pinckney says, no dice. and finally, 1796, he says, charles, you've turned down every other job i've offered you, how about minister of france? we like to joke it was probably his wife influenced the decision, yes. absolutely. pinckney finally respond with the a positive answer to washington and became the minister to france, kind of a funny series of, funny series of letters. there's another great one that, from the pinckney correspondence. he was friends with john marshall, pinckney was a hard core federalist, and during the early 19th century, you know, jefferson swept the south. south carolina went for jefferson. it joined the early democratic republicans. but her original founding fathers remained heavily, heavily federalist. and so there's this great letter from john marshall which i'll read a little bit off of, off of the transcript. that, um, they talk about some of their old contacts together, and, um, marshall says, you know, the new political year is here, mr. jefferson will be inaugurated soon, a

our 20th century collection the charleston renaissance of the 1920s which produced -- josephine pinckney, plenty of notable writers, foundation of poetry society. a lot of that took place at the library society. they all would have been members. the only library in town until the 1930s. this was their hangout and this is the original manuscript copy -- the hand written first draft with all the side notes in it, all of the annotations and most notably his dialect charts. it has proper construction. at the time it wasn't but when you see him writing it, always tries to be consistent and acknowledge when you read porgy and you see it in its supreme form which is porgy and bess you can tell he is immersed in the language. he treats it respectfully. here is a foundation of that as he tries to make sure he is consistent to the rhythm and names and spelling and pronunciation the same throughout the work. we still exist as a hybrid institution. we have many things like a historical society. we have that historical collection we kept for 250 years but we're circulating -- there are dime novels an