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1. On Sunday Sept. 2, Redcliffe was broken into, through windows in basement and nursery. Elliot Walker, 16, Harold Jakes, 12, confessed to Sheriff. They denied they had stolen my telescope. Nor had they: the telescope was found in a locked room upstairs. I did not prosecute, on advice of Uncle Henry. Nor did boys' parents ever express regret to me, or gratitude for my clemency, [telegraph], Sept. 1951, from Henry C. Hammond to John S. Billings; Sept. 1951

Creator:: Billings, John S. (John Shaw), 1898-1993
Collection:: John Shaw Billings Scrapbook
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana Library

2. Another grab at a piece of my land- but nothing came of this, 21 February 1951, [Letter], 21 February 1951 (Aiken County, S.C.), from H.J. Blackmon to John Shaw Billings (New York, N.Y.); 21 February 1951

Creator:: Billings, John S. (John Shaw), 1898-1982
Collection:: John Shaw Billings Scrapbook
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana Library

3. I am awarded $2000. for the loss of Redcliffe land to new defense highway; [Letter], 12 Jan. 1951 (Aiken County, S.C.), from Board of Condemnation to John Shaw Billings (New York, N.Y.); 12 Jan. 1951

Creator:: Billings, John S. (John Shaw), 1898-1975
Collection:: John Shaw Billings Scrapbook
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana Library

4. I am notified that the state is condemning a strip of my Redcliffe land to run the four-lane highway through to the H-bomb plant; [Letter], 28 Dec. 1950 (Columbia, S.C.), from J.B. Barker to John Shaw Billings (New York, N.Y.); 28 Dec. 1950

Creator:: Billings, John S. (John Shaw), 1898-1975
Collection:: John Shaw Billings Scrapbook
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana Library

5. I am notified that the state is condemning a strip of my Redcliffe land to run the four-lane highway through to the H-bomb plant; [Letter], 28 Dec. 1950 (Columbia, S.C.), from J.B. Barker to John Shaw Billings (New York, N.Y.); 28 Dec. 1950

Creator:: Billings, John S. (John Shaw), 1898-1975
Collection:: John Shaw Billings Scrapbook
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana Library

6. Redcliffe baptisms [for] James Henry Hammond Billings and Julian Cummings Billings; ca. 1904

Creator:: Billings, John S. (John Shaw), 1898-1975
Collection:: John Shaw Billings Scrapbook
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana Library

7. Check for weekly (?) payment for me at Pine Heights Sanatarium (Sanatorium, sanitorium, or sanitarium), during my appendicitis (?), June 1906; [check], 21 June 1906 (Augusta, GA), from R.H. Billings to Pine Heights Sanatorium (Augusta, GA); June 1906

Creator:: Billings, John S. (John Shaw), 1898-1975
Collection:: John Shaw Billings Scrapbook
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana Library

8. Check for weekly (?) payment for me at Pine Heights Sanatarium (Sanatorium, sanitorium, or sanitarium), during my appendicitis (?), June 1906; [check], 21 June 1906 (Augusta, GA), from R.H. Billings to Pine Heights Sanatorium (Augusta, GA); June 1906

Creator:: Billings, John S. (John Shaw), 1898-1975
Collection:: John Shaw Billings Scrapbook
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana Library

9. Copies of baptisimal records of Henry and Julian Billings-both in Redcliffe parlor; [baptisimal records for] James Henry Hammond Billings, 24 April 1902 (Beech Island, S.C.) [and] Julian Cumming Billings, 25 May 1904 (Augusta, GA); ca. 1904

Creator:: Billings, John S. (John Shaw), 1898-1975
Collection:: John Shaw Billings Scrapbook
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana Library

10. Hereafter some miscellaneous material relating to Redcliffe and its people in the past: In Novemeber, 1930, Aunt Julia asked me to buy her a $0.50 can of brass polish, Jim Richards took me into Bowen and Hulbert's to make the purchase - and with it went a chance on a kerosene lamp, I remarked that if I won it I would give it to Redcliffe, Win it I did - and Jim Richards got this letter, The lamp went to Redcliffe and into constant use, Frederica and I used it regularly from April, 1935 until the coming of electricity in early 1936; [Letter], 22 Nov. 1930 (Augusta, GA) [from] Guy M. Bowen [to] Jim Richards (Aiken, S.C.); Nov. 1930

Creator:: Billings, John S. (John Shaw), 1898-1975
Collection:: John Shaw Billings Scrapbook
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana Library