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Collection Reference Number GLC01794.32
From Archive Folder Correspondence of Catharine Macaulay 
Title Lord Cardross to Catharine Macaulay commenting on William Pitt
Date 2 July 1766
Author Cardross, Lord (fl. 1763-1791)  
Recipient Graham, Catharine Macaulay  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description He comments on Mr. Pitt and the present schemes of administration. Pitt's opinion on the affairs of America differ from those ministers who appointed him, creating an "instance of duplicity." He comments on "the total neglect of Continental affairs."
Subjects Government and Civics  Politics  Women's History  Literature and Language Arts  Stamp Act  Global History and Civics  Foreign Affairs  Woman Author  
People Graham, Catherine Macaulay (1731-1791)  Cardross, Lord (fl. 1763-1791)  Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham (1708-1778)  
Place written Walcot, England
Theme Arts & Literature; Women in American History; Foreign Affairs; The American Revolution
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Additional Information After the death of her husband George Macaulay in 1766, Catharine Macaulay married an Anglican minister William Graham. Letters from her female descendants are in GLC 1795. Notable in that collection are letters of her daughter, Catharine Sophia Macaulay [Gregorie], to Macaulay while the latter toured America and France. This collection of Lady Catharine's correspondence was broken-up for public sale in 1993. The Gilder Lehrman Collection has also acquired other letters written to her, including GLC 1784.01-1800.04. There are approximately 190 items between these accession numbers. GLC 1784-1793 and 1796-1800 are individual documents written by important American figures including John Adams, Ezra Stiles, John Dickinson, William Cooper, Richard Henry Lee, Mercy Otis Warren and the pseudonymous "Sophronia." Most of the documents relate to the events leading the Revolution. A few, notably the letters from Mercy Otis Warren and "Sophronia" concern the new Constitution and the French Revolution.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859
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