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Mills family. Mills family papers, 1895-1971.

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Mills family papers, 1895-1971.

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Family correspondence, research notes and literary papers generated by children of W.W. Mills and Sarah Edith Anne Smith Mills: attorney Laurens T. Mills (1874-1934), chemist and professor James Edward Mills (1876-1950), Clemson professor William Hayne Mills (1872-1942), Presbyterian missionary to China Wilson Plumer Mills (1883-1959), and University of South Carolina librarian Mary North Mills (1879-1943). Includes letters of condolence upon the death of Mary North Mills; information re Wilson Plumer Mills' activities as a foreign missionary, including repatriation plans for persons in China during World War II, and continuation of missionary work there after the war; and chemistry research notes and papers of James Edward Mills, particularly re chemical warfare. Literary papers include various drafts of verse, published and unpublished, by Mary Hume Mills, among which are poems published in Years and Days (1963); short stories, essays, lecture notes, and literary criticism; and 2 of her journals, 1962 and 1963, and notes re her 1953 tour of Spain. Also including typewritten paper, 4 Nov. 1925, by James Edward Mills on gas warfare; letter, 12 Aug. 1943, Columbia, S.C., J. Rion McKissick, to Mary N[orth] Mills, advising that USC would continue her leave as librarian with full compensation until 15 Sept. 1943; letter, 13 Oct. 1943, Cornelia Mills to J.E. Mills, reporting that her husband, Wilson Plumer Mills, was sailing home aboard the Gripsholm. Letter, 14 Nov. 1943, Motorship Gripsholm, off Rio de Janeiro, Wilson Plumer Mills, to J.E. Mills, re his departure from Nanking in Sept. 1942, when he went to Shanghai, reporting his imprisonment, beginning Feb. 1943, by the Japanese at Pootung; letter, 25 June 1947, Greenville, S.C., Job J. Mills, to J.E. Mills, outlining ideas for electrostatic coating and applications to the textile industry. Also including undated typescript, "Twelve Great South Carolina Farmers," by William Hayne Mills.