http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levellers
which would have occurred about the time Thomas was still in England
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 9:58 PM, klwoods22 <klwoods22(a)zoominternet.net> wrote:
What are Levellers?
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From: "Neal Carrier" <nfcarrier(a)gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [CARRIER] The Heritics Daughter
> The author has a Doctor Ames visit Sarah in prison and he tells her to
> tell Thomas "Tell him that I and a few others are friends to your
> father. And tell him that we will do our level best to help him. Did
> you hear me, Sarah? Tell him we will do our 'level' best."
>
> A few pages later Sarah after being sick remembers that she hadn't
> told her father & discusses it with young Tom & he had passed the
> message on. Old Tom told young Tom that "Dr. Ames and his fellows
> were New Levellers".
>
> That's just a brief synopsis of it but it just seemed odd that she
> would bother to mention it unless she had dug up some tidbit in her
> research for the book but not enough to enlarge upon.
>
> Just something to cogitate over.
>
> Neal
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Nicole Price <nicole.price(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> I want to get the book... I've just been slammed with other projects and
>> work things in the meanwhile. What mention of the Levellers does the
>> author
>> make? Also, why would she mention it if she didn't at least want to infer
>> the connection? There is no hard proof, so I guess she can't make a solid
>> tie, but can definitely imply it at any rate...
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Neal Carrier <nfcarrier(a)gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Nicole,
>>> I don't know if you have or intend to read this book but the author
>>> mentions the Levellers twice but doesn't really tie Thomas in to the
>>> subject.
>>> Just thought it was very strange after all the discussion we've had
>>> about
>>> this.
>>> Wonder where she got this idea?
>>> Neal
>>>
>
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