Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Petit de Villers, F. D.
2. Ford collection.
3. Thomas Addis Emmet collection.

Description

1. .1 linear foot (1 folder)

Summary

1. Four letters of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, a South Carolina statesman, Revolutionary War veteran, and delegate to the Constitutional Convention. Three of the letters, dating 1815, 1822, and 1824 are addressed to cotton trader Francois-Didier Petit de Villers of Savannah, and concern the latter's claim against Colonel Joseph Habersham, the death of Pinckney's niece, and a request by Pinckney for information on various local matters. Also present are several autographs, a receipt, related ephemera, and a portion of an opinion written by Pinckney in 1783 on the plundering of a house by a party "attached to the British interest."

Subject

1. South Carolina > Politics and government > 1775-1865
2. Autographs
3. Statesmen > South Carolina > 18th century
4. Receipts

Genre/Form

1. Autographs.
2. Receipts.

Call number

1. MssCol 4579

Access (note)

1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Provenance (note)

1. Some material was originally received as part of the Thomas Addis Emmet and Ford collections.

Author

1. Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 1746-1825.

Title

1. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney letters and other material, 1774-1824.

Restricted access

1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Provenance

1. Some material was originally received as part of the Thomas Addis Emmet and Ford collections.

Occupation

1. Statesmen South Carolina 18th century.

Added author

1. Petit de Villers, F. D., recipient.
2. Ford collection.
3. Thomas Addis Emmet collection.

Research call number

1. MssCol 4579