King Dykeman contacted me on September 25, 2002:
"I just found your review of M[ercy] O[tis] W[arren]'s History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution - haven't even finished reading it. And am presently including the review on the web page for my course in Modern philosophy. In my immediate enthusiasm I just want to check to be sure someone has referred you to the wild and wonderful piece anonymously published by M[ercy] O[tis] W[arren] entitled Observations on the New Constitution By a Columbian Patriot, Boston 1788. This anti-federalist paper was long attributed to Elbridge Gerry, but was written in deep cover by M[ercy] O[tis] W[arren]. I prepared an introduction to the piece for my former wife's book American Women Philosophers 1650-1930 [edited by Therese Boos Dykeman, now out of print]. It contains the Observations; by now there are a number of places you can find Observations - but as of now no place on the Internet. Just wanted to send off this quick note -- hopefully I will get back with some other comments on M[ercy] O[tis] W[arren]. I am so happy to find your work on a CD. Being able to discover the arguments she attributes to the "some" who attacked the constitution before it's ratification in her History. Through the use of the 'find' operation on a computer has been such a joy. It is great to find another enthusiast."
King sent me xeroxes of Mercy's Observations which I posted at www.samizdat.com/warren/observations.html , this chronology, a general introduction about her which he first delivered at a conference at the University of California at Santa Cruz www.samizdat.com/warren/generalintroduction.html and an introduction to Observations which he wrote for American Women Philosophers www.samizdat.com/warren/observationsintroduction.html
Comments welcome. seltzer@samizdat.com
Observations and the related documents by King Dykeman,, plus Mercy Warren's plays, her history of the American Revolution (1300+ pages), other books and documents related to the American Revolution are also available on CD:
What do Mercy Otis Warren, Thomas Jefferson, Alexis de Tocqueville, Samuel
Adams, and Thomas Paine have in common? They all wrote about the American
Revolution and/or the Early Republic and their works are on the same American
Revolution CD, in plain text, with software that lets you listen
as well as read.
1728 September 25, born in Barnstable, Cape Cod, Mass. First daughter and third child in a family of 13 children.
1735 Joined her brother James in his candidate studies for Harvard with tutor Rev. Jonathan Russell.
1743 Attended Harvard Commencement and met James Warren. Continued studies with her brother James as he prepared at home for M.A. degree.
1754 November married James Warren, went to live in the Warren family estate at Eel River, Plymouth, Mass.
1757 Moved to Winslow house, Plymouth Mass. October 18, son James born.
1759 March 24, son Winslow born; died 1791.
1762 April 14, son Charles born; died 1785.
1761 February 24, James Otis’s famous civil rights speech: ‘taxation without representation is tyranny.”
1764 March 21, son Henry born.
1765 James Warren elected to Massachusetts House of Representatives
1766 September 20, son George born; died 1800.
1772 March 26 and April 23 selections from The Adulateur appear in Massachusetts Spy. October meeting in the Winslow house at which the idea for the committees of correspondence originated.
1773 The Adulateur appears as a political pamphlet. May 24 and July 19, selections from “The Defeat’ appear in Boston Gazette.
1774 January 23 and 26, selections from The Group appear in the Boston Gazette and the Massachusetts Spy. Later in the year The Group published as pamphlet in Boston, New York and Philadelphia.
1776 The Blockheads published in Boston.
1779 The Motley Assembly published in Boston.
1787 James Warren again elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Became the Speaker of the House.
1788 Observations on the New Constitution published in Feb. in Boston and New York.
1790 Poems: Dramatic and Miscellaneous published in Boston.
1805 History of...tbe American Revolution published in Boston.
1807 July through August, ten letters from John Adams and six letters from Mercy concerning her treatment of him in the History. Later published as Correspondence relating to her History.., in Boston in 1876.
1814 October 19, died in Winslow house, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Observations and the related documents by King Dykeman,, plus Mercy Warren's plays, her history of the American Revolution (1300+ pages), other books and documents related to the American Revolution are also available on CD:
What do Mercy Otis Warren, Thomas Jefferson, Alexis de Tocqueville, Samuel
Adams, and Thomas Paine have in common? They all wrote about the American
Revolution and/or the Early Republic and their works are on the same American
Revolution CD, in plain text, with software that lets you listen
as well as read.
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