Mss.B.P165 - Colonel Richard Gimbel Collection of Thomas Paine Papers
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- Taxes : A just and accurate state of the taxes on soap, candles, leather and salt, which affect the working people of Scotland.
- Describes taxes on certain goods in Scotland and mentions "the pretended friends of the people".
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- The American Antiquarian Society
- American Antiquarian Society membership certificate for Richard Gimbel .
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- The Last dying speech and confession, birth, parentage, and education, life, character, and behavior, of that notorious traitor Tom Paine, who was executed at Tottenham High Cross, on Monday the 17th of December, 1792 ...
- False announcement of the execution of Paine and his supposed renunciation of his beliefs.
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- The News-boy's address to the readers of the Republican Spy.
- Verse critique of Federalist abuse, primarily related to the September 1806 trial of Andrew Wright, the printer of the Republican Spy, convicted of criminal libels against Governor Caleb Strong.
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- The Pot-shop, a fable, versified.
- A fable in verse likening British radical reformers to French Revolutionaries. The characters are various types of ceramic ware, Paine is an "ill condition'd jug", and their symbolism is interpreted below.
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- The dreadful earthquake and the fatal spotted fever. A funeral sermon and a funeral Psalm
- Among his insights in this document, Jonathan Plummer claims that a "vile book" written by "the infamous drunkard" Thomas Paine insulted God and was therefore responsible for outbreaks of fever in Philadelphia and an earthquake in South America., Paine 73 P73d. Oversized box 2.
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- The following letters, written by a member of one of the societies, called "Friends of the People" in Edinburgh ...
- Letters reporting on the November 1792 activities of the Edinburgh Society of the Friends of the People and an extract from a 1792 speech by Parisian mayor Petion regarding the September Massacres.
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- The last dying speech and confession of Tom Paine.
- Parodic confession from Paine's point of view, primarily regarding his writings and role in the American and French revolutions.
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- Thomas Paine to Skipwith, 1801 September 29
- Congratulations and cautionary advice on Skipwith's commission.
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- Thorburn, Grant AM, n.d.
- "New York. Sixty one years ago..." General physical description: 2p.
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- Thorburn, Grant AM, n.d.
- "Anecdote of Thomas Paine" General physical description: 4p.