Edwin Scott Papers

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Letter, 5 March [19]07 (Columbia, S.C.), Edwin Scott to Clara Estes (Clifford Seminary, Union, S.C.), recalling that he had seen Clara on the streetcars during the previous summer and also during an event at the State House "one night while Senator [Benjamin R.] Tillman was speaking." Letter, 21 March 1907, to Clara Estes (Clifford Seminary, Union, S.C.), noting his plans to attend a comic opera in Columbia the following night, and asks Clara if she will be going to the Spartanburg Music Festival [held in April 1907]. Letter, 28 June 1907, to "My dear Miss Clara", Edwin teases that he has heard that she is "riding with 'somebody'" and includes his handwritten copy of an anonymous poem titled "Somebody." Reporting on recent entertainments enjoyed, he mentions a game at the "base-ball park" the previous week, where he saw Columbia win; he also describes seeing a silent film or "moving pictures" at the Opera house: "they are pretty good," and tells of his evening plans to attend a show at Hyatt Park [the streetcar suburb north of the city, which was the location of the Hyatt Park Pavilion, an entertainment venue built in 1897, that included a casino]