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Mémoire de Thomas Payne [...] à M. Monroe [...] pour reclamer sa mise en liberté

1795 Subjects: Human rights Forms: Correspondence, reminiscences, etc., Manuscripts Translation Status: Integral, Unpublished French Paris

Authors of source text

Thomas Paine

Contributions

Mathieu-Guillaume-Thérèse Villenave: translator

Related resources

is translation of: Memorial to Monroe has translation

Held by

British Library

Notes

This Mémoire was an appeal from Paine to Monroe for his release from prison, proclaiming his innocence. No English copy of Paine's September 1794 MMS has yet been found (TBC).

Note to team: Look for copy in Morrison papers in British Library. See also Moncure D. Conway, Life and Works of Thomas Paine, Vol.3 'Memorial to Monroe' for any further info.

According to Conway, this was a poor translation. This appeal (in English) was later added as an appendix to Paine's Letter to George Washington (1796, PA: Bache), castigating his old military comrade for dishonourable behaviour. Several paragraphs are missing from this American version, probably omitted deliberately by Bache.