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dc.contributor.authorCameron, Chantal
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-13T17:40:10Z
dc.date.available2023-01-13T17:40:10Z
dc.date.issued2023-01-13
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10464/17189
dc.descriptionJohn Trumbull (1756-1843) was an American painter and architect who was known for his historical paintings of the American Revolution. During the revolution he served as an aide to George Washington and became a colonel. In 1794 he went to London as John Jay’s secretary during the peace negotiations with Great Britain following the American Revolution. He remained in London for 10 years, and then continued to travel between the U.S. and London for his painting career. In 1817 he was commissioned by the U.S. Congress to paint scenes from the American Revolution in the Rotunda of the Capitol at Washington, D.C. These paintings were based on smaller versions that he had painted in the 1780s and 1790s. Henry Addington, or Lord Sidmouth (1757-1844), was a British politician who served as Prime Minister from 1801 to 1804. He became a member of the House of Commons in 1784 and became speaker in 1789. He remained speaker during the time that Trumbull was working as John Jay’s secretary in London and the two may have become friendly at that time. Addington served as home secretary from 1812 to 1822.en_US
dc.description.abstractA letter from John Trumbull to Lord Sidmouth, dated June 22, 1813. The letter requests a visit with Lord Sidmouth. Trumbull notes that he is the former Secretary to John Jay and asks for “the honour of a few minutes conversation”. An attached sheet contains Lord Sidmouth’s reply, dated June 24, 1813. He requests that Trumbull visit him at the Home Office the following day at half past twelve. The reverse side of this letter contains notes that Trumbull made about their conversation, much of it concerning the War of 1812. Some of his notes follow: “conversation turned on the destruction of small towns on the Chesapeake. I expressed my high satisfaction that the officers & troops in Canada, instead of retaliating the threats held out in Gen’l Hull’s proclamation, of giving no quarters & the conduct of the commanding officer of Fort Niagara, in firing hot balls upon the Village of Newark—had conducted the war with humanity and restrained the savages in a great degree from their usual habits of indiscriminate destruction & burning…His [Lordship] made many professions of gen’l good will to the U.S.—regretted the war which had been forced upon Great Britain by the unreasonable pretensions of the American Government”en_US
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dc.rightsCC0 1.0 Universal*
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dc.subjectJohn Trumbullen_US
dc.subjectHenry Addingtonen_US
dc.subjectLord Sidmouthen_US
dc.subjectWar of 1812en_US
dc.titleLetter from John Trumbull to Lord Sidmouth, June 1813en_US
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