The Whig opposition, hampered and harassed by the Government to an extent that threatened the total suppression of independent opinion, were in great need of a channel of communication with the public, and they found what they wanted in Almon.
[1] Brought thus into the counsels of the Whig party, he was persuaded in 1763 to open a bookseller's shop in Piccadilly, chiefly for the publication and sale of political pamphlets.
The claims of his creditors compelled him to leave the country, but after some years in France he was enabled to return to Boxmoor, where he continued a career of undiminished literary activity, publishing among other works an edition of Junius.
[2] He published Biographical, Literary, and Political Anecdotes in 1797,[citation needed] and his Correspondence with friend John Wilkes, with a memoir, appeared posthumously.
[2] Almon’s works, most of which appeared anonymously, may have had no great literary merit, but they are of very considerable value to the student of the political history of the period.