Catharine Macaulay to John Adams, July 19, 1771
London July 19. 1771 Sr A very laborious attention to the finishing the fifth vol of my history of England with a severe fever of five months duration the consequence…
Catharine Macaulay was an English historian. She was the first Englishwoman to become a published historian and during her lifetime the world's only published female historian. Macaulay was the first English radical to visit America after independence, staying there from 15 July 1784 to 17 July 1785. Her visit included a visit to Mount Vernon where she met with George Washington. Macaulay most prominent work was an eight-volume Whig history of England in which she argued that the people have the right to overthrow their monarch for their own natural rights.
London July 19. 1771 Sr A very laborious attention to the finishing the fifth vol of my history of England with a severe fever of five months duration the consequence…
Sepbr 11. 1774 Dear Sr A Very long and uninterrupted course of sickness has hitherto prevented me the pleasure of answering your Letters dated Boston June 28 and Dec. 11:1773,…