The curation and digitization of the South Caroliniana Library Collection of William Gilmore Simms Physical Materials represents an evolution in the Simms Initiatives mission: in addition to making digitally accessible Simms's literary productions, this collection makes available various materials of iconography and realia that help to situate Simms, and his works, within the personal and historical contexts of the author’s life and times. These materials also provide researchers with intriguing examples of the ways in which Simms’s life and work were preserved by, and influential ...