Letter from Daniel Adams on the London Corresponding Society

Daniel Adams letter to Evan Nepean on information on the London Corresponding Society asking for a meeting and sending the letter by courier rather than post at it would be too great a risk by post.

Administrative / biographical background
The London Corresponding Society (LCS) was a British Radical organisation, with a membership consisting primarily of artisans, tradesmen, and shopkeepers. Formed in 1792 by Thomas Hardy, the society's key mission was to ensure universal suffrage for British men and annual parliaments. Due to the perceived French revolutionary influence on the society and its calls for radical political change, the government of William Pitt the Younger bitterly opposed it, accusing it on two occasions of plotting to assassinate the King. On 12 May 1794 the government arrested Thomas Hardy, secretary of the London Corresponding Society, and Daniel Adams, secretary of the Society for Constitutional Information. With the suspension of habeas corpus, the prisoners were detained in the Tower of London before Hardy was brought before the Old Baily on 25 October 1794.

Record Details

Item reference: NEP/9/4; MS1989/006
Catalogue Section: Personal collections
Level: ITEM
Extent: folder
Date made: 1793-10-01
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London