Author name: Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine (February 9, 1737 – June 8, 1809) was an English-born American Founding Father, French Revolutionary, inventor, political philosopher, and statesman. His pamphlets Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783) framed the Patriot argument for independence from Great Britain at the outset of the American Revolution. Paine advanced Enlightenment-era arguments for human rights that shaped revolutionary discourse on both sides of the Atlantic.

To Honorable Benjamin Franklin, ESQ., September 23, 1785

Letters

From the original letter at the American Philosophical Society. New-York Sept 23d, 1785 My Dear Sir It gives me exceeding great pleasure to have the opportunity of Congratulating you on your return home and to a land of Peace; and to express to you my heart-felt wishes that the remainder of your days may be […]

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To Honorable Benjamin Franklin, ESQ., September 23, 1785 Read Post »

To Honorable General Irwin, Vice-President November 27th, 1784

Letters

From the original letter at Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Nov. 27th, 1784 The President has made me acquainted with a Conversation which General Washington had with him at their last interview respecting myself, and he is desirous that I should communicate to you his wishes, which are that as he stands engaged on the General’s

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