Images above from Copy of letter from the American Philosophical Society show a copy of a letter from Thomas Paine to Sir Robert Smith where Paine writes the poem, “What is Love?”. The following is a transcript of the poem. To Mrs. Robert Smyth WHAT IS LOVE? IT IS that delightsome transport we can feel […]
Image above and transcript below from the original letter at the Library of Congress Dear Sir I enclose you a piece to serve as an introduction to two other pieces which you will receive by the same Conveyance. I observe the Consul Le Brun at the entertainment given to the American envoys gave for his
Images above and transcript below from the original letter at the Library of Congress Dear Sir I understand there is an Article in the Treaty to the following purport, that the duties payable upon Articles brought from America into france shall not go to the revenue, but shall be appropriated as a fund to pay
Front page above. All pages and transcript below from the original letter at the Library of Congress In the present Crisis of Politics a question naturally suggests itself, which is, Whether in a treaty of Peace with Austria, any measures should be taken, on the part of France, towards a Peace with England? The answer
First page above. All pages and transcript below from the original letter at the Library of Congress Dear Sir I wrote to you from Havre by the ship Dublin Packet in the year 1797. It was then my intention to return to America, but there were so many British frigates cruising in sight of the
Images above and transcript below from the original letter at the Library of Congress Dear Sir As the wind at one time and the tides at another prevented the Commissioners sailing at the time they intended it gives me the opportunity of sending you an addition to the other pieces. — We have nothing new
Rue du Theatre frangais, 12 Thermidor, year 8 DEAR SIR: I send you a sketch of a Plan that I believe is new in this country. The idea originated with Franklin. This is sufficient to procure it attention. I have done no more than apply it to the circumstances France is now in. The letter
Prairial 13 8th year PARIS DEAR FRIEND: I received your favor with the information I had asked for which I am obliged to you. On my return to Paris I received letters from America with a postscript as late as the 23 March. They are on private affairs and contain no news, except that they
