The Catharine Macaulay
Graham Papers (1763-1830) consist of approximately 190
items, mostly incoming correspondence to the English historian
and radical supporter of colonial grievances. Macaulay
corresponded sympathetically with American patriots such
as John Adams, Ezra Stiles and Mercy Otis Warren. Her
opposition to British colonial policy led the Boston Committee
of Correspondence to send her official notification of
the Boston Massacre. Writing to her on 15 April 1775,
Stiles declared: "Our Fathers fled hither for Religion
and Liberty: if extirpated from hence, we have no new
World to flee to. God has located us here, and by this
Location has com[m]anded us here to make a Stand, and
see the Salvation of the Lord." This largely unpublished
collection also includes Macaulay European correspondence
and letters of her daughter, descendants and relatives.
The Macaulay Papers are
available for consultation at the Morgan Library's Reading
Room. Please contact Ms. Leslie Fields, Associate Curator
for the Gilder Lehrman Collection, for more information
(lfields@morganlibrary.org). Microfilm of the Papers is
available from the Morgan
Library's Department of Photography and Rights (photoservices@morganlibrary.org).
A microfilm of the Macaulay Papers is also available for
consultation at the British Library's Reading Room.
