In point of elegance and beauty it far exceeded my expectations and is certainly beyond anything I ever saw. My model and myself had may visitors while I was at the works.
Some Of The Letters Paine Wrote To Jefferson During 1788–1789 Concerning The Iron Bridge Read Post »
Images above and transcript below from the original letter at the Library of Congress London Dec. 16 1788 Dear Sir I write you by Mr. Quesney — I also wrote you a long letter of (I believe) 14 or 16 pages enclosing a Philadelphia News paper with the account of the Procession on the 4th
Front page above. All 8 pages and transcript below of the original letter at the Library of Congress Sepr. 15th — This letter was intended to go by the last dispatches of Mr. Bartholemey but was late — I have since seen a New-York paper of the 8th of August in which there is a
First page shown above. All 11 pages and the original letter can be found at the Library of Congress London, Broad Street Building, No. 13, Sep. 9th, 1788 Dear Sir That I am a bad correspondent is so general a Complaint against me, that I must expect the same accusation from you — But hear
The images above and transcript below are from the original letter at the Library of Congress. Dear Sir I enclose you a Problem not about Bridges but Trees, and to explain my meaning I begin with a fountain. The Idea seems far-fetched, but fountains and Trees are in my walk to Challiot — Suppose Fig.
A.D. 1788. No. 1667. CONSTRUCTING ARCHES, VAULTED ROOFS, AND CEILINGS TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS PAINE, send greeting. WHEREAS, His Most Excellent Majesty King George III, by his letters patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date the twenty-sixth day of August, in the twenty-eighth year of his
The images above and the transcript below are from the original letter at the Library of Congress May, 1788 Your saying last evening that Sir Isaac Newtons principle of Gravitation would not explain, or could not apply as a rule to find the quantity of the attraction of cohesion, and my replying that I never
Images from the Library of Congress London, England, SIR: I mentioned to you that I had some conversation with the Marquis de Lafayette respecting the Bridge, and his opinion is that it would be best to make some direct proposition to which either yes or no should be given. My principal object is to get
