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.
Boston July 16 1773 Madam The kind reception I met with at your House, and the Hospitality with which you entertained me, demands my gratefull acknowledgment. By requesting a correspondence…
Boston December 5. 1773 My Dear Mrs. Warren Do not my Worthy Friend tax me with either Breach of promise; or neglect towards you, the only reason why I did…
[ , Start insertion, ante 27 February 1774 , End, ] 1 Your agreable favour of January 19 demands from me more than I am able to pay. My coin…
Braintree Jany 3. 1774[ , Start insertion, 5 , End, ] 1 Madam I remember, that Bishop Burnet in a Letter he once wrote to Lady Rachell Russell the virtuous…
[ , Start insertion, Braintree, 25 January 1775 , End, ] 1 Dear Mrs. Warren I wrote you last Sabbeth evening 2 in a good deal of pertubation of Spirits.…
[ , Start insertion, Braintree, 3? February 1775 , End, ] 1 My Dear Mrs. Warren The die is cast. Yesterday brought us such a Speach from the Throne as…
Braintree March 15. 1775 Madam I thought myself greatly honoured, by your most polite and agreable Letter of January the thirtieth; and I ought to have answered it, immediately: but…
Braintree May 2 1775 My dear Mrs. Warren What a scene has opened upon us since I had the favour of your last! Such a scene as we never before…
Braintree 24 [ , Start insertion, July , End, ] 1 1775 My Dear Mrs. Warren I have been hoping every day since I received your obliging favour to get…
Braintree August 27 1775 My Dear Mrs. Warren It was with pleasure I received a line from my Friend to day informing me of her better Health. I was really…
Philadelphia Septr. 26. 1775 Madam Your Favour, by my Friend Collins, 1 never reached me till this Evening. At Newport, concluding to go by Water, he put it into the…
Braintree October 19 1775 I thank my Friends for their kind remembrance of me last week, 1 the Letter enclosed was dated one day after that I received a week…
Braintree [ , Start insertion, ca. 5 , End, ]November 1 1775 Dear Marcia I hope the Historick page will increase to a volume. Tis this hope that has kept…
[ , Start insertion, Braintree, January? 1776 , End, ] 1 My Dear Marcia Our Country is as it were a Secondary God, and the first and greatest parent. It…
Braintree April 13. 1776 Dear Marcia I Received a few lines 1 from you more than a week ago, and determined to have replied immediately to them, but tho you…
Braintree April 27 1776 I set myself down to comply with my Friends request, who I think seem’s rather low spiritted. I did write last week, but not meeting with…
[ , Start insertion, Braintree, ca. 8 May 1776 , End, ] Dear Marcia Mr. Morton has given me great pleasure this morning by acquainting me with the appointment of…
August 14. 1777. Braintree This is the memorable fourteenth of August. This day 12 years the Stamp office was distroyd. 1 Since that time what have we endured? What have…
Febry. 28 1780 How does my Dear Mrs. Warren through a long and tedious Winter? in which I have never been honourd with a single line from her hand. Possibly…
Paris Sept r. 10. 1783 Madam It is but a very few days, Since I received your Letter of the 4. of May, which affored me, as your Letters always…
Auteuil Dec r. 13. 1784 Madam Your Favour of the 1 st. of June, has not, I fear been answered. I have indeed been very happy ever Since I received…
London May 24. 1786 Madam I this day received your Favour of April 8 th , and Sincerely condole with you under the Loss of your amiable son. These Afflictions…
London Decr 25. 1787 Madam The Sack of Rome, has So much Merit in itself that for the honour of America, I Should wish to See it acted on the…
Braintree March 2. 1789 Dear Madam Your friendly Letter of the third and twentieth of February, I did not receive till Saturday last. To your Friend, who has now been…