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I. Books and Published

• At home and abroad: or, how to behave, Mrs. Manners, 1853
• Little lessons for little people, Basil Manly, Jr, 1867
• The child's book of nature: for the use of families and schools : intended to aid mothers and teachers in training children in the observation of nature: in three parts. Part II. Animals, Worthington Hooker, 1883
• Manual of Bible morality: a text book for elementary and academic schools and for the help of parents in training their children at home, Shaler G. Hillyer, 1897
• Mother Goose's ABC Book, 1898
• Wooden horn-book, ca. 1930
• Ye horn-booke of greeting: from Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts, ca. 1930
• Know South Carolina: a supplementary reader for the early elementary grades, Jennie Erwin, 1932

• Sterling's Southern Primer for the Children, Richard Sterling, A.M. and J.D. Campbell, A.M., 1867
• Gateway to South Carolina, Mary C. Simms Oliphant and Mary C. Simms Oliphant Furman, 1947
• Hartsville: Our Community, Lucile Boswell Neely, 1965