The Cause of the U.S. Civil War
John C. Calhoun to Lt. James E[dward] Colhoun, August 26, 1827
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plexion, blue eyes, and flaxen hair,
will do you no discredit. He
walks and talks.
Of deaths, I know of none in
the whole circle of our friends,
except the old Farmer, who
died last winter; nor do
I recollect any other marriage,
except Lucretia's, my brother
William's daughter to Dr. [Henry] Town[es]
of Greenville. There will,
however, soon be another.
Francis [Wilkinson] Pickens will be united
in October to Miss [Margaret] Eliza Simkins.
We will all be at the wed-
ding. His father [Andrew Pickens, Jr.] and sister Susan Calhoun Pickens]
are in from Alabama,
and so was Ezekiel Pickens
but has returned. The
union between Francis
and Eliza takes place
Original document at the John Caldwell Calhoun Papers, Clemson University Library.
http://media.clemson.edu/library/special_collections/findingaids/Mss/Mss0200r.pdf