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The Sense of the Beautiful.Speech | Agricultural Society of South Carolina | 1870 Simms delivered The Sense of the Beautiful, his final
public oration, on May 3, 1870, a little over a month before his death.[1] The occasion was the first Floral Fair
held by the Charleston County Agricultural and Horticultural Society, a group
that would merge in August with the older and recently revived Agricultural
Society of South Carolina. In his
speech, Simms stressed the importance of natural beauty, a harmonious home
life, and female leadership. He praised
the spiritual value of the natural world and claimed that a stable domestic
sphere was a precondition for the progress ... |
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Biographical Sketch From the Life of M.C.M. HammondBiography | 1876 Biographical Sketch from the Life of M.C.M. Hammond is a brief
memorial pamphlet commemorating the life and service of Marcus Claudius
Marcellus Hammond, the middle brother of the Hammond family with whom Simms was
so closely connected. Collected on the
occasion of Hammond’s 23 January 1876 death, this volume consists of three
distinct parts. The first two of these
parts are biographical sketches of Hammond, one by Simms, and one by Brigadier
General Benjamin Alvord, who served with Hammond in the Mexican-American War. The
third section of the work is a brief memorial ... |