Lot 1189
Eighteenth Century Georgia, Three-page ALS of Thomas Coit to John Boardman in Troy, N.Y., Savannah, Ga., December 15, 1799, with integral address leaf postmarked Jan 17 New York "clamshell" datestamp with red manuscript "Sh 19" (Ship 19) rate and "Via N York p Brig Belona" [Bellona]. Coit's description of Savannah includes "…I would give the sandy streets when dry are more fatiguing than your snow half big deep — the houses with some exceptions are without neatness, elegance or taste & too frequently without convenience — their meats & vegetables bad in the extreme & its native inhabitants dissipated, indolent, and tyranical…" Nonetheless, he goes on to say, "The fame of this place for adventurers from all of Europe & America & here are men of genius information & good manners from all parts of Great Britain & America…As to the business of this country it's at present overdone — the quantities of goods brought in here this season is astonishing…Europeans of respectable connections at home are establishing themselves here continually — & Cotton being a better article of remittance than any other article of American Produce…" A marvelous description of an important Southern city from an original unpublished correspondence.
Estimate $500 - 750
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