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Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, December 21, 1780
Plimouth Dec. 21 1780 My Dear Mrs. Adams I should have wrote before according to promiss, but have been prevented the use of my Eyes by a Cold fixing there…
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Letters from Mercy Otis Warren
B. 1728 · D. 1814
Mercy Otis Warren was an American activist poet, playwright, and pamphleteer during the American Revolution. During the years before the Revolution, she had published poems and plays that attacked royal authority in Massachusetts and urged colonists to resist British infringements on colonial rights and liberties. Her husband, James Warren, was likewise heavily active in the independence movement.
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49 letters
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Mercy Otis Warren to John Adams, December 28, 1780
Plimouth Dec 28th 1780 Sir Mr. Warren directed to you only one week since by Capt. Cazneau bound to Amsterdam, 1 therefore has now left it to me to write…
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Mercy Otis Warren to John Adams, May 4, 1783
Milton May 4 th 1783 1 Sir Did not the stronger motive of friendship Excite, I think the Gratitude due from Each individual of Your Country would be a stimulus…
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Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, July 30, 1788
Plimouth July 30 th 1788. My dear Madam one line by my son inquires after the health of my Friend, at Braintree. do you begin to feel at home. &…
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Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, February 3, 1789
Plimouth feb 3 d 1789 How dos my dear M rs Adams like the City of New york: its manners & amusements as it may probably be her future residence…
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Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, February 27, 1797
Plimouth Feb 27 th 1797 It Can be of little Consequence to you my dear Madam wither Your late adventure with me amounts to 8000 dollars or only 8 /—…
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Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, April 9, 1798
Plimouth April 9 th 1798 Have I my dear madam appeared negligent in not answering your last friendly letter jest before you left this state.— low health through the winter…
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Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Adams, January 10, 1803
Plymouth Jan y: 10 th: 1803. My dear Madam, Painful necessity has for many months prevented me the use of my own pen,—nor have I seen any effect of yours…
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Mercy Otis Warren to John Adams, August 28, 1803
Plymouth. August 28th: 1803 Sir, The painful tidings I have this afternoon transiently heard relative to the health of my long beloved friend Mrs: Adams, induce me to trouble you…
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Mercy Otis Warren to John Adams, July 16, 1807
Plymouth, Ms., July 16th: 1807. After a long suspension of a friendly literary intercourse, it was very unexpected to me this day, to receive a letter from the hand of…
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Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Smith Adams, January 9, 1810
Plymouth Ms. January 9th; 1810. I never received a Letter from my dear Mrs. Adams but that an emotion was awakened which is not felt in every epistolary intercourse.—When I…
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Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Smith Adams, October 13, 1812
October 13th. 1812— The with in I prepared with design to forward by your Son on his return from Barnstable Court, but he passed with out calling upon me. Since…
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Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Smith Adams, April 15, 1813
Plymouth Ms. April 15th 1813— I had for several weeks been anticipating the pleasure I have recently received on the arrival of your Son.—I very well knew he could not…
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Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Smith Adams, June 15, 1813
Plymouth June 15th. 1813— Though I have received no reply to my last, I interrupt Mrs. Adams again on a subject that lays near my heart.—It was reported to me…
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Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Smith Adams, August 29, 1813
Plymouth. August 29th. 1813 I cannot longer be silent while my friends are mourning the death of such a daughter as was our much loved Mrs Smith.—But why mourn?—She is…
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Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Smith Adams, November 6, 1813
Plymo. Ms. Novr. 6th. 1813 With the same glow of affection which has for many years been cherished in my bosom, I received yours of the first Instt. and seldom…
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Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Smith Adams, March 22, 1814
Plymouth, March 22d, 1814.— I have myself, my dear Friend, been very unwell since I received your short but consolatory letter dated Feby. 21st. which inform’d me of your recovery…
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Mercy Otis Warren to John Adams, March 31, 1814
Plymouth Ms. March 31st. 1814— I doubt not Sir, You will be pleased when I tell You that the Evening of my life is smoothed by the intercourse with a…
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Mercy Otis Warren to Abigail Smith Adams, May 11, 1814
[ , Start insertion, post 11 May 1814 , End, ] Yes, my dear Friend—I am indeed the only one of my Father’s house who yet stands in this fading,…
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Mercy Otis Warren to John Adams, August 4, 1814
Plymth. Ms. August 4th 1814 Yours my dear Sir, of the 15th Ulto: is in the same stile of partial friendship which I witnessed many years ago.—If the author of…