I wish to thank Harvey S. Teal and George B. Hartness of Columbia, South Carolina; M. Mellanay Delham of Charlotte, North Carolina; Harmon Wray of Memphis, Tennessee; and Jan B. Eklund of the Smithsonian Museum for assistance with the artifact analysis. The original research was funded by a grant from the South Carolina Coastal Council. This publication was made possible by a grant from the South Carolina Committee for the Humanities, whose support is gratefully acknowledged. The Middleton Place Foundation, and its Director, Sarah Lytle, provided advice and encouragement. The author appreciates the assistance of the staff of the Institute of Archeology and Anthropology. Essential to the production of this book were Gordon Brown, Photographer; Darby Erd, Artist-Illustrator; Kenneth Pinson, Editorial Assistant; Mary Joyce Burns, Typist; Kenneth Lewis, Archeologist; and William Marquardt, Associate Director. Artifacts in the photographs are in possession of the Middleton Place Foundation, Charleston, South Carolina, and the Institute of Archeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina. The cover illustration and drawings on pages 1, 3, 27, 32, 47, 51, 54, and 56 are by Darby Erd. Figure 16 is taken from illustrations in Norman W. Webber’s _Collecting glass_ (Arco Publishing, New York, 1973) and Ruth Webb Lee’s _Victorian glass_ (privately published, Northboro, Massachusetts, 1944). The drawing in Figure 24 is reproduced from a 1920 Armour & Co. sales catalogue made available by Harmon Wray of Memphis, Tennessee. The lamps in Figure 27 are drawn from catalogue illustrations in _Edwardian shopping: a selection from the Army and Navy Stores catalogues, 1898-1913_ (compiled by R. H. Langbridge, David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1975) and _Victorian shopping: a facsimile of the Harrod’s Stores 1895 issue of the_ _price list_ (David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1972). The engravings on pages 12, 24, and 39 are reproduced from Jim Harter’s _Food and drink, a pictorial archive from nineteenth-century sources_ (Dover, New York, 1980). That on page 29 is from the 1895 _Encyclopedia Britannica_ (volume 10, page 658, The Werner Company, Chicago). The lamp on page 49 is from the 1902 edition of the Sears Roebuck catalogue (Crown, New York, 1969). A BRIEF HISTORY OF MIDDLETON PLACE [Illustration: Middleton Place]