Biographies

THE HALL MANUSCRIPTS IN 1785, John Hall, an able mechanician and admirable man, emigrated from Leicester, England, to Philadelphia. He carried letters to Paine, who found him a man after his own heart. I am indebted to his relatives, Dr. Dutton Steele of Philadelphia and the Misses Steele, for Hall's journals, which extend over many

THE LIFE OF THOMAS PAINE WITH A HISTORY OF HIS LITERARY, POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS CAREER IN AMERICA, FRANCE, AND ENGLAND BY MONCURE DANIEL CONWAY AUTHOR OF "OMITTED CHAPTERS OF HISTORY DISCLOSED IN THE LIFE AND PAPERS OF EDMUND RANDOLPH," "GEORGE WASHINGTON AND MOUNT VERNON," "WASHINGTON'S RULES OF CIVILITY," ETC TO WHICH IS ADDED AS NOTES

THE COBBETT PAPERS In the autumn of 1792, William Cobbett arrived in America. Among the papers preserved by the family of Thomas Jefferson is a letter from Cobbett, enclosing an introduction from Mr. Short, U. S. Secretary of Legation at Paris. In this letter, dated at Wilmington, Delaware, November 2, 1792, the young Englishman writes:

THE LIFE OF THOMAS PAINE WITH A HISTORY OF HIS LITERARY, POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS CAREER IN AMERICA FRANCE, AND ENGLAND BY MONCURE DANIEL CONWAY AUTHOR OF "OMITTED CHAPTERS OF HISTORY DISCLOSED IN THE LIFE AND PAPERS OF EDMUND RANDOLPH," "GEORGE WASHINGTON AND MOUNT VERNON," "WASHINGTON'S RULES OF CIVILITY," ECT. TO WHICH IS ADDED AS NOTES

Thomas Paine The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll New Dresden Edition, XI, 321 "A great man's memory may outlive his life half a year, But, by'r lady, he must build churches then." EIGHTY-THREE years ago Thomas Paine ceased to defend himself. The moment he became dumb all his enemies found a tongue. He was attacked

Thomas Paine by ROBERT G. INGERSOLL (1870) WITH HIS NAME LEFT OUT, THE HISTORY OF LIBERTY CANNOT BE WRITTEN. Independence Edition of the Centenary Issue of the Life and Writings of Thomas Paine (I:287) Edited and annotated by Daniel Edwin Wheeler To speak the praises of the brave and thoughtful dead, is to me a

The Life of Thomas Paine Author of Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, Etc. etc. With critical and explanatory Observations on His Writings by Gilbert Vale NEW YORK: Published by the Author at the Beacon Office Chatham Square, No. 1 Bowery 1853 PREFACE. There are four lives of Mr. Thomas Paine now extant;

PUBLISHER'S PREFACE. THE object of the present work is to place before the public, at a low price, a concise and impartial history of the life of Thomas Paine; so that the people who have been so grossly misled in regard to his real character, and so greatly benefited by his services, may learn to