The Pinckney Papers staff and the University of Virginia Press are pleased to announce the digital publication of Volume 2 of the Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen.

“Diplomacy Abroad and Politics at Home” provides a richly detailed account of their public service as diplomats of Thomas Pinckney and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, and of the activities of Charles Pinckney in his third term as governor of South Carolina.

The documents also include extensive information about their personal family, social, and economic lives. The 1,544 fully edited documents begin with Charles Cotesworth Pinckney’s 1 July 1792 letter addressed to his brother Thomas in Philadelphia describing people and events in South Carolina, not knowing that Thomas Pinckney and his family had already embarked for England on 26 June for him to take up his duties as minister plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James. The volume ends with Mary Stead Pinckney’s 29 December 1798 letter en route back home to South Carolina from Fredericksburg, Virginia, to Madame Victor DuPont in Paris. 

The volume is now available on Rotunda, as part of the Papers of the Revolutionary era Pinckney Statesmen Digital Edition.