xviii Contents 934 from Letter IX, Description of Charles Town; Thoughts on Slavery; on Physical Evil; a Melancholy Scene 941 from Letter XII,. Distresses of a Frontier Man 957 Thomas Paine (1737-1809) 959 from Common Sense 959 Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs 965 from The American Crisis 965 Number 1 971 from The Age of Reason 971 from Chapter II, Of Missions and Revelations 972 from Chapter III, Concerning the Character of Jesus Christ, and His History 974 from Chapter VI, Of the True Theology 976 John Adams (1735-1826) and Abigail Adams (1744-1818) 977 from Autobiography of John Adams 979 Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, March 31, 1776 979 Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, April 14, 1776 980 from Letter from John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, April 16, 1776 981 from Letters from John Adams to Abigail Adams, July 3, 1776 983 Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, June 30, 1778 984 Abigail Adams's Diary of Her Return Voyage to America, March 30-May 1, 1788 986 from Letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, September 2, 1813 from Letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, October 28, 1813 988 from Letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, November 15, 1813 990 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) 994 from Notes on the State of Virginia 994 from Query V1, Productions, Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal, Buffon and the Theory of Degeneracy 999 from Query XI, Aborigines, Original Condition and Origin 1003 from Query XIV) Laws 1007 from Query XVII, Religion 1009 from Query XVIII, Manners . . . Effect of Slavery 1010 from Letter to James Madison, Oct. 28, 1785 1012 from Letter to James Madison, Dec. 20, 1787 1015 Letter to Benjamin Banneker, Aug. 30, 1791 1015 Letter to the Marquis de Condorcet, Aug. 30, 1791 1016 Letter to Edward Coles, Aug. 25, 1814 1018 Letter to Peter Carr (Young Man's Education]