Wilcocks, fl. 1831-1832, and Elizabeth's daughter, Margaret Ann (Meta) Morris Grimball, 1810-1881. Chiefly family letters, 1804-1822 and 1831-1832, written by Margaret Izard Manigault and Harriet Manigault Wilcocks in Philadelphia to Elizabeth Manigault Morris and Margaret Ann ("Meta") Morris Grimball in Charleston, S.C. These letters provide much detail on life in Philadelphia's polite society, including descriptions of balls, theater parties, social calls, clothing, problems with servants, etc. There are also references to family marriages, illnesses, and deaths, as well as to world affairs and foreign aristocrats living in the U.S.
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