(Paine's) relentless enemy, Gouvemeur Morris, as American Minister in
Paris. He was found by Monroe more dead than alive from
semi-starvation, cold, and an abscess contracted in prison, and taken
to the Minister's own residence. It was not supposed that he could
survive, and he owed his life to the tender care of Mr. and Mrs.
Monroe. It was while thus a prisoner in his room, with death still
hovering over him, that Paine wrote Part Second of "The Age of
Reason."

The work was published in London by H.D. Symonds on October 25, 1795,
and claimed to be "from the Author's manuscript." It is marked as
"Entered at Stationers Hall," and prefaced by an apologetic note of
"The Bookseller to the Public," whose commonplaces about avoiding
both prejudice and partiality, and considering "both sides," need not
be quoted. While his volume was going through the press in Paris,
Paine heard of the publication in London, which drew from him the
following hurried note to a London publisher, no doubt Daniel Isaacs
Eaton:

"SIR, -- I have seen advertised in the London papers the second
Edition [part] of the Age of Reason, printed, the advertisement says,
from the Author's Manuscript, and entered at Stationers Hall. I have
never sent any manuscript to any person. It is therefore a forgery to
say it is printed from the author's manuscript; and I suppose is done
to give the Publisher a pretence of Copy Right, which he has no title
to.

"I send you a printed copy, which is the only one I have sent to
London. I wish you to make a cheap edition of it. I know not by what
means any copy has got over to London. If any person has made a