n, A farce of Two Acts: as it was performed at Long-Island,
on Tuesday, the 27th of August, 1776, By the Representatives of the
Tyrants of America, Assembled at Philadelphia" (Edinburgh: Printed in
the Year M.DCC.LXXVII.), in which the British ridicule all that is
Continental, even Washington. This farce was reprinted in Brooklyn,
1873.

Jonathan Mitchell Sewall's (1748-1808) "A Cure for the Spleen; or,
Amusement for a Winter's Evening" (1775) was another Tory protest,
which carried the following pretentious subtitle: "Being the substance
of a conversation on the Times, over a friendly tankard and pipe,
between Sharp, a country Parson; Bumper, a country Justice; Fillpot,
an inn-keeper; Graveairs, a Deacon; Trim, a Barber; Brim, a Quaker;
Puff, a late Representative. Taken in short-hand by Roger de Coverly."

Mrs. Warren was the intimate friend of many interesting people. It
concerns us, however, that her most significant correspondence of a
literary nature was carried on with John Adams, afterwards President
of the United States. This friendship remained unbroken until such
time as Mrs. Warren found it necessary to picture Adams in her History
of the Revolution; when he objected to the portraiture.

The student of history is beholden to Mr. Adams for many of those
intimate little sketches of Revolutionary and early national life in
America, without which our impressions would be much the poorer. His
admiration for Mrs. Warren was great, and even in his correspondence
with her husband, James Warren, he never allowed an opportunity to
slip for alluding to her work as a literary force in the life of the
time. I note, for example, a letter he wrote on December 22, 1773,
suggesting a theme which would "become" Mrs. Warren's pen, "which has
no equal that I know of in this country."

In 1775, after "The Group" was written, and, according to custom,
submitted by Warren to John Adams for criticism and approval, we find
him praising Mrs. Warren, and quoting from her play. So poignantly
incisive was Mrs. Warren's satire that many people would not credit
her with the pieces she actually wrote, and there were those who
thought it incredible that a woman should use satire so openly and so
flagrantly as she. The consequence is, many of her contemporaries
attributed the writing of "The Group" to masculine hands, and this
attitude drew from Mrs. Warren the following letter written to Mr.
Adams:

My next question, sir, you may