To Philip S. Physick, M.D [electronic resource] : Dear Sir, The annexed beautiful piece of poetry expresses so fully and completely the idea which ... I have long entertained of your skill and talents as a physician ... I have therefore determined to afford it a fair chance of the longevity to which it is entitled, by putting it in such a shape as may induce your numerous admirers to preserve it ...
- Author
- Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839
- Published
- [Philadelphia] : [Published by Mathew Carey], [1829]
- Physical Description
- 2 unnumbered leaves ; 23 cm
- Additional Creators
- Physick, Philip Syng, 1768-1837 and S.
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- Note
- Signed and dated: M[athew]. C[arey]. Philadelphia, October 29, 1829.
On second leaf is the poem, in eight stanzas, entitled To Philip S. Physick, M.D. and signed "S"; first lines: Hope of the wretched! to thy healing art in tears of thanks and praise, a stranger bends.
AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS. - Reproduction Note
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2005. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 3558).
- Reviewed/Cited In
- Shoemaker, R.H. Checklist of American imprints for 1820-1829, 38067
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