William Gilmore Simms: a biographical overview / David Moltke-Hansen
William Gilmore Simms as orator
"Barnwell Agricultural Society oration" (1840)
"The sense of the beautiful" (1870)
"The social principle" (1842)
"The sources of American independence" (1844)
"Choice of a profession" (1855)
"Inauguration of the Spartanburg Female College" (1855)
"South Carolina in the Revolution" (1856)
"The social moral, lecture 1" (1857)
"The antagonisms of the social moral, North and South" (1857).