THE Pennsylvania Magazine OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
VOLUME LXXIX
THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA 1300 LOCUST STREET, PHILADELPHIA 7 1955
CONTENTS
ARTICLES Page Artist in Exile: The Story of Thomas Spence Duché Albert Frank Gegenheimer 3
That Mischievous Holker: The Story of a Privateer William Bell Clark 27
An Early Steamboat Plan of John Fitch Frank D. Prager 63
The Poetry of Thomas Paine A. Owen Aldridge 81
Joseph Fels of Philadelphia and London Arthur P. Dudden 143 Thomas Phillips, A Yorkshire Shoemaker in Philadelphia Clifton K. Yearley, Jr. 167
Three Hungarian Travelers Visit Economy Karl J. Arndt 197
The Diaries of Sidney George Fisher, 1841-1844 217, 343, 485
George Lippard and His Secret Brotherhood Roger Butterfield 285
The American Revolution as Lese Majesty Bradley Chapin 310
Rembrandt Peale, "Instigator" Charles Coleman Sellers 331
Quaker Humanist: James Logan as a Classical Scholar Frederick B. Tolles 415
The Treason of Ralph Morden and Robert Land John M. Coleman 439
James Josiah, Master Mariner William Bell Clark 452
NOTES AND DOCUMENTS
A Note on John Dickinson's Pamphlet "A Caution*' William G. Soler 100
Butler v. Butler: A Divorce Case Incident Nicholas B. Wainwright 101
John Lewis Reports the Centennial William Randel 364
A Private Report of General Braddock's Defeat John A. Schutz 374
BOOK REVIEWS 109, 237, 379, 506
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 378, 530
REPORT OF THE TREASURER 273 iii ILLUSTRATIONS
Portraits by Thomas Spence Duch6
William Rawle, 1759-1836 facing p. 3
Jacob Duché and Thomas Spence Duché facing p. 16
Esther Duché following p. 16
Jacob Duché and Elizabeth Hopkinson Duché following p. 16
John Morgan facing p. 17
Steam Engine Diagrams by John Fitch pp. 65, 70
The Girard Bank William Birch facing p. 226
George Lippard S. F. Earl facing p. 285
The Killers, by George Lippard, title page p. 307
Captain James Josiah, 1787 Charles Willson Peale facing p. 452
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THE Pennsylvania Magazine OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
JANUARY 1955
ARTIST IN EXILE: THE STORY OF THOMAS SPENCE DUCHÉ Albert Frank Gegenheimer 3 THAT MISCHIEVOUS HOLKER: THE STORY OF A PRIVATEER William Bell Clark 27 AN EARLY STEAMBOAT PLAN OF JOHN FITCH Frank D. Prager 63 THE POETRY OF THOMAS PAINE A. Owen Aldridge 81 NOTES AND DOCUMENTS A NOTE ON JOHN DICKINSON'S PAMPHLET "A CAUTION" William G. Soler 100 BUTLER V. BUTLER: A DIVORCE CASE INCIDENT 101 BOOK REVIEWS 109 NOTICES 139
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VOLUME LXXIX January, 1955 NO. I
SEVENTY-NINTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION
Publications Committee
CONYERS READ BOIES PENROSE ROY F. NICHOLS WILLIAM W. COMFORT R.NORRIS WILLIAMS, 2ND
Editor NICHOLAS B. WAINWRIGHT
Associate Editor LOIS V. GIVEN Contributors
ALBERT FRANK GEGENHEIMER is Associate Professor of English at the University of Arizona and editor of the Arizona Quarterly. He has published a life of the Reverend William Smith (1727- 1803) of Philadelphia, and has contributed articles to leading American journals.
WILLIAM BELL CLARK is a prolific writer and the author of numerous articles published in this MAGAZINE. An authority on the naval history of the American Revolution, he has written several biographies of naval heroes. His latest book, The First Saratoga. Being the Saga of John Young and His Sloop-of-War, was pub- lished in 1953.
FRANK D. PRAGER, a Chicago patent attorney, has long been inter- ested in early inventions and early patent laws. He has done much research on Fitch and his contemporaries in steamboat development, and has published articles in this field.
A. OWEN ALDRIDGE is Professor of English at the University of Maryland. He has written on both English and American eighteenth-century literature, and is the editor of an anthology of English poetry soon to be published. He is currently in France where he is engaged in a study of Benjamin Franklin's relationships with French men of letters, as well as in research for a new biography of Thomas Paine.
WILLIAM G. SOLER received his doctorate from Temple University in 1953. Out of his dissertation on the important influences on John Dickinson's thought have come a number of articles in literary and historical journals. His contribution in this issue establishes proof of Dickinson's authorship of a 1798 pamphlet which Mr. Soler first suggested in the MAGAZINE in January, 1953-
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