The Travelers' Charleston Quotes

“When passions rise may reason be the guide.”
― Jennie Holton Fant, The Travelers' Charleston: Accounts of Charleston and Lowcountry, South Carolina, 1666-1861

“Walked on the battery with Louis Young† in the moon-light. It was lovely! The tide was full. The waters of the bay rippled up against the stones with a pleasing gurgle. The shores of the opposite island of St John’s were seen dimly in the distance; the clump of tall pines standing out a darker shade in the haze. The whole bay was light, silver-like, with ships spotting it, their watch-lights trembling like stars, and reflected below in the water. The sky was perfectly cloudless, intensely blue. The moon full and sharply defined—no haze tip there. The air full of fragrance. The houses along the bay with their piazzas, so strange, so tropical-looking. All still and calm. Is it reality? or I am dreaming, and in fancy conjuring up the shadow of some half-forgotten story? It is real. I have seen it. And I love to remember it as the farewell scene of Charleston. Taken”
― Jennie Holton Fant, The Travelers' Charleston: Accounts of Charleston and Lowcountry, South Carolina, 1666-1861

“The affability and tenderness of this charming family in the bosom of the woods, will be ever cherished in my breast, and long recorded, I hope, in this page.”
― Jennie Holton Fant, The Travelers' Charleston: Accounts of Charleston and Lowcountry, South Carolina, 1666-1861