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The Letters of Robert Mackay to His Wife, Written from Ports in America and England, 1795-1816 Hartridge Published in 1949, this selection of letters between Robert Mackay, and his THE LETTERS OF wife, Eliza Anne Mackay, provide unique insight into the life of a southern merchant during the early part of the nineteenth century. The Mackay's correspondence covers business, friendships, social life, and family, in addition to historical events unfolding at the time. The letters in this ROBERT MACKAY volume were sent from the Mackay's hometown of Savannah and from -3 such port cities as Norfolk, Charleston, New York, London, and Liverpool. HHffi TO HIS WIFE "Hartridge's selection of letters shows taste and balance. He has properly salted these letters of one of Savannah's great figures with excellent notes and explanatory paragraphs.... An admirable collection of letters which will increasingly interest historians and students of maritime affairs." Written from Ports in America and William and Mary Quarterly England, 1795-1816 "This collection of 105 letters is ably edited by Hartridge. The notes are ample, cross references are numerous, and the biographical sketches of the many people mentioned in the letters are painstakingly done. Scarcely anyone escapes the editor's careful eye." Journal of Southern History o w Walter Charlton Hartridge contributed an introduction and notes for The Letters of Don Juan McQueen to His Family, Written from Spanish East Florida, 1791-1807. The University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602 www.ugapress.org ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3538-4 ISBN-10: 0-8203-3538-X 90000 Edited by WALTER CHARLTON HARTRIDGE Georgia Foreword by ELFRIDA DERENNE BARROW THE LETTERS OF ROBERT MACKAY TO HIS WIFE ROBERT MACKAY (1772-1816) From the miniature by Edward Greene Malbone THE LETTERS OF ROBERT MACKAY TO HIS WIFE Written from ports in America. and England 1795-1816 WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY WALTER CHARLTON HARTRIDGE PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE GEORGIA SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA BY THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS ATHENS Paperback edition, 2010 © 1949 by the University of Georgia Press Athens, Georgia 30602 www.ugapress.org All rights reserved Printed digitally in the United States of America The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition of this book as follows: Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data LCCN Permalink: http://lccn.loc.gov/49010691 Mackay, Robert, 1772-1816. The letters of Robert Mackay to his wife, written from ports in America and England, 1795-1816. With an introd. and notes by Walter Charlton Hartridge. I. Mackay, Eliza Anne McQueen, 1778-1862. II. Hartridge, Walter Charlton, 1870- III. National Society Colonial Dames of America in the State of Georgia, xxxi, 325 p. illus. ports. 24 cm. CT275.M4347A4 923.978 49-10691 Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3538-4 ISBN-10: 0-8203-3538-X IN APPRECIATION OF HER VALUABLE SERVICE IN PRESERVING THE RECORDS OF GEORGIA'S PAST AND IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE OF A RARE SPIRIT THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF ELIZABETH MACKAY SCREVEN AN HONORARY VICE PRESIDENT OF THE GEORGIA SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DAMES Foreword The Letters of Robert Mackay to his Wife is the second in a series being issued under the auspices of the Georgia Society of Colonial Dames. The first of these, The Letters of Don Juan McQueen to his Family, appeared in 1943, and was so well received as to encourage the further pub­ lication during the next few years of the remaining letters in the valuable MSS collection presented in 1936 to the Society by Mrs. Franklin B. Screven and her cousin, Miss Phoebe Elliott. The collection comprises the related letters of the McQueen, Mackay and Cowper families, all well- known in the early history of Georgia's coast country. It was Mrs. Screven, however, who made the gift pos­ sible. For many years she had been earnestly at work assembling various groups of old and partly forgotten family letters still in the possession of family connections, her desire being to make the correspondence, which she considered of potential value as source material, available for the use of students and writers interested in the social history of the South. With this in mind, she presented the majority of these private records to the Southern Histor­ ical Collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and others of a more formal nature to the Georgia Historical Society, while the letter groups that make up the Colonial Dames collection were selected by Mrs. Screven for the general significance of their Savan­ nah, background. The present volume bears witness to her good judgment, for its engaging letters, with their essence viii FOREWORD of age and their lively topics, bring to the imagination the currencies of the past in a period of Savannah history whose eventful days were giving shape to a new century. Robert Mackay was a born letter writer, observant, informative, witty and caustic in turn, and at times solicit­ ous and tender. His style is natural and forthright; he writes of trivial things entertainingly, and of matters of import with authority. Taken collectively, his letters offer a panoramic view of the times—1795-1816—as he writes from his sojourns in England, from ports of travel, or when at home in Savannah. Our Society is doubly indebted to Mr. Walter C. Hart- ridge, who has long made a study of the social history of this region, for his evaluation of the historical quality of the letter groups of the Colonial Dames collection which stimulated interest for their preservation through publica­ tion, and for his generous offer to edit the Mackay letters as he did those of Don Juan McQueen. His Introduction, and the significance of his well documented notes, to­ gether with their unique genealogical data, give distinc­ tion to this second volume of the contemplated series. Without Mr. Hartridge's comprehensive knowledge of source material, the finer meaning of the letters, with their elements of human interest and contemporary gossip, would be lost, and references to people and places, little more than a processional of names. As it is, the explanatory notes give movement, purpose, and identity to the dim happenings of those far-off days, and create a perspective by which the realities of Robert Mackay's letters are brought into the seeing distance of the reader. To the deep regret of our membership, Elizabeth FOREWORD ix Mackay Screven died suddenly on February nth, 1943. The present volume containing the letters of her great­ grandfather, from whom she inherited so many zestful and appealing traits, is inspired by our remembrance of her and dedicated to her memory. It seems a fitting man­ ner in which to recognize the accomplishments of an honored member of the Colonial Dames, whose modesty during her lifetime would have forbidden words of praise. And yet praise lives on in what she was and what she did, for in thinking of Mrs. Screven one does so in terms of the distinguished elements of her character, the vigor and charm of her personality, all of which gave such indi­ vidual flavor to her long and constructive life. Those who knew her like to look back with apprecia­ tion on her exhilarating qualities, her independence of spirit and freedom of action, her objectivity of thought, her liberal ideas and verve for humor. In reminiscing over the delightful informalities of her nature, one senses again those inner urgencies and their outward reflection. How readily she comes to mind! There was always that vivac­ ity, the small swift gestures, so typical and expressive of her likes and dislikes, her opinions and decisions, yet in quiet moods, seeing her in repose was to behold her as a portrait of quality, the work of a distinguished artist. To dwell on Mrs. Screven is to recall the manifold ways in which she enjoyed the felicities of an active life. One likes in particular to remember her persistent preference for walking, those daily peregrinations on foot with their eager sense of dispatch that took her through the fulness of years to numberless destinations. It was all part of a liveliness of motion that seemed to act as pacemaker for x FOREWORD her quick progression of ideas—all a happy rhythm of life that was to continue unabated to her last day. Indeed in the receding past Mrs. Screven becomes a memorable figure in the Savannah of her own times, in the city of her birth which she knew as intimately as one would a well- loved book, one whose tempered pages reveal her love of church and family, her friendships and charities, her per­ ennial interest in the amenities of the present, her lively concern for the traditions of the past. All such characteristics stood Mrs. Screven in good stead when she first assumed the task of extricating and later assembling the letters from their fugitive state, for most of these had undergone a precarious existence and been subjected to many hazards after lying secure for the better part of a century in the Robert Mackay house in Savannah, at what was once 75 Broughton Street (next to the southeast corner of Abercorn Street). The old house, built around 1800, survived the century, making way at last to business interests. Many pieces of the fine furniture which had given the interior such distinction and which today are valuable heirlooms, are still in the possession of Mackay descendants, none more prized pos­ sibly than the superb Sheraton breakfront secretary (made by the Early American cabinetmaker, J. Barry of Phila­ delphia) from which most of the letters were written, and where, in later years they were kept, safely returned from their many journeys.
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