Extract of a letter wrote by the Earl of Essex, to his particular friend the Earl of Southampton, sometime before his death
- Published
- [Philadelphia, Pa.] : [publisher not identified], [1775?]
- Physical Description
- 12 pages ; 17 cm
- Additional Creators
- Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784, Brainerd, David, 1718-1747, Essex, Arthur Capel, Earl of, 1631-1683, Locke, John, 1632-1704, Oxenstierna, Axel, greve, 1583-1654, Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784, Parsons, James, Porteus, Beilby, 1731-1809, and Zinman, Michael
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"One of Benezet's numerous tracts, published without date. It contains besides extracts of letters by John Locke, Count Oxenstierna, David Brainerd, and others, Locke's Universal prayer and The hermit, a poem."--Hildeburn.
Imprint and pagination from Hildeburn and Evans.
"The unique copy formerly in FL [Friends Library, Swarthmore College] is now not to be found."--Shipton & Mooney.
Library Company copy imperfect: p. 1-4 only; formerly bound with three other tracts: The dreadful visitation (Evans 13241; Philadelphia : Joseph Crukshank, 1774), The folly and vanity of a life spent in the pursuit of worldly profit (Evans 11654; Philadelphia : John Dunlap, 1770), and Thoughts on the nature of war, &c (Evans 14662; Philadelphia 1776?); in the pamphlet volume binding of stiff blue boards, with MS. copy of Beily Porteus's poem Death, possibly in Anthony Benezet's hand, on front pastedown, and on back pastedown the inscription: James Parsons 1792.
Library Company copy from the Michael Zinman Collection of Early American Imprints.
NEH-Readex: not in Readex; not at AAS.
AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS. - Reviewed/Cited In
- Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania imprints, 3207
Evans, C. American bibliography, 13832
English short title catalogue, W478072
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