This volume brings together all the available letters between historian Catharine Macaulay and a number of eighteenth-century luminaries, including George Washington, David Hume, and Mary Wollstonecraft. It includes an extended introduction by the editor which offers unique insights into Macaulay's life and the thinking of her friends and correspondents.

She wishes to continue to share correspondence, at least annually, as they may never meet again. She inquires if he has had children, and updates him on her children and their schooling.

Catherine Macaulay (1731-1791) was one of the first significant female English historians. A biographical sketch of Macaulay is provided as part of the Sunshine for Women resource. The sketch emphasizes Macaulay's feminist ideas.

She thanks her for the recent Christmas package but requests more lengthy, detailed correspondence. She gives a report on the family.

Undated but before 1784. She requests more letters and more news from her mother. She mentions hoop and curtain makers and gives other chatty news.