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Letter from Mercy Otis Warren to Hannah Winthrop (letterbook copy), 30 January 1774

Letter from Mercy Otis Warren to Hannah Winthrop (letterbook copy), 30 January 1774 Manuscript

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    Manuscript

    38.5 cm x 25 cm

    From the Mercy Otis Warren papers, letterbook, 1770-1800, pages 65-68


    Letter from Mercy Otis Warren (1728–1814), in Plymouth, Mass., to Hannah Winthrop (baptized 1727-1790), 30 January 1774, expressing concern over Winthrop's husband's declining health, the political atmosphere of the Congress, and wishing the Winthrops a happy new year. Warren quotes from the poem "Sir Eldred of the Bower" by Hannah More.