Slightly mutilated. Acquired with the Franklin-Bache purchase in 1936. This purchase greatly enhanced the Society's collection of Benjamin Franklin manuscripts.
Attack on the publications and activities of reformist organizations in Great Britain and their attitudes towards events and ideas of the French Revolution.
Includes inset map; "Chorographia regionis Huronum. Hodie desertae." Copied from François Du Creux, "Historiae Canadensis seu novae Franciae libri decem ad annum usque Christi 1656" (Paris: 1664). This was printed in the Champlain Society Publications, volumes 30-31, translated by Percy J. Robinson (Toronto: 1951). A note by P. J. Robinson states that this map deserves study and is of special value on account of the inset map of the Huron country, the improved outline of the lakes, especially Lake Ontario, and Georgian Bay, the marking of the trails to the Hudson Bay and of the new route discovered by the Groseilliers and Radisson from Lake Nipigon.; 611: n.d.: C162tnf: Small
Numbered key identifying officials and members of the French National Assembly, including Thomas Paine, listening to Louis XVI making his final statement.; Designed to accompany a print of the same name.
Angouleme. According to orders received from Mr. Bondfield, sent Franklin a turkey stuffed with truffles. (In French.)
General physical description: A.L.S. 1p.
Portrait of Paine, after Romney.; Gimbel 212. 5 copies. Appeared in: Bonneville, François, and Philippe Quénard. 1797. Portraits des personnages célèbres de la révolution.
Bust-length portrait of Thomas Paine, after Peale.; Gimbel: 204. "Bolt sc. 1793". According to Moncure Conway, this portrait appeared in: Letter to George Washington, President of the United States of America on affairs public and private / by Thomas Paine, author of the works entitled, Common sense, Rights of man, Age of reason, etc. Philadelphia: Printed by Benj. Franklin Bache, no. 112 Market Street.
Discusses an enclosed law [not present]; congratulates him on the news that [Charles-Henri-Theodat], comte d'Estaing sailed from Brest, [France] and remarks that it is a "decisive Event"; requests that in future he write in French because at present Adams wishes to read everything in French.
Attack on the publications and activities of reformist organizations in Great Britain and their attitudes towards events and ideas of the American and French revolutions.
Proclamation that appoints a day of public fasting, humiliation and prayer, in part for the success of the establishment of a government in the Republic of France; countersigned by John Avery, Jr., secretary.
