Mary Wallace DeRenne

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When G.W.J. De Renne died in 1880, his wife, Mary, determined to bring to print a work that had absorbed him for several years, a compendium of Georgia's unpublished colonial laws. Edited at her request by Charles C. Jones Jr., the volume appeared in 1881 as the fifth of the Wormsloe Quartos. It was followed in 1886 by the last of the series, the earl of Egmont's journal (1738-44), also edited by Jones.

During the last decade of her life, Mary De Renne collected a notable array of Civil War relics, as well as an immense collection of Confederate books and pamphlets, later praised by Douglas Southall Freeman as "second to none in the country" in A Calendar of Confederate Papers (1908). She also gathered an impressive trove of Confederate manuscripts, including the Permanent Constitution of the Confederate States of America, beautifully engrossed on vellum.

At her death, Mary De Renne's Confederate collection and her husband's Georgia collection went to their son Everard (1857-94). His will left his parents' collections as bequests in their honor. The Mary De Renne Confederate Collection went to the Confederate Museum in Richmond, Virginia, where it remains with that institution's successor, the Museum of the Confederacy. The G.W.J. De Renne Georgia Historical Collection was left to Georgia's state library in Atlanta, which catalogued it in The De Renne Gift (1894). In 1992 these books were transferred to the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia.

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• Residence: 1850 - Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States
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