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Collection Reference Number GLC01189.01
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to 1765-1774 
Title Ellen Lothrop to Mercy Otis Warren exchanging pleasantries
Date 3 March 1773
Author Lothrop, Ellen (fl. 1773-1775)  
Recipient Warren, Mercy Otis  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Written by Lothrop, a friend to the writer Warren. In 1773, Warren and her husband James were already well known in Revolutionary circles. Thanks Warren for her previous letter and says she is going to try very hard to make the trip to Plymouth, Massachusetts to visit her. Says she was sorry to hear that her husband was absent from the legislature because it stands in need of his abilities and integrity. Praises him for "his master peice of Policy." Signed at the end "E.L."
Subjects Government and Civics  Revolutionary War  Women's History  Travel  Congress  
People Warren, Mercy Otis (1728-1814)  Lothrop, Ellen (fl. 1773-1775)  
Place written Fairfield, Connecticut
Theme Women in American History; Children & Family; The American Revolution; Government & Politics
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
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