{"id":2677,"date":"2017-11-20T16:17:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T16:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=2677"},"modified":"2017-11-20T16:17:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T16:17:37","slug":"from-one-poet-male-to-another-female-on-the-art-of-writing-and-virtues-of-the-sexes-1772","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2017\/11\/20\/from-one-poet-male-to-another-female-on-the-art-of-writing-and-virtues-of-the-sexes-1772\/","title":{"rendered":"From one poet (male) to another (female), on the art of writing and virtues of the sexes (1772)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2017\/11\/img417.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-2678 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2017\/11\/img417-887x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2017\/11\/img417-887x1024.jpg 887w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2017\/11\/img417-260x300.jpg 260w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2017\/11\/img417-768x886.jpg 768w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2017\/11\/img417.jpg 1511w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a>Just acquired!<\/p>\n<p>A long, literary letter from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Trumbull_(poet)\"><strong>John Trumbull<\/strong><\/a> (1750-1831) to Sarah &#8220;Sally&#8221; Lloyd (1753-1779), the leader of a small poetry club in Stamford, CT.<\/p>\n<p>Trumbull, the eldest member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hartford_Wits\">Hartford Wits<\/a>, was a precocious lad of 7 when he passed the Yale entrance exam (he did not enter until he was 13); he is 22 when he writes Miss Lloyd at length about poetry, relations between the sexes, and the art of writing.<\/p>\n<p>Sally Lloyd was 19 at the time, of Long Island&#8217;s prominent Lloyd&#8217;s Neck family&#8230;she would later become the first wife of James Hillhouse (1754-1832), a graduate of Yale (1773), lawyer, Revlutionary War militiaman, and U. S. Senator. She witnessed the British attack on New Haven (1779), and died in childbirth at the age of 26.<\/p>\n<p>Trumbull is best known as the author of <em>M&#8217;Fingal<\/em>, a famous mock-epic poem of about 1,500 lines on the American Revolution, published in 1782.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just acquired! A long, literary letter from John Trumbull (1750-1831) to Sarah &#8220;Sally&#8221; Lloyd (1753-1779), the leader of a small poetry club in Stamford, CT. Trumbull, the eldest member of the Hartford Wits, was a precocious lad of 7 when he passed the Yale entrance exam (he did not enter until he was 13); he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,5,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2680,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions\/2680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}