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George Sandys (1578-1644 ) in 1632, from the portrait at Graythwaite Hall, North Lancashire Courtesy of the late Colonel George O. Sandys
· Literature, Principally Belletristic . event.156 In I729 Governor Everard wrote a perceptive letter to the Bishop of London describing the religious situation and why it was so, incidentally documenting William Byrd's comment in his "Histories" that Commissioner John Lovick had worked his way up from valet or "footboy." Governor Burrington in I732 in introducing a physician desiring to take holy orders gives a similar picture of the church in that colony. Other governors including Gabriel Johnston and Arthur Dobbs wrote frequently to various persons in church or government.157 Dobbs, a writer of considerable ability in several areas including trade, navigation, exploration, and religion, has left epistles now in the Fulham Papers at Lambeth Palace, the Belfast Public Record Office, and other repositories, many or most revealing of the man and of his colony at the close of the French and Indian War.15S In North Carolina the one-time surveyor-general of Ireland, whose pamphlets were said to rival in brilliance Dean Swift'S, was carrying out the last of his countless public functions, for he was to die in office in the colony. His letters are among the few surviving from that province which are comparable in graceful rhetoric and significant content to the work of the best epistolarians of the Chesapeake or Charleston regions, though his speeches and tracts possess more attractive belletristic qualities than do these epistles. South Carolina, in its men of science and medicine, its governors and lesser officials, its several distinguished clergy and lawyers and planters, and in its learned ladies, had in the eighteenth century a remarkable group of letter-writers. Dozens of these people over long periods kept up correspondence with friends, relatives, and business associates abroad. The communications of Mark Catesby and Dr. Alexander Garden and a score of nearly as able scientists have been commented upon. Governors such as James Glen and William Henry Lyttelton and Lieutenant-Governor William Bull, Senior, educated and articulate men, wrote well. Among the most valuable letters of the clergy are those of Commissary Gideon Johnston and Dr. Francis LeJau to their ecclesiastical superiors in London, letters which have been edited and published in this century and quoted liberally in preceding chapters.159 The polemical published letters of the Anglican Reverend Alexander Garden and his Whitefieldean opponents, including the Reverend Josiah Smith, the Peter Manigault letters from England to relatives in Carolina, Charles Woodmason's "Regulator Documents," the Reverend Richard Hill letterbook of I743, as well as a number of single letters from young women have some significance and frequently a great deal of charm. These writers had much to say, and they were conscious of the forms in which they should express themselves.160 And then there are at least four epistolarians whose communications have survived in quantity in letterbooks or loose papers, all recently
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