Features a biographical sketch of the American politician and lawyer Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746-1825), presented by the Faculty of Arts of Groningen University.
Letter to her grandson, C.C. Pinckney, Jr., in which Elliott suggests impact of both the Second Great Awakening and the Sunday School movement on the spiritual life of South Carolinians.
Includes personal and plantation entries by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1818 April 6-May 16, with a few scattered entries in late 1818 and early 1819). The journal records daily activities on Pinckney's plantation.