An Englishwoman in America ... An appendix contains the history of the Emigrant Surgeons' Bill / By Sarah Mytton Maury.

  • Maury, Sarah Mytton, 1803-1849.
Date:
1848
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About this work

Publication/Creation

London : T. Richardson and son; (etc., etc.) ; Liverpool : G. Smith, Watts, 1848.

Physical description

2 unnumbered leaves, cxviii pages, 1 unnumbered leaf, 251, 204 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf, 16 pages ; (12mo)

Notes

Prefatory matter includes Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, and Washington's farewell address: all three here published, according to tp. xii, for the first time in England
Copy 1 Note: Describes an outbreak of smallpox on board ship, to which the authoress herself succumbed. Fly-leaf inscribed 'With the authoress' compts.'. p. cxiii-cxiv or cxv-cxvi apparently a cancel. At end p. 16 of 'Notices' of her other writings.

Contents

pt. 1. The lady's log. The small pox. New York: general observations--pt. 2. Appendix, containing the history of the emigrant surgeions' bill.

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