Letter addressed to the abbe Raynal on the affairs of North America : in which the mistakes in the abbe's account of the revolution of America are corrected and cleared up Mitchell King (Charleston, South Carolina) Provenance

Thomas Paine

Verlag: Printed for J. Ridgeway, London, 1793

Beschreibung

36 pp. Disbound from a sammelband of pamphlets. Ownership signature "Mitchell King 1805" on title page. An important pamphlet with a great provenance. Not Ex-Lib. Mitchell King (1783-1862), a native of Scotland, emigrated to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1805, opening a school there and accepting an appointment as assistant teacher in Charleston college the following year, becoming head of the college in 1810, the same year he gained admittance to the local bar, having also taken up the study of law upon his arrival in Charleston. A founder of the Philosophical Society (1809), he delivered lectures there on astronomy. He was named judge of the city court in 1819 and again in 1842-44. He was involved in a rich variety of other state and local affairs, actively opposed Nullification during the 1830-32 crisis, wrote many essays and addresses, and amassed one of the best antebellum libraries in the state. Approximately 1000 items from King's papers are held in the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina. "Judge King was connected with many financial and benevolent enterprises, was a delegate to the State constitutional convention, and the author of many essays and addresses" (Appleton's). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 100541

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Letter addressed to the abbe Raynal on the ...

Verlag: Printed for J. Ridgeway, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1793

Einband: Hardcover