A. Elliott Holman, III, with his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Elliott Holman, Jr.

To mark the occasion and in celebration of Arthur Holman's 80th birthday, the Arthur Elliott Holman, Jr., Acquisition and Preservation Endowment has been permanently established by A. Elliott Holman, III, for the benefit of the University Libraries. Proceeds from this endowment will be expended annually for new acquisitions as well as for the preservation of current holdings in areas of Mr. Holman's interests, such as the Episcopal Church, music and the arts, Anderson County, and other aspects of South Carolina history.

• The first volume to be preserved with funds from this account was An Historical Account of the Protestant Episcopal Church in South Carolina, from the First Settlement of the Province, to the War of the Revolution. Written by Frederick Dalcho in 1820, this volume was presented to the University by former President, J. Rion McKissick

• A rare first edition musical score engraving of Beethoven’s Symphony no.4 in Bb Major (1806) purchased for the Music Library

• A first Edition of Franz Joseph Haydn’s Missa Sancti Bernardi de Offida (1802), the first of Haydn’s famous late masses, the only copy which exists in the United States

• A Music In Time music appreciation video series for the Music Library

• Partial funding for the restoration of a badly damaged nineteenth century oil portrait of Eliza Catherine Legare Bryan (1794–1842), painted by Peter Copmann in 1825, housed in South Caroliniana Library

• Early nineteenth century score of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera La Clemenza Di Tito for the Music Library

• Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians reference work for the Music Library

• 106 rolls of micro-film publication which contain the records of the South Carolina field offices of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872, an invaluable record of post-bellum South Carolina, for the South Caroliniana Library

The Holman family has a history of supporting the South Caroliniana Library, beginning with Mrs. Arthur Elliott Holman, who was a charter member of the University South Caroliniana Society when it was founded in 1936. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Holman, Jr., are currently members of the Society. Mr. A. Elliott Holman, III, has continued his family's tradition by establishing this endowment to benefit students and researchers at the University of South Carolina for generations to come.

Persons interested in supporting the acquisition and preservation goals of the Holman fund may contact us for further information.