Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809,
Plain truth; ... (Continued, 1.) No. 2 in *4496.10 The question of the authorship of this tract is discussed by Paul Leicester Ford in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, January, 1889, pp. 421-424 [5335.1.12], where he shows that Charles Inglis, D.D., to whom it has been attributed on the strength of a statement in a letter that “in February last I wrote an answer to a pamphlet entitled “Common sense,” was not the author, but that this statement referred to another work “The true interest of America impartially stated.” Mr. Ford ascribes the authorship of Plain truth on presumptive evidence to the Rev. William Smith, D.D., of Philadelphia.
This attack on Thomas Paine’s Common sense, produced, according to D. [Continued on the next card.]
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