{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 54: I Am Frightened When I Look At Her","description":"Mary Wigge joins Kathryn Gehred to discuss a letter from Lucy Flucker Knox to her husband General Henry Knox in which she describes how she spends her days during the Revolutionary War. Lucy, a wealthy Tory's daughter whose parents and siblings fled to England, expresses her loneliness and longing for Henry, who is with the army in Philadelphia.&amp;nbsp; Wigge is a Research Editor at the Papers of James Madison and was previously an editor with The Papers of Martha Washington and The Papers of George Washington.&amp;nbsp; Lucy Knox to Henry Knox, Boston, Massachusetts, 23 August 1777. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, GLC02437.00638  https:\/\/www.gilderlehrman.org\/sites\/default\/files\/02437.00638_OS.docx_.pdf.&amp;nbsp; \u201cAbigail Adams Smith to Abigail Adams, 15 and 22 June 1788,\u201d Founders Online, National Archives, https:\/\/founders.archives.gov\/documents\/Adams\/04-08-02-0132.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Lucy Flucker Knox, Silhouette, circa 1790, Silhouette Collection, 1.51, Massachusetts Historical Society, https:\/\/www.masshist.org\/database\/764.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; The Pioneer Mothers of America; a record of the more notable women of the early days of the country, and particularly of the colonial and revolutionary periods \/ by Harry Clinton Green and Mary Wolcott Green v. 2, https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2027\/uga1.32108001197717.&amp;nbsp; Philip Hamilton, The Revolutionary War Lives and Letters of Lucy and Henry Knox (Baltimore, 2017). Find the official transcript  here.&amp;nbsp; Your Most Obedient &amp;amp; Humble Servant is a production of R2 Studios part of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.&amp;nbsp; ","author_name":"Your Most Obedient &amp; Humble Servant: A Women's History","author_url":"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/your-most-obedient-humble-servant-a-womens-history\/id1846437463","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/34145260\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/item\/34145260"}