Over half of Thomas Paine's "American Crisis" Essay #2...

Item # 703307

February 10, 1777

THE CONNECTICUT COURANT & WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, Hartford, Feb. 10, 1777 Almost the entire front page is taken up with the continuation of Thomas Paine's essay #2 of his famous "American Crisis" series, a collection of 13 essays written by Paine during the American Revolutionary War.
In 1776 Paine wrote Common Sense, an extremely popular and successful pamphlet arguing for Independence from England. The essays collected here constitute Paine's ongoing support for an independent and self-governing America through the many severe crises of the Revolutionary War.
General Washington found the first essay so inspiring, that he ordered that it be read to the troops at Valley Forge.
This is about 60% of this essay, the earlier portion having appeared in an earlier issue of this title. It continues to take over half of page 2 where it is signed in type "Common Sense" and dated at Philadelphia, January 13, 1777. Included with this issue is a printing of the entire text of Essay #2 which includes that portion lacking in this newspaper.
As if this content was not sufficient, pages 2 and 3 have war-related content as well including a report from George Washington.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed with wide margins, a piece from the bottom left does affect some letters but not causing loss of readability, scattered foxing, rubbing at folds cause a tiny hole at the fold juncture.