Autograph letter signed by the influential early American physician, Samuel Bard, written while a medical student in Edinburgh. Bard was founder of the King s College (Columbia) Medical School, the New York Hospital, and longtime president of the College of Physicians & Surgeons.
Condition
Overall Condition
Very Good
Date Examined
Jun 24, 2023
Notes
3 pp., folded quarto sheet with address panel on verso of the final leaf; usual folds, remnants of wax seal and hole from opening
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Note
Much of Bard's correspondence with his father, though not the present letter, is reproduced in M'Vickar's Life of Samuel Bard.