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, […]

To Doctor James O’Fallon1 February the 17, 1793 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 G R Clarke, for an expedition against Louisiana, etc. had arrived, and were received by the Provisionary Executive

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.

To Citizen Barrere 1793 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

To Citizen Le Brun December 4, 1792 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

To the English Attorney General (Archibald MacDonald) November 11, 1792 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

To Benjamin Mosley October 1, 1792 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

To the Chairman of the Society for Promoting Constitutional Knowledge 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

Knowledge To the Chairman of the Society for Promoting Constitutional Knowledge 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

To J.S. Jordan February 16, 1792. 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

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