This collection consists of the papers of Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814), author and patriot from Massachusetts. The contents include Warren's letterbook with copies of her outgoing letters from 1770 to 1800, loose correspondence includes letters dating from 1709 to 1841 sent between Warren and her husband James and sons Winslow, George, Henry, and Charles, as well as with Samuel Allyne Otis (1740-1814), Benjamin Lincoln (1733-1810), Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814), and James Freeman (1759-1835), and Warren's dramatic writings and her own poetry. Also included in the collection are her son Winslow Warren's letters and journals, 1781-1785. Warren wrote about her opinions of the political climate before, during, and after the American Revolution, brewing hostilities with England, news of the Revolution, the formation of a new government, state politics, and her own political satires.