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January 1: Bible, donated by honorary member Job G. Bass.

October 8: “Two volumes of Macaulay’s history of England,” donated by supporter Francis Asbury Mood. Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Vols. 1–2 (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849); Macaulay would publish a total of five volumes by 1861.

December 26: “Webster’s unabridged Dictionary,” donated by supporter Jacob Farbeaux. Several Webster’s dictionaries were in circulation; the Clionians may have received Webster’s Dictionary, Unabridged, in One Volume (Springfield, MA: G. and C. Merriam, 1846).

December 26: “Scenes in Spain,” donated by honorary member Job G. Bass. Scenes in Spain (New York: George Dearborn, 1837).

December 26: “Paulding Works,” donated by honorary member Job G. Bass. A volume of James Kirke Paulding, Paulding’s Works, 15 vols. (New York: Harper, 1835–1839).

December 26: “Sketches of the Seminole War,” donated by honorary member Job G. Bass. Lieutenant of the Left Wing [William Wragg Smith?], Sketch of the Seminole War and Sketches during a Campaign (Charleston, SC: Dan J. Dowling, 1836).

December 26: “2 Vols Carlyle French Revolution,” donated by honorary member Job G. Bass. Possibly volumes of Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History, 3 vols. (London: Chapman and Hall, 1837); or the “three volumes in two” published in Boston in 1838 by Charles C. Little and James Brown.

December 26: “Grimshaw’s France,” donated by honorary member Job G. Bass. Possibly an edition of William Grimshaw’s History of France, from the Foundation of the Monarchy, by Clovis, to the Final Abdication of Napoleon, first published in 1828.

January 7: “2 Volumes of Rollins Ancient history,” purchased with money donated by supporter Emma K. Farbeaux. Charles Rollin’s eighteenth-century French text was translated in English-language multivolume editions as The Ancient History Page 150 →of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians.

April 10: “Three pamphlets of good speeches & valuable letters,” donated by member William O. Weston.

April 10: “Five political speeches recently delivered in the Senate and now published,” planned society purchase.

April 17: “An address of Professor F. W. Capers before the Citadel Cadets,” donated by member Robert L. Deas. F[rancis] W[ithers] Capers, State Military Academies: An Address Delivered before the Calliopean Society of the Citadel Academy, Charleston (Charleston, SC: Tenhet and Corley, 1846).

May 1: “Professor B[r]umby’s address on geology,” donated by member William H. Gailliard. R[ichard] T[rapier] Brumby, An Address on the Sphere, Interest and Importance of Geology, Delivered December 8, 1749 [sic], in the Hall of the House of Representatives (Columbia, SC: A. S. Johnston, 1849).

May 22: “Mr. N. Mitchell’s address before the 4th of July Association,” donated by member Robert L. Deas. Nelson Mitchell, Oration Delivered before the Fourth of July Association, on the Fourth of July, 1848 (Charleston, SC: J. S. Burges, 1849).

July 31: “Certain valuable books,” planned society purchase; August 14: “the valuable works,” society purchase.

August 14: “Three very valuable books written by distinguished Authoresses,” donated by supporter Emma K. Farbeaux.

December 2: “Hawks Egypt,” society purchase. Francis L. Hawks, The Monuments of Egypt; or, Egypt a Witness for the Bible (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1850).

December 2: “Noble deeds of Women,” society purchase. An edition of Elizabeth Starling’s Noble Deeds of Woman, first published in London in 1835.

December 2: “Franklin’s Life,” society purchase. An edition of the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.

March 10: “Moore’s Poetical Works,” donated by supporter Frances Pinckney Bonneau. An edition of The Poetical Works of the Irish poet Thomas Moore.

March 31: “Two very valuable pamphlets,” donated by member Robert L. Deas.

August 11: An address from the Hon. W. D. Porter,” donated by member Robert L. Deas. W[illiam] D[ennison] Porter, Self-Cultivation: An Address, Delivered before the Society of the Alumni of the College of Charleston at Their Anniversary, February 25th 1851 (Charleston, SC: E. C. Councell, 1851).

August 11: A sermon from the Rev. Mr. Miles,” donated by member Robert L. Deas. Possibly James Warley Miles, Farewell Sermon, Preached by the Rev. James W. Miles, (Missionary of the Prot. Epis. Church in Mesopotamia,) in St. Michael’s Church, Charleston, on the Evening of August 20th, 1843 (Charleston, SC: B. B. Hussey, 1843).

September 25: “Several valuable works,” donated by member Augustus L. Horry.

December 8: “‘The Book of the World,’ in two volumes,” society purchase. Richard S[wainson] Fisher, The Book of the World, Being an Account of All Republics, Empires, Kingdoms, and Nations, in Reference to Their Geography, Statistics, Commerce, &c., Together with a Brief Historical Outline of Their Rise, Progress and Present Condition, &c., &c., &c., with an Index to All the Countries, Cities, Page 151 →Towns, Islands, Oceans, Seas, Lakes, Rivers, &c., Mentioned on Colton’s Illustrated Map of the World, 2 vols. (New York: J. H. Colton, 1849; 2nd ed., 1850–1851).

December 22: “Several valuable works,” society purchase.

May 11: “A Book. … purporting to be information in reference to Rio De Jenario,” donated by honorary member Augustus L. Horry.

December 6: “Bachman’s Unity of the Human race,” donated by member Henry Cardozo Jr. John Bachman, The Doctrine of the Unity of the Human Race Examined on the Principles of Science (Charleston, SC: C. Canning, 1850).

June 18: “Josephus works,” donated by honorary member Richard E. Dereef. An edition of the works of the first-century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus.