Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2013

The papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722–1793) and her daughter Harriott Pinckney Horry (1748–1830) document the lives of two observant and articulate founding-era women who were members of one of South Carolina’s leading families. Their letters, diaries, and other documents span nearly a century (1739–1830) and provide a window on politics, social events, and people of the late colonial and early national periods. They richly detail the daily life of maintaining family ties and managing households and plantations. Pinckney’s correspondence illustrates the importance of women’s social connections and transatlantic friendships. Horry’s correspondence documents the strength of personal ties that linked the elite families of the North and the South to each other even as connections were threatened by disputes over slavery, commercial differences, and political and constitutional conflict.
☛ Following the initial publication of this edition in 2012, an additional forty-two Eliza Pinckney and Harriott Horry documents were identified by the editors. They have been added (in 2023) to this edition as a third section of Contents labeled Supplemental Documents.

Additional correspondence between Eliza Pinckney and Harriott Horry and their sons and brothers Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Thomas Pinckey has been published in Rotunda’s The Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen (2016–2023).

At top right: photograph of a brooch owned by both Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry, now in the collections of the Charleston Museum.

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Funding for this edition was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities