Letters

From the original letter at the French National Archives Paris, May 6th 2d year of the Republic Citoyen Danton As you read english I write this letter to you without passing it through the hands of a translator. I am exceedingly disturbed at the distractions, jealousies, discontents and uneasiness that reign among us, and which, […]

This letter to James O’Fallon is printed from the original manuscript in the Lyman Copeland Draper Collection through the courtesy of the Wisconsin State Historical Society PASSY, NEAR PARIS, DEAR SIR: I had the pleasure of your favor from Kentucky, which came in the French Resident’s dispatches, with which the offers and propositions of General

From the 1793 pamphlet from London reprinting King’s letter and Paine’s response below. DEAR KING, I don’t know any thing, these many years, that surprised and hurt me more than the sentiments you published in the Courtly HERALD, the 12th December, signed John King, Egham Lodge. You have gone back, from all you ever said.

You mentioned to me that saltpetre was becoming scarce. I communicate to you a project of the late Captain Paul Jones, which, if successfully put in practice, will furnish you with that article. All the English East India ships put into St. Helena, off the coast of Africa, on their return from India to England.

MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Auteuil, Friday, the 4th December, 1792. I enclose an Irish newspaper which has been sent me from Belfast. It contains the Address of the Society of United Irishmen of Dublin (of which Society I am a member) to the volunteers of Ireland. None of the English newspapers that I have seen

ON THE PROSECUTION AGAINST THE SECOND PART OF RIGHTS OF MAN SIR As there can be no personal resentment between two strangers, I write this letter to you, as to a man against whom I have no animosity. You have, as Attorney-General, commenced a prosecution against me as the author of “Rights of Man.” Had

Oct. 1, 1 Year of the Republic. PARIS, You have before this time heard that the National Convention met punctual to the day appointed. The Members verified their powers on the 20th and met in Convention the 21st ult. The first business done was to abolish the bagatelle of Royalty which was decreed unanimously. This

LONDON, May 12, 1792. The honorable patronage which the Society for Constitutional Information has repeatedly given to the works entitled Rights of Man renders it incumbent on me to communicate to them whatever relates to the progress of those works. A great number of letters from various parts of the country have come to me

LONDON, May, 1792. It is now upwards of eight years since I was a resident inhabitant of the town of Lewes. My situation among you as an officer of the revenue, for more than six years, enabled me to see into the numerous and various distresses which the weight of taxes even at that time

SIR: For your satisfaction and my own, I send you the enclosed though I do not apprehend there will be any occasion to use it. If, in case there should, you will immediately send a line for me under cover to Mr. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church-Yard, who will forward it to me, upon which I

From the original letter at the Morgan Library London Febry 13th 1792 Sir An opportunity immediately offering, I have had a Doz Copies of my new work put up for the purpose (the work being not yet published) to present to you and Mr. Jefferson. I hope the fifty Copies which were sent to Portsmouth