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Title: ["To the conveener of the county of ... Sir ..." Letter, dated London, April 12, 1793].
Identifier(s): : Paine 73 D91t
Description: Letter to Scottish county conveners regarding election laws, dated London, 12th April 1793.; 3 pages.
Subject: Election law--Scotland

Title: Benjamin Franklin and the Edinburgh Enlightenment
Identifier(s): video:686; 2006_04_016
Description: Sir Atiyah speaks on Franklin's influence on the Scotish Enlightenment
Subject: History of Science; Science, Scotland, 18th cenutry; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, Scotland; APS Meeting Videos

Title: On liberty and equality.
Identifier(s): : Paine 73 R22o
Description: Religious response to the ideas promoted by the Scottish Association of the Friends of the People.
Creator: A Real Friend to the People, pseud.
Subject: Association of the Friends of the People (Scotland)

Title: Taxes : A just and accurate state of the taxes on soap, candles, leather and salt, which affect the working people of Scotland.
Identifier(s): : Paine 73 T19
Description: Describes taxes on certain goods in Scotland and mentions "the pretended friends of the people".
Subject: Taxation--Scotland; Society of the Friends of the People (Scotland); France--Revolution, 1792-1795; France. National Convention

Title: To the printer of the Edinburgh Evening Courant
Identifier(s): : Paine 73 C73t
Description: Response to literature of reformist societies, such as the Society of the Friends of the People, regarding Scottish parliamentary representation.
Creator: Common Sense, pseud.
Subject: Society of the Friends of the People (Scotland); Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Common sense

Title: An account of the most horrid, bloody, and terrible apparition, which lately appeared in the parish of Shotts
Identifier(s): : Ac2
Description: A story in which the ghost of a French Revolutionary warns Scottish inhabitants of Shotts about the dangers of seditious attempts.
Subject: La Rochefoucault Liancourt, Duke de, 1747-1827; Sedition—Scotland ; France--Revolution, 1792-1795

Title: "Reverend gentlemen ..."
Identifier(s): : Paine 73 F91r
Description: Response to publications of the Scottish Association of the Friends of the People in the Edinburgh Gazetteer.; 3 pages
Subject: Association of the Friends of the People (Scotland); France--Revolution, 1792-1795

Title: Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Williams Sr., 1772 January 13
Identifier(s): text:198938
Description: Has just returned from a journey through Ireland and Scotland; personal financial matters.
Subject: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Williams, Jonathan, 1750-1815; Williams, Jonathan, 1719-1796; Ireland; Scotland

Title: Vaughan, Benjamin to William Petty, Marquis of Lansdowne, 1781 January 23.
Identifier(s): text:263717
Description: Relates the events in Scotland. Mentions Adam Smith. Typed manuscript copy.
Subject: Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835; Lansdowne, William Petty, Marquis of, 1737-1805; Scotland--Politics and government--18th century

Title: The following letters, written by a member of one of the societies, called "Friends of the People" in Edinburgh ...
Identifier(s): : Paine 73 F72
Description: 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.
Subject: Society of the Friends of the People (Scotland); Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809. Rights of man; Pétion de Villeneuve, Jérôme, 1756-1794; France--Revolution, 1792-1795