Thomas Paine letters and other material, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
Collection includes original and transcribed letters and other material by English-American political theorist Thomas Paine. Original material includes a January 14, 1779, letter to Henry Laurens with an account of "monies rec'd since I have been in America," and a manuscript copy of the poem "Castle in the Air." Transcriptions include the Laurens letter, as well as an 1808 exchange between Paine and London Corresponding Society activist Thomas Hardy.
Collection includes original and transcribed letters and other material by English-American political theorist Thomas Paine. Original material includes a January 14, 1779, letter to Henry Laurens with an account of "monies rec'd since I have been in America," and a manuscript copy of the poem "Castle in the Air." Transcriptions include the Laurens letter, as well as an 1808 exchange between Paine and London Corresponding Society activist Thomas Hardy.
Material was originally received as part of the Ford and Moore collections.
Gift of John Pierpont Morgan, 1899.
Compiled by Kit Messick, 2013
Letters are published in The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine.