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1763-1791
Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791
Catharine Graham Macaulay papers, GLC 1784.01-1800.04 [decimalized]
Includes items between GLC 1784 and 1800.05, totaling approximately 190 items. GLC 1784.01 is a single item.
GLC01784
9 July 1770
Adams, John, 1735-1826
to Catharine Macaulay
This letter begins the Adams-Macaulay correspondence. Adams compliments Mrs. Macaulay for stripping "the false Lustre from worthless Princes and Nobles and Selfish Politicians." He refers to Macaulay's History of England.
GLC01784.01
19 April 1773
Describes the contest between Massachusetts Governor Hutchinson and the Assembly over the question of Parliament's control. Denies sovereignty of Parliament over American rights.
GLC01785.01
August 1773
to John Adams
CM's retained copy noting that Hutchinson's fall will be an example to others who try to destroy American liberty.
GLC01785.02
28 June 1773
Adams also takes the opportunity to thank Macaulay for her help in supporting American interests. He discusses the deteriorating relations with Britain.
GLC01786
28 December 1774
Adams describes the effects of the Boston Port Bill upon the government and people of the colony. He warns that the arrest of Parliament's opponents "will produce Resistance, and Reprisals, and a Flame through America, Such as Eye hath not yet Seen...
GLC01788
October 5, 1780
Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804
to Elizabeth Schuyler
Begins a dramatic love letter to his fiancee with, " I have told you, and I told you truly that I love you too much . . . I meet you in every dream. . . I am to be thus monopolized by a little nut brown maid like you and from a Statesman and soldier...
GLC00773
1763-1783
Catton, Charles, 1756-1819
[Portrait of the poet Charles Churchill]
Sketch on album cover.
GLC00496.141
circa 1773-1790
Cowper, William, 1731-1800
to Lady Hesketh
Declines recipient's offer to send salmon to Olney where the price is prohibitively expensive. Discusses local matters.
GLC00496.149
1778
Hartley, David, 1732-1785
Letters on the American War
A collection of letters sent to the mayor, wardens, and burgesses of Kingston upon Hull. Letters related to American Revolution, called a "very alarming state of national affairs." Accuses great Britain of tyranical rule, urges recognition of...
GLC02154
1774
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
[Robert Bell's account with Henry Knox]
Knox sent Bell 42 copies of Viand's "Voyage with Falconers Shipwreck," 24 copies of Cappipina's "Letters," and 11 copies of "Letters to Blackstone." The total bill comes to £19.8.6 in Pennsylvania currency. Assumed to be Henry Knox's handwriting.
GLC02437.08377
4 May 1778
Amory, Jonathan, fl. 1778-1779
[Receipt for William Knox]
William Knox bought 20 dictionaries, a dozen memorandum books, and a dozen small memorandum books. The total is £34.15.4.
GLC02437.08428
circa 1776-1777
Ellery, William, 1727-1820
[Journal of William Ellery's journey from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Dighton, Massachusetts]
Signed "W.E." Discusses his travels and expenses through eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, southern New York, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. Contains descriptions of Moravian settlements near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; imprisoned Tories at Newton...
GLC00107.01
May 27, 1776
Wendell, John, 1731-1808
to unknown
Written by Wendell, a wealthy, well-connected merchant in New Hampshire to an unknown recipient. References a previous letter he wrote that mentioned political sentiments. Does not go into detail. Mentions a report of the broken American siege of...
GLC00252
1776
Hamilton, A. Jr., fl. 1769-1785
Town and Country Magazine or Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction and Entertainment for the Year 1776. [Vol. 8, (1776)]
Eighth annual volume of a periodical journal that resembles the Gentleman's Magazine and London Magazine in format and style. 12 monthly issues bound in original leather. Includes many engraved plates. Indexed at the end of the volume. Printed...
GLC03457
Simes, Thomas, fl. 1776
New military, historical & explanatory dictionary
GLC03449
1781
Delolme, Jean L., fl. 1781
The Constitution of England... [3rd edition]
Jean-Louis Delolme's treatise The Constitution of England, published in multiple French and English editions, is said by R. R. Palmer to have had greater impact on pre-Revolutionary continental views of British politics, than did the Montesqieu's...
GLC03771.02
24 December 1782
to Charles W. F. Dumas re: need to conclude a peace treaty (treaty of Paris)
Written as American Peace Commissioner in Paris. Dumas served as an American agent in the Hague. Requests a copy of G. Pownal's Pensees sur la Revolution &c. Adams writes "We cannot say whether we are to have Peace or not. I wish the definitive...
GLC03296
17 October 1780
Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
to Nathanael Greene
Begins by stating that he is thankful no one can publish his letters after his death since he does not write any. Discusses the treason of Benedict Arnold and the British spy John Andre. Comments on the capture of Andre and wonders why Andre was...
GLC04454
1772/03/20
Pittman, Philip, fl. 1770-1772
re: his book and asking recipient to forward books from Madras India
GLC04344.02
August 1777
Henry, David, 1710-1792
The Gentleman's magazine. [August 1777]
Excerpt of the magazine, including pages 354- 404. Contains several letters pertaining to Generals George Washington and William Howe (British) discussing the exchange of prisoners. Includes various letters to Urban, the editor, pertaining to...
GLC08865
September 25, 1780
Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803
to James Madison
Mentions companies engaged in promoting the development of the West, the attack on St. Augustine, Florida, the military draft, and Virginia's claims in Ohio. With penciled quotation in later hand on bottom annotating "Hotspur" in Pendleton's letter...
GLC00099.047
17 October 1781
Wigglesworth, Edward, 1732-1794
to William Knox
Indicates that he has enclosed copies of a vote of thanks from Harvard College to Granville Sharp for a donation to the library that was conveyed through Knox (see GLC02437.01220). Asks that when Knox arrives in France he send thanks to Sharp, who...
GLC02437.01236
1770
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797
A Philosophical Enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Sixth edition, printed by J. Dodsley in London. Signed on the title page by James Wilson and Bird Wilson. This was an influential eighteenth century English tract on aesthetics.
GLC07322
[Request]
Asks the recipient to send several items, including a history of England, and a copy of Paradise Lost. Date previously inferred, written on pencil.
GLC02437.08256
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