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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC01450.020.16 |
From Archive Folder | Collection of 20 letters pertaining to James Lovell and Samuel Holten |
Title | James Lovell to Samuel Holten regarding the war effort and negligent states |
Date | 29 May 1781 |
Author | Lovell, James (1737-1814) |
Recipient | Holten, Samuel |
Document Type | Correspondence; Government document |
Content Description | Signed with initials. Recipient inferred from context and by comparing the docket to others in the 1450.020 collection. Wants to relay intelligence from Europe but he is concerned about doing so because of an obligation to secrecy. Remarks that the burden will fall on the inattentive and negligent states that are not in the middle of the war effort instead of on the discouraged states actively involved: "The Execrations of portenty will fall more justly perhaps on the Inattention and Negligence of the States distant from the immediate Carnage of the War than upon the Despondency and Cowardice of those in which it centers." Postscript mentions stagnant air of Philadelphia and informs that John Adams is well at home. |
Subjects | Revolutionary War Global History and Civics Congress Continental Congress France Military History Health and Medical Disease President |
People | Lovell, James (1737-1814) Holten, Samuel (1738-1816) Adams, John (1735-1826) |
Place written | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Theme | The American Revolution; Government & Politics |
Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859 |
Additional Information | Lovell and Holten were Continental Congressmen from Massachusetts. |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |
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