Nathaniel Gist Gee Papers - Accession 395

The Nathaniel Gist Gee Papers consist of various papers concerning Gee’s years in China including correspondence, reports, newspaper and magazine clippings, Chinese poetry, statistics, manifestos, statements, his professional papers concerned primarily with freshwater sponges, and professional papers and publications he collected that chronicle China’s growth. Many of the records are concerned with China’s political and social changes including China’s Nationalist and Student Movements during Gee’s stay in China. Nathaniel Gist Gee (1876-1937), born in Union, SC, was a professor of Natural Science at Soochow University and Yenching University in China from 1901-1932.

Alexander Samuel Salley Letters - Accession 45 - M20 (30)

The Alexander Samuel Salley Letters consist of a 1930 letter concerning Salley’s comments on the exchange between South and North Carolina of two strips of land that led to the King’s Mountain becoming a part of South Carolina in 1772, eight years before the battle and a 1921 letter in which Salley addresses various historical songs of South Carolina and his reputation as an historian.