In the summer of i935, three little girls were playing under their<br >house in Stateburg, South Carolina, escaping the hot sun and watch-<br >ing doodlebugs capture and eat ants. In the half-light Gery, Mary,<br >and Francine Leffelman happened to notice a cardboard box toward<br >the front of the house. When they crawled forward to investigate,<br >they found that the box contained some letters underneath what the<br >girls father later identified as a saw from a cotton gin. The twins,<br >Gery and Mary, had just learned to read and recognized that the let-<br >ters were old. They took them to their father, Lewis John Leffelman,<br >a forester educated at the University of Minnesota and Yale who had<br >recently come to Stateburg to manage a large timber plantation.<br >John Leffelman had always been interested in history, and he pre-<br >served the letters his daughters had discovered. More than forty<br >years later, in the spring of 1979, the South Caroliniana Library at<br >the University of South Carolina acquired the letters from Mrs. Gery<br >Leffelman Ballou. To bring those letters fully to light and to make<br >them available to any interested reader, they are published here for<br >the first time.<br >
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