In this Book
- Mercy Otis Warren: Selected Letters
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University of Georgia Press
Until now, Warren's letters have been published sporadically, in small numbers, and mainly to help complete the collected correspondence of some of the famous men to whom she wrote. This volume addresses that imbalance by focusing on Warren's letters to her family members and other women. As they flesh out our view of Warren and correct some misconceptions about her, the letters offer a wealth of insights into eighteenth-century American culture, including social customs, women's concerns, political and economic conditions, medical issues, and attitudes on child rearing.
Letters Warren sent to other women who had lost family members (Warren herself lost three children) reveal her sympathies; letters to a favorite son, Winslow, show her sharing her ambitions with a child who resisted her advice. What readers of other Warren letters may have only sensed about her is now revealed more fully: she was a woman of considerable intellect, religious faith, compassion, literary intelligence, and acute sensitivity to the historical moment of even everyday events in the new American republic.
Table of Contents
- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. xi-xxx
- Editorial Note
- pp. xxxi-xxxviii
- Letters
- 16. To John Adams, January 30, 1775
- pp. 43-46
- 17. To Sarah Brown Bowen, April 1775
- pp. 47-49
- 19. To James Warren, June 15, 1775
- pp. 52-53
- 23. To John Thomas, January 10, 1776
- pp. 61-62
- 27. To John Adams, March [10], 1776
- pp. 69-72
- 29. To James Warren Jr., June 1776
- pp. 74-77
- 36. To James Warren, [June 14, 1777]
- pp. 96-97
- 38. To James Warren, [December 30, 1777]
- pp. 99-100
- 39. To James Warren, March 10, 1778
- pp. 100-101
- 40. To James Warren, June 2, 1778
- pp. 101-104
- 41. To John Adams, December 16, 1778
- pp. 104-107
- 42. To Abigail Smith Adams, March 14, 1779
- pp. 107-109
- 45. To John Adams, July 29, 1779
- pp. 115-117
- 46. To Winslow Warren, December 4, 1779
- pp. 117-119
- 47. To Winslow Warren, December 1779
- pp. 120-123
- 48. To James Warren, [January 1780?]
- pp. 123-124
- 50. To James Warren, March 12, 1780
- pp. 128-129
- 51. To Winslow Warren, March 25, 1780
- pp. 129-132
- 52. To John Adams, May 8, 1780
- pp. 133-135
- 53. To John Sloss Hobart, June 9, 1780
- pp. 135-138
- 55. To Winslow Warren, August 20, 1780
- pp. 140-141
- 56. To Winslow Warren, November 7, 1780
- pp. 142-144
- 58. To Winslow Warren, December 16, 1780
- pp. 146-149
- 59. To Winslow Warren, January 18, 1781
- pp. 150-152
- 60. To Winslow Warren, September 28, 1781
- pp. 153-155
- 61. To Winslow Warren, March 24, 1782
- pp. 155-157
- 62. To Catherine Livingston, July 5, 1782
- pp. 157-158
- 64. To Winslow Warren, November 24, 1782
- pp. 161-164
- 65. To John Adams, December 18, 1782
- pp. 164-166
- 66. To John Adams, [May?] 1783
- pp. 167-168
- 67. To Winslow Warren, May 4, 1783
- pp. 168-170
- 68. To Winslow Warren, May 19, 1783
- pp. 170-171
- 69. To Elizabeth Otis Brown, June 15, 1783
- pp. 171-174
- 70. To Abigail Smith Adams, April 24, 1784
- pp. 174-180
- 71. To Sarah Sever, May 2, 1784
- pp. 180-182
- 72. To Winslow Warren, August 16, 1784
- pp. 182-183
- 73. To Winslow Warren, August 22, 1784
- pp. 184-186
- 74. To Winslow Warren, August 28, 1784
- pp. 186-189
- 75. To Winslow Warren, November 11, 1784
- pp. 189-193
- 76. To Winslow Warren, January 4, 1785
- pp. 193-198
- 79. To John Adams, September 1785
- pp. 201-204
- 80. To James Warren Jr., [January] 178[6]
- pp. 204-206
- 81. To Elbridge Gerry, February 19, 1786
- pp. 206-208
- 83. To John Adams, December 1786
- pp. 210-212
- 86. To John Adams, May 8, 1789
- pp. 218-220
- 88. To James Warren, March 29, 1790
- pp. 223-225
- 89. To George Washington, May 18, 1790
- pp. 225-226
- 90. To Winslow Warren, April 25, 1791
- pp. 226-227
- 91. To Winslow Warren, May 22, 1791
- pp. 228-230
- 93. To James Warren Jr., [December] 28, 1791
- pp. 233-234
- 95. To Henry Warren, February 10, 1793
- pp. 236-237
- 96. To Elizabeth Otis Brown, April 28, 1793
- pp. 238-239
- 97. To Sarah Gray Cary, June 24, 1793
- pp. 239-240
- 98. To Robert Treat Paine, [October 1794?]
- pp. 240-242
- 99. To James Warren Jr., May 14, 1796
- pp. 242-245
- 101. To Sarah Gray Cary, August 18, 1799
- pp. 246-248
- 102. To Sarah Gray Cary, August 23, 1800
- pp. 248-249
- 103. To Sarah Gray Cary, February 7, 1802
- pp. 250-251
- 104. To a Very Young Lady, [Early 1800s?]
- pp. 251-253
- 105. To Margaret Cary, January 1, 1814
- pp. 253-256
- 106. To Mary Gray Otis, May 24, 1814
- pp. 256-257
- Bibliography
- pp. 259-266